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.
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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.
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Originally Posted by Harrison:
It seems to only have built in emulation for NES, SNES, GBA, Genesis and Neo Geo. There is a video showing it working though.
Yeah, I saw that too this afternoon, so I guess the variety of emulators is limited, obviously more than on the PSP or the GP2X.
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