iPod linux project spawns Game Boy emulator
by Conrad Quilty-Harper 
{ Jul 20th 2005 at 5:15PM }
The Unofficial Apple Weblog has caught word of a Gameboy Emulator for the iPod,
yes, the iPod. However, some hacker d00d didn't just wake up one day and magically make the emulator,
it was ported (presumably from an open source linux gb emulator) under the
iPod Linux project. This project already has a few decent gaming projects,
namely iPod versions of Tetris and Chess. The project also enables features that Apple has disabled on some iPods, like
voice recording (the left iPod headphone includes a microphone), line-in support and basic bitmap viewing.
Enough about the history of the project, you want to know how you can play your Gameboy ROMs on your iPod! Well
currently the application isn't available to the public. The people that are developing it aren't giving out any beta
files yet either. Before you jump to conclusions and call foul, they've released a few (very blurry) movies of Mario,
Pokemon and Zelda in action. Apparently Mario is running at near full speed and it's definitely in full color (at least
on the iPod Color).
You’ll need to go digging through a long forum thread to find out any information and there’s a lot of pointless posts, but if you’re an iPod owner and Gameboy fan it’s surely worth it! The only thing (albeit substantial thing) to worry about is the controls. The iPod click wheel was definitely not designed for emulation.
[Via TUAW]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Gamefreak @ Dec 18th 2005 9:41PM
Woah! Thats awesome! I want an iPod now!
Anthony @ Dec 18th 2005 9:41PM
Don't all left headphones work as a microphone? You just have to plug them into a microphone socket.
strider_mt2k @ Dec 18th 2005 9:41PM
Not always.
While headphone/earbud elements can act as transducers, they don't usually have the right signal or audio charateristics to be used as proper microphones.
That would be cool though, maybe just putting a mic in/next to one side so it could be used that way.