Game on: PlayStation on your iPhone

playstation1.jpgIn a mere two months, developers are supposed to get access to the famed iPhone SDK, which should let them develop a myriad of useful — slash-freakin-sweet — apps for our beloved iPhones/iPod touches. In the meantime, though, a team of brave guerrilla devs are fighting The Good Fight without support from above (and getting so much resistance from behind), creating unsupported-but-still-cool mini-programs that you can install through some clever hacks.

The latest chapter in the underground development tale is not so much useful or handy as it is just plain fun: the intrepid devs have put together an actual working PlayStation emulator for the iPhone and iPod touch. Via MacNN:

The software is installed directly to jailbroken devices, and utilizes images of PS1 discs converted to ISO, IMG, BIN, Z or ZNX formats. Users can also increase the performance of the emulator by installing a specific PlayStation BIOS file, and excuting hidden commands to increase the clock cycle and/or speed of their handhelds.

If devs are capable of feats like this without official support, imagine how cool some of the apps will be once the programming moguls get their hands on the SDK. Can anyone say touch-screen Halo 3?

I know, I know. Not feasible. Pft.

[via Infinite Loop]

Category: Hacking, Software

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