Hmm, hopefully the multi touch can deal with the button mashing and the what not. Some games get pretty crazy.

I wonder if the "buttons" could deal with an NES game like Track & Field.

Looks like some multi-touch hacking will be needed before controls become any good.

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This app refuses to transfer to my iPhone. =/

@Bootes: Well I got it over using iPhoneInterface curl and scp failed. However it doesn't show up in the Applications list...

wow, the first cool iPhone app

I can confirm that it "DOES" work, you simply need to make the binary/application executable.

like so:

chmod +x /Applications/NESApp.app/NESApp

Then reboot the phone.

@aupton: For some reason it was complaining that NESApp.app was not a directory. I got it to work finally by taring NESApp.app and then untaring it on the phone.

See, I wasn't lying. Now they just need to make the controls a bit more usable!

great. button mashing on a glass screen.

So how does Mario keep moving right after he lets go of the D-Pad button? Does it have "sticky" keys?

Almost smells fake to me.

that's it, i was going to wait a year for the iphone, but now i'm fucking getting one.

@eddiesdguy:
I'd wait till they at least fix the movement toggling it has now.

I remember janking the controller from one side to the other to jump and stuff. Thus, I would probably change the screen's mode from vertical to horizontal constantly....

... but still: it looks mighty fine. This hybrid of brandnew and old-school :)

I am not going to deny the fact that there are a lot of exciting tools on the iPhone, but I must admit, it's announcements like this that make me thank my lucky stars that I have a shiny and new iPhone.