I ordered mine on Friday from Play-Asia.com and im curious to see what people do with their gp2x, im guessing most people buy it for portable emulation, if so what games do you spend the most time playing. I'm interested to know if these games are playable at the moment; SMW (SNES), Mario Kary (SNES) and any Metal Slug game and if not what games should I be playing when I get my GP2X?

Thanks

Super Mario World works fullspeed. Super Mario Kart runs half speed if you overclock and put the sound off. The metal slug's run all pretty good, some minor slowdowns.

I usually play Lemmings ( SNES, fullspeed ), some NeoGeo games ( all very close to fullspeed ), Nethack, Poker , Rockstar ate my hamster ( Atari-ST, fullspeed ), Tilematch, Spout, Noiz2sa, some Sonic games ( Megadrive, fullspeed ), Neo Geo Pocket ( fullspeed ), Sensible Soccer ( megadrive, fullspeed with minor graphic failures ), all the Super Mario series ( all fullspeed ) and many others

Thanks for the quik reply.. i forgot about Sensible Soccer

And sorry for the N00b Q but how do I go about "over clocking" a gp2x, iv heard a bit about it

I usually drop it. Only just caught it before it hit the floor today XD

Anyway, I actually play alot of poker :| *sucks up to daven*, some SMW, nethack, lots of stuff on snes and MD emus. Most of my time is spent reading forums, really
Used to play lots of neo turf masters on neogeo, lol.

EDIT: Oh, and some pokemon crystal. Slap me.

Some applications have inbuilt overclocking, but theres also the cpu_speed program thing.

Super Mario Kart runs for me with sound on about 70% speed with 266mhz overclocked o.O

Usually i play snes games on squidgesnes (just played through seiken densetsu 3), sega genesis with drmd, gameboy color games (mario tennis for life!), neogeo games with gngeo, ...., homebrew games (the minigames collection rox!) etc.

other then that i luv to see movies, to play around with psx4all or try out special programs like QTopia or GPE.

Overclocking basically is pretty easy, most of the emulators have an option to select on how many mhz you'd like to run your gp2x. For others ( like squidgesnes ) you'll have to write a script. Do a short search for snes and overclocking here and you'll find multiple topics which contain more information about that.

Edit: 70% on 266mhz with sound? *slaps himself* I haven't tried smk on the newest version since it ran to slow on the older one..

yep, thanks to the awesome MMU hack

Thanks everyone just about all my Qs about the GP2x have been answered directly or indirectly

metal slug runs flawlessly for me

^^ 1-5 with sound?

i get 60fps @ 240Mhz on metal slug 1,2,4,5,X, only one with trouble is 3 as usual

I'm trying to do the gaming equivilent of being 'well read'... so I'm trying to complete all the classics. So far I've done Mario 1,2 and 3 (NES), Sonic 2 and 3 (Megadrive), Manic Miner & Jet Set Willy (Spectrum), and I'm currently working on Metal Gear and Zelda 1 (NES).

Play games
Occasionally watch a film
Door-stop
Paper weight

List goes on ;-)

I play alot of the homebrew games. The SNES (squidge) is great for classic rpg's and mario favirotes. I play Sonic most the time on DrMD, and just random games on the NES.
I'm going to wait for the GBA emulator to come out (if it does) to start GB,GBC etc. games. Last I knew none of the current emulators (GB, GBC) offer save states, but I haven't checked into it in awhile.

It's great for watching movies if your on a car trip. A 700 mb avi file can be converted down to 240mb if you convert it into the 320x240 format. OF course you don't have to since it will auto fit.

I don't usually listen to music on it, the music player isn't too great, the different EQ's kinda suck

GP2X all the way! (Don't buy a PSP or even a DS, unless you really want just shiny graphics)

Nothing, i just code from time to time and that's all.
I stopped playing with my gp2x a couple of months ago.

I use mine for emulation, homebrew, and ebooks.

Homebrew:
noiz2sa is a fantastic shooter
Vektar, the homebrew one, is great as well.
Both of these are a must have on your SD card IMO.
I am slowly working my way through what is available.

