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While we did report Nintendo's issue with mobile gaming on smartphones and tablets a few days back, it seems as though the console giant is ready to make a peace offering. According to Engadget, Nintendo's patent for emulating their games on devices with a built-in screen has been granted. There is a new emulator rolling around over on the XDA website that will let you play classic Capcom games on your Android device. Called CPSEmu, this emulator happens to be developed by the same people who made the NeoGeo emulator called NeoDroid. If you have been in the Android scene for any amount of time then you have probably heard of CyanogenMod or ClockworkMod. Well a member of the CyanogenMod team, a rather well known member of the Android community, "Koush" has announced he is developing an alternative Android Market for banned applications. At the time of its injunction, mobile gaming has bunkered on lowest level of video game caste system. Regarded worthwhile only to pass the time while waiting on line, cell phone games have been casually dismissed by hard core gamers as time wasters. Not fit to fly under the banner of video games, cell phone games also felt the same discrimination from their mobile cousins, the Nintendo and Sony handhelds. You may or may not have caught our article about how to play Shadowgun on an Asus Transformer while using an Android phone as a gamepad to play it. One of the items needed to accomplish this was a program called DroidMote which has a server and client app you need to install. The Quake series of FPS (first-person shooter) games has been popular for a very long time since it was up there as one of the first FPS series of games released. Quake III Arena, which landed in 1999 was very popular and now thanks to Zeus Arena and the ioquake3 Engine, you can play it on your Xperia Play. Yongzh, the developer of a lot of popular emulators for Android including the Nintendo 64 one called N64oid, has announced that in one of the upcoming updates that it will support the ability to use the Xperia Play touchpads. However, he won't be doing that until the Xperia Play gets it's Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) update. Earlier in September you may remember Engadget and other sites, such as ourselves, reporting on a DIY project that had someone streaming Wii games to their Android tablet, an Asus Transformer to be exact. Ever wonder how they managed to do that aside from the brief description in the articles? Well here's how! An indie game development studio called Games Lab Apps has released a collection of four old school arcade games onto the Android Market. When we say old school arcade games we mean seriously old school. Like the mechanical arcade games people used to play for a penny back in the day before electronic arcade games came about. Yongzh may have gotten his account closed and emulators pulled off the Android Market but that hasn't stopped Mr. emulator himself from going elsewhere and continuing on with his emulators and updating them. One update, however, brings a really awesome feature: multiple bluetooth controller support. If you follow this site on a regular basis then you already know about a great little app called Splashtop Remote HD which will let you stream whatever is on your PC/laptop onto your Android device. This is great if you want to play browser MMORPGs or any other browser game for that matter. There is a new emulator in town called MAME4droid which was released a couple of days ago. Considering the sometimes short lifespan of emulators on the Android Market, this may be one you want to pick up fairly quickly if you're into emulators. MAME4droid supports over 2000 different romsets which is a hell of a lot. Awesome news for all you Xperia Play owners out there. The nice Pocket PlayStation feature has been reverse-engineered to be able to play ISOs now as well. This, of course, comes from a developer over at XDA and you can thank them shortly. Marat Zayzullin has been coding emulators for a fair amount of time. His emulators are already on 3 platforms: Windows, Symbian and PocketPC and now we can add a forth platform to that list, Android. Marat has brought over all seven of his emulators onto the Android platform which covers various console systems. Two stories that came out this weekend, actually late Friday, are pretty interesting. The first is about an iOS developer who saw a staggering 91% piracy rate for their game on the App Store. This shows that Android isn't the only one that suffers from piracy. The second story is about Yonghz and his emulators which were pulled off the market.
[Updated] Another emulator pulled from the market by Yongzh. Gensoid is no more, at least right now.
It seems as though another emulator has bit the dust when it comes to the Android Market and it is another one by the one-man emulator show himself, Yongzh. However, this time, it wasn't his doing as such was the case with the N64oid emulator which he took down recently after complaints and other issues surrounding it. |
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