GP32
Picture of GP32 playing DG.
CPU
Memory
Storage SMC(Smart Media Card)
RAM 8MB SDRAM [/td]
Display
Definition 320 X 240 Pixels [/td]
Sound
MP3 MPEG(I,II) Audio Support [/td]
PC Connection Cable USB Port connection cable [/td]
Controls
Doom Available here
Wolfenstein here
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GP32 Little Wizard
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Beat-em-up with cool graphics and some original characters. Players have limited special moves but can perfom magic spells such as turning the opponent temporaily into a snowman. [/td]
GP32 Dungeon & Guarder
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Like Golden Axe with different character classes also features missile weapons, magic spells, experience points and best of all multiplayer wireless play.[/td]
GP32 Astonishia Story R
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GP32 Tomak - Save the Earth, again
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running on the GP32, it has been ported by Intelecto and is available for download here. Its still in an early beta version with no sound and its running a bit slow but with a bit of optimization to do its looking good so far.
Did you spot all the different systems? Now back to software... 
The music is epic sounding with a driving beat, setting the mood well for each level, and the sound effects are the same. It's essentially a sidescrolling beat'em up, but the gameplay has some unique twists, and it manages to come across as something original and fun despite its obvious roots. In the beginning you have a selection of five different characters, each in the knightly employ of some princess who's being forced into marriage. There's a storyline that develops throughout the game, complete with some good static artwork and goofy "Engrish." Each character has different strengths and weaknesses, as you'd expect. And from what I've read on the net, there are many more characters to unlock and use, not to mention level editors and user designed levels to download and add to your card! But it's the control that makes the game feel special. 
There is no jump button, although some characters can do moves that work like jumps. There's normal attack, special attack, block and direction shift. There are also all sorts of combos, spells and special attacks that can be pulled off with some experimentation. The controls are very deep for this type of game, and as you can probably tell, I haven't completely figured them out yet! But hey, the manual is in Korean. As you go along laying enemies to waste literally all over the ground, you also get items to pick up, from food that knocks your energy back up, to powerups that let you become extra strong for a while. And there's plenty of blood! 
Next we have Tomak: Save The Earth Again!, a sidescrolling shooter with very good graphics, good music (that snaps and pops at times) and some decent, if not weird, sound effects. Visually it looks like a combination of Metal Slug and Air Zonk, which is a very good thing. 
As far as gameplay goes, it's nothing special. You have a choice of 3 characters, you can shoot and drop odd protection objects that block bullets and can literally fill the screen causing massive slowdowns. As you fly along blasting enemies, they also drop items that you can collect to powerup, and at the end of each of the 4 levels (yep it's too short) you meet some impressive looking bosses. Typical fare, done with a nice artistic flare, albeit with some design blemishes. Good, but not great. Pinball Dreams is a solid pinball game, originally designed for the good old Commodore Amiga. The GP32 version is quite faithful. You've got four tables, each with good music and sound effects. It plays well, with the shoulder buttons acting as flippers. A solid effort, and especially welcome because it's not Korean, no offense to Koreans of course, but it's good to see commercial developers from other places working on the GP32. 
Super Plusha is a sidescrolling platformer. I bought it because I heard it was technically well done, and I wanted to see what the GP32 could do when programmed well. And it doesn't disappoint. The sound and music are very clean, with none of the pops and crackles that often show up on GP32 games. Graphically it's a nice display of multiple background layers and animated characters. It's also obscenely cute, and although it plays well enough, I couldn't really get into the game. But it's pure quality. 
That's it for commercial games. Next we'll take a look at some of my favorite free homebrew games for GP32. Arcano by Franz Lankes is probably what Jeff "Yak" Minter would've done to Breakout if he'd gotten around to it. It's THAT good. Superb psychedelic backgrounds weave and deform beneath the action while some nice techno MODs pump through the little speakers. It's only 5 levels long, but if this were ever developed into a full commercial game, I'd buy it. Gameplay is basic paddles and bricks stuff, but it's smooth and fun even in this basic state. And the most interesting thing is you must hold the GP32 in a vertical orientation to play, which works surprisingly well! 
X-Scape is a great little puzzle game with C64 roots. Nice visuals, appropriate though basic sounds and good music round things out. It was hard to photograph the title screen because it's animated. The gameplay involves guiding your shiny square thingy around the various levels, picking up all the glowing circle thingies and reaching the exit within a limited number of moves and time. Good stuff! 
Next we have Doom - the REAL thing! Unlike weak adaptations made for GBA and other less capable consoles in the past, this is a true port of the original code. It can run any Doom WAD file in fact. The only thing missing is the music, but all the growls, gun blasts and bloody screams are there to be heard. Savestates are halfway implemented, but still need work. Gameplay is perfect - a true classic. 
Lastly, there's SCUMMVM, a port of the Lucas Arts adventure game interpreter for GP32. I haven't spent much time with this great program yet, but it seems very nice, allowing GP32 users to play full versions of games like Monkey Island, Sam n' Max, Day of the Tentacle and others. It even has sound and save support. 
There are MANY more homebrew games and freeware ports for the GP32 out there, from a Pang remake to a perfect port of Rick Dangerous and Wolfenstein 3D. I really haven't scratched the surface of what's available, or what's in coming, but it's a great community for independent developers. So... Shall we look at some emulators? I figured you'd say "yes." 
