I ordered mine from GP2x.co.uk ages ago and was told mid October but here we are approaching the end of the month and it's still not with me and I paid for Special Delivery !

Anyone got their's yet?

Can't believe how long it's taking.

Cry more?
Do you know how long early adopters of the First Edition had to wait?
It's called a preorder for a reason. Yes the waiting gets annoying, but if you had asked around before ordering, those of us that had preordered the First Edition could have told you it might be a while before GPH get the stock to the distributers)

EDIT: Sorry. I'm grumpy before I've had a cup of tea in the morning.

The manufacturers say theyre mailing them on the 22nd

Out of interest - how long did you have to wait ?

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=38881

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=38913

I don't remember exactly, but it was a few months.

I think I preordered in September and got my 2X just before Christmas... I suck at dates.
Most First Edition preorders had to wait a good while because GPH took their sweet time to get stock to the distributors.

Mk2's took a long time too, maybe not as long as the first editions, but I'm sure I was waiting for at least 6 weeks.

Patience is a virtue

"Calm down my babies"

It's only been a day since the release date. This isn't a launch style in the vein of the big three (Where the date is scheadule when they are actually in stores. I could be wrong but I think the Oct 21 date was for shipping to the distros. We should beable to see them before holloween, that is, if you celebrate holloween in your country; if not, Oct 31.

GPH dropped me an eMail they'll ship them to the distributors out sometimes in the second half of this week.

In short it will be a mirracle if the Distributors get them before the end of the month - and the rest of us some time after that. Any news on if they did anything with the d-pad or do we have to wait untill somone has one to find out?

Most likely if its been shipped...nothing else would have been done to the d-pad...I mean once you hit the final point before you distribute you really can't alter anything else...anymore revisions would end up being done 1 or 2 years down the line.

I would much rather wait a month and see whatever is going on with the d-pad sorted out myself.

Which isn't much by any stretch by the imagination...for all we know the Dpad is probably horrible and needs a patch or whatever...but who cares...better than that joystick any day of the week.

I thought today was the release date...

thats kind of what I am banking on

I just hope if a DIY mod is needed its just a simple one like the stock d-pad on the old PSP. That pad is on the low end of passible out of the box but works like a charm for me now...

The ideal would be not having to crack open your new system to do these things though.

It actually isn't a D-pad at all. It is just 4 separate buttons close together. I know you may think it is like the PSP where it is a d-pad under a plastic front that is separated. It isn't, GPH is just so retarded. If you need a bit of proof just look at that Blood Cross demo on youtube. You will see the guy playing press the buttons one at a time. When he does press a button the others don't move meaning they are mechanically separated. It will need a mod to be very useable for actually playing games.

Damn, your right I didn't notice that little part where didn't move damn...I gotta be blind as heck.

anyway Dave got any idea on how to mod it??

replace it with a legit D-pad?
or just the whole thing?

Still on another not hmmm, the guy didn't look like he was pulling any movements though...unless I forgot or wansn't paying a whole lot of attention.

you know like standard movements such as QCFx2
or DP motion to rdp, or HCB.

granted I think a HCB motion might be impossible if the D-pad is that jacked up

actually now that I think about it any motion for fighting game might be horrible...oiy...

DaveC did suggest a possible simple D-pad mod a little while ago (pretty much as soon as he saw the look of the D-pad on the F200), Glue a disk of plastic or metal (Coin ?) the same dimensions as the existing F200 D-pad, To make it act as one complete unit, Rather that 4 seperate sections.

Trooper

is it really not useable with buttons shaped like a d-pad like that? is it better than the F100 for playing games?

From the looks of it, I'm thinking diagonals could be more difficult, but can't say for sure without playing with one.

The buttons are very close together, so if they have a proper degree of sensitivity, it should work just fine.

Its a little dissapointing that the buttons are sepperated, but the wonderswan worked ok like that. You guys really need to wait for firsthand reviews.

In any case since its basically the same as an f100 dimention wise, there should be more than enough room under the shell to replace the pad with a solid peice of plastic w/ rocker nub (playstation style). Losing the center push funcion of course.

Back to the original thread..

gp2x.co.uk have told me that they are expecting stock to arrive late this week and will begin distributing straight away...

