WoW on iPhone

[Danzaivar]

Genuinely wouldn't surprise me to see a Gameboy emulator for it one day, pokémon on your phone anyone?

It won't happen, because that sort of thing wouldn't make it past the selection process for the App Store, which is one place where Apple's DRM policy fails. You see, it isn't a particularly big step forward to have a Game Boy emulator on a phone; my Palm T|X, first produced in 2005, can not only emulate the NES and Game Boy, but can also, with additional software, emulate the SNES and Mega Drive as well. Older Palm OS devices can do it as well.

http://www.little-john.net/

You see, this is possible because most mobile operating systems aren't restricted in the same way that the iPhone OS is. The iPhone's OS is horribly restrictive, lacks multitasking and is coupled to a device that's decisively crippled.

Ah yeah, I don't use anything from Apple so I sometimes forget they like to 'iTunes' everything. On the other hand it's a step forward for phones, and as such I could imagine them appearing on similar phones. (Googles Android for one)

 

[kickin wiing]

It seems pretty clunky to me. I don't think it would be good for much other than non-combat tasks.

 

[Bigsmith]

Could somebody please hand me a hammer? If I hear about any more mainstream games being remade for the iPhone, I'm going to have to smack myself into concussion with the frustration.

The iPhone annoys me so much! [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.88365#1352807]

Yeah but if it can handle 'full games' like WoW, then I'd have to say the iPhone's pretty awesome. When it first came out I was very 'ugh' about it, but it becoming a new hand-held console just makes it awesome.

Genuinely wouldn't surprise me to see a Gameboy emulator for it one day, pokémon on your phone anyone?

its been done. A few years back infact as soon as the resolution and larger memory capasity in phones was realsed

 

[Borys]

Seems fake, no?

Also: shitty framerate.

 

[Frizzle]

This does give hope to what you can do on a phone though. I think as soon as companies decide to make technology like this cheaper, we'll see an explosion of what you can do with them.
Honestly, if Sony releases it's PSP2 and takes this another step, it would be awesome. I can see (if sony isn't dumb) people throwing WoW on their PSP2 and being able to play it quite well on a touchscreen/controller combo. Who wouldn't want that? You could play online games from anywhere.

 

[Da_Schwartz]

Theres a time and a place for everything. And Wow on your phone does not belong in either.

 

[Mongodyr]

Genuinely wouldn't surprise me to see a Gameboy emulator for it one day, pokémon on your phone anyone?

It won't happen, because that sort of thing wouldn't make it past the selection process for the App Store, which is one place where Apple's DRM policy fails. You see, it isn't a particularly big step forward to have a Game Boy emulator on a phone; my Palm T|X, first produced in 2005, can not only emulate the NES and Game Boy, but can also, with additional software, emulate the SNES and Mega Drive as well. Older Palm OS devices can do it as well.

http://www.little-john.net/

You see, this is possible because most mobile operating systems aren't restricted in the same way that the iPhone OS is. The iPhone's OS is horribly restrictive, lacks multitasking and is coupled to a device that's decisively crippled.

iPhone already has a gameboy emulator... And NES/Snes. Even has a PSX emulator