December 22, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

TUAW loves our iPhones and we love our NES games. We’ve been convinced for some time now they are two great tastes that would no doubt taste great together. Tonight I settled in to write a post about how exciting it was that you could play old school public-domain and freeware Nintendo games on your iPhone now, thanks to Jonathan Zdziarski and Nescaline, the app he built to do just that. Ah, Kid Icarus and Ninja Gaiden and Zelda and Mario, all my old friends back again (if I had legal licenses to the ROM images, of course). I was excited to relive my pixelated past, but it was not to be. Jason updated his site this evening saying Nescaline had been pulled: Read more…

December 05, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Zodttd has done it once again and this time game emulation on the iphone will never be the same. Nes4iPhone is a new nintendo emulator for the iphone and no it is not just another simple emulator. Check out the video below, yes that is for real you see a wiimote using bluetooth connectivity controlling the emulator on the iphone. Can you really use your wiimote to play games on your iphone, yep “there’s an app for that”. The only tiny flaw with this app is you have to install it through rockapp which a lot of people don’t like as rockapp conflicts with cydia.

Kick it old school playing games like ExciteBike, Super Mario Bros, Zelda, Mike Tysons Punchout, and more! This fully featured emulator comes equipped with save states, battery saves, full sound, zipped rom support, and a fast framerate. It even has custom controller skins!

Note: Trial times out after 2 minutes of gameplay.

Features include:
- WiiMote support via BlueTooth capable devices!
- Fast assembly CPU emulation!
- Download to the ROMs directory within the app!
- Portrait and landscape support.
- Controller overlays are able to be skinned.
- Save states!
- Smoothed scaling options.
- It’s FAST and it works great on both 2.2.1 and 3.x firmwares!

November 11, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

As the iPhone has proven itself to be a formidable competitor in the handheld gaming business, the president of Nintendo has said his company must differentiate itself to survive.

As Apple portrays the iPod touch and iPhone as the ultimate portable gaming machine, Nintendo, maker of the Nintendo DS, has seen its profits freefall last quarter, from 133 billion yen a year prior to 64 billion yen. Highlighting the newfound competition between Apple and Nintendo, The Wall Street Journal noted that Nintendo has fended off several potential portable challengers, but it hasn’t quite faced a competitor like the iPhone.

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