ZX-81, porter of several applications and emulators to GP2x and PSP, now owns a Wiz and announced to release things for it!

Find out more by following his announcement, linked below.

http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/serendipity/index.php?/archives/364-A-new-developer-for-the-Gp2x-Wiz-console-!.html

GnGeo is a NeoGeo Emulator for the Wiz. It runs most games fullspeed with sound and features save states!

http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/wiz.cgi?0,0,0,0,71,179

Picodrive by Notaz is a Genesis/MegaDrive and SegaCD emulator for Wiz.

Release notes:

Not much has changed from the previous version released a year ago (in terms of features), most of latest efforts were put to get it working well on Wiz. This version now runs both on Wiz and F100/F200, which will save me some burden of having to compile separate versions. Here is the changelog:

– Added Wiz support. Now the same GP2X binary supports F100/F200 and Wiz.
– Changed shadow/hilight handling a bit, fixes some effects in Pirates! Gold.
– Complete input code rewrite. This fixes some limitations like not allowing to control both players using single input device. It also allows to use more devices (like keyboards) on Linux based devices.
– Options menu has been reordered, “restore defaults” option added.
– Fixed a crash when uncompressed savestate is loaded.
– Fixed an idle loop detection related hanging problem.
– Fixed a sync problem between main and sub 68k. Should fix the hanging problem for some games.
– Fixed a crash when CD savestate is loaded just after loading ROM.

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/49028-picodrive-1-55/

Beat2X is a Dance Dance Revolution like game for the Wiz.

Release notes:

Beat2X is a StepMania-like game for GP2X. It consists of several levels, each one based on one tune, where the user has to press the right buttons in sync with music.

Note: You have to get music packs on the gp2x archive.
No change to source for wiz version from the gp2x source.

http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/wiz.cgi?0,0,0,0,27,178

POWDER is a roguelike game, which is not a port of an existing roguelike. It is built around replayability and long term ergonomics, not short term learning. Author of this piece of software is Jeff Lait. Pickle ported POWDER to the Wiz.

http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/wiz.cgi?0,0,0,0,26,177

Franxis updated MAM4ALL for GP2x and Wiz. MAME stands for “multiple arcade machine emulator”.

Changes:

– Added full image scaling (Rampage, Popeye, Super Sprint, etc).
Horizontal scaling with linear filtering is still used internally when applicable.
– More Neo·Geo games are playable, e.g. Art of Fighting 3, Fatal Fury and Pulstar.
Still some games run in the GP2X and not in the WIZ due to lack of memory.
(blazstar, kof96, mslug2, ninjamas, ragnagrd, rbff1 and shocktro)
– Upper memory is used as primary memory for all memory allocations. If the upper memory
is full, the Linux memory is used instead. Strangely the emulator is faster using this
approach and it avoids lock-ups.
– No more lock-ups when exiting from games to the frontend (e.g. Out Run, Shinobi, etc).

The GP2x version has not been updated yet!

http://www.talfi.net/gp32_franxis/

As most of you know GamePark Holdings has been at the Games Convention Online 2009 ( http://www.gamesconvention.com/ ), recently held in Leipzig / Germany.

For those who did not had a chance to be there, above is a picture of the GPH stand, which looked pretty nice.

In the upper picture you can spot EvilDragon / http://www.gp2x.de amongst the helping hands and a bunch of guests, trying to peak at the GP2x Wiz – and some of them also having the chance to try ’em.

The lower picture shows the korean GamePark Holdings staff, along with the Korean Deputy Minister of Culture. It’s always great to see faces and supporters of a project!

From left to right:
Ms Lee, GPH A/S Center, Germany
Mr Tony Han, GPH Overseas Sale Manager
Korean Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism
Ms Jane, GPH Overseas Sale Assistance Manage

Thanks to Tony Han, GPH Overseas Sale Manager, for the pictures!

EvilDragon, who has been with GamePark Holdings, at the recently held Games Convention Online (GCO) 2009 in Leipzig, has some interesting news.

Quote:

* FunGP:
The Appstore FunGP will go online sometime between October and December (the date is not fixed yet).

You can download games using GP Points. First you buy GP Points from one of the distributors which you can then use at FunGP to get the games.

Thy not directly from GPH, you might wonder? Well, it’s pretty complicated in Korea to accept foreign credt card payments. Therefore, this is the best way to get those games.

Additionally, some distributors offer different payment systems (German Bank Transfer, etc.) which you can also use to buy these points, no credit card needed.

While the first releases at FunGP will most probably be games from partner developers, it’s also possible for independent- or homebrew-game-developers to sell their games via FunGP for a few bucks.

Of course, the free File Archive will stay, this is just an opportunity for indie game developers to sell more complex games they would not want to release for free.

FunGP will need ActiveX for the first months. In Korea, about 99% are using Internet Explorer. Linux or even Firefox are not very common there, so it’s not that easy to get developers that DON’T use ActiveX.

However, GPH does want to make it compatible with every browser and OS in the future.

Every registered user at FunGP can write reviews for the games.

Here are a few of the first games that will be released: Propis (Puzzlegame), Deicide 3 (basically a visual novel / movie where you can decide how the plot will continue), Break Through (Her Knights 2), an enhanced version of Blood Cross (adding Multiplayer) and Wiz Party (similar to Mario Party).

GPH will announce more games soon.

FunGP will also offer a multiplayernetwork, which can be used with the WiFi-Dongle. This allows playing games like Blood Cross, Wiz Party or Propis agains other users worldwide… we really should do some game competitions here at the board!

Another interesting thing is that GPH plans to license some ROMS for emulators. I doubt Sega or Nintendo might license anything, but some Arcade-companies already licensed some of their games to other companies, so it might work out here.
This could make it possible to legally emulate some Arcade classics!

* SDK
Many did ask for the SDK – but it’s not ready yet. Tony promised me to release an official SDK until the end of the year.

They also plan on selling the devboards (serial out, TV out, USB Host on a board, which can be connected to the EXT Port. Similar to the F100/F200 cradle).

* WiFi Dongle
The WiFi Dongle is basically finished and should be released within the next months. It does offer WiFi and using FunGP multiplayer gaming.

I don’t have a price yet.

* F300 and other WIZs
The F300 (a WIZ in an F200 case) is currently being worked on. It should be released just in time for christmas.

It might also happen, that the WIZ will be available in different colors shortly before christmas.

The same text, just in german, can be found here: http://forum.gp2x.de/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=7655

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=48981

GP2Xpectrum is a Spectrum emulator for Wiz.

Authors: Hermes, Metalbrain & Seleuco; Wiz Port: SplinterGU

http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/wiz.cgi?0,0,0,0,72,175

WizNotePad is a text editor for Wiz.

http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/wiz.cgi?0,0,0,0,113,170