GP2x News
Red Dragon v0.38 GP2x (Beta 0) (VB emu for GP2x)

Red Dragon is a VirtualBoy emulator which has been quickly ported to the GP2x. It’s not in any useable or playable state at the moment. Check the readme for more details.

http://www.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,5,2430

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FBA2x (22-12-2007) (Arcade emu for GP2x)

Headoverheel had his finger on the Final Burn Advance GP2x port recently and has given following improvements:

– Frame limiter and autoframeskip.
– Fps counter (L+R+Y)
– Added Craigix Ram Timmings.
– Volume control.
– Now you can exit from the emulator with L+R+START
– Button mapping modified for vertical games(VOL_UP & VOL_DOWN to Fire , L & R to change volume)
– A few changes and optimizations here and there :p

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=39755

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Simple Dev Studio for GP2X v0.6b (GP2x misc)

Simple Dev Studio is a very small IDE for GP2x SDK (0,3 mb) for those who want to make small applications without the need of a +500 mb Visual Studio install. The IDE itself contains and needs only the official GP2x SDK and additional SDL libs or minimal libs to work.

http://www.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,14,2429

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Open Tyrian 2x v0.2 (GP2x Game)

Here comes a christmas version of the OpenTyrian port to the GP2x. Tyrian is a 2D oldschool shooter.

Changes:

* Fullscreen mode (selectable from main menu)
* Access to in-game menu with SELECT button
* Pause (START button)
* Christmas mode (see xmas startup script)
* Icons for normal and xmas mode

http://www.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,30,2421

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Naz 2007 (GP2x Game)

Paolo ‘Neurox’ Borzini has released his Christmas gift tot he GP2X community.

Help Santa Claus to find some specific object. The game is in italian language, so if you don’t know italian, it might be a good opportunity to learn it 🙂

http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,26,2428

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GP2x-F200 Firmware v4.0 (GP2x-F200 Firmware)

This is explicitly only for GP2x-F200 models and will not work with others!

Releae notes:

Firmware 4.0.0 for use only in the F-200 is released to the public.

Users who have accidentally flashed the F-200 firmware may download this firmware and update it.

This version does not work for GP2X F-100 consoles. Future release for F-100 will be available at a later time.

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Update Information
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– Current firmware version for F-200 does not support User Skin change function as it did in the F-100.
– New GUI Graphics
– Touch Screen Support
– Integrated Settings Menu
– MP3 player multi tasking (MP3+e-book, MP3+photo)
– 5 embedded games
– USB plug and play
– SDHC SD card support
– Mute boot sound (Press volume key down when turning on)

* MP3 hold function is changed to A button + L button

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Firmware upgrade instructions
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1. Download the firmware file
2. Decompress file and place files in the root of the SD card.
3. Turn on GP2X while holding down Select+Home
4. Firmware upgrades itself.

* Make sure you have enough battery or use the AC adapter while upgrading the firmware. If the power goes out while upgrading, it may damage the system.

http://www.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,42,2423

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BusyBox v1.8.2 (GP2x misc)

Release notes:

Rename the binary to the name of the application you wish to use (on NAND/ext2 fs you can create a symbolic link) or run it like ./busybox command.

These commands/utils are included: addgroup, adduser, adjtimex, arping, basename, bunzip2, bzcat, bzip2, catv, chattr, chgrp, chmod, chpasswd, chpst, chroot, chrt, chvt, cksum, clear, comm, crond, crontab, cryptpw, date, deallocvt, delgroup, deluser, dhcprelay, diff, dirname, dmesg, dnsd, dos2unix, dumpkmap, dumpleases, echo, egrep, eject, envdir, envuidgid, ether-wake, expand, expr, fakeidentd, false, fbset, fdflush, fdformat, fdisk, fgrep, find, fold, free, freeramdisk, fsck, fsck.minix, ftpget, ftpput, fuser, getopt, getty, grep, gunzip, gzip, halt, hdparm, hexdump, hostid, hostname, httpd, hwclock, ifconfig, ifdown, ifup, inetd, insmod, install, ipaddr, ipcalc, ipcrm, ipcs, iplink, iproute, iprule, iptunnel, kbd_mode, killall, killall5, klogd, last, less, linux32, linux64, linuxrc, loadfont, loadkmap, logger, login, logname, logread, losetup, lsattr, lsmod, lzmacat, makedevs, md5sum, mdev, mesg, microcom, mkdir, mkfifo, mkfs.minix, mknod, mkswap, mktemp, modprobe, more, mount, mountpoint, nameif, netstat, nice, nmeter, nohup, nslookup, openvt, passwd, pgrep, pidof, ping6, pipe_progress, pivot_root, pkill, poweroff, printenv, printf, pscan, raidautorun, rdate, readahead, readlink, readprofile, realpath, reboot, renice, resize, rmdir, rmmod, route, rpm2cpio, run-parts, runlevel, runsv, runsvdir, setarch, setconsole, setkeycodes, setlogcons, setuidgid, sha1sum, slattach, sleep, softlimit, sort, split, start-stop-daemon, stat, strings, stty, sulogin, svlogd, swapoff, switch_root, sync,sysctl, syslogd, tail, taskset, tcpsvd, telnet, telnetd, test, tftp, touch, traceroute, true, ttysize, udhcpc, udhcpd, udpsvd, umount, uname, uncompress, unexpand, uniq, unix2dos, unlzma, unzip, uptime, usleep, uudecode, uuencode, vconfig, vlock, watch, watchdog, wget, which, whoami, xargs, zcat, zcip

This is a static build. Do not overwrite your original busybox binary! You have been warned.

http://www.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,1,2427

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Iconv v1.11 (GP2x misc)

Iconv binary compiled for GP2x. May be used in STERM to convert between different text encodings.

http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,14,2422

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Yahtzee GP2X v2.1 (GP2x Game)

Yahtzee features upto eight players simultaneously with highscore saving in single player mode. It also features custom backgrounds and the option to change the various text colours to match a new background if you want to use your own.

Changes:

– Now remembers previous position of cursor when moving between score sheet and dice.
– Cursor will scroll between options in game when Up or Down is held instead of having to repeatedly press the direction.
– Minor changes to the User Guide.

http://www.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,25,1325

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Open Tyrian 2x (19-12-2007) (GP2x Game)

OpenTyrian is a port of the classic DOS game Tyrian to C using SDL.

Changes:

Changed sound/music from 44100hz to 22050hz.
Changed detail level to 486 level.
Changed launcher script for use with Gmenu2x.
Compiled with latest version of hardware SDL.
Compiled with assembler versions of memcpy() and memset().

http://www.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,30,2421

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