The Unofficial Apple Weblog has the deets on this emulator, and we're looking forward to playing around with it. The only problem is, with a screen that small, can anyone really see what they're playing? Not if the controls stay like this, but we're hoping things get turned a little sideways and they crack the sound issue.
iPhone + NES emulator = zOMG, hello Mario
The Unofficial Apple Weblog has the deets on this emulator, and we're looking forward to playing around with it. The only problem is, with a screen that small, can anyone really see what they're playing? Not if the controls stay like this, but we're hoping things get turned a little sideways and they crack the sound issue.
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Can this phone detect two or more touch inputs?
If so, very nice.
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READ THIS:
"The iPhone is a piece of s**t, and
so is your face."
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone
How people can like this iPhone GARBAGE?
HOW!?
If you can emulate GBA games (and expand the memory), this could be the new hottest hand held.
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-Wii
-DS
-PSP
the iPhone sucks. Do not buy it. For the ridiculous $60+ monthly package you could buy 2 used games for these systems. You could set up emulation cracks on the PSP. Seriously. You could buy a $400 PDA with GPS navigation (+$200), keep your current phone, and emulate everything through Saturn on your PDA, and still play movies, mp3s, keep Outlook mobile, etc.
yeesh.
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Haha, good chuckle right there.
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O RLY? What is so great about the iPhone? It PLAYS mp3s? wow so do most phones nowadays. It has a touch screen? WOW it makes texting 10x more annoying than on most phones or blackberries. It has an "i" in the front, meaning you can be the ultimate hipster?? It can now do shitty emulation? You can sign a TWO YEAR CONTRACT with one of the WORST carriers in the USA? SIGN ME UP!!!!
How can you say that an iPhone is better than buying 3 awesome game systems? For the cost of an iPhone I could buy 3 years of WOW. (which I won't). $600 can buy you a PS3, or a 360 plus some games, or a sega saturn and every game for it, or a used moped, or a trip across the country, or a decent used TV, or a kickass video card and new RAM for your PC.
$600 to have a TOY whose only functionality over a normal phone is a pretty interface and touch screen, is bullshit,
iphone CANNOT RECORD VIDEO, it has NO TACTILE REINFORCEMENT, it is BEGGING TO GET YOU MUGGED.
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It's a phone. Some people seem to like it(and I can see why),and some don't(and I can also see they wouldn't). There's absolutely no need for you to start raving and randomly capitalising your dislike of it.
For a start, why are you even here posting about it?
BUT CANZ U TAKE THE PSWII60 EVERYWHERE?!?11
It's not a good look!
NEDM could save the iphone.
thats not really an issue, i play NES games on my moto Q, with a smaller screen and they look great. When it comes to 8 bit games on a small screen, it looks like they were made for each other.
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my iMac was £630 (edu discount). There was nothing this powerful for the same price a year ago. And we got a free iPod Nano worth £120...
Spec for spec a Mac Pro running XP was cheaper for our university's rendering suite than a Dell.
Granted iPhone and the black MacBook are expensive. That's why I don't own them. That's also why I have a Dell monitor.
Seriously, what decade are you stuck in? I switched to Apple products because they were cheaper than similarly popular large PC brands.
The absence of power is only an illusion, which is unfortunately, perpetrated by the eye-candy. The smoother look and feel makes things seem slower, when in fact, they are faster. Windows Vista is the same way.
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I dropped AT&T/Cingular after a dozen dropped calls per day in the Los Angeles area, an AT&T techs told me that the network is overwhelmed that most of the antennas in the LA area need to be replaced which would take a few years. (LA RESIDENCE BEWARE!!!)
I wonder how many people actually use this for talking considering apple said that it sold 500,000 - 700,000 iPhones in the first week but AT&T said it only activated about 150,000 within that period.
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Guys, it sounds like it's not for you. Don't worry about it.
But you should know you're inaccurate saying it's a "toy" and does nothing special. You clearly haven't owned or even used one. This is my third 'smartphone' (aka e-mail, qwerty input, internet, camera) in the last 4 years, and it's by far the best. Right off the blocks, it dusts my last two SonyEricsson phones, which were (sadly!) also $600 each.
It works much better, the web browsing is really good, I frequently visit this site (which looks exactly like it does on my desktop and laptop computers) and others and post replies, and the interface and interaction between you and the software is far more integrated than any phone I've used. The zooming in/out with a tap, double tap, or a stretch/squeeze becomes second nature. The camera is very, very good for a mobile phone, and the video recording is likely on the horizon, with something else Apple is diligent about, the software update. The screen's resolution is phenominal; 160 ppi, and the thing is smooth, with fast processing for a phone.
The iPod features are well-implemented and it's really good to watch video on. A firm believer in tactile keyboard feedback (since back in the days of the Motorola SkyWriter 2-way pager I used to use), I was really surprised when the touch screen worked well; the key is the corrective software that works in conjuction with the "keyboard." It's totally fine and in fact is far quicker than inputting was on my SE p910a. I'm not going to say it's for every blackberry user who loves typing, I'll just say it's totally acceptable and far better than I thought it could be.
...And, it's a great form-factor - as thin as my older 30gig ipod. I don't care what software you run on your Treo, n95, whatever-phone to match the features of the iPhone, it's not going to make those phones any thinner - something that I guess doesn't matter to people like WiNG, who seem to want to carry multiple devices.
I would like to see some improvements: custom ringtones are sorely lacking, the e-mail app needs to step-up it's game, and I'm sure a 3G version will ship at some point - I'm not mad, I'll likely budget that in when it's available.
MAL- that was the number that AT&T announced it activated in the first two days, in their stores, I believe. You can buy the iPhone at Apple stores and activate it at home through iTunes, so the speculation is that most people who bought one just did it at home, on Sunday, Monday or later.
Sorry about the long rant, but the anti-rants are so emotional and uninformed I wanted to respond.
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I was ranting more about the network, I would consider the iPhone if it was on another network like Verizon. I have enjoyed other products that apple has produced.
And the 500,000 + has been receiving a lot of coverage lately: more business journalists have been saying that that number has been completely exaggerated.
AND the 150,000 numbers was the confirmed AT&T subscriptions activated in that period (after one week of sales). Considering that AT&T has the exclusive network rights to the phone, you do the math.
I was just saying how no one seems to be using the iPhone for talking on the phone.
ftw!
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Note: yes, you can *design* good touch-screen games, but you *cannot* graft games designed for a gamepad back onto a touchscreen-only device.
Of course, it helps if they open the platform to 3rd-party devs if you want touchscreen-specific games...
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wtf...
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