Handhelds and emulation.

[power]

I know there's a bit of a scene around emulation on handhelds as I myself have a GPH GP2X F-100. It can emulate pretty much anything.

http://www.globalgph.com/m2/sub31.php

I currently have loaded.

Lynx
Amiga
SNES
NES
MD
MAME
SCUMM

*edit*

how could I forget, also have Neo-Geo and PC Engine.

and dozens of games for each.

I have heard of people doing stuff on PSP and a few other random generic consoles like the GP2X - so do you use a handheld for your retro stuff and what does it do?

[elvis]

I've tried some emulators on NintendoDS, but they all suck (possibly with the exception of original GameBoy emulation, but I have several GBs and GBAs already).

I've got my eye on a Dingoo at the moment. I did want a Pandora, but constant delays and the insane price made me change my mind.

[Heywood]

I really like the look of http://www.open-pandora.org/ it's built for gaming and has a fairly active/interesting community pricing is certainly a bit of a concern but it certainly appears has the controller concept sorted

[elvis]

I actually put a deposit on the Pandora about 2 years back now. After much stuffing around and refunds due to PayPal screwups, I gave up.

Seems they've only shipped recently too. Long development time. I stay up to date with the head hardware developer's YouTube videos which show a lot of cool stuff off.

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by elvis

I've tried some emulators on NintendoDS, but they all suck (possibly with the exception of original GameBoy emulation, but I have several GBs and GBAs already).

I've got my eye on a Dingoo at the moment. I did want a Pandora, but constant delays and the insane price made me change my mind.

SCUMM works brilliantly on my ds. Especially sierra games.

Opentyrian is another good one.

[The Moose]

Originally Posted by elvis

I actually put a deposit on the Pandora about 2 years back now. After much stuffing around and refunds due to PayPal screwups, I gave up.

Seems they've only shipped recently too. Long development time. I stay up to date with the head hardware developer's YouTube videos which show a lot of cool stuff off.

That Pandora looks very nice. I think I'd go for one but US$350 is a fair amount, compared to a netbook right now. It would be a very nice change from taking a laptop to uni though!

[domlebo]

I'm writing a NES emulator (slowly), does that count? Looking to port it to XNA so I can get it running on my Xbox when it's done.

[Heywood]

Originally Posted by domlebo

I'm writing a NES emulator (slowly), does that count? Looking to port it to XNA so I can get it running on my Xbox when it's done.

This thread is about handhelds so unless you are Ben Heck, I would guess not

I would be interested to hear about your emulator, the why (are you unhappy with existing emulators or is it so you can learn about stuff like XNA by having a project), the how (are you writing it all from scratch, or building on top of other peoples work) and where you are up to but I'm sure its deserving of its own thread.

[domlebo]

Originally Posted by Heywood

This thread is about handhelds so unless you are Ben Heck, I would guess not

I would be interested to hear about your emulator, the why (are you unhappy with existing emulators or is it so you can learn about stuff like XNA by having a project), the how (are you writing it all from scratch, or building on top of other peoples work) and where you are up to but I'm sure its deserving of its own thread.

From scratch, and for fun. It will never compete on compatibility with the established ones (only supports 1 mapper), but it is very cycle accurate. There is a thread already in the programming forums (hasn't been updated, but PPU emulation is working for mapper 0 roms).

[Franc]

Originally Posted by power

I know there's a bit of a scene around emulation on handhelds as I myself have a GPH GP2X F-100. It can emulate pretty much anything.

How do you find it and how much did it cost shipped to aus>? Looks great

[elvis]

Dingoo is currently US$82.80 with free shipping from DX:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.23032

[bYrd]

I think the PSP (phat, preferably!) is a good handheld emulator - cheap, good screen, good battery life - and supports a number of consoles at a good rate. It can be overclocked to 333Mhz too, to help out for certain SNES titles.

JB

[Franc]

Originally Posted by elvis

Dingoo is currently US$82.80 with free shipping from DX:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.23032

lol, cool thats where I got my gamestation (which sadly stuffed up a while ago)

[power]

Originally Posted by Franc

How do you find it and how much did it cost shipped to aus>? Looks great

I bought it used from here. If I was to buy new i'd consider one of the newer machine's they make.

[FNQer]

got a few emu on my psp. popsloader for psx, homer rin for gba, gbc, nes, snes, etc... these all run well with most games working and psp being able to handle the gameplay...

typically to run emu on psp, it needs to be hacked by custom firmware - the exception being half-byte loaders on brites and certain slims (ta-088v3 m/b) of betw official firmware 5.50 and 6.20. if you wanna try emu on psp, then i recommend you go for a fully hackable psp (i.e all first gen psp aka phats, are fully hackable, regardless of its firmware)...

didn't bother with n64 emu on psp because its a work in progress and ds emu on psp, because of no touchscreen on the psp...

btw 333 mhz is not an 'overclock' - its more of a case where you can underclock the psp from its max speed (333 mhz), to conserve battery power...