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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: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.