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| Nintendo DS unofficially ported to Android smartphones - DVICE Posted: 04 Feb 2011 06:33 AM PST While Sony was busy announcing its PlayStation Certified suite of PS1 games for Android devices, the developers at Tiger King were busy getting an emulator of the Nintendo DS up and running on Android phones. At first, we were very excited to hear Tiger King's unofficial emulator, but then we learned the app was merely a proof of concept and that games are "very slow, so you shall not expect to play [any] NDS game with this emulator." As a person who follows the homebrew scene somewhat closely for most popular portables, I can't help but be impressed. All emulators start out as proof of concepts and over time, with a little determination and a whole lot of hours spent debugging, a usable app usually turns up. If the emulator seems slow now, wait until people start mucking around with the powerful quad-core Sony NGP. One thing that can be taken from just the screenshots above is that the placement of the controls look awkward, especially the D-pad. Given that their really isn't a lot of space for overlaid controls on Android touchscreen smartphones, we're still fairly confident it can be refined in the future. Having sold over 144 million units of the Nintendo DS (all revisions combined), the world's best selling handheld getting unofficially ported to Android will be the new emulation obsession just as the NES, SNES, Gameboy and Gameboy Advance were back in the day. Le Journal du Geek, via Technabob For the latest tech stories, follow us on Twitter at @dvice This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2011 11:14 PM PST Have a kickass gaming rig but none of the consoles? Or do you just want to fire up the old school game for nostalgia's sake? Well you're in the right place, because most of the older systems now have emulators that will play their games on the PC. For those living under a rock, an Emulator is a piece of software that tricks a game into believing that it's running on the hardware it is supposed to run on. So a Playstation emulator would mimic the PSOne, thus making Syphon Filter 3 believe it's running on the console instead of a PC. Why emulate? Well, emulators nowadays usually can render the games at a much higher resolution than the original consoles, thus leading to an increase in graphic fidelity. Other features that didn't appear on the consoles can also be coded into emulators and have been, such as Anti-Aliasing, Save State and Load State functionality, the ability to take screenshots or record playthroughs etc. The only issue is, there are tons of these emulators available on the internet today, making it a really confusing place for newcomers. But never fear, we're here to help you out with the Top Five Emulators available today. Just remember, these emulators might be a pain to setup and get working, but keep grinding and you'll be rewarded with some glorious emulation at the end. Almost like an RPG, right? The Ocarina of Time on Project 64 Project64 (N64) Project64 is a Nintendo 64 emulator that allows third-party plugins, thus enabling developers to create their own plugins for the software. These include D3D and OpenGL plugins for graphics, DirectSound plugins, etc. One key feature of Project64 is the ability to replace textures in the game with those from an external file source, thus enabling higher-quality versions of the game. You can get Project64 from here. DeSmuME (NDS) DeSmuME running AOE This spot would earlier have gone to No$GBA (when used with No$Zoomer), but ever since the release of version 2.6a, development on the emulator has gone completely cold, making it a dead project and very difficult to recommend, especially when compared to DeSmuME which is an open-source emulator that gets updates very frequently. Anyway, you can get DeSmuME here. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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