there's a strange firmware avaible on the korean page. what was the changes?
http://www.gp2x.co.kr/upFiles/gp2x-f100_2.5.0_070503.zip

Am I the only one thinking it maybe SDHC support? I will maybe flash my gp2x to find out. Wish me luck

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Ok, the firmware upgrade went ok, and boot screen now shows version 2.5.0, boot time is about the same as 2.1.1, menu obviously did not get changed so it still reads 2.1.1. Also my 4gig card that did not work before still does not work (cheap dan elec SDHC). I will try get hold of other SDHC cards for testing Nothing seems to have broken, yet.

Question is, where the hell is firmware 4.0 available... ? GPH said they'd be releasing it...

Is that the firmware where they fix the faulty USB cable they ship by removing USB options all-together in the menu?

Reasons why you shouldn't want it

I have an F200 though, and a whole bunch of stuff I want to get up and running on my F200, such as replacement boot scripts/shells/daemons etc... I can't start to do this until I know I can `unbrick' the firmware...

You should have said.

Also there was a fw 4.0 rip in the file archive but it seems to have gone now.

Link

Sorry, I can't speak english very well --;;

firmware 2.5 support 'GP2X F-100 DRM' for SDcard game. Not yet support SDHC.

game name is 'Blood Cross'.

http://gp2x.co.kr/shop/shop_view.asp?part=02&indexNo=28
http://www.youtube.com/v/ZpZ3H1-V8UE&rel=1

Thanks for the information. I guess I will leave it on my gp2x, as nothing seems to have broken.

Those damn fiends, still screwing us over for getting the commercial games and implementing DRM like they said they wouldn't...

I have no idea why they need a firmware upgrade to play DRM.

As long as each device has a unique ID, you can create a non-guessable key code.

Why would they screw around with firmware?

wow DRM... now that's a firmware update I won't be making ^^. Then again, it depends. I wish they would just trust the community and release the games drm free. AFAIK not one commercial gp2x game has surfaced on any warez pages or torrent trackers and it should stay this way.

Well thats because the community is somewhat small...in comparison to the big guys.

and as far as commercial goes...well yea...not much there

The big commercial game developers generally don't like the idea of developing for a system where their major competition is free.

Not like they have a reason too. Nintendo been around for so long its just not a joke anymore.

And sony yea I have nothing good to say.

Sega came and gone.

Only people who would are independent smaller companies.

Not true Payback and Vektar appeared about a month back on a certain torrent site but was taken off as soon as the admin found out, but at one point over 120 people were downloading and it was still available even after it was taken off the list

I thought we weren't that evil.

The Payback and Vektar news is very sad. It's not surprising in the least though, is it? Considering how the GP2X is marketed towards emulation more than anything else, getting the attention of people like that is inevitable.

So I clicked on that Blood Cross link on the last page. Some kind of fighting game, I guess.

(image removed, just click the link)

I wonder if any fighters actually wear outfits like that?

The GP2X is marketed?

Of course, just not by the people who produce it

It's in almost every issue of "Retro Gamer" for example.
It also appears in many web-adverts - even on this very site!

My guess is that they have implemented DRM based on the SD Cards unique id rather than the GP2X's. Makes it easier to sell the game without asking you for your unique gp2x id which everyone can read and change anyway.

Fun thing will be if they included the drm in the kernel rather than a module, then they would have to open source there drm software

Be interested to see how they implemented this... the laziest and easiest way would be to only run $game if the serial number of the SD card matched one in a "known list" ... the easiest attack on this would still be to simply crack the game itself. I do find the paradox of as soon as someone implements DRM, it suddenly becomes a focused challenge for people to break it...

Hmmm, I've just downloaded this and all thats in the archive is the updated kernel. So since gph didn't use any closed source modules, we can now demand the source code to the modified kernel, including the source code to there drm Also, if they refuse, we can sue them

And if they are using the sd card as protection, its even more fun. They can be sued if they don't release the source code, and sued if they do.

Sounds like typical a GPH screwup to me! Every other company would put there drm stuff in a module, so they could release the source to the kernel, but keep there drm proprietary.

Ho hum..

So, who wants to send of the legal letters?