New handheld Retro Gaming console

[woody.cool]

Where can I get one?

[Bloodwych]

Where can I get one?

Not sure. Someone must stock it however. Google time me thinks!

[Demon Cleaner]

It looks very cheap, are there more pictures where you can actually see something running on it? Then I would profer ro get the GP2X Whiz --> http://gp2x.co.uk/

[Bloodwych]

Demon Cleaner, I can do nothing but agree that Whiz looks nice. I think you get what you pay for, but according to THB over at EAB this cheapo little device isn't half bad for what it does.

[Demon Cleaner]

Could indeed be interesting. But how does it run the games? Is it preconfigured to run the ROMs of the said systems, or does it need emulators?

[Bloodwych]

Not sure - emulators probably.

[Teho]

According to Thinkgeek's product page, it doesn't need you to install any emulators. It plays the roms out of the box. Also it plays a bunch of audio and video formats, and has a radio and ebook reader software. All you need to provide is the media.

[Tiago]

About the GP2X

If it runs linux.... i wonder if you can get an amiga emulator thru linux....

Ok, yes it has Uae!

http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/gp2x.cgi?0,0,0,0,72


and also C64, Atari.... etc etc....

[Harrison]

The GP2X and its predecessors are great handhelds for retro emulation fans. It definitely has a wide range of emulators and other software already available due to the easy recompiling of existing Linux code for the platform.

And this new one has a faster 533MHz Arm9 CPU so emulation should run well.

I don't know anything about the other one though. At $100 it isn't really expensive. About the same as a mid range MP3 player, and it it does have battery life was claimed and it well made with good controls and screen then it could be worth it.

However I have a PSP and run a lot of emulators on that and it does me for the moment. SNES games run especially well.

[Harrison]

I just found a lot more information about the system here.

It seems to only have built in emulation for NES, SNES, GBA, Genesis and Neo Geo. There is a video showing it working though.