Kotaku: Emulation

Here's a Guy Playing Wii on an Android Tablet with an Xbox 360 Controller

Mike Fahey — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:40:00 EDT

YouTube user obiwan222222, the king of making Wii games run on other devices, shows us how to play Super Mario Galaxy 2 on the Android-powered Asus Transformer tablet using a bit of software trickery and a wireless Xbox 360 controller. More »

Modders Celebrate the New NFL Season by Updating Tecmo Super Bowl to 2011

Owen Good — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:00:00 EDT

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Ah, and now the football video game that really is just a roster and uniform update, and that's all everyone wants it to be. Just in time for the NFL's kickoff tomorrow, modders today released Tecmo Super Bowl 2012. It's the same NES classic you've loved for 20 years, updated with the stars of the current league. More »

Building the Perfect Super Nintendo (on a PC)

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 04:30:00 EDT

We've all used an emulator at one stage in our lives. Whether to replay some classic old arcade games or play an obscure console title you missed first time around, they're a dime a dozen. More »

You May Now Play Long Lost Bio Force Ape

Owen Good — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 14:00:00 EDT

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There must be some law that only in April can we get news about Bio Force Ape, a never-released NES game whose wild-ass title and premise spawned an awesome hoax in 2005. This, however, is legitimate: the ROM of the game is now available for you to download and play on an emulator, unless someone's gone to the trouble of putting an April Fool's message in at the end of it. More »

PlayStation Emulator Yanked from Android Store — Foreshadowing PS Phone's Release?

Owen Good — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:30:00 EDT

ZodTTD's PlayStation emulator is on the Android store. The soon-to-be-released PlayStation Phone is an Android device. Can you guess the punchline here? More »

Watch The PlayStation Phone Running PSone Games

Mike Fahey — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 10:20:00 EST

We've seen the rumored PlayStation Phone in action before. Now watch as a user loads up PlayStation ROMs for Resident Evil 2 and Rage Racer on Sony Ericsson's Xperia Play. More »

Ico, Shadow of the Colossus Look This Great In HD

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:30:00 EDT

Two of the best PlayStation 2 games, Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, are also two of the best candidates for a God of War Collection-style upgrade for the PlayStation 3. How might those high-definition ports look? More »

Sega Genesis Classics Now Available On Steam

Mike Fahey — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:30:00 EDT

The first batch of downloadable Sega Genesis games for the PC has hit Steam, giving gamers a new way to spend $2.99 apiece on games like Ecco the Dolphin, Vectorman, and Sonic 3D Blast. More »

One Super Reason To Jailbreak Your iPad

Mike Fahey — Tue, 25 May 2010 14:30:00 EDT

As seen at Where the Woozle Wasn't, via iPhoneBlog.de. More »

At Least The Zune HD Can Play Game Boy Titles

Mike Fahey — Sat, 15 May 2010 12:00:00 EDT

Microsoft's support for the Zune HD as a game playing device has been pretty abysmal. Luckily there are hackers, one of which has the beginnings of a serviceable Game Boy Advance emulator working on the device. More »

Atari 2600 Emulator Built for iPhone; App to Follow?

Owen Good — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:20:00 EDT

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. More »

N64 Emulator Stumbles Onto The iPhone

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:20:00 EST

Jailbreaking an iPhone isn't as necessary as it once was, but hey, some people still like to do it. And those people can now play some N64 on their iPhones. More »

iPhone C64 Emulator Submitted, Denied

Owen Good — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:00:00 EDT

Manomio's C64 emulator wasn't refused for licensing reasons. It was refused because "an Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means." That means booting ROMs, which is the whole point. More »

Modder Builds USB Adapter for SNES Carts

Owen Good — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:00:00 EDT

The SNES is old enough that any hankering to play Super Mario World can be satisfied entirely by emulator. Still, here's a USB hack that lets you plug old carts to a PC. More »

Kids Make Old Games Look Good On New TVs

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:30:00 EDT

Earlier this week, we saw the ugly side of modern emulation. So, in the interests of fairness, today let's look at some people hoping to set things right. More »

Super Mario Bros. 3 Gets Re-Gameplayed, Canvas Cursed

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:40:01 EDT

NES emulator FCEUX might be the coolest thing to hit the emulation scene, mostly because of its support for Lua, an embeddable scripting language. It makes Super Mario Bros. cool and the sequel cooler. More »

Get Godlike Control Of Super Mario Bros. With Your Mouse

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:00:50 EDT

FCEUX is a cross-platform NES emulator. It supports Lua, a lightweight embeddable scripting language. Look, that's not important. What is important is what it does, allowing you never-before-seen control of Super Mario Bros. More »

And How Much Does Your Dad Love You?

