Tag: NINTENDO

N64oid, the Nintendo 64 emulator for Android, was released earlier today, and being absolute fans of the console, we figured a hands-on review would be the only fair and just thing to do. You don't want to know how many hours we've spent playing multiplayer GoldenEye here in the Download Squad bunker, and Lee can almost complete Ocarina of Time while blindfolded. Now -- before you get too ...

For just $2, the Noise Entertainment System (or NoiseES) lets you play all of your favorite 8-bit Nintendo game sounds on your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. NoiseES will play both NSF and NSFE audio formats, which means you can listen to the music (and sound effects) from almost every NES game made. For NSF files, check Zophar's Domain; if you want NSFE files, the Slick Productions archive is ...

I've been thoroughly enjoying Netflix on my Wii. It's not perfect, but we Canadians aren't exactly blessed with a plethora of streaming media options. Also, it scores big-time bonus points for offering Blackadder. One minor gripe about the Wii incarnation: having to use a disc to launch Netflix. Today, however, Netflix has announced that you can now access the app from your Wii Menu -- totally ...

Neowin has the scoop: according to the Microsoft Careers website, a new game studio that specializes in Windows Phone games is being created as we speak. This news comes just a few hours after details of Sony Ericsson's 'PlayStation Phone' emerged. The new studio's 'mission statement' follows: MGS Mobile Gaming - focused on bringing games and entertainment to the mobile life that people lead. ...

About ten years ago, I remember installing a PlayStation emulator on my PC. With marvel, wonder and awe, I played through Final Fantasy VII yet again. It was awesome! Both the MIDI orchestration and jaggy polygons were faithfully preserved and everything! I also remember that it was slow. My PC had a 600MHz processor, yet it struggled to emulate the 33MHz processor in the PlayStation 1. Fast ...

Hopefully you've all been keeping up with the E3 coverage. If you haven't, there's an awesome Penny Arcade comic that perfectly sums it up. Basically, Nintendo (and their mob boss US president) rules, Sony has some games that look more realistic than real life, and Microsoft has a dance game that will no doubt result in some hilarious YouTube videos of fat white people wobbling around in front of ...

I know, I know, Zelda games are sacred. It's like trying to cover a Michael Jackson song -- you can give it your best shot, but you can't improve on something perfect, so why bother? Well, you do it for fun of course! Zelda II FPS is a delightful, painstakingly recreated version of the 1987 side-scrolling classic. No expense has been spared -- all of the original textures are there, and the ...

By now, Super Mario Bros. is old hat. The familiar levels are worn out and have lost their replay value. Fortunately, there's Super Mario Bros. Crossover. This awesome new flash game revives the classic Mario Bros. levels by letting you play as other Nintendo characters. You can be Link, Samus, Bill from Contra, Simon from Castlevania, or Mega Man. All of these characters play like they would ...

The open source initiative needs a catchphrase. 'If you can dream it!', or something. 'Build it and they will come!' -- seriously, the audacity of FLOSS developers, combined with a (surprising...) amount of free time to develop crazy-ass inventions, never ceases to amaze. Case in point: take a look at the Firefox Nintendo Wiimote driver. Watch the video (it's after the break). Cool huh? It ...

Hidden at the bottom of a great piece on Kotaku, about why Nintendo should never fear Apple, there are some fantastic quotes from Nintendo of America's president, Reggie Fils-Aime: "If our games represent a range between snacks of entertainment and full meals depending on the type of game, [Apple's] aren't even a mouthful, in terms of the gaming experience you get." To say that Nintendo isn't ...

In what must be one of the oddest collaborations ever, Google and Nintendo have joined forces to create a search engine game. No, you don't earn Nintendo stars by searching on Google.com -- rather, this is a full, standalone game for the Nintendo Wii! The game consists of players competing to guess the most popular search terms, from a list. There are even additional, downloadable challenges... ...

We told you back in January that the ability to stream Netflix movies via your Nintendo Wii would be coming soon, and now it's here! Netflix customers just started receiving email notifications that their Wii discs are in the mail. The discs are available for free to any Netflix subscriber -- just order them on the site -- and they provide access to the whole Netflix streaming library. ...

First there was Wii Fit, now there's the ultimate Wii couch potato app: Netflix. Starting this spring, Netflix subscribers will be able to stream movies directly to their TVs using Nintendo's popular console. This should help the Wii catch up with the Playstation 3, which has a built-in Blu-ray player and the Xbox 360, which has Microsoft's Zune movie store. It's also a good move for Netflix, ...

It's hardly news now, but it hasn't been a great year so far for the Nintendo Wii. For two years it completely blew its over-priced competitors out of the water -- but it seems the tide has finally changed. 2009 hasn't been good to the Wii (though it is doing very well in the run-up to Christmas.) Basically, without getting all geeky, the problem is this: there's a lack of good games. Many of us ...

Yes, Google, you can proudly herald this one as a major victory for your browser in my books. If other Javascript benchmarks haven't been anything you could get excited about, maybe this one will do it. Ben Firshman's Javascript NES emulator runs best in Google Chrome. Just head on over to his site (which will likely start bogging down today as this little baby inevitably moves from Reddit to ...