Unboxing The Wiz: An Emulator's Wet Dream

[Scary Womanizing Pig Mask]

Not this

I'll make this uncharacteristically terse. The Gp2x Wiz Handheld Linux Game Console is amazing, and every emulator's wildest fantasy. It's admittedly pricey at $170, but for an NES/Atari/Commodore 64/SNES/Genesis/Neo Geo/GB/GBC/GBA/MAME, CPS and CPSII arcade on the go, all in one sleek, tiny package, I'd say it's worth it.


Well whatever could this be?


The Wiz and a bonus Winne the Pooh DSi Case. Just because.


Solo Pooh



Pooh Unboxed


Haruhi is not amused


Pretty in blue


It's really rather tiny (which is a very good thing


Don't tell me you weren't expecting this

As for my impressions: Don't be fooled by the weird looking face buttons, everything feels ever so perfect, from the dpad, to the barley noticeable shoulder buttons. It's light, easy to stash and incredibly bright, even at the lower settings.The GBA and SNES emulators work FABULOUSLY (as good as they would on your PC) but I keep running into to trouble with the GBC one. The sound is perpetually slow, and some of the game's don't really do the whole "displaying graphics" thing. Bear in mind though, this is all first edition Emus, so I'm sure everything will be fixed in later patches. I have yet to try any of the others, (I was to distracted by Touhoumon >.<) but next on my list of to dos are CPS and NES,but from what I've read, both work just as well as the former two, and it's only Lemonboy that's having errors. I'll report back on them later, but as for now, Earthbound and Mother 3 work great though, so that's enough for me to give in an A+ ;3

[chronomaster]

I was actually hoping this would be a review of The Wizard and you breaking open a fresh copy, but I was sadly disappointed.

[Scary Womanizing Pig Mask]

I was actually hoping this would be a review of The Wizard and you breaking open a fresh copy, but I was sadly disappointed.

On that note, RFGO!'s commentary for that is out! Need to redownload a copy...

[CaffeinePowered]

I was actually hoping this would be a review of The Wizard and you breaking open a fresh copy, but I was sadly disappointed.

Oh the late 80s....when you could make a 1.5 hour long commercial and call it a movie

[chronomaster]

[quote author=Chronomaster link=topic=3454.msg105867#msg105867 date=1250186817]
I was actually hoping this would be a review of The Wizard and you breaking open a fresh copy, but I was sadly disappointed.

Oh the late 80s....when you could make a 1.5 hour long commercial and call it a movie
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Oh, hotlinking. How no one ever takes the effort to put the image on a hosting site and not take the bandwidth away from a struggling website.

[Wedge]

CPS-2 support is nice.  You can (and should) play D'n'D Shadows over Mystara with that.

Still I think the PSP can do all of those and still play... PSP games.

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[quote author=Chronomaster link=topic=3454.msg105867#msg105867 date=1250186817]
I was actually hoping this would be a review of The Wizard and you breaking open a fresh copy, but I was sadly disappointed.

Oh the late 80s....when you could make a 1.5 hour long commercial and call it a movie
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Oh, hotlinking. How no one ever takes the effort to put the image on a hosting site and not take the bandwidth away from a struggling website.
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I've never seen Caff NOT fail like this.

[Versus]

And he has a PSP

still, nice pog mosk

[Scary Womanizing Pig Mask]

Still I think the PSP can do all of those and still play... PSP games.

I don't think it can do CPS or Mame, but even it can, I was stupid and bought the 3000m so no hacks for me

[CaffeinePowered]

Fixed - wikipedia doesn't pull the same bullshit

Kinda hard to tell when it loads 100% fine on your page, but won't elsewhere

[Chief]

I am planning to get the lesser version of that.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/retro-gaming/bd6f/
However I'm thinking of just getting a PSP and modding that.

[chronomaster]

Well I'm sure glad you guys still have your PSP.

Whereas mine is lost and alone, DJMax Portable Black Square being underappreciated by some rogue ruffian of the streets or even worse *shudder* of suburbia. It was probably sold off for $5 unknown of the true worth.