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This is How Powerful Calculators are Today

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Everyone’s talking about the new iPad or when the new Xbox is coming out, but did you know that Texas Instruments recently released a handheld console? It’s true! It plays Pokémon games! It’s also a graphing calculator.…

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March 27th, 2012 by: Lambert Varias

PS Vita Plays Sega Genesis Games

The PS Vita recently launched in Japan with a bunch of games, but none of those games were old Sega classics like Sonic The Hedgehog…. A developer has corrected Sony’s oversight and managed to get a Sega Genesis emulator running on the handheld, using the PlayStation Vita’s own PSP

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January 2nd, 2012 by: Conner Flynn

JXD S7100 Offers Android-Powered Portable Gaming, With a Touch of Retro Gaming

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So you want to get a new portable gaming system, but you don’t like the options that are available. You might want to try the JXD S7100, a portable gaming station with a familiar controller layout. It even has Sony’s triangle, square, circle, and X symbols on the right-hand buttons.…

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December 29th, 2011 by: Conner Flynn

Kindle Fire Hacked to Run Nintendo 64 Games

Not happy with the lineup of games available for the Kindle Fire? Here’s some good news if you want some N64 action on your tablet. A developer has created an emulator that will allow you to play classic Nintendo 64 games on Amazon’s Kindle Fire. It’s time for some Mario…

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November 30th, 2011 by: Conner Flynn

PlayMore Handheld: Another Portable Emulates Retro Consoles

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There have been numerous handhelds out there which can play games from the old 8-bit and 16-bit era consoles. Personally, I have the Dingoo A-320, which handles the job nicely. But there’s a new player in town which looks like it could be good, and it’s also cheap.…

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November 27th, 2011 by: Technabob

Intel 8080 and Gameboy Emulators in Garry’s Mod: Play Games on Your Computer in Computers Built Inside a Game

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Facepunch members Technicolour and Divran are working on making Yo Dawg video game moments possible in the popular Source-based sandbox “game” Garry’s Mod. The two coders have managed to make an emulator of the Intel 8080 8-bit microprocessor. They then used it to play Space Invaders, while playing Garry’s Mod:…

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August 23rd, 2011 by: Lambert Varias

Game Station PS2 Knock-off Does Everything BUT Play PS2 Games

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Most of the cheap Chinese game console knockoffs do just one thing – play old 8-bit NES or Famicom games. Some of them don’t even do that. Here’s one console clone that claims to do way more than those.…

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June 25th, 2011 by: Technabob

Sixaxis Emulator Tricks PS3, Lets You Use Mouse and Keyboard as Controller

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It’s been almost a year since we featured the Eagle Eye, a commercially-available USB adapter for the PS3 that lets users use both a keyboard and a mouse with the console. Here’s a more-or-less free alternative from hacker Matlo, who is working on a program that tricks a PS3 into…

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May 30th, 2011 by: Lambert Varias

Doom 2 Running on PocketBook 360 Plus eReader

One of the first shooters that I ever played was Doom II.… I can remember thinking how the graphics looked really cool at the time – but seeing them now would really make you realize how bad they sucked. Regardless how dated the game is, some developers over at PocketBook

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April 10th, 2011 by: Shane McGlaun

Super NES Hacked Into Super Classic Video Game Console

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Up until now the SNES mods we’ve featured involved stuffing PC guts inside the case. Instructables member vigothecarpathian also did the same to an old SNES, but he didn’t stop there – he also added several emulators and games to his console-turned-PC, so now he can play not just SNES…

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April 3rd, 2011 by: Lambert Varias

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