GBA emulator for GP2X?

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totojepast@razdva.cz - 05 Jan 2006 12:38 GMT

There are many freeware demos for GBA available on the Web. However,
you have to have a special memory cart for running the GBA demos.

I am interested in buying a GP2X portable console and I know there are
many emulators available for it. Please could you tell me if there is
any mature GBA emulator available for GP2X?

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Neil D. - 05 Jan 2006 14:45 GMT

> There are many freeware demos for GBA available on the Web. However,
> you have to have a special memory cart for running the GBA demos.
>
> I am interested in buying a GP2X portable console and I know there are
> many emulators available for it. Please could you tell me if there is
> any mature GBA emulator available for GP2X?

Apparently its harder to emulate than the snes and none of the handhelds do
it properly.

To top it off, the GP2x isnt ready for the non developer market. Too many
hardware issues and firmware probs.

It also seems like the dual cpu feature could be difficult to employ to
full. I think this would be needed to get proper playable emulation.

I'm sticking to my DS and Zodiac for the time being.

The iRiver possible offering looks nice.

HTH

Neil

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totojepast@razdva.cz - 06 Jan 2006 09:43 GMT

> > There are many freeware demos for GBA available on the Web. However,
> > you have to have a special memory cart for running the GBA demos.
> >
> > I am interested in buying a GP2X portable console and I know there are
> > many emulators available for it. Please could you tell me if there is
> > any mature GBA emulator available for GP2X?

> To top it off, the GP2x isnt ready for the non developer market. Too many
> hardware issues and firmware probs.

It seems there are two GBA emulators for GP2x now:
http://gpadvance.sourceforge.net/

http://gp2x-emulation.dcemu.co.uk/gp2xvba.shtml

I found an interesting PSX emulator:
http://wiki.gp2x.org/wiki/GP2PSX

Of course, emulating the old GBC and Lynx is easier.

> The iRiver possible offering looks nice.

What about iRiver? Do they offer some hardware which would be able to
emulate GBA?

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Chris - 03 Jun 2008 22:51 GMT

>Apparently its harder to emulate than the snes and none of the handhelds do
>it properly.
>
>To top it off, the GP2x isnt ready for the non developer market. Too many
>hardware issues and firmware probs.

What? Where are you getting this sh.t? For the most part, it just as
easy to put a game and or emulators and roms on the gp2x as it is on a
pc.

>It also seems like the dual cpu feature could be difficult to employ to
>full. I think this would be needed to get proper playable emulation.

Tell that to the guy who wrote picodrive which uses both cpu's and
emulates sega cd, sega genesis and (drumroll please) Virtua racing
which uses a 23mhz risc processor inside the cartridge (which is why
it sold for so much money at the time it was released).

>I'm sticking to my DS and Zodiac for the time being.

I'll stick with my gp2x over a ds anyday.

>The iRiver possible offering looks nice.

I don't know the iRiver

>HTH
>
>Neil

Chris

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Tim Miller - 06 Jun 2008 22:57 GMT

>> Apparently its harder to emulate than the snes and none of the handhelds do
>> it properly.
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> easy to put a game and or emulators and roms on the gp2x as it is on a
> pc.

Was it two and a half years ago?

>> It also seems like the dual cpu feature could be difficult to employ to
>> full. I think this would be needed to get proper playable emulation.
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> which uses a 23mhz risc processor inside the cartridge (which is why
> it sold for so much money at the time it was released).

Was Picodrive available to run Virtua Racing two and a half years ago?

Tim (tm)

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Chris - 03 Jun 2008 22:47 GMT

>There are many freeware demos for GBA available on the Web. However,
>you have to have a special memory cart for running the GBA demos.
>
>I am interested in buying a GP2X portable console and I know there are
>many emulators available for it. Please could you tell me if there is
>any mature GBA emulator available for GP2X?

As luck would have it, there is a top notch gba emulator for the gp2x
that plays every game I've ever tried, not that I've tried every game,
but every game I've tried worked at full or near full speed.

Chris

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