I have been playing this for a few days now and love it. I tried the first NBA ballers and it was OK. NBA Street 2 wasn’t very good either IMHO. I’m a guy that loves NBA Jam enough to have one in my home gameroom.
NBAB:P has what I like - it’s easy to learn without too much fancy stuf. the one on one games remind me of the fun I had playing Dr. J and Larry Bird go One on One on my C64. The two on two gmes play like NBA Jam. Fun stuff.
If you like B-ball, get this game. Now, back to some ballin’.
The other day I found a really good artist called Mae. It’s some really good alternative/rock - I like it a lot. I grabbed 8 of their free tracks from their various websites listed at their main website: http://whatismae.com
Continuing with my GP2X posts, I finally got MAME working on it. There actually wasn’t anything to it, you just have to use version 0.34 MAME ROMS. There is a tool called clrmame that is supposed to help you convert your ROMs down to 0.34 but I couldn’t get it to work. I ended up having to download the 0.34 ROMs via bittorrent.
So how does it play? It’s great! All the classics (Pacman, Time Pilot, Arkanoid, Frogger, Galaga, Joust, etc.) play flawlessly. It can also play Neo Geo games, but I haven’t tried those yet since I still have only a 128MB SD Card (1GB on the way).
The coolest thing (to me anyway) is that you can press both shoulder buttons and it will rotate the screen so that vertical games like Pacman will take up the whole screen and you play the game by holding the GP2X sideways. So cool. I’ve been playing a lot of Time Pilot this way.
Here’s a great video that shows the GP2X playing MAME (and shows it switching the orientation too) it also shows it playing some movies and even outputting the movie and games to a big-screen tv:
When I was a kid, my dad and I used to play the Harlem Globetrotters pinball machine at the local rec center. My dad died when I was 10, but playing that with him is one of my most precious memories. I posted recently to a local coin-op collectors group and asked if anyone had one or knew of one locally. I got a bite and it looks like I will be getting one!!!!
I can’t tell you how excited I am! I have to get rid of a few things in my gameroom to make room for it (and pay for it), but it will be worth it.
