Latest from the Pre Hackers: Nintendo Emulation, Direct Download from Browser 22
Can we just say right at the outset that we're absolutely smitten with the work that's going on right now hacking the Pre. Homebrew apps without rooting is a go and now, friends, two more key advances have been made.
The first is a must: a Nintendo emulator running on the Pre directly without recourse to the Classic app workaround. You'll need to have a few more hacking skills than your average Joe to get it working (if "compile FCEUltra from within a Debian chroot" doesn't mean anything to you, move along). It's also more than fitting that the game demo'd here is Contra ...given that the whole key to all this development madness is the Konami code. Folks in our forums are giving it a shot now and things look tasty.
On the more practical front, one of the more bothersome aspects of the webOS broswer is that it's unable to directly download anything (especially images), even MP3 are streamed instead of download. However it turns out that the functionality is there, but just turned off. A bit of work will get it enabled, but beware: trying to download a file the Pre doesn't understand directly (like a Zip or an EXE) gives you an endless loop.
Thanks to everybody who sent these tips in!
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The playstation one is B.S
Haven't tried it, but dude claims he can run ps3 games....
BS! It can't be done on a 500mhz phone, with 256 megs of slow ram, and a horrible graphic card (great for a phone, but not nearly good enough to run ps3 games)
yeah, going to look into that a bit more -- removed from article for now.
(original text in case anyone's curious: (Heck, there's even a Playstation emulator being worked up).)
third i guess, im still waiting for the pre and was torn between the new iphone, f$%& the iphone, at&t is so expensive, and this is why im staying with the pre, it's worth the wait
third i guess, im still waiting for the pre and was torn between the new iphone, f$%& the iphone, at&t is so expensive, and this is why im staying with the pre, it's worth the wait
Should be able to emulate the Wii too.
Does the konami code work to give you 30 lives?
They can get nintendo on the pre, but there is no quick and easy app to get the pre tethering yet???
Well one is just running a program and the other is bridging two connections. It's easier to just run a program.
Of course they added tethering first! If you read the earlier posts:
http://www.precentral.net/didn
The tethering method that was posted is not easy to setup. I am hoping someone will make a program that will run a script that will do all the hard work for us.
Wish i could figure out how to do That kind of stuff! But... I'm in love with it!!!! :-D thank you guys for being so persistant!!!!
Psx should work but as for ps3 or ps2 even no not for about 10 more years at least I doubt ever. The ps2 emu didn't run that good on my 3ghz dualcore last I tried it. And yes the konami code should work as its a exact copy of the old cartridge you put in your old nes.
Kinda slow? Kinda understated.
I guess this could lead to good things.
Does the phone lose all other capabilities while running this? If you get a text or a phone call, nothing's gonna happen, huh?
Sorry for being a noob, but doing something from a debian chroot means I have to have a pc running linux before I can do this huh?
I wonder if anyone nearby would do this for me if I paid them...
Considering the person doing it in the video was running Windows on his PC, I'd say you don't need to be running Linux.
You do need a rooted Pre though.
Awesome find, now make it an app I can install without rooting my phone please.. hahaha.. I'm too scared to root my pre at the moment.
PSX should work. It runs full speed on the same chipset on Pandora (which has the same CPU and RAM). BTW Quake 2 runs just fine on it as well. Look it up :)
Ahhh direct download from browser
does this mean ringtones from myxer!?
haha i wanna do this ASAP but have never worked with code like that...
The wiki link above holds code to modify a streamResource functions that "fixes the endless loop issue we were seeing with unknown file types."
i wonder if it will be possible to take all those browser mods to allow downloads and package it up into a single download... i hope so.
Tinnus, developer of the LJP emulator for Palm OS, has been working on a Playstation emulator...PS1...not PS2 nor PS3.