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HoldOn

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I was checking out lik-sang and I saw this handheld they have for sale. I think it is from Korea. It is suppose to be the most powerful handheld on the market. I did a google search on the machine and there is a whole dev community for this thing. People have written emulators for the handheld and it is powerful enough to run nes, neo geo pocket, genesis, ... games. It looks pretty neat but very expensive.

http://www.lik-sang.com/list.php?category=126&
 
Yeah, EGM ran a small snippet about this in their up and coming game system overview story (with the Phantom, Tapwave, N-Gage, and DISCover)
 
i was wondering if anyone knew if it runs mame, or at least current mame games. hell if i could play metal slug and 19xx on the go, id buy it.
 
i have one. there is NO MAME. it is not the most powerful handheld on the market (Tapwave's Zodiac is). it does play NES ,PCEngine and allmost all other 8-bit systems at full speed w/ sound. SNES emulation is rather good now but genesis isnt all that great. it also plays divx at good speeds as well with a program that costs about 5 bucks. (only program for the GP32 that you have to pay for) it also play .mp3s and the more space efficient .oggs. other features/ programs are drum simulators, homebrew games, doom (1,2, and wads), old point and click games (mokey island series, day of the tentacle, etc.),and more. www.gp32x.com is a good info site.
 
There are actually two MAME projects in the works and one version of Xcade that plays really old games like Pacman. The 8bit games definately are near perfect, 16 bit is slow going but atleast making progress. I was going to do a quick review of mine for the forum but I figured the Large emulation factor might be frowned on so I'll stop talking about it now.

"Most powerful" is a bit of an exaggeration. It DOES have a lot of nice features like the Mp3 player, Divx player (really more like $8.75) and the homebrew scene is pretty cool, there are a few commercial games that are pretty good, some even with translations (if you get them from JoyGP/entware) but many commercial games are being held back until the proposed european launch possibly in july.

Personally, I think Zodiac = overpowered PDA with an anolog stick.
 
So you're saying that I could transfer my RedvsBlue DivX movie files over to this thing and laugh my ass off in the car?
 
So you're saying if I got smart media cards, transfered my RedvsBlue movie files over to them that I could watch them on the GP32 and laugh my ass off?
 
I've got a bunch of anime downlaoded from Bittorrents that I watch on mine. Specifically though they have to be encoded at a certain bitrate and with certain codecs (either XviD or DivX 4.12 I think). to do that, there are a couple of programs that can do it like Movelink and VirtualDub.

I have BulletProof monk shrunk down to fit a single 128meg Smartmedia card (I probably should have used 2 though because some action scene get a bit pixelated but it's still watchable)
 
I got some of my 128s were 33 bucks from Amazon.com, also the GP32 can only use a maxium of 128 because of voltage restrictions.
 
I suppose it all depends on how much you feel having portable NES,SMS,GG(i know it's already portable but just making a point) and also eventually perfect portable TG16,SNES and Genesis in one pocketable system is to you...
 
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