Emulation:
Neo Geo with the gngeo2x is great for full speed with sound all of my favorites in my hand Neo Geo games! I have almost 50 games running and I'm enjoying every minute of it! I am clocking it at 266 mhz.
Genesis with the DrMDx is great!!
Hu6280 is my Turbo Grafx/PC Engine emu of choice. My favorite system by the way.
I run SMW on snesgp2x.

ebooks:
I have the collected works of “Doc Savage” on cd that I got off of ebay. Very good scifi-adventure stories from the 1940s. There are about 200 books, I think. I used to have some of the paperbacks years ago that I picked up in a used book store. I just change them to text and put them on my SD card. I have one on my card that I am reading now.

Since I got my GP2X around the 4th of July, I have done all of my gaming on this thing! I have not been able to pick anything else up since.

I'm pretty lucky now but wasn't when I was growing up.

I never owned consoles as I was growing up (except a couple of handhelds) & only got to play them at my friends house's. We also didn't have any good arcarde's with the newest games either
I'm now going back & playing through all the games that I missed out on in the old days, starting from the first game of the more popular series (mario,metal slug, sonic etc.) & working my way through them in order.

I'm also trying out the homebrew games (which I've loved so far), reading the graphic novels, watching all the good DVD's that I could never be bothered to re-encode, so that I could watch them on my big TV & starting to use the 2X for reading ebook's/PDF's/tutorials for programming.

It's all good

I watch a lot of movies and tv shows on mine. It's my mp3 player, too. With a couple of adapters I can hook it to any device, friends entertainment center for some video, or my car stereo for some music.

I play games, too.

Besides what others have mentioned, I use my 2X as a cheap (and space efficient) alternative to a stereo. I just plugged in a pair of decent PC speakers I had lying around and *voila* instant disco in the bedroom.

SuperMarioWars, Music, and programming. >_<

Portable p0rn device anyone?

Thoroughly enjoying NetHack! I LOVE the D&D style w retro graphics, having played Mines of Moria and Larn back in the pre-Win 3.1 days (ooohhhs).

PRBoom is also working flawlessly, and a lot of fun, I never was into Doom but I am enjoying it now.

And of Course MAME in my pocket is the best of the best! Carrying round the Arcade of my youth. Mastering, remastering, or just finishing (!) arcade games from the 80's and 90's is terific! Karnov, Hippodrome, Kid Nikki Radical Ninja, and of course there's always time for a round of SF Hyper Fighting!!!

My big discovery in GP-MAME is, ratcheting up the video clock and cranking down the audio clock - gives amazing performance for the processor-hungry games like SF-HF - silky framerates now!

Pathetic.

like they say in the psp message boards, "watch porn"

games dood! what about a bit of neogeo puzzle bobble 2?

i'm hooked on that! can almost 1 credit it now

I was very happy when I first loaded up Puzzle Bobble 2 and it played perfect!!

I use it to read all the crap ebooks like 'How to make a million on eBay' not worth printing but worth a quick look on a tea break.

And getting stuff to work, I spend more time mucking about with directories than I do playing the games, more time working out the best way to rip a PSX game than playing it and more time shrinking films than actualy watching them. My batteries don't last long enough to do much or take it anywhere but it's good for mucking about with and trying out the new homebrew.

I will probably use it more when it can play more types of movies or the batteries last longer.

It's pretty good that so many people can use it for different things.

Lucky you ... you are so young... imagine if you were at my age! you have to go through all the games of atari... my first game was Asteroids... and i still remember the racing game my friend made on his Sinclair ZX 81... damn that was ugly

I'm not that young (29).. my first home console was pong
My first real computer was a Vic20, but I don't plan on going back & playing all my old faves again until I've filled in the blanks from my gaming history

I normally just leave it on my desk and never use it, occasionally checking out the latest emulator release for about 3 minutes.

Strange, but I play Mario Kart @ 200mHz with the sound on, FS1 and it runs much faster than half speed.

