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Here’s the latest, greatest, phoniest knock-off console to surface from China. While the MiWi video game system might steal some of its looks from the Nintendo Wii, that’s about where the similarities end…
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posted: May 12th, 2008
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filed under: media players | video games
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Do we really need any more distractions we need while we drive down the road? This over-the-top replacement sun visor for your vehicle manages to cram in just about everything but the kitchen sink.
Not only can the visor play DVDs, audio and video files, it can play retro video games on its 7-inch LCD 16×9 widescreen display…
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posted: May 11th, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: gadgets | media players | mobile tech | video games
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This portable gaming beast not only plays games from three classic Nintendo systems, it runs on the power of the sun. Out of the box, the player can handle NES/Famicom, Gameboy and Gameboy Color titles, as long as you can get the ROMs transfered to an SD card…
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posted: January 22nd, 2008
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filed under: retro | video games
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Nowadays, you can find many classic Genesis and NES games on Nintendo’s Wii Virtual Console, but nothing beats popping any cartridge you find lying around into a system that’s designed specifically to play those old school titles…
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posted: December 29th, 2007
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filed under: mobile tech | video games
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The first Playstation emulator for the iPhone, psx4iphone has been officially released to the public. Previously available only as a private beta, version 0.1.0 of the emulator is now available for download.
The emulator runs quite a few classic Sony PS1 games, and will run on either the iPhone or iPod Touch (assuming yours has been jailbroken)…
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posted: December 23rd, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: computing | hacks-mods | video games
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This wouldn’t be the first time that I’ve seen a Nintendo NES console turned into a Windows PC, but it is the first time you can buy one for yourself.
The maker of this beautifully crafted NES PC casemod has put it up for sale to the highest bidder…
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posted: December 2nd, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: retro | video games
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Sick of all those newfangled games on your Nintendo DS? This new gadget lets you dust off your old 8-bit games and play them on your DS Lite.
The CYBER Familator Lite plugs into your DS Lite’s GBA adapter slot and lets you plug in carts from the old Nintendo Famicom (aka NES here in the states), and play them right on the DS screen…
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posted: November 24th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: design | video games
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If you’re looking for a slick coffee table, and foosball isn’t your thing, check out this cool piece of gaming furniture that’s loaded up with a really nice classic arcade system and actually looks really nice.
UK custom furniture maker Surface Tension handcrafts each one of these arcade gaming systems to order…
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posted: August 29th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: media players | mobile tech | video games
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If you ask die-hard gaming enthusiasts what portable console they think is best, you might think they’d all say the Nintendo DS or Sony PSP. But there’s a little portable that has a huge underground following because of its ability to run homebrew games and emulators…
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posted: August 26th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: hacks-mods | retro | video games
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It was bound to happen sooner or later. A developer going by the screen name Kaisersoze has successfully ported an initial build of MAME to run on Apple’s iPhone. The iPhone version is based on the SDL version of the emulator, which was originally designed to run on Ubuntu Linux…
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posted: August 20th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: media players | mobile tech | video games
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Here’s another cheapie media player that manages to cram everything but the kitchen sink into a single device.
Chinavasion’s latest media player not only handles your music and videos with aplomb, it can also emulate a variety of classic gaming consoles…
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posted: August 19th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: retro | video games
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Sure, there are plenty of companies making arcade cabinets these days, but I’ve never seen one quite like this. The cabinet is translucent and gives you a light show while you get your game on…
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posted: August 13th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: hacks-mods | video games
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A Japanese programmer who goes by the name SofiyaCat has created a build of DeSmuME, a Nintendo DS emulator and gotten it running Sony on the PSP.
The photo above shows a screenshot of a PSP running a DS homebrew game called GeoWars…
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posted: August 10th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: hacks-mods | mobile tech | video games
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Now that hackers have started to figure out how to run homebrew code on the iPhone, an early build of an emulator for the classic NES gaming system has shown up on the Google Code website today.
The emulator allows play of games from Nintendo’s 8-bit console using a port of the InfoNES core system…
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posted: August 6th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: mobile tech | retro | video games
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These little mini console systems from China can emulate a variety of classic 8-bit and 16-bit console games. But I’m not really sure you’ll want one after you read this.
On the plus side, these OneStation pocket game emulators are super cheap, with prices around $30 to $40…
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posted: August 4th, 2007
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