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NES Emulator for iPhone Emerges

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the from-the-depths-of-the-lake dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The first emulator for iPhone, iPhoneNES has been released. It run very slow, and has no sound, but hacker NerveGas has managed to modify the source to release an optimized version that is playable. " My favorite bit is that your controller is a clickable picture of the NES controller. Not exactly the ideal UI but still an amazing accomplishment.

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  1. The Real Question... by jellomizer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How do you install it on the iPhone. Or is this an Ajax app?

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    1. Re:The Real Question... by wannasleep · · Score: 5, Informative

      Basically you have to connect the iphone to a computer, run a program called jailbreak that makes the file system readable and writable. Then you just copy files here and there on the iphone. Turn off and on and you will have an icon to the emulator on your screen. More details: you take the files in the zip and install them into the directory /Applications, you add the application to the list of applications to be shown on the screen by editing a file called DisplayOrder.plist, and finally you chmod +x the NESApp.

  2. Re:How is this newsworthy? by darkhitman · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Emulation on the PSP, at this point, is a given. Anything up to and including the PS1/N64 is pretty much emulated... The importance of this would probably be that it's the first emulator on the platform or whatnot.... still not the world's best story, but hey.

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  3. Re:How is this newsworthy? by Zekasu · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm not sure if you noticed, but there's both more iPhones on the market (due to popularity) and a larger market for the iPhone (can the PSP make phone calls (out of thoe box)?), and I also would take a gamble and say the iPhone wasn't created with gaming in mind. (Not as much as the PSP, therefore different hardware specs., and a different control configuration.)

    Also, you may want to check out the following:
    Playstation Emulator for PSP Released
    x86 Emulator on PSP Runs Windows & Linux
    Gameboy Emulator Released for PSP

  4. Hasn't this been done before? by noSignal · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm pretty sure I had one... the phone reception sucked, but the sound worked and it had a brilliant UI.

  5. WOW! by Clockwurk · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now the iPhone is like a smartphone from 3 years ago!

  6. Eh... by iamdrscience · · Score: 3, Funny
    I can't imagine playing NES games on the iPhone would be much fun. I'll buy that the tactile sensation of real buttons is unnecessary for dialing a phone or browsing a web, but it seems like it would be essential for playing most fast-paced games like most NES titles. So for the benefit of iphone users and software developers, here is a non-exhaustive list of what the iPhone is and isn't:

    The iPhone is...
    • A phone
    • A music player
    • A very nice mobile web browser
    • Expensive
    • Shiny
    The iPhone is not...
    • A video game platform
    • The dawn of a new revolution of electronic communications which will render all devices before it obsolete and bring eternal enlightenment to all those who lay their eyes upon its glory.
  7. bluetooth by mzs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The iPhone has bluetooth, maybe it will be possible to use a separate fold-out bluetooth keyboard for things like this and the terminal emulator.

  8. Re:Why not iPhoNES by toleraen · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Try searching google for iPhoNES. It seems someone else may already have a pretty high page rank for that one.