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Hacking Jules Coaxes Android Wear To Run Nintendo 64 and PSP Emulators (androidpolice.com)

Posted by timothy on from the for-some-values-of-practical dept.

Espectr0 writes: YouTube user Hacking Jules would like you to see his collection of game emulators running on Android Wear. He manages to play classic 3D Mario and Zelda games running in a Nintendo 64 emulator on the original LG G-Watch, while also running Monster Hunter on the PPSSPP emulator.As the linked article admits, this is a work of passion rather than practicality -- if you actually want to play those games enjoyably, don't trade your console or conventional emulator for a smart watch.

37 comments

  1. I'm Hacking Jules by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ask me anything!!

    1. Re:I'm Hacking Jules by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Great job adapting these to such small devices.

      Would it be possible to adapt a DS emulator to have the Smartwatch as the second screen with the primary as a larger phone/tablet? I'm guessing the touchscreen might be problematically small, but the contextual info usually displayed on the 2nd screen for DS games is an area where smartwatches excel.

    2. Re:I'm Hacking Jules by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      How many cookies are too many?

    3. Re:I'm Hacking Jules by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      not hacking jules - but in theory yes, but the speed required for the data stream might be a pain. think thin client or like steam link.

    4. Re:I'm Hacking Jules by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What great job? All he did was install some emulators (that other people created) on an Android device that happens to have a tiny screen.

      Does installing software impress you or something?

    5. Re:I'm Hacking Jules by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      How is virginity treating you?

    6. Re: I'm Hacking Jules by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Agreed; apparently in 2015, showing a video of software someone else wrote on a device it wasn't necessarily designed for is more impressive than the person who actually made said software.

    7. Re:I'm Hacking Jules by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      kill yourself faggot

  2. Can't parse the headline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Am I the only one who couldn't parse the headline?

    1. Re:Can't parse the headline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      i couldn't at first until i realized "hacking jules" was a person.

    2. Re:Can't parse the headline by Psychotria · · Score: 1

      Even then it's not exactly parse-able.

    3. Re:Can't parse the headline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Me too.

      I like my jewels just like they are.

    4. Re:Can't parse the headline by godrik · · Score: 1

      Though, as a foreign English speaker, I learned the verb "to coax" today. I can't believe after years in the US I learnt a verb in a slashdot headline.

      Slashdot. Headline for nerds. verbs that could be used by somebody else.

  3. Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    He rides the sky like an eagle in the eye of a hurricane that's abandoned

  4. Italics by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 1

    He manages to play classic 3D Mario and Zelda

    There's no game called "3D Mario" or "Zelda" so they shouldn't be italicised.

    He plays Super Mario 64 and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

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    systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
    1. Re:Italics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'd have been surprised if he got Super Mario 3D Land on it.

  5. Re:Famous Bill Gates Quote by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This is kind of funny. Gates actually DID say this:

    http://www.cnet.com/news/steve...

    Big players like IBM and Sun Microsystems had initially bought into the software but the hardware was eschewed (or ignored) largely by the public. Microsoft's CEO Bill Gates didn't help matters when he said the computer was "crap," according to Walter Isaacson's biography "Steve Jobs." And when asked by Jobs to write software for it, Gates said, "Develop for it? I'll piss on it," according to InfoWorld, which Isaacson quotes in his book.

  6. Re:Famous Bill Gates Quote by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    there's a shred of truth to this, like palin saying she could see russia from here home. this was from snl, were an actor playing gates sung teddy ruxpin's songs.

  7. Re:Famous Bill Gates Quote by Pax681 · · Score: 1

    âoeThe two most common elements in the Universe are Hydrogen and Stupidity.â -- Bill Gates

    LOL you are paraphrasing Frank Zappa from his "Frank Zappa Book" with regards to the hydrogen and stupidity

  8. Re:Famous Bill Gates Quote by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    That's was Kirk. Try again.

  9. Re:Famous Bill Gates Quote by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You're a moron. That was Spock. Kirck == Jim.

  10. F this sh*t by BlackLotus89 · · Score: 1

    I did this and more using retroarch more than 9 months ago! And I got the YouTube video to prove it https://youtu.be/DSjo3uV6Dxs

    1. Re:F this sh*t by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Right but did you submit it to Slashdot? Do you already have an almost-slightly-popular Youtube channel? Do people call you a "mad genius" for adapting existing software to run on devices of different form factors (but same architecture) from devices they already run on?

  11. Geek wastes time, news at 11 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Not playable performance wise, not playable control wise, smart watches aren't practical to run at any sort of load battery wise. But hey, we should be impressed someone ran an N64 Android emulator on an Android device! Shouldn't be shocking that since most of these watches are android based they'll run whatever android apps you want, however impractical.

  12. 'Hacking Jules' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Way to hack, I'm super impressed you ran existing android code on an existing android device. We've let the word Hacking become useless.

  13. horrible button placement by sixsixtysix · · Score: 1

    so many games and emulators on phones always seem to put the damn buttons over the game screen. for most phones, anyways, there is no reason to not pillarbox the game screen and leave ample room on the sides for the buttons, as all these old systems are 4:3.

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  14. Re:Famous Bill Gates Quote by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "Yo momma's so stupid if you gave her a penny for her thoughts you'd get change." --Bill Gates