Play Nintendo Games on iPhone

by Terrence O'Brien, posted Aug 8th 2007 at 2:51PM

The first thing hackers do when they break a closed system is try to get it to act like another system. More often than not that system tends to be the much-beloved Nintendo Entertainment System.

Of course, the iPhone is no exception.

A group of intrepid developers has ported an NES emulator to run on Apple's touch screen handset. The first version was painfully slow and had no sound, but an update is already available that brings the emulator to a usable level. Controls are handled via an on screen representation of the classic NES remote.

Installation isn't for the light of heart, but there is currently no other way to get your Mario fix on the iPhone.

From Engadget

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Filed under: Cell Phones, Video Games, iPhone

Tags: emulator, hack, iphone, nes, nintendo

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philliesphan6392 @ Aug 16th 2007 6:35PM

ac:ww would be awesome on iPhone...when you're bored somewhere and you have an iPhone, you can play ac:ww and start fishing or something...

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zcovina @ Aug 26th 2007 8:49PM

Well AC will never be possible it is not powerful enough anyways hackers will get out of hand and start to use thier hacking skills for wrong reasons and then Apple will release security updates and then it will end up like the PSP

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windbell @ Jan 17th 2008 9:57PM

And I also found some free funny iphone games to share:
http://www.aimersoft.com/iphonegames/freeiphonegames.html

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