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Watch Skyward Sword Being Played With An Xbox 360 Controller…
I was one of those weird people that really loved the Wii Motion+ controls for The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, but there were gamers who couldn’t stand them. Looking to play the game with more traditional controls? Well, you may want to have a gander at this guy playing the game with a 360 controller.
Epic Mickey Looks Lovely In High Definition
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Disney’s new Mickey Mouse adventure already looks spectacular, but some discriminating video game fans would rather see Epic Mickey running on something more powerful than the Wii. Thankfully, the Dolphin emulator can give us a taste of Mickey in HD.
One Super Reason To Jailbreak Your iPad
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As seen at Where the Woozle Wasn’t, via iPhoneBlog.de.
Atari 2600 Emulator Built For iPhone; App To Follow?
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The folks behind an officially licensed Commodore 64 emulator on the iPhone are also working on an Atari 2600 emulators for the device, meaning more plink-plonk classics from the early 1980s could be on the way to you.
What Would Super Mario Bros On Kindle Look Like?
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Kinda like this. Japanese company Klab has developed a Nintendo Entertainment System emulator. Here it is running on a Kindle emulator. That’s… a lot of emulating.
First Album Recorded Using DS KORG Emulator Released
..and by ‘Released’ we mean ‘put up on a website in a Zip file’. Say what you like about the democratising power of the internet – it does rather suck the glamour out of album launches.
Anyway, what we have here is a cracking little collection of musical experiments created using the KORG DS-10 emulator for the Nintendo DS, for a competition at MP3Death.us/diplodocus.
I listened to all twelve tracks on the way home tonight and it is mainly what you would expect – squirly, twiddly synth sounds and squelchy beats. Some tracks have quite an 8-bit soundtrack feel — Aliceffek’s ‘Toneworks‘ is great fun and would not sound out of place on a Commodoure 64 platformer — while the brilliant ‘DSTennis‘ by A Rival is reminiscent of Hexstatic‘s ‘Bass Invader‘
Swinging Singles, The NSFW Arcade Game
The official MAME site contains a mission statement that speaks of the emulator’s ongoing development serving “educational [and]preservation purposes” to “prevent many historical games from disappearing forever once the hardware they run on stops working.” It’s not just a way for pirates and ne’er do wells to laugh in the face of intellectual property. MAME certainly lives up to its mission by giving us a look at something few of us would have been able to experience in 1983, the adult arcade game Swinging Singles by Ent Ent Ltd. It make look like a crude Pac-Man clone, but when your instructions are “drive through maze and try to reach an orgy house” and “avoid V.D. and others get key and go to room for fun” you know you’re in for a fun sexy time.
Kanashimi Danny has a review of sorts on his LiveJournal, giving us a look at the very NSFW game that can only be discussed on Kotaku After Dark. You have to jump over pike-wielding herpes viruses and giant enemy crabs to engage in a series of sex acts that involve massive genitalia and the drinking of “hot, wet juice”. There’s even a promise of “oozing pussy”. Man, that’s hot.
Lots of pics of Martian Manhunter getting and giving head to a green haired devil girl that might get you fired are at the link below.
A Night In With MAME (part 1) [LiveJournal via Waxy]
Arcade PC Rig Is Totally Awesome (But Totally Expensive)
Before you get excited at the feature-list, know this thing costs FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS. Got it? Let’s continue. This is the Game Haven PC3. You can buy it from Skymall. And it would be just about the best thing in the world for emulator fans if you could buy it with normal-human money. At it’s heart, it’s a PC running Windows XP. On its face? Two arcade stick layouts. A third, four-directional-only stick. Pinball flippers. Tilt buttons. And a trackball. The thing’s got AV outputs out the wahzoo, supports a regular old keyboard and mouse and looks like it’s built out of battleship steel. In other words, it could play almost anything. Only downside? Yeah. FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS. Official Game Haven PC3 [Skymall, thanks HBunny!]
(Useless) Nintendo DS Emulator Released For PSP
Sure, the DesMuME PSP emulator’s compatibility record is spotty at best and its author, Sektor, claims that the software runs at about three frames per second at 333 MHz, but it’s running Nintendo DS software on a PSP. That has to count for something, right? That something is probably nothing more than “Look what I did!” as the emulator “will never be full speed” and most likely never functional for practical game playing purposes. But, look! DS games running on a PSP!
My suggestion for playing DS titles on your PSP is shown in the thumbnail picture above. E-mail me for instructions.
DesMuME PSP Unofficial Useless Edition – Nintendo DS Emulator for the PSP [DC Emu PSP News, thanks Wraggy!]
iPhone NES Emulator In Motion
The iPhone NES Emulator has been all the rage for the past few hours. Why are we obsessed about getting games from a 20-year-old system on the world’s latest and greatest phone? Because it’s cool!
While the mini controller looks good on the iPhone’s touchscreen, does anyone else notice that Mario keeps on running without cue once the forward button is pressed? Our 2-second verdict? For speed trials only. Read real, hands-on impressions over at Gizmodo.
[via gaygamer]
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