iPhone gets SNES emulation

zhu..wha..?

Derek made an offensive comment before, but it got moderated (deleted). I was replying to that, but my reply did not get deleted.

thankfully it is a free country and i can say "go to hell"

I see absolutely nothing wrong with pirating roms.
Even less wrong if it's stuff that is not available on any of the download services, and likely never will be.

It's an emulator, not a rom stealing program. Emulation isn't illegal.

At what point did I ever say I didn't agree with you? All I said was that voicing such an extreme opinion on a touchey subject like emulators is bound to start flame wars. I personally think modding consoles to play downloaded games and using emulators is wrong except when it is to back up games you already have. Provided you brought the original copy of the game you're playing, I have no problem with emulators (and I've also heard there is some loophole where if you own the game that the game file came from, it is completely legal, provided you don't share it with your friends).

My point in my original comment is that many people either:
a) support emulators

or

b) would get offended that you had to resort to calling the author of the post an asshole

"...last time I checked it was a free country..."; "I think maybe you need to go change your diaper, crybaby..."

Wow, don't do that dude! I hate flashbacks to elementary school...

"...last time I checked it was a free country..."; "I think maybe you need to go change your diaper, crybaby..."

Wow, don't do that dude! I hate flashbacks to elementary school...

Which DS SNES emulator? I play Chrono Trigger just fine, actually it's one of the fairly few games that runs really well. A lot of the have weird glitches. This is in SNEmulDS.

Looks like I was using SnezziDS. Guess I'll have to look into SNEmulDS, hmm!

Any good suggestions on a NES Emu for an R4 or M3 DS Real?

Any good suggestions on a NES Emu for an R4 or M3 DS Real?

I'm not sure if that emulator can emulate sound or music. I couldn't stand listening to it, either. Rather than fast-ff through the video I just stopped it.

Still the bitter anti-Apple hack you've often shown yourself to be, eh Spart? Just like all the lonely ones on Digg that can't let a single Apple-related post go by without poo-pooing it for little reason other than you're just not secure enough with your own choices to let others be, if they happen to buy what they want to buy? (That's rhetorical, by the way - we already know the answer.) Go read 'Siddhartha' or something and gain some insight on relating to others and their choices.

signed,

an Apple user

My only fault with Apple are those fucking PC vs Mac commercials

If they don't lie, they totally warp the truth to make Windows advantages look like disadvantages (like the one that made the fact that PCs can be readily upgraded look like a bad thing)

I'm not sure what you're talking about Trooper. I very rarely EVER comment on Apple products, let alone here on joystiq. I simply chimed in here due to the fact that I got razzed today by a Mac user who is a good friend of mine. A friend of mine who has a lot of income and who likes to have all the new toys- even though he rarely knows what they are used for and usually just spouts whatever "features" the latest advertisement on TV happened to claim. These are the Mac (and electronics in general) users that I have a beef with. If you are a Mac user who did his research and chose a Mac because it offered you genuine advantages for you over a PC for the applications/tasks that you require, then I applaud you. However, if you bought a Mac because of Justin Long, as my friend did, then I take issue with your decision. It's the Mac users who claim absolute superiority over PC's that give the rest of you a bad name. For me a Mac offers no benefit besides stability, but that is a benefit that is greatly outweighed by price, lack of games (which IS relevant on this blog), lack of hardware options, and having to master a new GUI. To each his own, but please, for the love of all that is holy, do some actual research before you buy.

Signed,

An Informed Consumer

I've owned a Mac for a little over a year now, I've used PCs forever, worked with the school district up-keeping them Etc. and I just put Vista on it so I can play some games. When comparing the two on performance, it's ridiculous...

Why can't Windows be HALF as stable as Leopard(heck it's even newer!), I seriously don't get it! How can Gates be content with releasing this buggy piece of crap when the competition is years ahead of them and it's 5 years old?

Of course there is price, compatibility issues. If you half-way know computers compatibility isn't a problem, only price. On the issue with price... It's worth it.

