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cddiede

IzzehO on the internet tablet talk forums has posted a how to for getting pretty damn good N64 emulation working on the Nokia N900.

Here are some samples I took:

Starfox64: www.youtube.com­/watch­?v­=sVT56BpUOkk
Goldeneye: www.youtube.com­/watch­?v­=7s7OV0RSjUg

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cddiede

One more updated video of Goldeneye on the N900, this time with sound and some game play footage: www.youtube.com­/watch­?v­=k1ogircgtu0
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ArmpitOfDeath

I have to say, that's one of the things you notice about an OSS platform that's going nowhere. Ports & emulators. Half of these things aren't playable anyway - they're demos in geek, not games.
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cddiede

I'm not sure what you mean. Games like Goldeneye might be hard to run until we get an updated emulator build (already available on the FOSS Pandora), but I play emulated games all the time, start to finish on my N900. It's especially easy when I sync my PS3 controller to the Nokia, and then connect it to my TV with the analog video/audio out cable. It's just like having a small games console that can run everything from NES and Sega CD games, all the way to N64 and Playstation games.

AND I didn't pay a dime to some corporate app store for the right to do it. Wrap your head around that the next time you're in line at the Apple store...
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ArmpitOfDeath

That can run everything...

...badly. Or "pretty well, considering", depeding on how you look at it.

I doubt any iPhone users who have a squillion, *really* good, native games will be quaking in their boots. We've got, what, Angry Birds, GLTron and Tuxrace?
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cddiede

Here's another vid of N900 gameplay (as much as one can play when holding a video camera in one hand). Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

www.youtube.com­/watch­?v­=h­-FcmNzn4NU
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kris

Ha, you think ArmpitOfDeath shops at the Apple Store...
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ArmpitOfDeath

Well, I have a lot of things *repaired* at the Apple Store... :p
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cddiede

I'll take emulators, GLTron, ZenBound, Star Control 2, C&C Red Alert, and Quake 3 on the N900 over whatever .99 iFart apps that El Jobso is selling any day.
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