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Harlem Globetrotters Pinball Machine

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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.

Details and pics to follow……

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Best Homebrew/Ports for the GP2X

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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.

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Sega Genesis and NES on the GP2X

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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

GP2X First Thoughts

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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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Custom flash drive icon

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Custom Flash Drive Icon Example

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: MVP Favicon.

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!

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