Can you play Super Mario Brothers All Stars on the iPhone touch screen? You can with snes4iphone V1.0.0. A sophisticated app, it not only emulates SNES games on the iPhone, it also gives users a very responsive virtual game control pad. Take not that the Giz’s test video is the latest version of the app. [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, January 26, 2008
You can pre-order Nintendo DS Lite in black and blue from Circuit City. DS Lite has undergone a few paint changes and hardware additions. This new brilliant color of DS Lite seems a little too bold for the Japanese manufacturer. Nintendo is sticking to the $130 rice for the blue-with-black-trim DS. [product via gizmodo]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Yahee Technologies is back, and this time it brought the solar powered YHM-PMP 678 to the PMP market. Live underground? No worries, DC charging is also available. The device does AVI and MPEG-4 videos at a QVGA resolution (25fps), MP1, MP2, MP3, WMA, WAV, ADPCM and AMR audio files, and various image types. The [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 16, 2007
Nintendo will be redesigning the DS Lite, according to Crest Securities analyst Evan Wilson. Reasons can be anything from a routine hardware upgrade to being able to compete with the new and improved PlayStation Portable. Part of the redesign is the slimming down of the portable gamer. A larger screen and memory upgrade are also [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 25, 2007
Nintendo is reeling from the recent successes of the Sony PlayStation Portable are rushes to add a 1SEG TV tuner on the former bestselling portable gamer in Japan. The tuner doesn’t stick all too subtly at the back of DS but it will be functional at least. The spine that is the TV tuner reaches [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, September 30, 2007
The Nintendo DS and DS Lite have reached a combined sales of 50 million, an impressive milestone for any product. It’s predecessor, Nintendo’s popular Game Boy took 16 years to sell 119 million units; DS took only 3 years to reach 50 million. The Japanese were the most avid fans of the DS buying 20 [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 17, 2007
The Nintendo DS can do a lot of things, but did you know that you can use it to make VoIP calls? Well thanks to a hacker known only as samuelv, you can now use the DS’s built in WiFi, touchscreen, and microphone to call people up. All you need is to get [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 6, 2007
Do you miss the old Nintendo FC? The Family Computer came to China in the 80s and 90s and apparently the Chinese miss it. The S70 is a PMP and an NES, GB (Game Boy), GBC (Game Boy Color) emulator with additional support for MD ROM games. It boasts a 2.7-inch QVGA screen with 16 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 5, 2007
Here’s more news for the annals of convergence. Nintendo has released a promotional picture announcing the game Face Training for DS, which is a facial exercise training software developed by Intelligent Systems and beauty expert Fumiko Inudo. The game should require a camera that takes a real time image of your face, which is then [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 11, 2007
We’ve reported a couple months back that the Opera browser for Ninetendo DS was finally shipping to the US, but in our excitement we didn’t mention that the actual release date was still months away. But June is finally here and for the fairly reasonable price of $30. Featuresinclude manual and automatic zooming function, multi-directional [...]
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
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