NES emulator released for the iPhone
By Paul Miller 
posted Aug 6th 2007 10:50PM
posted Aug 6th 2007 10:50PM
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posted Aug 6th 2007 10:50PM
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http://digg.com/apple/iPhone_NES_Emulator
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BUt......CAN IT PLAY DOOM?
Eveyone knew his was comming, I for some reason expected to be wide sreen tho. :-/
It makes me want to get an iphone now {rolls eyes}!
buttons definitely wouldn't come in handy for this Steve.
buttons definitely wouldn't be useful here Steve. Thank goodness you got rid of all of them.
I put it on my iPhone ... it's pretty slow. About half speed. That, and the controls are unusable!
Games are the one thing I can think of that need real buttons... Typing and what not works fine for me, but this? Nah... I could see games like linewriter working really well on the touch screen, but nothing that requires skill like this.
There's no video.
YES YES YES
Just what I wanted.
Just make it play Super R-Type (SNES) and I'll buy one.
Yeah, because I totally wanna play Mario at 1/3 speed. More of a proof of concept thing than something that's actually useful.
Then code one better or shut yer trap.
Nothing like bopping Bowser on the head in my beret and mock turtleneck, baby.
I cant ever see using the touchscreen as a decent controller... sure the iPhone has great emulator potential as it's specs are amazing, but the touch screen is so limiting... look at the NES one even, half of the screen is the controller and that's just for 6 buttons... plus with the multitouch, you could easily press all the at once without even meaning to.
I didn't think I would like a touchscreen either until I tried a nintendo DS, they have quite a few popular games that use just the touch screen exclusively for the gameplay.
@Nick
The difference between a NES and a DS game is that the DS game was MADE TO USE A TOUCH SCREEN
The NES game was made to use a PHYSICAL CONTROLLER.
Nice PDA!
he wasnt actually holding the forward button to move forward. im guessing multi-touch isnt supported so they had to use a script to keep the forward key pressed down
Touch controller = no tactile feedback. This isn't really an issue when using a stylus, as on a DS, but it's absolutely a crap replacement for buttons.
it's cool, but i'm waiting for the ps3 emulator on the iphone
Nintendo's gonna sue apple for this
You'd better be kidding. Do I need to explain how much is wrong with that statement?
the "dumbass association" is also going to sue you for stealing their lines.
though seems like they're having trouble locating their lawyer in their own asses. "nope, not in your asshole, check mine".
How do I put it on? Also, where do I put web 2.0 apps?
1. Jailbreak
2. Enable SSH
3. Copy NESApp.app to /Applications
4. chmod +x /Applications/NESApp.app/NESApp
5. Restart iPhone and the icon will be there at the bottom.
Have fun.
How do I get this on my iPhone?
What is this thing...IPhone?
because the true measure of a $600 gadget's worth is whether it can play a 25 year-old videogame...
It isn't worth buying till it can play DOOM.
andy: friggin 7650 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_7650 ), in friggin 2002, had a doom port.
I'm just waiting for someone to put the label "It Plays Doom" on the iPhone.
Maybe someday it'll be "It Plays Quake".
I've tried playing NES on a PDA once.
Even thought it didn't have multi touch, it was still hard to even move around.
I don't see how this could be any better.
is there an NES or any other emulators for palm????
im still using my Clie. help!
Little John PalmOS: http://www.little-john.net/
Emulates:
* Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
* Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES)
* Nintendo Gameboy/Gameboy Color (GB/GBC)
* Sega Genesis/Megadrive
* Sega Master System (SMS)
* Sega Game Gear (GG)
* Bandai Wonderswan/Wonderswan Color (WS)
* NeoGeo Pocket/NeoGeo Pocket Color (NGP)
Palm MAME: http://www.pocketdimension.com/PalmMAME.html
For the Tapwave Zodiac (a wonderful emulator and gaming device!), you have
FrodoZ (C64): http://frodoz.sourceforge.net/
ZodMAME and LJP work well too.
I've tried playing NES on a PDA once.
Even thought it didn't have multi touch, it was still hard to even move around.
I don't see how this could be any better.
Is it beacuse I am using safari!?
This application is a _native_ application. It is not a web app. It does not run in Safari.
I meant how every other time I post I post it twice.
Oh, then the answer to your question is yes. I actually didn't notice your first post.
Anyway, there seems to be a bug where you get redirected to some blank Engadget page. If that happens, the comment still gets posted, so just go back to the thread and see if it's there. Sometimes it takes a while... but for sure, if you hit submit with text in the text field, your comment _will_ be posted.
Anyone else wonder if you could hack up a NES controller to have a dock port for the iPhone so you could use it?
I mean you can already write apps for it, so how hard would it be to make an emulator work with it?
I see a project for Ben Heck. Fitting an iPhone dock into an original NES controller to allow this to be played with real buttons.
Well if the game was widescreen with the buttons split the touchscreen would be more than suitable for most emulators, except systems with triggers and buttons on the top... But for novelty gaming on Atari, NES, Gameboy, DS, and flash the touchscreen would be fine.
Whats with all this hating on no keys, the virtual keyboard is adaptable. The advantages far outweight the disadvantages. A keyboard thats there only when u need it, and programmable to fit different applications. If you dont like the buttons on 99.9% of phones your beat cause they are there and cannot be changed...
Also wait till the day they build a lil dock for the phone that lets u connect peripherals to use the phone as a full fledged mac..
I say thumbs up to the developers, good job keep up the good work... I can't wait for flash support tho, anyone?
Good luck playing games with a touchscreen d-pad... I've tried it on another device. You can't find the "buttons" because you can't feel them, and you can't look down from the game to try and find them because you have to watch what is going on in the game the whole time. Trust me, it doesn't work.
Also, hate to flame but it doesn't take a genius to touch a picture on a screen. Just cause ur to inaccurate to type on the thing don't be a hater for your inferior motor functions.. Adapt, touchscreens are the future.. Evolution baby.
no, it doesn't take a genius to press a button that you watch on the screen - doing it without watching that part of the screen is the thing.
you can't touchtype, which is the point. or play by touch. physical buttons just are better for some kind of games and activities(as is tactile feedback about that you pressed a button that it's the right button and not the middle of two buttons..), multitouch touchscreen or not you still need to see the device and just forget about using it while it's in your pocket(on most phones with dedicated multimedia buttons you can press next/prev without taking the phone out even..). iphones front does have room for a 4 way direction pad and couple of buttons anyhow.
biggest gripe about gaming on some modern phones(n95 for example) is that the directional keypad sucks for gaming. otherwise it's quite powerful(hw 3d acceleration etc).
you know why those projected pda keyboards suck? can't touchtype.
it's not like iphone is the first device with touchscreen only.
this nes emu is an impressive hack though.
I wonder if this will work with the iphone http://www.acidmods.com/forum/index.php?topic=854.0
GREAT. Now you can play a game you could probably purchase for fifty cents at a garage sale on your $600 mobile phone, and all it takes is some hacking, messing about, illegal downloading, and violation of the EULA and copyright laws.
Or, as I said, you could go to a garage sale and buy an old NES for next to nothing, and then legally and cheaply play this 20-year-old game to your heart's content.
And you'd have to blow, reload, etc.
Plus it's not portable like it would be on the PSP or iPhone.
I used to run an SNES emulator on my old PocketPC. it ran okay but controls were too awkward to really use. there's an NES emulator for the Motorola A1200 but that is also touchscreen, so not that fun.