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Tuesday August 7, 2007
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It's a good day for generation-spanning, consumer technology icon mashups. First off, the guys at the Giz have a post up about some crazy modder who managed to wire up an NES controller as a tethered iPod remote. The controls work and everything, though I wouldn't like to page through several gigs of music with the directional pad. Any chance that up up, down down, left right, left right, B A, start unlocks some hidden tracks? Doubtful, but this is the latest in a long line of hacks that have put just about every consumer tech imaginable into the iconic controller, from a USB hub, to a universal remote. Kinda makes me wonder what we'll be hacking into old iPod shells in 15 years.
And lest you think that was enough old-school Nintendo/Apple hackery for one day, the hot news on the iPhone front today is that someone's got an NES emulator running on it, though it's still slow, and has no sound. Doubtless those two problems will be surmounted in due time. Though the iPhone's lack of buttons makes it a very poor contender for even a last resort gaming device. Just as well, considering all the laws you'd break porting over all 700 or so NES games to your iPhone anyway.
[Images via Gizmodo, Google Code]
Post by Matt Safford
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