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Emulators EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag HD Wii emulator is actually better than the Wii ... a bit 106 This really is quite remarkable. Not only has the Wii been successfully and competently emulated on the PC, but the graphics are being brought to us in shiny 720p HD. While it does have a few iss... Little GBA Micro-looking emulator does it all 49 If you were into that whole emulation thing, you could jam all of your NOT-downloaded games onto this little device from Chinavasion. The Multi Platform Portable Gaming Entertainment System costs... Why OS Why? Windows Vista on a PS3? 38 I never understood the whole make your console a computer obsession. I mean, don't you have to use a perfectly working computer to learn how to make your console a computer? Can't you just conti... Worst emulation video ever: Dreamcast Shenmue running on PSP 25 Trying to keep the Dreamcast alive is a noble cause. And trying to make the beloved game system portable in some form is commendable. But seeing this example of not quite there is both sad and f... Destructoid Discusses! Did someone say emulation? 92 Hey everyone, this week I'm taking a suggestion from Hamsa and throwing out the dark topic of emulation. We had some good points of view in another thread when we were talking about Chrono Trigge... SNES emulator for iPhone looks promising 28 A few months back we came across a PlayStation emulator for the iPhone. It was a pretty nifty proof of concept, but as an actual gaming solution it looked to be pretty weak. There are too many b... LucasArts games now functional on iPhone 17 iPhone is sexy and all, but this news somehow made it a hundred times sexier. It seems that LucasArts emulator Scumm VM is now fully functional for iPhone, allowing you to emulate all your old fa... CPS3 decrypted: SF3 coming to a MAME cabinet near you 31 After ten years, Capcom's CPS3 arcade system board has finally been decrypted. CPS3, the board that powers some of Capcom's best arcade hardware (Street Fighter III/2I/3S, Red Earth) has ... Emulate a PS2 with a PC: slow but works 9 News surfaced on Digg that the highly compatible PlayStation 2 emulator PCSX2 has been updated and appears to support most of the popular games. The benchmarks are what you would expect -- 12-20 ... Five reasons to own a PSP 34 If you've been keeping up on your Podtoids since episode 8, you might be aware that I'm a PSP owner and perhaps one of its more vocal critics. We're coming up on nearly two years sinc... Mario Lego pwned 25 The guys over at Bitflicks.com have been producing these Nintendo game stop motion animation videos out of Lego and posting them on the net for everyone to watch.  At first, the concept wa... RetroUSB's Retroport quick video review 9 Nothing makes me happier than swag ... except when brown little packages of the non-poop variety show up at my doorstep for hardware review on Destructoid. This weekend we received one from Retro... Wiimote joystick on Windows update! 17 Update! Someone has responded to the Wiili order and created a demonstration video of just how useless and awkward the Wiimote is on Windows to a newb. With some practice I'm sure this can be... PS3 runs Linux; Linux runs Win XP 9 Here's something you'd think the Xbox 360 should be able to do without a hitch   -- run Windows XP. I guess they weren't kidding when they tried to pass it off as a computer for ... Emulators run on the Wii. Virtual Console gets served! 13 Apparently, I'm not the only guy who thought eight dollars for Altered Beast on the Wii was criminal. My solution? Throwing a hissyfit on my sofa and buying it anyway. This guy? He found an ... Mame and FCEUltra (NES) runs on the PS3 3 Nostredamus, eat your maggot-filled desiccating heart out. A week ago we foretold that emulation on the PS3 was not only going to be a cakewalk, but the system's raw power and massive stora... Wii virtual console hack on the PS3 imminent 3 Please allow me to start a dirty rumor, supported only by trends of what gamers have done and what they demand of their new consoles. The PSP is possibly the world's greatest emulation console,... Gemei X-900: swiss army knife of gaming 0 If we told you that you could have a portable video game device that plays movies, had 1GB of storage, supported a few Sega and Nintendo emulators, played mp3s, had an FM tuner, and transformed... Regress your DS into becoming a TI-85 1 Sick of playing those fancy colorful DS and Advance game carts? Do you long for the days of craptacular calculator games like Usgard shell, ZKart3D, ZTetris, Solytare, Jezzball, Lunoid8, Mineswe... Regress your DS into becoming a TI-85 0 Sick of playing those fancy colorful DS and Advance game carts? Do you long for the days of craptacular calculator games like Usgard shell, ZKart3D, ZTetris, Solytare, Jezzball, Lunoid8, Mineswe... Now you can play NES games without an emulator 0 While you're furiously refreshing the site to see more of Niero's story with JT, go check out VNES, a java based game player for NES games. At this time, the guy's got nearly 400 games put up t... COMMODORE SIXTY FOUUUUUURRRRR ! 