Updated GP2X handheld, MKII, shipping now

I've got one of these little guys. It apes everything people like about the PSP (video, music, homebrew, emulators) and leaves out the bad (UMD, zero tolerance homebrew policy). You don't have to convert you video into some arcane format either. I rather like it.

Some Cons:
- The jostick on the old units are unarguably terrible. Good thing they improved it
- You need to buy an SD card to really get full use, adds to the cost
- You need good AA's to get full use. As in 2500+ mAh. Not your average generic brand. I get about 5 hours of battery life out of my 2500mAh batteries, though some people report as low as one hour with generic brands

All things considered, cheaper than a PSP, does about the same thing. Despite the fact that the PSP looks considerably different, I've had people on the street say "Oh Cool! A PSP!"...

Wait, wait. I'm confused...so does it play Mortal Kombat II or not?

It plays Mortal Kombat 2, and 3, and ...

I love my GP2X. I have 30+ emulators on it right now. My biggest complaint was the joystick. It is horrible to use. You cannot play Capcom or SNK fighters at all with it! I bought another joystick and holy cow it makes such a difference -- night and day.

I had an old GP32. It ruled. I'd love to get another one these newer models but I already have a PSP and I think that I can make good use of that still.

Wow, engadget made the same mistake that joystiq have made here and missed out the main 2 reason why this is considered a new revision.
The mk2 has the joystick rotated to fix a roblem where the doagonals were too easy to hit.
A new screen is being used that doesn't suffer from scanlines like the old screen.

Is it worth getting if you alreay own a PSP?

Jaguarandine; it's not worth getting if you've already got a PSP.

I will have to buy that. However which has better emulators and homebrew developers? The ones for the Sony PSP or the MKII GP2X?

what exactly are these? do the manufacturers make proper retail games or is it just 'heres a device with buttons and a screen, do with it what you will' ie, make emulators? and how much do they cost?

cheers

Does the Snes,Genesis and NeoGeo emulator run at full speed??

In my experience, most of the software that runs on these things is either running at half speed, incomplete or buggy. I wish homebrew developers took more pride in their work and focussed more on quality control and design, instead of just 'quick get it out the door before someone else does so we can say we were the first ones!'.

Or maybe I've just been unlucky, and someone else here can tell me where to find full-speed, fully-featured software that does everything that it's supposed to and doesn't break?

Gareth- you obviously have been trying the wrong software.

Try DrMD, the NeoGeo emulator and the Atari ST emu- then come back and say they arent polished.

You wont

Now if they threw in a HD and recharable batteries, I'd be all over this thing.

In terms of emulators, I've been watching the thing for a while. The main bitching points -- the joystick and screen issues -- are finally fixed. My interest has gone up.

Also, I would never recommend importing this from Play-Asia. For things like this from dinky companies their support for the warranty is pretty awful according to anyone I've spoken to. There's other solutions to buy from.

Could you tell us what some of those other solutions are, Tony? I'm as intrigued about this thing as the next guy, if it emulates as well as everyone says it does and some of the main problems have been fixed.

Hey thanks for the info. For anyone hesitant about buying from Lik-Sang, I found this - http://www.gbax.com/main.pl.