Owen Good — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:00:00 EST

About two years ago, a proud father began work on a custom pink arcade cabinet for his then 2-year-old daughter. Well, now she's four, and he just moved it into her room. More »

The Wiz - Gamepark's Successor To The GP2x

Stuart Houghton — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:20:00 EDT

Gamepark Holdings has announced its new games handheld - the followup to its (fairly) successful GP2X. More »

A Tardis That Travels Back In Arcade Time

Mike Fahey — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:40:10 EDT

What better way to transport yourself back to the time of arcade dominance than an actual time machine? Simon Jansen obviously has too much time on his hands, being the man behind the ASCII recreation of the original Star Wars film, and now we know where he's been getting all of that time. Not only did he build his own version of Doctor Who's Tardis, he stuffed it with a folding MAME cabinet so he could play games from the past! Jansen has painstakingly documented the entire process, including a picture of his lizard, which I am positive was integral to the project. If I lived in a bizarro world where I didn't need to work and sleep in order to survive, I would have two of these. More »

psx4all PS Emulator for iPhone Is Almost Complete

Mark Wilson — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:20:51 EST

iPhone owners will soon have more to look forward to than their standard, day-to-day walking around like they're better than everyone else. Because psx4all, a PlayStation emulator for the iPhone, will be entering beta testing any day now. Promising to play around 75% of PSOne titles, there is definitely some work to be done on the touch controls (as seen in this photo), but from what the developer says, those nasty-looking outlines are quite different than what we'll see in the final product. More »

NES Emulator Running on XNA

Mike Fahey — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:40:08 EST

An anonymous reader sent us a link to this video of an NES emulator running through Microsoft's XNA game development studio. More »

PSP Homebrew Crew Achieves PSX Emulation

egauger — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:20:14 EDT

When I first got my PSP I was all about the homebrew. I made custom backgrounds for my savegames and etc. One time, while waiting for a flight at an airport, I got so involved in my homebrew DOOM game that I missed my plane by about an hour. After that, I lost my taste for the elaborate fiddling that goes into getting homebrew to run. More »

Fold Up That Gamepad

kotaku.com — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:40:38 EDT

Emulation hound on the go-go? Check out this foldable, portable gamepad from Geekstuff4U. More »

First Nintendo DS Emulator Running Commercial ROMs Released!

brownlee — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:27:03 EDT

Holy crap! After over a year of flustering, flummoxing and thwarting the most quick-witted emulation programmers, the No$GBA guys have finally cracked Nintendo DS commercial roms and gotten them to run in emulated form. More »

EFF Slams Nintendo For Emulation Patent

brownlee — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 07:00:03 EDT

Looks like someone besides hyperactive fan boys (we count ourselves amongst their noble ranks) have noticed Nintendo's recent tendency for running off at the patent mouth. The Electronics Frontier Foundation have updated their list of Top 10 patent abusers and number 8 on the list? Well, we spoiled it in the first sentence... it's Nintendo! More »

7,000 Emulated PSOne Titles on PSP By 2007?

brownlee — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:00:45 EDT

Up to 7,000 PSOne games emulated on the PSP by the end of 2007. That's what Sony is promising. More »

Bleemcast Reminiscing At Retro Gaming

brownlee — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:40:10 EDT

Ah, the early days of emulation! When the legal ground was murky (or, at least, slightly more contested) and companies flagrantly sold emulators to the public. The Colecovision pulled it back in the 80's and the Dreamcast did it in the late 90's through Bleem. More »

Sony To Cram PS2 into PS3

brownlee — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 08:00:09 EDT

Well, that's one way to handle the backwards compatibility problem. Via IGN, Japan's Ultra One magazine is claiming that the PS3 will contain the PS2 core chipset. The plan is to continue working on a software emulator; once that is perfected, they'll dump the PS2 chips for future iterations. More »

Super Mario World Super Skills

Michael McWhertor — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 11:28:13 EDT

This smacks of "only possible with an emulator" but there are so many mind-blowing feats of caped Mario acrobatics in this video that it must be seen. WARNING: If you have an aversion to bad music Linkin Park, quickly hit the mute button and add your own custom soundtrack. Michael McWhertor More »

Contra Coming to Live Arcade

brownlee — Mon, 15 May 2006 15:40:39 EDT

Hey, excellent! Everybody's favorite choggling SHMUP sprite protagonists are headed to Live Arcade! Contra, along with Time Pilot, Frogger, and Scramble (but depressingly not Fast Freddy) are coming to Live courtesy of Konami. Filling out the retro delectability? Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 and Defender (Midway). Galaga and Pac-Man (Namco). More »

First Shots of Wii Virtual Console

brownlee — Thu, 11 May 2006 12:40:47 EDT

Wiigamer has posted some unfortunately small but never the less illuminating images of the Wii's virtual console for downloading and playing classic Nintendo games. Showing screens for Super Mario Brothes, Super Mario World, Bonk's Adventure, Sonic the Hedgehog and Super Mario 64. Layout looks very clean and informative, giving a shot of the game's original box, as well as an underlay of the original system the game was released on. A simple button press appears to bring up a diagram of the Wii classic controller shell, illustrating which buttons do which in the emulated Wii version of the game. Very clean and smart — Nintendo's done a good job making this accessible, it seems. More »

Colecovision Expansion Module for Atari 2600

brownlee — Thu, 04 May 2006 17:40:35 EDT

Now, emulation is something so shameful that companies like Sony constantly update their console OSes regularly so programmers can't figure out how to play their crappy twenty year old NES games on them. But back in the good old days, companies brazenly advertised that their system could emulate competitors' games. Sure, those Colecos would rust up on you in a second, but hey! It's all worth it when for the price of a single expansion module even a Colecovision owner can experience the sadomasochistic glory of E.T. first hand. More »

NES Emulation on Your Cell

lsmith — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:40:18 EST

Lifehacker points to new software for Symbian or J2ME enabled phones that allows NES emulation. The $10 tech is called vNes. The cellphone I use reminds most people of the "Zack Morris" phone, so I'm totally SOL, here. To those about to rock NES emulation on your phones, I salute you. More »