0 The catalogue of retro games available on the Virtual Console continues to grow as Epyx announced that Commodore 64 games will be playable on Nintendo's new console. The first Commodore 64 game... Fire up your emulator and get ready for some online insanity 1 Disclaimer: You may download a game rom only if you can do so legally. This means you must own the actual cartridge (or other media the rom was distributed on) of the rom you are downloading. ... MegaMan/Samus/StatiCreator love triangle 0 Have some time to kill? Ever wanted to creat some sort of awesome MegaMan/Metroid lovechild? Even if you answered "No" to either of those questions, check out MegaMan vs. Metroid, ftw, over at ... Hello, I'm a Mac 0 Sometimes you have to wonder where homebrew developers get their ideas. It's pretty easy to understand why someone would want to play SNES games on a GBA. Finding a good reason why someone woul... Two Winamp tricks on the Nintendo DS 0 Winamp and the Nintendo DS don't have much in common. They make for strange bedfellows - one is a virtual program made by some guy who worked for and hated AOL, and the other is this sexy shiny ... Play Colecovision games on the Nintendo DS 0 The console that lost the Atari war and gave us one of the all time most hideous controllers is now, for better or worse, playable on your Nintendo DS. The ColecoDS 1.0 emulator runs commerci... Windows GBA + Nintendo DS emulator released 1 Believe it - No$GBA, a free lightweight Game Boy Advance emulator, has added support for commercial Nintendo DS roms. As you can see from the screenshots, the games run almost flawlessly with ... Panda not impressed by PSP N64 emulator 0 NINTENDO 64444444 EMULATOOOOOOR!!! If there was any doubt as to who the king of the homebrew handheld emulation world was, this should settle it. Daedalus, the N64 emulator for the PSP, is no... Uncomfortably cool touch-screen Mac Mame 0 I could Mame games all day, but this guy looks like he's punished in the corner. Keeping him company is an ATM looking custom Mac Mame console which features a rotating wide angle LCD with tou... Cats like Metroid. Especially really ugly cats... 0 Do you guys and girls have any pets? What pets and what games usually get them all riled up? Nintendo DS runs Wolfenstein, Apple System 6 0 This is about as practical as my Mister Coffee running OS/2 Warp, but it still commands high praise and five stars for total h@x0r l33tn355. The not-so-lazy tinkerer called Lazyone is really h... Play Super Nintendo on your Nintendo DS (Updated - added how-to video!) 0 The Wii virtual console sounds good (fawk micropayments) but how about a physical console in my pocket, the DS? Nevermind that, how awesome was that first stage disco porno music of Dracula X ... Weird Game Wednesday: Snacks n' Jaxson 0 In 1984, Bally hired a team of heroin addicts to design an arcade game, or so I presume. The demented result is perhaps the strangest video game I have ever come accross: Snacks n' Jaxson, whi... Shard of Dalaya: free classic EQ on pirate server 1 Here's the way to a Freeport that's actually free - Shards of Dalaya has the enormous emulated testicles to accurately perpetrate as Big Sony's Everquest server software, thereby allowing ye pl... The world's smallest working Mame cabinet 0 Look vewy vewy cwosewy. See that thing on the right? Yes, yes that is an ipod Nano running Mame, the arcade multi machine emulator booting roms right from the damn ipod, in a tiny little cabi... Before the Symphony, there was Akumajou 1 It's a little known fact that Akumajou Dracula X: Rondo of Blood (or Chi No Rondo) ever existed, an import on the TurboGrafx 16 (or PC Engine). The CD-ROM based game looked similar to the othe... Quake III Arena in web browser (Update 2) 0 Update 2: We just received a linktip that you can now fight Lara Croft as a bot in this game. She taunts, she changes outfits, and she's not very bright. But it's a start. Original Story (... The l33t alternative to the PSP & DS 0 Why do you want to import this peculiar Korean console instead of a Sony and Nintendo product? Because it's a completely different animal. It pretty much marries PC cross-console emulation a... Train your Guitar Hero skills on your PC 0 "VGSPlayer is a Windows song player application for the PS2 game Guitar Hero™. It allows you to insert your game disc into your PC DVDROM drive and play back the songs while watching a scroll... Japan doesn't wait for Wii 0 Instead some Japanese kid built a Wii controller and engineered a NES into it for fun. America gets lanky nerds and obese pricks, Japan gets horny geniuses - but at least WII can take a video t... New Classic Final Fantasy: World of Chaos! 0 "Think of this as a tribute to Square-Enix games. Final Fantasy: World of Chaos ++ is a hack based on the US rom of Final Fantasy. It takes dungeon designs from the later games like Narshe and Z... Xbox360 CPU upgrade, HD-DVD, and MAME? 0 By now, it's no secret that the next-gen consoles are silently fighting for the title of "best retro emulator". Earlier this year, Iwatta's ho-hum keynote revealed that they will be selling th... Play TicTacToe on a PSP vs. a Nintendo DS 0 From the huh-you-can-do-that? Dept: Some wiz kid wrote a simple tic tac toe application that works over WiFi that both systems can play. We hope this proof of concept will inspire 3rd party d... MUGEN Battle Zero: The 2D fighting game we have always dreamed about is finally here 102 (As in: That would have never been made at the hands of video game studios) MUGEN is an open-source fighting game that basically allows you to make your own Street Fighter game. You can imp... Streets of Rage + KOF = New Beat' Em' Up! 0 Thought I'd wrap up Friday by giving you a homebrew to try this weekend. "Beats of Rage" is based on the 16-bit Genesis game Streets of Rage, Sega's then answer to Final Fight. Off topic - I ... Emulation: The Benevolent Pirates of MAME 2 MAME, as many of you know, is the bomb. It is the mother of all emulators, and if it were a lady, the mother of my children (sorry Cath, we go way back). This multi-system software specialize...		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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