Secret iPhone video-out features hacked, used for video games

Hey, just because using secret undocumented iPhone SDK calls might get you booted from the App Store doesn't mean it's not a good time -- Ars Technica commissioned Freeverse to mod its Moto Chaser game to use the hidden video-out features in iPhone 2.2, and we have to say the results turned out pretty decent. It's not perfect -- it looks like it only works in landscape mode, and rendering to TV resolutions strains the processor and slows framerates down on all but the faster 2G iPod touch -- but it works, and it's a taste of where iPhone app development could go if Apple ever opens up the gates. Or you could just be Google and do whatever you want, we suppose. Video after the break.

[ZeroCorpse Posted Dec 6th 2008 10:34AM]

Yeah, except that iPod touch/iPhone games pretty much SUCK.

How many variations of the "tilt to steer" game can we take before blood gushes out of our ears?

Seriously, developers, stop making driving/maze games for the iPod touch. I think that genre is COVERED.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 6th 2008 6:18PM]

Hum, I see real nifty applications for this... gps software running on your iphone, and output routed to your car lcd screen (btw, any word on when we can expect turn by turn driving directions?)... Or even a media center software such as xbmc ported to the iphone, with video routed to your monitor! The possibilities are limitless. Hackers, Developers, & Apple, please turn this dream into reality!

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 6th 2008 8:56PM]

this is awesome

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 7th 2008 12:00PM]

Should see this:

http://applediario.com/en/

These guys have gone beyond this feature, have used the video output in the iPhone to convert the iPhone in a computer, they are using the TV like a computer monitor, just look like they're browsing in the internet.