Flojomojo Posted December 27, 2005 Share Posted December 27, 2005 (edited) Just found this in some blogs from last week. This thing looks amazing. http://www.cenix.co.kr/ Smaller than a GBA Micro, flashable like a GP2X. Neat, I want one. Edited December 27, 2005 by Flojomojo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Vendel Posted December 28, 2005 Share Posted December 28, 2005 Wow! Cool... I will have to see if my guys over in HK can snag a few of those to take a look at, they look kick ass! :-) Curt Just found this in some blogs from last week. This thing looks amazing. http://www.cenix.co.kr/ Smaller than a GBA Micro, flashable like a GP2X. Neat, I want one. 989971[/snapback] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxglove9 Posted December 28, 2005 Share Posted December 28, 2005 That does look awesome! Speaking of GP2X, do you know anyone who has it and uses it for emulation? Was wondering if it was worth the money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted December 28, 2005 Share Posted December 28, 2005 That does look awesome! Speaking of GP2X, do you know anyone who has it and uses it for emulation? Was wondering if it was worth the money. 990182[/snapback] Yes. And ABSOLUTELY! http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=80633&hl= http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=81142&hl= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godzilla Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 ooo those are cool :-) damn all these weird handhelds. Hard to keep up. Just got a zodaic 2 for $80 on ebay, and a gp32 blu 166mhz for $100, and more weird systems keep popping up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
compacho Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 Those look great. Hopefully the homebrew scene will find out about this soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory DG Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 That's cool and all, but these handhelds getting so small reminds me of a recent SNL skit where they made fun of the iPod Nano. "Steve Jobs" came out to introduce the next iPod which was the size of a postage stamp. Then a moment later he introduced the NEXT one which was the size of a speck of dirt. How small is too small? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmydelaKopin Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 How small is too small?! You serious? Back in the 80's we played videogames on our watches! Now that's small! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheese007 Posted January 31, 2006 Share Posted January 31, 2006 yay 100th post anyway with the way things are going eventually just by putting your future game boy micron (not a misspelling or mis name just somehing i made up while making this post ) you will lose it in your pocket Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yuppicide Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 Let us know if you get one and post a review or something.. Wow! Cool... I will have to see if my guys over in HK can snag a few of those to take a look at, they look kick ass! :-) Curt Just found this in some blogs from last week. This thing looks amazing. http://www.cenix.co.kr/ Smaller than a GBA Micro, flashable like a GP2X. Neat, I want one. 989971[/snapback] 990090[/snapback] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 As far as the "too small" thing... I think the thing that needs to happen is convergence technology needs to come together with display technology. I want an all-in-one PDA/Phone/Internet device that automatically adds I/O peripherals to a PAN via Bluetooth or other "WLAN" type method, with a modular design based on SDIO type cards. I see something about the size of a large pager with multiple SD slots... a replacement for your PC tower. At my desk it might connect to and drive my LCD display, keyboard, and mouse... in my living room it might connect to my Plasma TV... in my car it would stream MP3s to my in-car speaker system... on the train I could watch movies in a virtual 64" screen on my eyeglasses or sunglasses... Same thing with controller interfacing. Bluetooth joystick, joypad, CX40, 5200 style... X-Arcade... whatever is appropriate to your current situation. Bluetooth headset for making and receiving cellular calls... etc... The LCD screens in the headrest in my card, streaming digital content from Netflix on demand... wooohoo.... At that point, "how small" becomes something of a moot point. As small or as large as is appropriate for the current task. It would be great if we could emulate controller I/O through interpetation of brain activity... so thinking, "diagonal right and fire" would cause the device to respond *just* as if you were holding an Atari 5200 controller while running 5200 emulation on a device like this... I bet we're close to this, 20 years down the road... I think we're close to being able to do (most of) this with current, off-the-shelf technology... but IP concerns and closed architectures and lessons learned by corporations over the IBM PC are keeping it from happening. Enough processor in that pager-sized CPU and you can drop your Game Boy, PSP, your portable DVD player, your laptop, your pager, your cel phone, your desktop PC, your all-in-one remote control, your MP3 Player, and have it all on one, unobstrusive device worn somewhere on your person. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted March 6, 2006 Author Share Posted March 6, 2006 I hear you -- that sort of convergence would be nice. We can't even get standard power cords though, so I wouldn't count on it happening for a very long time, if ever. The modular world you envision could possibly work via some sort of software licensing for the different components, kind of like TV programming or cell phone carriers. In the meantime, looks like the "other" Gamepark has announced it's take on the GBA Micro in the form of the XGP Mini. This is the commercial arm that is supposed to compete with Nintendo and Sony. I don't know how that's going to work, but if this thing gets half as many emulators as the GPX2, I'll want one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted March 6, 2006 Author Share Posted March 6, 2006 According to the gp32x.com forums, the XGP Mini is gp32-compatible! If true, this $150 handheld shall be mine ... If not, I'll hold my nose and get an GPX2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 I wonder if we're going to see the reverse of the original XBox controller with these micro devices... that is... they'll be too small for the fat, clumsy hands of Americans... This last device looks that way to me... And it just seems to me that Asians are fascinated with miniturization. Tiny RC cars and boats... tiny games... tiny... well.. whatever... Making it SMALL seems more critical than making it actually useful. Admittedly, though, they generally accompish both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vic George 2K3 Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 I'd rather see the portable videogame system where the screen outputs to a pair of lightweight glasses (NOT the bulky VR-type goggle junk), and you can just plug in a pair of headphones and a standard game console controller to play it. Though probably not practical as far as like walking while playing, it would be good for like sitting on a bus or vehicle as a passenger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess Ragan Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 According to the gp32x.com forums, the XGP Mini is gp32-compatible! If true, this $150 handheld shall be mine ... 1029157[/snapback] Not bad! It's good to see a tiny handheld with backward compatibility. So what emulators are available for the GP32X? I don't suppose I could satisfy my Neo-Geo jones with one of these systems, could I? JR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZylonBane Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 So what emulators are available for the GP32X? Almost too many to list-- http://gp32emu.dcemu.co.uk/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess Ragan Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 Impressive! Thanks for the link, Zylon. I'd definitely consider purchasing this if the emulation on the system is any good. I don't give a crap about the weird Korean games for the GP32, but it would be completely awesome to have access to all my favorite Vectrex and ColecoVision games on the go. At the moment, neither the DS nor the PSP can do the Vectrex justice. JR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted March 7, 2006 Author Share Posted March 7, 2006 Jess -- There's no such thing as a GP32X -- you're confusing two different handhelds with very similar names. The GP32 is the big white handheld that uses Smartmedia. There's a backlit and frontlit version. These can be found used pretty cheaply now taht GPX2 is out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP32 The GPX2 is a black handheld, intended for homebrew mostly, just came out last year from a spin-off called Gamepark Holdings, runs Linux, and uses SD cards. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gp2x http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamepark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Vendel Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 Mike Stulir from Back in Time got a GP2X a month or so ago, he's had MAME, VICE, STELLA and one of the Atari 800 emulators running on it, oh also a Sega Genesis emulator as well. He says they all play fantastic, he's now been tinkering with playing DVD movies on the unit. I just got mine mid of last week, its beauty of a device, I am hoping to start playing around with it this week. Curt Jess -- There's no such thing as a GP32X -- you're confusing two different handhelds with very similar names. The GP32 is the big white handheld that uses Smartmedia. There's a backlit and frontlit version. These can be found used pretty cheaply now taht GPX2 is out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP32 The GPX2 is a black handheld, intended for homebrew mostly, just came out last year from a spin-off called Gamepark Holdings, runs Linux, and uses SD cards. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gp2x http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamepark 1029450[/snapback] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted March 7, 2006 Author Share Posted March 7, 2006 Excellent news. I just won a GPX2 from Ebay by accident yesterday (didn't think it would go so low!). More emulators to mess around with! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZylonBane Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 Ahem. GP2X, not GPX2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JagFan422 Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 THe XGP is no way compatible with the GP32, that was a typo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted March 7, 2006 Author Share Posted March 7, 2006 Ahem. GP2X, not GPX2. 1029659[/snapback] I told you the names were confusing! Dyslexics of the world, UNTIE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moderntimes99 Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 Mike Stulir from Back in Time got a GP2X a month or so ago, he's had MAME, VICE, STELLA and one of the Atari 800 emulators running on it, oh also a Sega Genesis emulator as well. He says they all play fantastic, he's now been tinkering with playing DVD movies on the unit. I just got mine mid of last week, its beauty of a device, I am hoping to start playing around with it this week. Curt How well does Stella run on it? I see that the GP2X community recommends users to not buy the GP2X if you only intend to play games on it - is that statement valid if your only intention is to use it as a portable 2600 emulator? (Or would I be better off getting a GP32 instead of a GP2X...?) Regards, Moderntimes99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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