Of course expecting to arrive is not exactly definate, but it sounds positive

Since the center push function on the f200 is "all buttons pushed at once", surely that can also be done on a replaced pad by pushing the center?

The center push on the F200 is all buttons at once? What a piece of shit. Good thing not many games use it. Anyway, I think everyone is getting all anti-hyped over nothing. I bet that the console will be a much smoother release than the F100.

The problem is that a proper d-pad should have a center pivot. If that is not there if you have games where fast direction changes are needed you will many times hit the stick clik function by mistake as you will inadvertently hit all buttons at once. Also when moving you will also many times hit both right and left or up and down at the same time or all buttons. This can confuse many games and cause your movement to stop unexpectedly or move the wrong direction. That is why ALL proper d-pads have a center pivot to insure that you only hit ordinals or diagonals. Maybe some clever devs can just substitute a tap anywhere on the touchscreen for the old stick click.

I will probably get one of these and experiment with mods. It may be as simple as a piece of plastic that can be solvent bonded or glued to the 4 buttons as Trooper said.

i dont want to sound negative or anything and i dont really care if i get flamed but i wont be buying a new gp2x (f200) mainly because of this Dpad.

i know everyone (mostly) has wanted a dpad for a long time but watching that youtube video i was put off by how Un-springy it looked.
i really cannot justify spending another £120 for these new features (i still think theres a strong market for modding f100's).

thats just my 2cents i dont know if anyone feels the same way.

let's wait until we got it: maybe the pad is not that bad. I still have so,e hope that it is better than my unmodded first edition mk1 stick.

(At least I am quite happy with the new psp slim pad).

One other thing - is the SDL system now hardware accelerated ?

The official one, I don't think so. There is always HW SDL though.

Simon here,
(The guy that started off this post)
I noticed that they now state on the gp2x.co.uk home page that it is shipping this week, and this was on the 22nd.
Unfortunately I Still have not received it and the whole week passed !
I have left over 5 messages with GP2X.co.uk (phone and mail) and they do not reply.
Today is Monday the 29th and yet again it did not arrive this morning so I left them yet another message.....WHY DON'T THEY CALL BACK ?!!!!!!!

When I eventually recieve the unit I will take lots of footage with various emulators, post them on Youtube and let you all know what I think of it.

It was supposed to be last week, but GPH delayed sending them.

Current estimate is this week / early next week.

However, I agree that it would have been nice for email updates to everyone..

Right after they updated the website GPH delayed the shipment again - its not their fault TBH, but I would agree that they should answer.

PlayAsia show the F200 as being in stock NOW and people are getting shipping notifications from them already so I would say that its not going to be that much longer to wait

heres some cheese to go with your whine.

Well at least us gp2x.co.uk buyers can all cancel our orders when the guys from play asia get theirs and find all the bugs

dunno depends on how long it takes them to get theirs.

I've checked up on this, we have answered every single email and phone message, and if you didn't answer your phone we left a message on your answer service, so check it

The only emails we don't answer are things like 'I wanna buy a gp2x how much is it?' and other such sillyness.

The F200s are on the way now and may arrive tomorrow. People will start to get their confirmation emails tonight/tomorrow.

I will get a quick review up as soon as I have an F200 in my hands.

Thanks,

Craig

Well I got my first mail from gp2x.co.uk telling me pretty much as Craigix says - units arriving shortly final confermation on the day mine is dispatched - wooooo

At least I didnt have to wait so long as some of you "First Edition" owners !

GBAX have said there's been another delay...end of the week is when they expect them in.

play-asia customers already have them and gp2x.co.uk dont even have stock yet?

Guess what - shipping from Korea to Asia is way faster than from Korea to UK.
I did receive the batch from GPH today (Germany)

Agreed and even longer for US based consumers

Shame we don't have the shipping numbers

Anyone heard if gp2x.co.uk have started shipping yet?? I was hoping mine would arrive by the end of the week but it's not looking that hopeful at the moment.

may being the operative word. Doesn't mean they ever made it though!

I guess that it will take a day or so to get them all packed up and ready to send out as well.

Woo Hoo !

At last I recieved it this morning !

Funny mid October, eh?

I will let you all know what I think of it once I have had a good play.

Not got mine yet.. Did you get an email saying it had been shipped?