That control layout is woeful ... L and R buttons on alternate corners (diagonally) and the D-Pad in the top left with the PS "shape" buttons in the bottom right?
Um, no.
Um, no.
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Android gets PSX emulator, what about iphone?
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Try playing ROMs on a desktop computer with a bigger screen. The experience is awful too.
If you want to play PlayStation or Nintendo classics, buy a dedicated portable gaming system. iPhone games tends to be a different breed and with the completely different way to control them. The PSP is like PlayStation 1.5-1.75. Better than PS1, but NOT quite PS2. First time I saw Tekken Resurrection on PSP in 2006, my jaw dropped. Not a replica of Tekken 5 for the PS2, but the visuals were still stunning for a portable gaming system. The DS had hardware like the Nintendo 64. The GBA was like the SNES and GameBoy Color was like the NES. The 3DS looks to have similar hardware like the GameCube which isn't that far off from a Wii with the difference in controls.
Sony and Nintendo recycle old games anyway by opening up retro stores or repackaging them with new graphics and sequels. You need a longer attention span for many of those games. You can save you battery life and storage space for your iPhone. Playing games on dedicated gaming devices can give you the correct controls and experience on how to play those old games.
iPhone still have the best games in the cell phone industry because of how robust their App Store still is. Just a different breed to Sony and Nintendo gaming systems. Maybe closer to the casual approach of Nintendo. But if you want to experience Nintendo games made by Nintendo at 100% the correct presentation, you have to buy a Nintendo device.
That's why the original 60GB PlayStation 3 was so sought out. It had 100% backward compatibility to PS2 games. They weren't emulated. That first model still had the Emotion Engine chip.
If you want to play PlayStation or Nintendo classics, buy a dedicated portable gaming system. iPhone games tends to be a different breed and with the completely different way to control them. The PSP is like PlayStation 1.5-1.75. Better than PS1, but NOT quite PS2. First time I saw Tekken Resurrection on PSP in 2006, my jaw dropped. Not a replica of Tekken 5 for the PS2, but the visuals were still stunning for a portable gaming system. The DS had hardware like the Nintendo 64. The GBA was like the SNES and GameBoy Color was like the NES. The 3DS looks to have similar hardware like the GameCube which isn't that far off from a Wii with the difference in controls.
Sony and Nintendo recycle old games anyway by opening up retro stores or repackaging them with new graphics and sequels. You need a longer attention span for many of those games. You can save you battery life and storage space for your iPhone. Playing games on dedicated gaming devices can give you the correct controls and experience on how to play those old games.
iPhone still have the best games in the cell phone industry because of how robust their App Store still is. Just a different breed to Sony and Nintendo gaming systems. Maybe closer to the casual approach of Nintendo. But if you want to experience Nintendo games made by Nintendo at 100% the correct presentation, you have to buy a Nintendo device.
That's why the original 60GB PlayStation 3 was so sought out. It had 100% backward compatibility to PS2 games. They weren't emulated. That first model still had the Emotion Engine chip.
When I jailbroke my original iPhone. I loaded a bunch of emulators on em. But they all sucked. I'm not talking bout the frames, but the controls were terrible. Games like on the gba,psx,nes etc are ment to be played with physical buttons. Not a touch screen. If I want retro games, I use my psp/ds to use emulators on. Not my iPhone.
Emulators are legal afaik, just the uses might not be so legal. But in any case, it's easy enough to dump a playstation bios, and it's even easier to make an iso of a playstation game. Don't need to do illegal things to make use of that emulator
Isnt android supposed the be the geek platform? I'm sure a geek knows how to type in "ps1 iso" in google and figure out where to go from there.
So true.
I tried playing the official Sonic 2 game at the Apple Store and while the screen was bigger because a Genesis controller was not in the way (had transparent controls), the gameplay was similar to the ROMs I have for it on the iPod touch. Holding down on the d-pad, my left thumb just tends to slide right off. We need that tactile feedback.
Games like Angry Birds is perfect for iPhone. The epitome of what iPhone games should be. Very basic control scheme. But simple platform classics like Mario and Sonic? Not so much. It is the price we pay when our iPhone has no buttons. Especially when jumping from one ledge to the next has to be so precise. Even Glass Joe can kick my ass in Mike Tyson's Punch-Out! Lack of buttons make it harder to play these games we've mastered then it actually seems.
Actually, any manipulation of the PS BIOS which is trademarked intellectual property of Sony, and not you, is illegal. And seeing as you have to get a BIOS to run the emulator that would make it illegal. So while the actual program itself might not be illegal, the moment you use it, it becomes illegal.
Did you not bother reading my posts? Big screen games = NO for small screens. I've repeated it once already in this thread, do you need me to do it three more times? I don't care if the game was designed for the small screen or it's respective system.
Are you so ignorant that you don't realize that the same person who made psx4droid is the same person who made psx4all&psx4iphone?
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-zodttd-psx-jiBDA.aspx
Android has several emulators available now... does android REALLY have a gaming problem compared to Apple now? You can access thousands of top notch games, much better than the crap that developers are putting on either market. Being able to play FF7 or MGS on an android phone has me giddy.
edit: here's a video of someone playing ff7 on his android phone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNCnnHnoQfU
What is the point of having an emulator if you don't have any games to play on them. All those games that are out there now are all illegal, and Apple would never allow that on their store.
One can make Android's screen look just as s/he wants including an exact look of iPhone. So, what exactly do you mean?
just bumping this with some footage of the PSX emulator running on the iPhone 4.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqvl30Z42tI
Looks to run smoother than the versions for the galaxy S (Compare when Cloud slides in to attack on both devices)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqvl30Z42tI
Looks to run smoother than the versions for the galaxy S (Compare when Cloud slides in to attack on both devices)
Want want want!
Too bad I'd have to jailbreak my phone to get that (and I'm too scared to, heh).
Why wouldn't it? The Galaxy S has a better Processor and GPU than the Droid X, and the iPhone 4 version of the PSX emulator looked smoother than the Galaxy S version. So being better than the Droid X version is a given.
Eh, it doesn't look bad on the Droid X. I play several RPG's on my droid x and they run great minus a few sound issues but I usually turn it off and listen to pandora radio anyways. I play FF7, FF9, Legend of Mana, and Legend of Dragoon just to name a few. I only play for like 15-20 min while waiting for class to start or am sittin on the toilet (just being honest. lol). I couldn't sit and play for hours straight like I would have back when they first came out on PS back in the day but 15 min 2-3 times a day isn't bad at all...and its nice to have a chance to replay the games I love.
I agree that was a horrible default option to pick but there is an option in settings that allows you to change where all the buttons are place on screen.