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  • Android to get a Playstation emulator thanks to ZodTTD

    Android to get a Playstation emulator thanks to ZodTTD

    Posted on June 4, 2010 | No Comments
    We like ZodTTD. He's a dude who just gets stuff done. Back in the early days of iPhone jailbreaking, he found his niche in building emulators for the platform; within months, he'd ported over pocket friendly versions of the SNES, Genesis, N64, Playstation, while somehow finding time to build things like an iPhone version of the VLC media player. Now, after much demand by his fans, he's building things for Android. His first project? An as-of-yet unnamed Playstation emulator.

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  • Zune HD hacked, entire hardware open to homebrew programmers

    Zune HD hacked, entire hardware open to homebrew programmers

    Posted on April 16, 2010 | No Comments
    Potentially huge news for Zune HD owners—that means Devin and I. It has been hacked~! Yes, the good folks over at ZuneBoards have hacked the Zune HD to pieces, giving homebrew developers full access to the hardware, access that otherwise lay behind the XNA development kit. The Zune HD isn't too shabby, so I fully expect to see ports of popular emulators like FCEUX in no time at all.

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  • HyperSID brings 8-bit sound back to the 21st century

    HyperSID brings 8-bit sound back to the 21st century

    Posted on March 9, 2010 | No Comments
    The MOS Technology sound interface device (SID) has been a favorite of electronic musicians for decades. Originally released within the Commodore CBM-II, 64, and 128 series of computers, this little chip could create 4 different waveforms on 3 analog channels. The guys over at HyperSynth have some custom SID synthesizers for sale, along with a [...]

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  • iControlPad iPhone game controllers in production, one features extended battery

    iControlPad iPhone game controllers in production, one features extended battery

    Posted on February 25, 2010 | No Comments
    Oh my, does this look nice. If you’ve got a jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch and you’ve been wishing/hoping/praying for some sort of tactile controller to come along so you can use your favorite emulators as the gaming gods intended, the wait may soon be over. The iControlPad (previous coverage here) has gone into mass production.

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  • Nokia busted for showing off an SNES emulator on the N900

    Nokia busted for showing off an SNES emulator on the N900

    Posted on November 28, 2009 | No Comments
    If you were a hardware manufacturer and your new phone was a ROMist's delight you'd be all like "Our phone plays Doom and totally plays Super Mario Bros. 3." Right? You'd be bragging from here to Scranton.

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  • ODROID portable Android gaming machine sells through initial dev units

    ODROID portable Android gaming machine sells through initial dev units

    Posted on October 27, 2009 | No Comments
    detail3Perhaps someday you'll buy an Android device to use primarily for gaming. It could happen! Pictured above is the ODROID, a gaming-focused portable running Android and packing a powerful 833MHz Cortex A8 CPU.

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  • Video: Nokia’s product testing labs in 3 minutes, 42 seconds

    Video: Nokia’s product testing labs in 3 minutes, 42 seconds

    Posted on October 7, 2009 | No Comments

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    We had a chance to take a tour of Nokia's research and development facility in San Diego this week -- and while we're afraid to say we didn't see any Maemo 6-powered devices or Symbian^4 emulators lying around, we did see some pretty cool stuff, particularly in the product testing laboratories where engineering samples and final products are put through pure hell. The idea is to simulate years' worth of real-life product use in just a few days -- individual tests last anywhere from a few hours to three weeks or longer -- by pressing buttons, sliding sliders, actuating hinges, heating, cooling, wetting, drying, dropping, whacking, shaking, rubbing, bending, and generally defacing the phones in every way imaginable. Once a phone finally breaks, they look for obvious reasons -- cracked plastic, broken springs, and the like -- but if that initial analysis fails, they've got a well-equipped lab on site complete with a scanning electron microscope and CT scanner for taking microscopic looks at failed components in both two and three dimensions; from here, they can find broken connections on chips, incorrectly-fabricated materials, and the occasional ant eye magnified a couple thousand times (it's posted on the wall in the lab, and yes, it's scary). Follow the break for a cheerful montage of a few Nokia phones getting mercilessly beaten beyond recognition.

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  • Nebudroid turns your Android phone into a NES controller

    Nebudroid turns your Android phone into a NES controller

    Posted on September 2, 2009 | No Comments
    nebudroidSay hello to Nebudroid, an Android application that turns your phone into a NES controller for use with emulators. It also serves as an accelerometer-based steering wheel for racing games.

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