GP2X next version Q

[Kodo]

Hi Makslane, I just exported my latest game to GP2X and tried it; this game runs fine on a PPC but really crawls on the GP2X, so much so it's unplayable. I heard that GE is only making use of the one GP2X processor; will GE support both processors in the next version?

[makslane]

Future versions will support both processors, but I don't know when will be released.

[pixelpoop]

Hey Kodo,

What kind of game is it?
I made a puzzle game with about 160 tiled clones and the GP2X gets a horrible 4 fps. I thought it might be my programing so I took off every action except that which creates the clones, but it still made only 4 fps. So i pushed the number of clones back to 80, flattened the images transparent pixels and still only managed 8 fps.

[Kodo]

Actually, I looked at doing a GP2X version of my last game, a platformer that I released last October on Clickgamer, Pocketgear and Handango but I didn’t get a good frame rate; that's a one level per screen game but did include a lot of clones. The game I’m working on now is a scrolling isometric based game, its still fairly basic at the moment but early tests provided a very, very poor framerate on GP2X I'm also developing it for PC and Pocket PC (on both its running like a dream), but I'd love to be able to export a playable GP2X version as well.

[makslane]

I think is the same problem I have with the HP 1910 (200 MHz, Pocket PC). There is no a processor problem, but a slow memory problem.

A solution is make a more optimized use of the cache memory to avoid to many access on the main device memory.

I'm working on this optimizations and I hope have better versions in the future.

[Kodo]

That’s great news Makslane; it sounds like your cache access optimisations will benefit all platforms, which can only be a good thing Along with the 2nd processor support mentioned above I imagine that our GP2X games will fly. Great job

[berighteous]

I just bought a Gp2x and I would love to port my old pc games (written in Euphoria) to run on it.

Has anybody had any success with retro-arcade type games on the gp2x?

I'm planning to build an arcade cabinet around the gp2x and it would be great to have my own games in it.



Michael Packard
I wrote a book on game programming 10 years ago...
http://www.berighteous.com/euphoria

[akhad]

I'm currently finishing off a Galaxians clone and have no idea how it runs on a GP2X, I can link you to a demo if you'd like to see how it runs ?