October 2005
Beginner
501 pages
15h 5m
English
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Retro-Hack the GP32
Use the Korean handheld marvel to play retro games and other bizarre amusements.
In the early years of the 21st century, a Korean company decided to try something a little different in the handheld arena. As gamers went about their business, they were scrutinized and studied, as Gamepark slowly and surely drew its plans against us. The fruit of Gamepark’s loins? The GP32 handheld, a 320 x 240 pixel monster with a 32-bit ARM9 RISC CPU, 8-MB SDRAM, and up to 128MB of storage memory on a normal SMC smart media memory card, with data transferred from any PC using USB.
The advantages of such an open system for the GP32 are obvious in terms of homebrew content, and Gaming Hacks, the previous book in the hacks series that dealt with, well, gaming hacks, has a hack devoted to cool things you can do with the GP32, from running alternate operating systems to notable emulators—even overclocking it. But honestly, that book’s hack just scraped the surface, especially in the retro arena—the fact is that there’s much more you can do with your GP32, especially with the plethora of new software coming out for it.
So, here are some pleasant, advanced, retro-related starting points for the Korean handheld, which definitely doesn’t have the firepower of new handhelds such as Sony’s PSP, but has an adorably free attitude to software (you can download and run any executable you like), meaning that it will continue to be adopted for some time to come by the cult-loving, niche, and plain ...
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