Our first thought when we heard the news that there was an NES emulator in the works for the
Sidekick series of text machines was one of pure, unabashed elation. The classic Hiptop form factor is pretty much exactly what the doctor ordered for effective old-skool gaming, after all -- and let's be honest,
any time Nintendo playtime comes to a new platform is cause for immediate and overindulgent celebration. Our second thought was, "wait, what?" It's pretty unclear how the emulator would be loaded with legally-obtained ROMs and we have our doubts that Nintendo signed away the rights to any binaries, so we're a little confused about the word that this would be officially offered through the Danger's Software Catalog. Let's all cross our fingers, continue to pay our T-Mobile bills on time, and hope that tomorrow might bring countless hours of
Skate or Die while we're... you know, actually skating or something.
Update: While not technically fake, it turns out that this 80s-vintage action is going to remain a pipe dream (and no, we're not talking about the NES game
Pipe Dream, either). Danger's developer tools allow arbitrary Java to be loaded into the Hiptop emulator -- not just approved stuff, obviously -- so odds are that someone loaded an NES emulator (like, say, vNes) and went to town with the screen shots. Official offering through the Catalog, though? Not so much. Thanks, Jim!
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jag @ Apr 11th 2008 8:14AM
Ohh come on, this is ridiculous. This is just a case of someone using the Sidekick SDK to run the a NES emulator midlet that has been around forever. Its not done by Danger, and it runs at like 3fps on a Sidekick LX.
This is never ever going to come to the sidekick catalog.
JPN @ Apr 11th 2008 8:20AM
Dear god how I wish this is true, as I have a sidekick. They already have sonic the hedgehog available...so who knows...it would be a really nice setup though.
SOOPERGOOMAN @ Apr 11th 2008 11:47AM
I have an un opened original copy of pipe dream. I got it three months before the games release. Wanna buy it? It's never been opened, still sealed in original cellophane. i hope this becomes a reality for you in the U.S. of A. just another reason to stay on tha phone4. lol sidekicks, aren't they small suv's?
Dominic Arkwright @ Apr 11th 2008 2:08PM
I think that's a Javascript-only version of part of Mario. In which case (almost) any Javascript browser could run it.
Kit @ Apr 14th 2008 5:12AM
test
nmday @ May 5th 2008 4:03PM
Joe Britt, one of Danger's founders, has written emulators for a whole host of game machines. Wouldn't surprise me if one of his snuck onto a hiptop ;)