They have to be using some quality hardware, correct me if I'm wrong but it's kinda crazy when my 2.16ghz dual core, 1gb ram, 1600 ati can run Bioshock all settings on high at 1600x1080

In conclusion if you want a nice stable quality computer, almost headache free (worked on my parents PC recently, I was seriously screaming at it...) get a Mac...

I've owned a Mac for a little over a year now, I've used PCs forever, worked with the school district up-keeping them Etc. and I just put Vista on it so I can play some games. When comparing the two on performance, it's ridiculous...

Why can't Windows be HALF as stable as Leopard(heck it's even newer!), I seriously don't get it! How can Gates be content with releasing this buggy piece of crap when the competition is years ahead of them and it's 5 years old?

Of course there is price, compatibility issues. If you half-way know computers compatibility isn't a problem, only price. On the issue with price... It's worth it.

They have to be using some quality hardware, correct me if I'm wrong but it's kinda crazy when my 2.16ghz dual core, 1gb ram, 1600 ati can run Bioshock all settings on high at 1600x1080

In conclusion if you want a nice stable quality computer, almost headache free (worked on my parents PC recently, I was seriously screaming at it...) get a Mac...

I got my iPhone a week ago and I love it. I didn't have any kind of music player which sucks on the bus/train to and from work, and my Sony phone I had was dead (almost as expensive when I bought it and it lasted all of 2 years). 1.1.3 update did some good things for the maps, text messaging, and internet... I don't know what they were like back at 1.1.1 but It's a great phone now...

And now I get laid everyday.

Raikage- I have no idea how you manage to crash Vista. Vista might not offer any new features other than DX10, but it sure doesn't just randomly crash. It only crashes if you have bad or incorrect drivers, which is something you can say of the whole NT line, including XP.

Yeah, the biggest gripe against Macs is the price. But that's a BIG gripe. There is very little a Mac can do that a PC can't, so you're paying a HUGE premium for what essentially, for most home users, is an Apple logo and the ability to use OSX (which granted can be a nice perk).

On the other hand, there is a LOT you can do with a PC that you can't on a Mac- like gaming, custom built rigs, hardware modification/upgrades, wider software support/compatibility (face it, a Mac running Windows IS A PC) and all for hundreds and sometimes thousands less.

Macs are good for some things and definitely serve a purpose in the computing world, but they are not even on par with PCs for other things let alone heads and shoulders better than PCs overall like the Apple evangelists would have you believe. Unless you NEED a Mac for certain applications or for certain professions, a PC will do everything the Mac would and for much less money. This fact alone would make a PC the consumer's choice if it were in any other market. But Steve Jobs is a marketing genius and he is able to make his 5% of the market look and sound superior to the other 95%... All while paying a premium and having less hardware options and flexibility.

Thos points seem reasonable. For me, a Mac would work just as well as a PC cause I don't use computers for anything you listed in your post. So, for some one like me who needs minimal functionality out of their computer, the only real difference is the price (which as you said, is a pretty big difference).

As I said before, roms are only illegal if they didnt come directly from the cartridge (or disc) that you bought (at least this is what I've heard, some one would need to double-check me on that). Obviously people are going to download these roms illegally, and while I don't support it, it doesn't do much harm to the industry. Emulators of previous consoles are very popular, so they might decrease VC sales here and there (but those are all profit anyway, plus, the majority of the Wii user base is casual and would not know about emulators). As for the people who emulate games for current generation consoles, many of them use their own copies of the game to burn the file, and of the ones that dont, it's such a small number that it's insignificant compared to the number of people who end up buying the actual game anyway. I don't see emulating as enough of a threat to the industry that it warrants calling Justin McElroy an asshole for even posting about it. The emulator he's posting is crappy anyway. The controls look sucky and after a quick google search I found out it's really glitchy anyway. There's no reason to get so intense about this article.

If they come from a disk, then they're called ISOs.