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    Is Gp2x.co.uk A Dodgey Online Store?

    I'm with nowaycomputer, above. I ordered and selected the next day option. My GP2X was turned around reasonably quickly (about four days or so) but they took the money off of my credit card immediately, which is a total no-no under credit card law. When I quizzed this I was told that "oh, the...
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    Hey...

    Possibly the finest retort I've ever seen on an internet forum. Amigas, pah, I sh*t 'em. (speaking as someone from an Atari background who was firmly on the ST side of the 16 bit wars)
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    Good Stuff!

    What, it exists for the sole purpose of preventing people from knowing that others appreciate their work? :rolleyes:
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    Skin Images For Laser

    1 Euro for beer? I want to move to wherever you live. ;)
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    I Have Just Sold A Gp2x On The Tube...

    I'm nicking that as well for my sigfile. Perhaps, between the two of us, we should take over marketing over at GPH!
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    Less Than A Day Old And Stick Already Modded...

    update - and I think this is the final one. I found another black fibre optic cover. I did a better job of cutting this one down to size, and I also held the bottom of it under a lighter for a while, then mashed it onto a table to flatted the ragged edges around where I'd cut. (You can't see in...
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    Share The Wealth?

    I'm a Mk2er, and I still think the stock stick is crap :( As for what the nob is made of, it's the end of a blanking cover of a port on a fibre optic patch panel, with a small nut inside it, and the nut screws onto the end of a pen refill, which then slides onto the stick shaft. See here...
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    Share The Wealth?

    or even those who have the skills to modify a non-satisfactory stock joystick. ;)
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    The "must Have" List

    It would, but it should also be subdivided by game genre, otherwise it'd be full of crap beat-em-ups, the popularity of which I've NEVER understood. So each platform would have a listing for the five best shmups, best platformers, best sports games, best beat 'em ups (if you must), RPGs, and so on.
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    Less Than A Day Old And Stick Already Modded...

    Thumb on top of it. The rubber is slightly pointed right at the top, so you can actually control it like I'd originally envisaged, like an 80s LED game. To go left, the thumb is slightly offset of center to the right and pushes the stick in a leftwards direction from the opposite side. If you...
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    Less Than A Day Old And Stick Already Modded...

    An update - gravedigging a bit here, but it was my thread to start with. I think I have finally settled on my final stick mod, after a few days of using various pen lids, various other contraptions, and then a week or so of using a cotton bud (or Q-tip to you Yanks - it took me a while to...
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    The "must Have" List

    Overlooked classics for each emulator: Atari 2600: Berzerk. Best. Game. Ever. Spectrum: Manic Miner. Second. Best. Game. Ever. Atari ST: others have said Xenon 2, so I'll go with Kick Off 2, even if it is a bit of a bind with the GP2X controller. Powerdrift is also a good shout, the ST...
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    I Have Just Sold A Gp2x On The Tube...

    First tube journey with the GP2X today, and already got a convert. Got on at Morden, and a bloke got on a few stops down and sat in one of the few seats remaining, which was next to me. About the same age as me, early 30s, obviously a product of the Pac-Man generation. Between there and...
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    Modification List

    Then in that case a GP2X is a drug, on the basis I spent a good six hours on mine last night in lieu of sleep. I think I've got the addiction and habituation down pat, and the "marked change in conciousness" comes by virtue of the fact I'm bloody knackered this morning.
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    Less Than A Day Old And Stick Already Modded...

    Bring it on! Berzerk is one of my favourites from my misspent youth, especially the VCS version which I cut my teeth on. Never got to play the original arcade game until years later and the advent of MAME on PCs, and am rediscovering it now on the GP2X. I can't help going back to the VCS version...
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    Less Than A Day Old And Stick Already Modded...

    At one point last night I got frustrated enough that I did play for a spell like that. If the GP2X mk2 cap was an improvement over the original, I shudder to think what that must have been like. Have been going through the old postings on the board looking at other peoples' stick mods (can't...
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    Less Than A Day Old And Stick Already Modded...

    Right, best results so far was with the below: It does look very 80s LCD game, I think you'll agree! The external black "stick" is the top of a pen refill cut down to size (one of those quasi-nice pens that you turn to get the nib out). This is padded out with my now ubitquitous length of...
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    Less Than A Day Old And Stick Already Modded...

    Right, an update, the mod looked good, and it even worked well for about ten minutes at a stretch, but I just can't get the bloody thing to stay on the shaft. Meanwhile, my best performances of Kick Off 2 and Berzerk seem to be happening with this, awful as it looks, and it does tear my thumb...
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    Less Than A Day Old And Stick Already Modded...

    Not going to happen - Atari ST Kick Off 2 was enough for me to mash my makeshift stick right off of the pad. Bear in mind that on the stock padthing, you're pushing the stick down onto the shaft. On mine, you're actually pushing UP so as you play, you actually gradually leverage it off of the...
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    Less Than A Day Old And Stick Already Modded...

    First night of GP2X ownership, and after a night of getting completely destroyed at my favourite old games I got into the office this morning determined to sort the stick out using whatever I could find. Consequently, I present to you my mod, which represents the culmination of about ten...
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