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====== Game Park GP32 ======

One of the first "homebrew" consoles to have released, despite it's origins pitting it as the first South Korean game console of native origin. Releasing on November 23rd, 2001 in South Korea and eventually reaching other continents, the GP32 experienced little of an actual cartridge gaming market, although enough to actually be considered a proper console, rather than an "Emulation Handheld". It's real shining star was a thriving homebrew scene which created bounds of games, apps, and more for the system. Specifications-wise, the GP32 is quite powerful, running off of a Samsung S3C2400X01, 8 MB of RAM, and displaying on a 320x240 16-bit color screen. Even though it's "homebrew" fate relegated the GP32 to minimal sales success, it spawned an entire realm of "homebrew" handheld devices that still thrives today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP32

http://videogamekraken.com/gp32-by-game-park

===== Operating Systems (Samsung S3C2400X01) =====

=== Console emulation (potential) ===

Whether these emulators support operating systems for these consoles is unknown; it must be looked into further. Consoles without meaningful OSes are not included.

https://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/gp32.cgi?0,0,0,0,5

NEC TurboGrafx-16 – GPEngine 0.5, PCEGP Beta 2

Nintendo Entertainment System – LittleJohnGP 0.4, NesterGPd 1.5a, infones 0.3LQ

Super Nintendo Entertainment System – OpenSNES9x Reesy 15/11

Nintendo Game Boy (Color) – fGB32(d), GPVGB 0.21, GpvsGB 1.0, VBA32

Nintendo Game Boy Advance – GPAdvance 1.49, VBA32

Sega Genesis – Dr. MD 5 Beta 7, fGen32 First, Gigadrive 05/10

Sega Master System – fSMS32 200703, Masterlator 26/06, DrSMS 10/10, Park-O 5/10



=== Contiki ===

>GCC (ARM7)

The usual contiki port with CTK conio.

http://hitmen.c02.at/html/tools_contiki.html

https://github.com/adamdunkels/contiki-1.x/tree/master/contiki-gp32


=== Emulation Nest ===

This device runs an operating system which is known to emulate various devices with EOPs. See the [[eop:computing:computers:msxes|MSX]] page.



=== gP32oPie ===

>If you have a chatboard, linux console will be launched on boot

This appears to be a custom made linux “Distro” or frontend. Check EOP folder for readme info.

https://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/gp32.cgi?0,0,0,0,18,986



=== Gpdesktop ===

>provide users with an extendable pda environment

It seems like that, unlike what the website says, this did get to a development stage.

https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/gpdesktop.38002/

https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/gpdesktop-progress.21894/

https://web.archive.org/web/20080213231842/http://www.gp32.co.nz/gpdesktop.php



=== Linux (base) ===

There’s a lot about this, but it does appear that it was eventually flashed to the GP32, even though common sentiment is that it never made it.

https://www.darkfader.net/gp32/ (scroll to ARM-Linux)

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gp32linux/

https://web.archive.org/web/20041009134447/http://www.fador.org/~gp32linux/files/

https://web.archive.org/web/20060203204001/http://info2.info.tampere.fi/~teoarsa/linux/

https://web.archive.org/web/20060507095054/http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/jikorhon/condev/gp32/



=== Linux (GPux) ===

An effort from Korea. Has some info uploaded, but it’s unsurprisingly in Korean. May be newer.

http://kldp.net/gpux/



=== Micro2 ===

>A working terminal 2 virtual keyboards A CPU load monitor

This appears to be a more conventional X11+distro, with classics such as xeyes and xbill.

https://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/gp32.cgi?0,0,0,0,18,80

https://web.archive.org/web/20050307112003/https://gp32linux.gp32news.com/micro2/



=== PC emulation (potential) ===

Whether these emulators support operating systems for these computers is unknown; it must be looked into further. Computers without meaningful OSes are not included.

https://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/gp32.cgi?0,0,0,0,5

Amstrad CPCs – PituKa 1.1

Atari 8-bits – emulator 0.8

Atari STs – CastawayGP32 16.1

CHIP-8 – Emulator

Commodore 64 – gpFrodo Beta 12

Commodore Plus/4 – Plus4e 0.02b, yapesdl 0.32.2

Dragon 32/64 – xRoar 0.14

MSXs – fMSX32 RU ed

Sinclair ZX Spectrums – fZX32 09/06, Speccyal 05/10, zxGP 09/06


===== Version & Revision Guide =====

For general information, see the [[eop:essays:game_console_revisions_overview|Game Console Revisions Overview]].
==== Versions ====

//There are four versions of this console, arranged chronologically.//

=== GP32 NLU (2001-2002) ===

//DO NOT BUY//

The first GP32 to release. NLU means "No Light Unit" ie. the screen is not lit in any way. There's basically no point in buying these when the later models are better lit and are easy to find. Furthermore, NLUs (and FLUs) have firmware encryption difficulties not found on later systems.

=== GP32 FLU (2002-2004) ===

//DO NOT BUY//

For this GP32, FLU means "Front Light Unit" ie. the screen is frontlit. These should still be avoided for most users if possible, although information on distinguishing between units is scarce online. The reason to avoid these is that FLUs (and NLUs) have firmware encryption difficulties not found on later systems.

=== GP32 BLU (2004) ===

//RECOMMENDED OVERALL; BEST RELIABILITY//

Here, BLU means "Back Light Unit" ie. the screen is backlit. Obviously, this makes the BLU the ideal choice - the backlight can even be turned off by holding down "Select" if this is desired. Furthermore, the aforementioned encrypted firmware difficulties are not found on this model. BLUs are also said to be a bit more reliable than earlier models. Lastly, the USB connector used on BLUs is different than the earlier GP32 models.

=== GP32 BLU+ (Dec. 2004-2005) ===

//RECOMMENDED OVERALL; BEST RELIABILITY//

Very similar to the original BLU, except a new screen unit is present. Still backlit, although the BLU+ screen has better contrast than the original BLU screen. At first, the BLU+ caused problems, because this screen screen had introduced a realm of hardware incompatibilities with GP32 software. Luckily, a vast majority of these issues were fixed by the homebrew developers, meaning that only a very small segment of very old software won't work correctly on a BLU+. Such is why both the BLU and BLU+ are recommended, as one can either get a slightly nicer screen that may break with a few pieces of software, or get a slightly worse screen with the best software compatibility.

//LOWEST PRICE couldn't be assigned.//

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP32

http://videogamekraken.com/gp32-by-game-park

https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/the-different-gp32-models.53015/