I am a bit of a fanatic when it comes to retro gaming. I own a Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga 500, Atari 2600, Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo, Sega Megadrive, Sega Dreamcast, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance and alot of Nintendo Game & Watch games. Ofcourse I have al sorts of emulators for these systems on my PC and XBOX, but I didn't have a portable solution to play all these games. But this changed when I bought the GP2X. A portable open source mini computer with 2 processors that can run commercial software as well as homebrew software. There are lots of open source emulators and programs available for it, so you can play all your favorite games. The device has a USB connection and an SD memory card slot. I must say that not all emulators are created equal :-) The best ones are the Sega Megadrive / Genesis emulator and the NeoGeo emulator (Metal Slug is still a great game). Sadly I have yet to find a good Super Nintendo emulator.
You can find a lot of the software here.
Further more you can watch Xvid video with it, but I'm not too thrilled about the quality of the image I must say.
A downside of the GP2X is the battery life. It uses 2 AA batteries and if you use rechargeables like I do, they are empty in just over an hour or so. So the adapter is really necessary if you want to keep on playing.
At the moment I use it primarily to play Megadrive and NeoGeo games with it, and have an SD card in it with every Megadrive game ever released.
A must have for the real retro gamer!
