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For those of you obsessing over NES/GBA on the touch...
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Dredging up an old post, but I thought this was amusing. I, too, installed the NES emulator and the whack of ROMs "just because I can", and apart from toying with it for a few minutes at a time, had absolutely no useful purpose for having the NES emulator. Indeed, I found the tiny touch-screen controls so awkward that I was asking "Why???" just like the OP.
Then I showed my Touch to my friend Mike. And Mike asked me to show it to his 9-year-old son. And suddenly I had a new best friend.
Mike asked me to watch the boy for a few hours while he had some errands to do, and so I watched, bemused, as the little guy mastered the controls and played game after game, non-stop.
The NES emulator kills the battery pretty quickly, I found out, and I had a lot of scrubbing to clean the screen afterward, but it kept a hyperactive child entertained and I even got a short nap out of it. Easiest babysitting ever!
Then I showed my Touch to my friend Mike. And Mike asked me to show it to his 9-year-old son. And suddenly I had a new best friend.
Mike asked me to watch the boy for a few hours while he had some errands to do, and so I watched, bemused, as the little guy mastered the controls and played game after game, non-stop.
The NES emulator kills the battery pretty quickly, I found out, and I had a lot of scrubbing to clean the screen afterward, but it kept a hyperactive child entertained and I even got a short nap out of it. Easiest babysitting ever!
See, I'm in the same boat here as arrjaytea, except I'm less of an ass about it. I like having the NES and GBA emulators on my iPod, it gives me that much more nerd-cred. I haven't come across a single person that doesn't go "Holy ****, Duck Hunt?" So, basically I really like the emulators, but I think developers time would be better spent on actual TOUCH based games, instead of relying on control overlays.
I'm a DS guy, if I see an option on the screen, I want to poke it, not fiddle around tapping on the screen just a little above the "A" button until I finally realize that I need to move my thumb down a little bit.
I mean, imagine the homebrew game possibilities, am I the only guy dying for a Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney clone? Or possibly a RTS along the lines of starcraft, or something.
Sure, It's fun playing Mario, or various pokemon games on the iPod/iPhone, but I'd really like to see people using the touch aspects.
Just saying.
I'm a DS guy, if I see an option on the screen, I want to poke it, not fiddle around tapping on the screen just a little above the "A" button until I finally realize that I need to move my thumb down a little bit.
I mean, imagine the homebrew game possibilities, am I the only guy dying for a Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney clone? Or possibly a RTS along the lines of starcraft, or something.
Sure, It's fun playing Mario, or various pokemon games on the iPod/iPhone, but I'd really like to see people using the touch aspects.
Just saying.
I'm a mech. eng. student and I love playing NES games on my iPhone. Do you still want to call me stupid? I use the emulator as fun a way to pass time when I'm on a train or bus, or waiting for lecturers at university.
I don't have any problem with the controls. The NES has two buttons and a D-pad, they aren't exactly squashed on the screen. Anything more complex gets a lot more difficult to handle.
You made a point of telling him to pick apart your arguments, when you didn't do anything of the sort. You simply made the same points again, with some minor insults at everyone who disagrees with you.
I don't have any problem with the controls. The NES has two buttons and a D-pad, they aren't exactly squashed on the screen. Anything more complex gets a lot more difficult to handle.
You made a point of telling him to pick apart your arguments, when you didn't do anything of the sort. You simply made the same points again, with some minor insults at everyone who disagrees with you.