Best handheld gaming system?!?!

[trada]

You nearly made me jump out of my chair there!
I'd love to play Secret of Mana on a handheld. But i read it barely works, unfortunately.
And with 200Mhz it appears to be underpowered for most DOSBox games.
The GP2X sounds like an awesome concept, but it appears to be a little underpowered (or rather: lacks optimized emulators). I'm not going to 200Euro to have jerky gameplay with Commander Keen.

The GP2X can overclocked very easily. All units can go up to 240, most to 270 and some to 300. But yup, you are right. It does seem a little under powered. It fails to emulate N64 and PSX emulation is downright nasty right now. This little unit isn't for everybody but it's definitely worth keeping an eye on. The emulation is getting better and better all the time (for instance, breakthroughs in GBA emulation where we now have most games full speed W/O sound).
Of course, Doom, Doom II, Duke Nukem 3D, Desent, and a few other PC games have been ported.

You will find the current status of all emulation here.

btw, just to attempt to round up my 'sales-pitch' the GP2X can play music files, movie files and has inbuilt text and photo apps. Score!

 

[carmen510]

DS or SP. I have the special edition of SP that looks like an NES controller. I'd prefer DS, you only get 120 charges with SP...

PSP almost sucks, except for Daxter and MP3s/vids. And maybe SOCOM.

Of course, you could always get a cell phone or the Gizmondo or even Zuma.

 

[FriendlyFire]

DS or SP. I have the special edition of SP that looks like an NES controller. I'd prefer DS, you only get 120 charges with SP...

Thats the Micro.
DS though imo is overpriced due to the massive demand. Great system. some very neat games AdvWarsDS, AgeEmpires, FFtactics2, Turnabout court.

 

[Swedishguy]

GBA will always be in my heart. Unless I'm given a DS for free, o' course.

 

[carmen510]

Its not the micro. Its like an SP, but its colored like an NES controller.

Here's a pic:

 

[Alpha Killer II]

PSP: U can login into myspace on it ^.^
EDIT: The Gameboy SP is second, I used to have it, good game, but I eventually sold it at gamestop for another game (Tetris, the old GB game was worth $10 while my Mario vs Donkey Kong (A SP game) was worth only $1) But my bro bought the original Gameboi Advanced (The one w/o the light) soon after, and it totally sucked, made me knock off a few points off of nintendo (And the SP had recharceable batteries, unlike Advance)

 

[odintheking]

DS is way better as a game system. Overall, it has more games worth playing. If you want a multimedia system with lukewarm versions of everything, get PSP, though.