Your iPhone is about to get a whole lot cooler, thanks to a little app called snes4iphone - a native SNES emulator for the iPhone and iPod touch that recently hit beta.
If you can’t wait for the public release, you can donate to the developers and they’ll let you in on the beta.
Obligatory Youtube vid after the jump.
PlayStation 2 emulation has been improving in leaps and bounds of late, thanks to the PCSX2 team. They have recently released PCSX2 0.9.4, with over 741 titles are verified as fully working. If you’ve got a beasty rig, you can crank up the anti-aliasing and upscale the resolution and make your favorite PS2 games a whole new graphical experience.
If Sony don’t hire all these guys to work on software backwards-compatibility for the new, Emotion Engine-less PlayStation 3 models, they’re crazy.
If you are sick of being tethered by cords if even for the need to charge then this emulating PMP might be for you. You see the HK Power can be charged by solar power and can even charge other devices through it. It sports a 3.5 inch QVGA screen, a Gameboy and NES emulator, microphone, SD slot and can play 25fps AVI files. Sure it’s a little light on the gaming but maybe some crafty homebrewers can do something about that. We aren’t really sure where the solar panels are, or when and where it’s out, but it sure will be weird leaving an electronic device in the sun on purpose.
via Engadget
A group of musically minded gamers have developed an emulation of the NES classic Super Mario Bros. that uses sound as a means for control. Players can sing, clap or play musical instruments in order to advance Mario through the stage. While it’s currently more of a crazy student project than a releasable game concept, we wouldn’t be surprised to see something like this turn up on the microphone-equipped Nintendo DS eventually.
via onetonnemusic
With the first “Hello World” source code released just ten days ago, the fact that a lone programmer with no official development tools has already ported the InfoNES NES emulator to the iPhone is nothing short of incredible.
As you might expect, it’s nowhere near perfection just yet - there’s major slowdown, awkward touch-screen controls, and no sound - but given the author, stepwhite, has achieved this much in such a short period, I wouldn’t expect to wait too long for a speedier update.
Want to make your PlayStation games look like they were made in the Dreamcast-era? Racketboy have posted a quick tutorial on configuring the free ePSXe PlayStation emulator for optimal results with Pete’s OpenGL 2.0 plugin. If only Sony would implement a similar technique for PlayStation emulation on the PS3.
Free NES is a NES Emulator built in Java and distributed as a Facebook application. There’s some superficial social functionality built in using the Facebook API, but with built-in access to over 1,000 real NES games, that’s arguably not the main focus of the exercise. Cease and desist in three, two…
