Apple polices the App Store pretty vigorously to keep out porn, piracy, and video game emulators, among other things. But every now and again something slips through the cracks. For instance, there’s now a Nintendo Gameboy Advance emulator available in the App Store for $1.99. But you’d never know that from the name or description […]
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N64oid 2.4 turns your phone into a multi-player Nintendo 64 console
While you may not find many in the Android Market these days, there’s no shortage of video game console emulators for Google Android. These apps let you play classic GameBoy, Nintendo, or even Playstation games on your phone — assuming you have the video game ROMs, which I’ll just go ahead and assume you obtained […]
Wario’s Jewels: Gameboy emulator for Windows Phone 7
You know a mobile operating system has arrived when developers start writing classic video game console emulators for it. So it looks like Windows Phone 7 has arrived, because a Gameboy emulator called Wario’s Jewels launched last month. The app features a virtual gamepad, smooth graphics and frame-rates, and a file browser and game information […]
Google’s war on game console emulators continues
Google has removed some of the most popular video game console emulators from the Android Market. Developer yongzh tells Engadget that his account as been terminated and that Nesoid, Snesoid, Gensoid, N64oid, Ataroid, Gearoid, GBCoid, and Gameboid have all been pulled from the Android Market. This comes on the heels of last month’s removal of […]
Gensoid Sega Genesis emulator pulled from the Android Market
Developer yongzh, maker of several game console emulators for Google Android has confirmed that his Gensoid app has been removed from the Android Market. Gensoid is an app that made it possible to run classic Sega Genesis games on an Android phone or tablet. Apparently Sega asked for the app to be pulled from the […]