Compatability is quite good, and generally you can run most games at 30fps at full speed with sound. Some important things are missing - the classic TG-16/PCE turbo switches aren't implemented yet, and save states aren't working yet. Plus a few games, like Street Fighter II, don't work. But the author is working on a new version (reportedly with wireless RF multiplayer support!), which hopefully will rectify and otherwise improve what is already a superb emulator. Despite any missing features, once you load up a game and start playing, you will be impressed by how good everything looks and how well the games control. Honestly, many of these games are just as good or even better than what's available for the GBA! Just my personal opinion of course. 
And there are literally hundreds of good games for the system! Here's a few random photos of various games in action: 
Let's take a look at SMS32 next, a solid Sega Master System and Game Gear emulator for the GP32. This emulator has a full feature set, including sound and save support for games that used sram. In other words, if the real cart let you save, so will SMS32. If it didn't then you can't. Speedwise, it's 100% full speed ahead, 60 frames per second. 
It also has some nice stretching features for the Game Gear, with the full screen "pan" being my favorite. The only real negative is the sound is occasionally crackly, but it's fairly minor - just evidence that this emu hasn't been updated in a while, since most emu devs now have techniques to deliver smooth sound emulation. But don't get me wrong - if you ever play SMS32, you won't find much to complain about - it's excellent! 
How about some Gameboy Color emulation? The best I tried was GPvGB, an odd little GB/GBC emulator that reportedly works on most GP32's but not on others. It worked great for me. It's quite imperfect at this stage, but does a lot well regardless. Many good GBC games work well at very good speeds, and sram is emulated for games that originally utilized it. Compatability is iffy, but the two GBC games I actually own worked so I really couldn't complain. 
Wanna see a really slick emulator? Here goes - Rlyeh's superb, award winning (seriously, it won the GBAX coding contest!) fMSX32. The MSX was a popular 8bit computer in Japan and some European countries, but we completely missed it here in the USA. I really never gave the MSX much mind until I happened upon this GP32 proggie, and I discovered not only a great emulator, but a great bunch of games I never tried before. As for fMSX32, you've got a slick GUI, superb speed, great sound and nice features. It does have one annoying display bug that occasinally kicks in, which Rlyeh knows about and will fix, and sadly save states aren't implemented yet. But everything else about this program is pure buttery goodness. The title screen alone is fun to watch! 
And now let's warp ahead some years, to the Atari ST and CaSTaway for the GP32! This emulator is perhaps the most impressive so far. The author, nicknamed Skeezix, clearly LOVES developing this project, and it's not uncommon to discover an update several times per week. Considering the Atari ST had an 8Mhz 68000 CPU and rather good graphics and sound, this emulator is even more remarkable because most things run near full speed with just 1 or 2 frame skips - with full sound! As for features - nothing is missing, it's all there - save states, autofire, control definitions, game databases... Amazing stuff - unfortunately these were also my worst set of photos and I don't have time for new ones right now... First off, the crap on the screen is dust and bubbles on the plastic screen protector (mentioned earlier). The title screen below is actually animated, like an ST demo, and at the end you can barely make out the great Xenon 2 blasting away on the little GP32: 
As with homebrew games, there are many other emulators available or in development for the GP32, from the Vectrex to the Genesis. And yes, there are SNES emulators too, but they're still very early, although SNES9xGP has reportedly reached beyond full speed in private development builds! That's with sound emulation turned off though, but even 20fps with full sound would be awesome for all those glorious SNES RPG's. We shall see... Lastly, I'll show you two other programs for the GP32 - the movie player called Movie Park (which costs about $5 at JoyGP) and the wonderful, and free, GP File Manager. You can store an entire two hour movie on a 128MB SMC, with room left for other stuff! Just encode and load onto your SMC, and away you go. As for playback quality, it's limited to DivX 4.12 10fps, 128kpps video and 22.050 Khz, 32Kbps stereo audio. On paper that sounds bad, and compared to a portable DVD player, for example, it is, but in practice it works very well. If you encode your content carefully, you can get some very good results, especially with animated films and TV Shows. As a side note, regular MP3 music playing is not as limited - those specs are for Movie Park, not the GP32 in general. Speaking of animated films: 
GP File Manager, or GPFM, is exactly what it sounds like - a file management utility. But it also does much, much more. For example, it lets you launch programs, view images, read text files and play MP3's! In fact, the MP3 player can work while you read text files, and it even has a selection of equalizer settings. Look carefully at the photos and you'll spot some of these functions in use: 
As always with the GP32, there's SOOO much more available that I just can't cover it all. And when it comes to utilities, file launchers and BIOS replacements, there is an amazing selection. From Wind-Ups to PacROM, the GP32 is beyond versatile. Well, that wraps things up for this little review. Hopefully I've given GP32 virgins a taste of what this system is all about, and you can understand why it's garnered such an ardent development scene and dedicated fan base. I love this little gadget, and if you're an emulation fan I bet you will too. But what about the PSP and Tapwave Helix you ask? Well, briefly, I'll just say this - the PSP won't have a fast CPU and uses a new type of disk media, and the Tapwave is still just vaporware. The GP32 is here right now, and reportedly will be officially launched in Europe by the end of 2003. Whether or not that happens, this portable delivers a great bang for the buck and has my highest recommendation. Just make sure you understand what it can do, and cannot do, before buying, and you'll be a happy Game Park camper. English GP32 homepage Commercial Game Developer Homepages etc. Byulbram - Developers of Her Princess Seed9 - Developers of Tomak Logik State - Developers of Pinball Dreams FaMe Software - Developers of Super Plusha JoyGP - for Movie Park and much more! Insert Coin's GP32 Roundup - GREAT game reviews! Homebrew/Freeware Homepages etc. 
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