Emulation

Oppo Muse G11: The Chinese PMP With A D-Pad And Classic Game Emulators

There are enough crappy Chinese MP3 players to fill a toxic Shenzhen waste dump many times over, but the Oppo Muse G11, with its traditional d-pad and promise of 8-bit glories emulated: I want. https://gizmodo.com/60-minutes-reporter-investigates-chinas-e-waste-pits-g-5079133 While some of the photos here clearly show a real device, you can see that modesty has inclined lil’ Oppo…

Yobo FC3 Plus Plays NES, SNES and Genesis Cartridges

We may take the system for granted now, but your inner 10-year-old is simply amazed by the Yobo FC3 Plus. A console that’s fully compatible with NES, SNES and Sega Genesis titles, you can finally put those old cartridges to use without filling your home theater setup with unsustainable levels of boxes and wires. Including…

iControlpad, For the iPhone with PSP Envy

While the do-everything touchscreen of the iPhone seemed like the perfect solution for game emulation, it’s tough to top real buttons when it comes to mashing away at Track & Field. So the iControlpad attaches to the iPhone and gives it a PSP makeover. The prototype (pictured here) was pieced together from the internals of…

SNES Emulator Running on a Cowon Q5W

This is a Cowon Q5W PMP that’s been rigged to hook up to an original Playstation controller and run a SNES emulator. On the one hand, it’s sweet to see SNES games being played on a PMP. On the other hand, this is a honking $550+ PMP, so you’d probably be pretty pissed if it…

snes4iphone v1.0.0 Tested (Verdict: Playable)

ZodTTD’s snes4iphone v1.0.0 was recently released and it works surprisingly well. After a few games of Mario All-Stars and Super Mario World it’s obvious this emulator has come a long way. While in-game audio is still missing, background music plays fine. Gameplay is fairly smooth with frameskip enabled, and the emulator supports landscape and portrait…

Xbox 360 Backward Compatibility Updated

The Xbox 360 backward compatibility team’s just pumped out a batch of new updates, this time adding support for many older sports games, driving games and Batman games. There aren’t many A-list titles on here (probably because they’ve been added earlier due to the fact that they’re A-list titles), but if you really want to…

iPhone GameBoy App Now Available

If you enjoy shaky, unproven software as much as I do, you will be happy to know that version 0.0.5 of gpSPhone is now available for download. Yeah It is buggy, you have to run it from /Applications, and you need to supply your own BIOS and games (anything but Hello Kitty please) —but hey,…

Easily look up whether your old PS1 and PS2 titles will work on your PlayStation 3 with this Sony Backward Compatibility checker. No giant list—you’ll have to enter a title manually. Again, the 60GB has hardware emulation, so if back-compat is important to you, grab one of those now while it’s still in stores. [PlayStation]

Want a 60GB PS3? Better Buy it Soon

Sony’s just confirmed that they are out of supplies of the 60GB PlayStation 3 in their warehouses, which means that the only place left to get that specific version of the console is on store shelves. If you wanted a PS3 that can do hardware emulation of PS1 and PS2 games, you’d better get one…

Ben Heck’s Portable Emulator

Everyone’s favorite game console mad mod genius, Ben Heck, has a new project, and it’s something that you and I might actually get a chance to play with for a change. Instead of a one-off like the Xbox 360 Laptop, he’s designing the case for the GamePort, a handheld emulator designed to play retro games.…

Sony Updates PS Store, Adds PSP and PS3 Cross-Support for PSone Games

Remember that PSP and PS3 update we told you about earlier last month? The one that enabled you to share PlayStation One game saves between your PS3 and your PSP? Well, Sony’s finally gone and enabled it, you know, officially. https://gizmodo.com/psp-3-40-firmware-update-enables-playing-of-ps1-save-ga-253737 The handful of compatible titles are: “2Xtreme, Crash Bandicoot, Destruction Derby, Jet Moto, Jumping…

Play With Windows Mobile 6 Without Buying a Phone

If you’re still curious about Windows Mobile 6 even after all the videos we’ve shown you, here’s a way to emulate the new OS on your PC. All you need is the Device Emulator, the Compact Framework SP1, the Windows Mobile 6 SDK, and a copy of Visual Studio 2005. https://gizmodo.com/windows-mobile-iphone-edition-the-movie-240128 The first three are…

PSP Hacked To Play Any PlayStation 1 Game

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Portable Semi-7.1 USB Soundcard

If you don’t feel like lugging those 7.1 surround sound speakers everywhere you go, this may be the perfect device for you and your laptop. The USB 7.1 channel sound adapter will emulate a 3D sound environment, includes a mic input and it is no bigger than a couple batteries. Damaged sound card? Or perhaps…

Zune on Linux: Done. Kinda.

If you’re a Linux user and want to get in on all the Microsoft Zune magic—yeah right—here’s a way how. The solution involves VMware and allows you to have a virtual machine running Windows inside your Linux, which then lets you run the Zune software to sync up your Zune. The only catch is that…

Ainol V100 MP3 Player Emulates NES, SNES and Sega Genesis

The Ainol V100 isn’t just an MP3 and video player with a gorgeous 2.5-inch QVGA screen, it emulates old school NES and Sega games as well. Inside its brushed metal body, there’s a ADI Blackfin processor running at 400MHz which plays back NES ROMS, SNES ROMS and Sega Genesis ROMS along with MP3s, WMAs, FLAC…