Not yet. I'm waiting for them to be cheap enough to trade for a pez dispenser.
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16th May, 2005 at 02:34:55 -
You guys should all just buy Flashcarts. I've got one for my GBA and one has just come out for DS: www.neoflash.com . I think I'll buy the neoflash once it get's cheap. For those of you who don't know a flashcart is like a normal game cartridge except it comes with software for you to burn roms onto it. So just download roms off the net and burn them onto your cart.
That's what I intend to do. I've had an EZF Advance 256 for my GBA for ages and it's great. I'd wait a while before getting a DS one though, as no doubt there'll be some hardware updates in the future (although those neo carts do look neat).
Flash carts are small in size for the money, forget flash carts. Comare the price of a 1 Gigabit SMC at around 10 GBP/$20 to a 1 gigabit flash cart. The screens on the DS and GBA are smaller and lower res too. The res on the DS isn't high enough to run many of the emus without cutting out resolution and cropping the screen, the GBA is even worse. There will never be a Genesis emu on the GBA either, while there is a full speed with full sound full resolution one on the GP32. Go to www.gp32x.com and you will see that there are many more emulators for the GP32 and they are far better than emus on a DS or GBA.
For those considering a GP32 who might be interested in another option, hackers have been making a lot of progress lately with the PSP. They've just recently been able to remove the cap on the processor speed from 222 MHz to the full 333 MHz it is capable of. They've also found a way to run homebrew software on systems running version 1.50 of the firmware (US launch systems for example). Japanese users with version 1.0 firmware systems can already emulate NES, Genesis and SNES games, and with the higher clock rate and more time who knows what else they can come up with. I'm not sure exactly how MMF2 games will run on the GP32, but it might be possible to either emulate that system or port the software over to the PSP. It probably depends on whether MMF2 actually compiles the programs or if it uses an interpreter like MMF1 does.
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