Ops.. i really thought you were younger... me im 34 really good games you shoose to play though

Playing DrMD is great, even better because it supports per-game configuration and plays mega drive/genesis AND master system / game gear, and best if I play it on a [big] tv screen

Watching movies is great, but really ain't no compatibility at all as I would expect from a mplayer-sourced player
I never watched a (long playing) movie, but all the time I have some cartoons like Bromwell High or The Simpsons to watch, and since most of these are in 320x240 res, I don't even have to re-encode 'em...

I think that marketing department took over when they want it to be called "txt file reader", as a .txt file is not what I expect for an e-book, but you can replace the program with a PDF reader anytime you want, altough .TXT file reader is good to read some kind of file like readme.txt that came with instructions on how to play your last downloaded game

Curiously, I often use the photo program to check out if a recently shot photo will look good/sharpy, now it's much better than having to boot a computer just to check out the images..
What I REALLY need is a prism-based wifi usb adapter, that would do just fine

Music player is left behind, I have some mp3s, but they're just a last case option, most of the time I run music player just to shut the lcd off while transfering files when using batteries

Mostly for SNES emulation. Super Mario All-Stars + World, Super Metroid, Zelda 3, etc. Some MAME for Strider, SFII, and Ghouls and Ghosts.

I've also taken it on trips and put animated movies on it for my daughter to watch. Nemo, Incredibles, Ice Age. Works pretty well, but one wrong button press is frustrating.

I also use it to show off photos with a bigger screen than the camera.

The wife plays Sudoku on it.

My GP2X's primary function is as my Boredom Prevention Unit (BPU). Anytime I expect to be sitting on my ass doing nothing-- bus rides, lying in bed, waiting for a movie to start .. etc. I keep it with me and it never fails to keep me amused. Most of what I do is play games on it-- a combination of emulators and classic FPS'es (Doom, Quake, Wolf3D.)

I play a LOT of MegaDrive/Genesis with DrMDx, especially the Sonic, Ecco and Vectorman games, plus of course the sheer awesome that is Gunstar Heroes. On the NES front, the Mario series, Kirby, Kung Fu, Captain Skyhawk, Guerilla War and Armadillo get a lot of playing time. I don't play SNES games that often, but when I do, I play the hell out of some Super Mario World and Megaman X1-3, also Sparkster. NeoGeo emulation gets a lot of use as well-- mostly Metal Slug 1/2/X, Blazing Star, Strikers 1945 Plus and Puzzle Bobble/Bust a Move. There's also GB emulation; I play a lot of Super Mario Land 2, Quarth, some Tetris Plus and a bit of Pokemon Red/Blue. I look forward to GBA emulation so I can throw Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland, the Klonoa and Megaman Zero series on here. They'll fit well.

For multimedia purposes, my '2x is my primary music player away from my desktop PC. My 1GB SD card holds a few hours of music with lots of room to spare for everything else, and that's usually all I need access to at one time- not 4GB+ like most dedicated players (or god forbid, 40GB+.) I play the occasional TV episode or movie on there, too. One of the most invaluable features is that it can view photos from my SD card-- and my card is intercompatible with my digital camera! AND my laptop's internal reader! The camera and '2x can both use the same NiMH AAs too. And yes, it's a good machine for porn, I'm not going to lie to you.

Of course, anyone who's been around a while should know I'm a developer; I spend a lot of time programming for the machine. It's a damn powerful platform, and we're achieving some amazing things with it. I'm really looking forward to releasing som more info about me and the rest of the team's projects soon!

My names DBH and I have issues!

When I am not playing my GP2X and have it in my hand I have unhealthy obsessions in cleaning the screen repeatedly until there are no specks of dust on the screen or finger prints and then look at it in the light and repeat. I start cleaning the case as well to get rid of grubby finger marks as well.

ARGHHHHHHHH X__X

Ive worn out my micro fibre gp2x cloth already and Ive only had the thing since the 18th doh

yes I know sad

*goes to the pub*

playing dragon warrior 3 on gnuboy right now

i used to watch movies w/ tv out but i got tired of having to get up off the couch and run over to reset the gp2x whenever it froze.

Everyone should try Nethack, it is one of the best games I have ever played in awhile, and Dzz has done a fantastic port of it =)