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Here is my current list of the best games I have found so far that run natively on the GP2X (in alphabetical order):

• Beat2X - DDR for your GP2X
• Formido - kill the cockroaches!
• Kobo Deluxe - A nicely done Bosconian remake
• Super Methane Brothers - a really well-done game similar to Snow Bros
• New Super Pang - a remake of Buster Bros
• Noiz - a trippy shooter
• Spout - a really cool (and hard) game - hard to describe
• Tailtale - match tiles - anime influence
• Tilematch - match tiles to clear the board
• Vektar - a cool space shoot-em-up

All games can be found in the Freeware Games Archive.

Beats of Rage is supposed to be good too, but the .PAK file you have to use is 60MB and I don’t have the space for it on my 128MB SD card. I’ll try it once I get my 1GB/2GB card.

tags: gp2x homebrew linux game games gaming videogames

Now I have installed the excellent Sega Genesis emulator DrMDx. Super easy to use and loads ROMs from within zips too. I now have Sonic Spinball, Vectorman, NBA Jam TE, NBA Live 95, NHL 94, and a few more Genesis games on my GP2X. All games play at 100% speed. Too cool.

I also tried the NES emulator fishyNES. It doesn’t play all games at 100% speed, but it has an easy way to drop frames to make it playable. I tried Punchout, SMB2, and Legend of Kage. All are playable but I never really like the NES games in general.

Here are some pictures

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My birthday was Sunday and I splurged and got myself a GP2X. What is it? It’s a portable game system (like a PSP or Nintendo DS) that is linux-based, fully supports homebrew games/applications, plays divx movies, MP3s, Oggs, etc. etc.

I’ve only had it for 3 days now, but I am SOOOOO impressed and happy with it. For the record, I’ve never owned a portable game system aside from those Mattel hand-held football/basketball/baseball games, so I can’t really compare it to any past systems.
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I found this trick online the other day (but didn’t note where I found it). You can easily make your USB drive show up in Windows with a custom icon. Simply find an .ico file you want to use (favicons from websites work nicely). I used my favicon for this site: .

Simply put your .ico file in the root of your drive then create a text file called autorun.inf in the root of the drive and put this inside it:
[autorun]
icon=autorun.ico

(obviously putting your icon’s name in)

Now, whenever you plug it into a Windows machine, it will show your custom icon!

tags: geek flashdrive flashdrives windows trick tricks tip tips usb usbdrive icon custom favicon favicons ico

And the award goes to….
Papa John’s Pizza for their use of the Go-Go’s “We Got The Beat” changed to “We Got The Meat”. Neither Papa John himself nor the Go-Go’s could be present to accept the award.

tags: geek, music, audio, pizza, commercial, commercials, 80s, gogo, gogos

I don’t actually play Blogshares like some people do, but I check out how my blogs are doing from time to time and check how some other blogs I read are doing. I admit, I don’t totally understand the blog stock market. I checked on Candy Addict on Blogshares the other day and its valuation had past 100,000 B$! Cool. Also, outgoing links from Candy Addict are now worth 25K B$ (that’s the maximum) it’s the same as an outgoing link from BoingBoing! Again, not sure what it all means but I thought it was cool.

• Candy Addict on Blogshares
• Candy Addict
• BlogShares

UPDATE: The stock value has come crashing down and it’s only worth just under 40K now, though the stock price (B$8,276.74) and outgoing link value (B$19,597.80) is still pretty high.

tags: geek, blogshares, blog, blogs, BoingBoing

Another million dollar home page knockoff, but this one uses planets and pays obvious homage to Douglas Adams and The Hitchhiker’s Guide. Check out my small green planet in the upper left.

• CreateAPlanet.com

tags: geek, planet, planets, hhgttg, douglas adams, guide, cool

Recently, a link to my Candy Addict site was posted on BoingBoing and on BluesNews within about 12 hours of each other. Surprisingly (to me anyway), BluesNews has sent more traffic than BoingBoing. This could partially be because I have had links form BoingBoing before so some people did not click because they already had seen Candy Addict. Here are the stats as of 3/7/2006:
BoingBoing: 472
BluesNews: 681

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