iPhone and iPod touch nab SNES emulation
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posted January 22nd 2008 11:01PM
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100% crappy song.
Whoever was controlling the demo was the worst F-Zero racer - ever!
thanks :P
lol! were you even trying? you went straight into the wall
well actually no, cause its hard to control a camera+a game at the same time :)
plus the contols weren't working that well in that version :)
I have posted a new vid though! version 0.4.1, you can check it out if you like!
now a wii emulator would be pretty awesome. imagine playing cow racing on an iphone? with the sensors that might be possible. other games wouldnt though, almost all others in fact.... but i can dream, can't i?
When devs come out with a NDS emulator for the iPhone?
Oh, wow.
How innovative it is... Yet it must be intricate to program that!
Emulation on computers is one thing, but now this is getting a bit far fetched.
I think I'll just go sit in front of a TV and PLAY THE GAMES ON MY SNES!
lol
It's too impractical to play these things on that touch screen.
especially since it can only take two inputs at a time ...
Juice Daddy, I'm pretty sure that's not true. In PocketGuitar you can play full cords, which involves multiple fingers plus strumming.
citation?
as far as I was aware, the touch screen could only register two points at a time...
perhaps this is only limited depending on what software is running?
YES!Is there anything my lovely iPhone can't do? Next up XBOX 360 emulation (yes i know thats impossible but I can dream cant I?)
It'll be easy to do 10 years after they stop making games for it. Emulating the hardware of the 360 will be mindless on hardware 10 years from now.
I'm going to have disagree with that seeing how the PS2 still isn't fully emulated and it's nearly 10 years old.
That would be about the PS2 operating system. 400MHz MIPS and 32MB of RAM is nothing...
how do i put it on my i pod touch
dam.a.mac@gmail.com
I'm assuming this will only be available to liberated iphone/touch(s), although I desperately hope im wrong.
Touching the buttons makes playing anything other than turn based RPGs kinda impossible.
Or does it?
Yes.
How the hell would you play contra on that?
Answer: you can't.
If you want SNES emulation, get it on your DS or PSP, it is much easier.
I've got the SNES emulator on my R4 for DS and it runs like absolute crap. There's a lot of weird issues where the background will move to the foreground and completely cover what I'm trying to do. Is there a newer/better version I should be aware of?
There are PDA game controllers out there for use with PDAs and smartphones. Perhaps somebody will hack one to work with the iPhone.
Worst Music Ever!
Yes... interesting that the credits at the end list the music as "Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit". I remember that song sounding somewhat better!
And I love that they wrote "béta" tester, makes it sounds very exotic indeed.
Having said all that, I still want this app if it works well enough, there are plenty of games on the SNES you could play with iPhone controls - just avoid the high-action ones.
Ricochet: Especially because Beta is a Greek letter (β) and I don't believe they had the silly accent things back then.
@Ricochet
Exotic? You mean foreign :p.
Someone needs to learn their percentages....
The song isn't Nirvana it is Fort Minor, one of the head singer's from Linkin Park!
The NES emulator already lags on my iPhone... I'd hate to think what SNES will do :(
No shit man, there's no way the iPhone can do SNES emulation.
The NES emulator isn't very good, performance wise. The iPhone's rocking 600MHz, so it should be doing both NES and SNES emulation fine, especially considering the PSP does SNES emulation smoothly at 233MHz (Okay, I know they're completely different CPUs, but still, the iPhone is /powerful/.)
you know how hard people press the buttons on their controllers when they get into a game? i think there's gonna be some broken iphones
Hence Chrono Trigger ;)
Anyway, I wonder if its snes9x based.
Anyone know what theme that is he's using?
Looks like one I had before but I can't remember the name.
If you mean the song, it's called "Remember The Name" by "Fort Minor"
I was refering to the SummerBoard Theme he was using (assuming its SummerBoard) actually but thanks for the song info, I was thinking about googling it but you saved me the time.
I'm almost killing my palm TX's buttons because of this, but I hardly play with the screen, thats not very intelligent I think
love the Chrono Triggah :)
Starfox in this thing sounds pretty damn tricky. Good luck with that one hahaha.
Hehe, man, I was just playing Chrono Trigger like five minutes ago. I am also trying to get through Final Fantasy III as well.
fake!!! photochopped!!
I still say we should call our app the gnu Professional Image Manipulation Program...
All about marketing. Make your product a verb, you win.
That image was PIMPed!
..What does かたかた mean? Did you mean かたかな? (you do seem prone to misspelling ;)
It's ActRaiser on the screen, my first game on the Japanese SNES (Super Famicom) !
Awesome
If you can find an SNES game that only requires you push one button at a time...
"If you can find an SNES game that only requires you push one button at a time..."
.....then... what? You could play them on other devices too?
There are number of very good turned-based strategy games and some RPGs that could (potentially) be played without any hassle.
For example the "Romance of The Three Kingdoms" series.
Or Final Fantasy 3.
There are number of very good turned-based strategy games and some RPGs that could (potentially) be played without any hassle.
For example the "Romance of The Three Kingdoms" series.
Or Final Fantasy 3.
...as long as you don't use Sabin...