iPhone + NES emulator = zOMG, hello Mario
by Kevin Kelly 
{ Aug 7th 2007 at 9:00AM }
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.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Kye @ Aug 7th 2007 9:18AM
Niiiice
Can this phone detect two or more touch inputs?
If so, very nice.
Matters @ Aug 7th 2007 9:37AM
Uhh yeah..That's one of the things they made a big deal about with the iPhone.
Anonim @ Aug 7th 2007 10:21AM
iPhone ***SUCKS****
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!?
Kye @ Aug 7th 2007 9:20AM
Can it emulate DS games?
If you can emulate GBA games (and expand the memory), this could be the new hottest hand held.
Antwan @ Aug 7th 2007 9:26AM
Controls looked wonky and emulation was slow. Regardless it's good to see progress.
whymog @ Aug 8th 2007 3:18AM
It seems to me like it'd make more sense for the emulator to run in landscape mode, possibly with transparent controls superimposed on the bottom. Anyone who remembers going from the original Gameboy form factor to the Gameboy Advance recognizes the ergonomic relief that came with the wider-spaced control design.
Matt @ Aug 7th 2007 9:30AM
Uhh, NES & SNES emulation works on lots of phones. For PPC phones, for example, it's been out for years already.
TWiNKiE @ Aug 7th 2007 9:35AM
Is it me, or does everyone go ga-ga over anything Apple-related, even though it's been done before?
upz @ Aug 7th 2007 11:05AM
It's not just you. My O2 has been doing this for years, but because Apple just did it (or in this case, someone did it on an Apple product), it's brand new! Gotta love those 50% profit margins. Marginally upgraded iPods at the same price for 6 years FTW!
ill trooper @ Aug 7th 2007 1:50PM
Yeah guys, but the iPhone just came out. If you had been reading the internets for years, you would have noticed that people go "ga-ga" EVERY SINGLE TIME a device can emulate the NES, because it's just cool to be able to do that.
jron @ Aug 7th 2007 9:37AM
wow, mario runs on his own.
riggs @ Aug 7th 2007 9:41AM
i just dont see any type of emulation (probably some DS touch screen only games....MAYBE) working for this overly hyped phone.
WiNG @ Aug 7th 2007 9:53AM
For the price of an iPhone, you could buy:
-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.
James @ Aug 7th 2007 10:02AM
Shame what you propose isn't as good as an iPhone.
bm @ Aug 7th 2007 10:12AM
"Shame what you propose isn't as good as an iPhone."
Haha, good chuckle right there.
zergbur @ Aug 7th 2007 10:10AM
oh thats nice!
WiNG @ Aug 7th 2007 10:14AM
"Shame what you propose isn't as good as an iPhone."
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.
oz @ Aug 7th 2007 10:39AM
Get a grip, and do be quiet. iPhone haters like you are as obsessive and tedious as the people who hype it up.
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?
riggs @ Aug 7th 2007 1:21PM
even though i dislike the iphone, i already know what the response to this comment will be:
BUT CANZ U TAKE THE PSWII60 EVERYWHERE?!?11
ill trooper @ Aug 7th 2007 1:58PM
You're in a fucking panic over there in your little room, WiNG...
It's not a good look!
Solid Snake @ Aug 7th 2007 9:54PM
ROFL
NEDM could save the iphone.
Grant @ Aug 7th 2007 11:10AM
"The only problem is, with a screen that small, can anyone really see what they're playing?"
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.
David @ Aug 7th 2007 12:15PM
I use an emulator on my Treo 700wx and the screen size is just fine. And having the hard buttons makes the buttons easier to press. :)
deaftly @ Aug 7th 2007 11:22AM
another overpriced apple piece of garbage
James @ Aug 7th 2007 11:35AM
Another? You should tell Zune that, for the same price as the 30gb model with a radio I can buy an 80gb iPod.
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.
boywundr @ Aug 7th 2007 2:18PM
Yeah, but the experience I have had with Mac is all eye candy, no POWER. We use dual G5's at work, each with 4 gigs of ram (total of 6 machines) and we have more issues with the turbine's (fans) getting insanely loud when we start up Firefox, crashes, etc. Mac's look pretty but the reliability and power have not been there for us. It's neat that the iPhone does what it does... but it's hardly practical, in my opinion. Also, the few people I know who have them say it's harder to make a phone call than anything else!
Kevlar @ Aug 8th 2007 2:16PM
If the fans spin up for Firefox, then there is some other misconfiguration with the Mac going on. My Mac runs beautifully quiet when doing normal operations, and the fans kick in only when I'm doing something like encoding video. Having 4GiB RAM won't affect the fans, but having a powerful, hot processor will.
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.
Nate @ Aug 7th 2007 12:01PM
landscape mode ftw!!!
Rob Accomando @ Aug 7th 2007 12:22PM
finally, a good reason to get an iPhone
riggs @ Aug 7th 2007 1:22PM
what are you smoking???^^
MAL @ Aug 7th 2007 2:25PM
It's not so much that iPhones suck as much as AT&T.
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.
Sonicandtails @ Aug 7th 2007 2:40PM
Haha, I emulate NES/SNES/Genesis/GB(C)/ZZT/INSERT ANOTHER HERE way better on my DS with the use of a flash cart. Seriously, $600 so you can use a NES emulator? Haha, ahhahahahahah!
ill trooper @ Aug 7th 2007 2:50PM
I hate to be the guy who defends the iPhone, but since the haters are putting up multiple posts about it, I figured I could chime in...
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.
MAL @ Aug 7th 2007 8:39PM
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.
mj @ Aug 7th 2007 6:27PM
It's still an inch bigger screen that the gameboy micro!
ftw!
James @ Aug 7th 2007 7:34PM
No buttons = shoddy emulator machine.
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...
Solid Snake @ Aug 7th 2007 9:43PM
That is the gayest fucking thing i have ever seen in my entire fucking life. -1/10
bubbles @ Aug 8th 2007 5:53AM
take a look in the mirror sweetie
Solid Snake @ Aug 13th 2007 11:01PM
^^ "sweetie"?
wtf...