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iPhone hacked to run NES !!
tuaw.com — just a month ago it was a closed system . . . now it's running Zelda and all of your other favorite NES games . . .
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As cool as the classics are, i'd rather see hackers spring for some different games. put fire emblem on there!
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how about MAME? can you imagine how cool Marble Madness would be?
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yes, but can it be run on a touch screen and reproduce the same feedback as a regular controller, especially with such a small and sensitive screen.
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yes, but can it be run on a touch screen and reproduce the same feedback as a regular controller, especially with such a small and sensitive screen.
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yes, but can it be run on a touch screen and reproduce the same feedback as a regular controller, especially with such a small and sensitive screen.
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yes, but can it be run on a touch screen and reproduce the same feedback as a regular controller, especially with such a small and sensitive screen.
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but can it run well enough that you wont accidentally hit buttons you didnt intend to, and reproduce the same experiance as a controller could
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yes, but can it not post something 5 times
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ok, here's my story. I submitted this in firefox, and as soon as i clicked submit the dialog box disappeared and nothing showed up. I had no idea that it posted, and it didnt show up even when i refreshed. i ended up typing it again and thats why. So sue me for this damned comment system.
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yes, but can it be run on a touch screen and reproduce the same feedback as a regular controller, especially with such a small and sensitive screen.
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In Soviet Russia..... you don't even know what an iPhone is... but it still hacks YOU!!!
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looks fake to me
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Should be interesting to see how they pull off Final Fantasy VII: iPhone Edition, since it's pretty much inevitable at this point. I expect that it, along with many other high-profile console RPGs, will end up as a D2-esque model of tap (click) where you want the character to go rather than an on-screen D-pad. Of course, it's no longer a relatively simple emulator port at that point, but I'm expecting WoW by the end of the month at the latest.
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Wow! A $600 device can run games from 1983. Touché Apple
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now someone needs to mod an nes controller to work w/ the iphone.
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Ok so it's a dupe, and quite possibly fake but the iPhone DOES need software expansion, even if it's in the form of iContra...
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Won't this suffer from the iphone's inability to distinguish multiple presses at the same time (assuming the two finger zoom isn't possible to utilize)? Sure for some games clicking right to get your character moving then simply using 'a' or 'b' is enough but for the majority you need concurrent inputs. Not to rain on the parade, getting all this homebrew code to run on the iphone is no small feat and certainly very cool from an enthusiast point of view, but just because it runs doesn't mean it's usable.
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It looks like it runs slow as hell.
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I would smash the screen pressing up down up down left right left right...
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mmm.. bluetooth NES controller... grrlllaalllll....
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slow and not even functional.. did you see mario keep going right after he had already let go of the right button?!
buried as lame..
my ds has a touch screen also and runs these at full speed.. ha.. -
I agree with the comment about the controls in that it looks good but sucks. I think a good idea would to model the controls like a GBA, with the D-pad on the left, buttons to the right, and the game playing in the middle.
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Touchscreen NES 4tl.
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iDontcare
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Even if it runs it twice as fast as my 8800, it'll still be a pos. I got frustrated playing zelda on my phone AFTER I GOT THE WOODEN SWORD (thats like 5 seconds into the game for the one or two people that don't know). It was that bad. No Sound and it lagged like hell. Is this one any better?
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looks tite! but lame as hell. you can't even play that *****
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ha, nes runs perfectly on my psp with nesterj
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OWNED!!!!
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id hit it
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WOW INCREDIBLE!!! Maybe one day it will be able to run GBA, PSX, SNES full speed like 3-year-old Pocket PCs.
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This looks like it has potential. It's not there, yet.. multiple inputs would be nice.. sound would be good.. the controller at the bottom of the screen is sexy as all hell, though.
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Aren't the Wii controllers standard bluetooth? Classic controller FTW!
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buried as lame like all SSB/Mario/Nintendo stories.
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Anyone else notice that he pushed the run button to jump and the jump button to run? Holy AB reversal, Batman!
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settle down mah babies!
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that looked pretty sweet, especially the controller.
the only thing was that it looked like mario was jumping a little slow. -
BFD... any phone/PDA with Windows Mobile can run NES and SNES emulators (as well as GBA and some others), and none of the owners are ***** their pants about it.
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This stinks without a separate controller. The lack of physical buttons actually hurts the iphone in playing these classic games.
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you gotta admit the iphone is going to be hacked like hell by the time it goes through its life cycle
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Seriously, playing games on a touchscreen?
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Yeah it would be fine until level 2 when the screen is too dirty to read what you are pressing clearly and you die because Mario wouldn't jump when you got close to a goomba... :(
Although I do love it for what it is. -
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I can't tell you how awesome it is that the end all be all of hacks is getting hardware to run NES games. That really should say something.
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I just wet myself.
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BREAKING NEWS: iPhone hacked to give you a handjob! OMFGBBQSTFU!!!
Ok enough. We know you can hack it to death. Have a cookie. Ok bye now.
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