PlayStation On Your Phone
Who needs a PSP phone when you can have PSX originals on your existing smartphone?Published 02/07/2009 at 7:00 by colossalblue
There has been a lot of speculation about a PlayStation-branded phone or a PSPhone hitting the market. Sony have recently seemed more open to the idea with a new range of multimedia phones taking a small step towards the prospect of PlayStation gaming on a mobile device. Those pesky hackers, though, have beaten them to the punch. It seems that one particularly crafty little bedroom-dev has crafted a small utility that allows users to run PlayStation software on their Palm Pre smartphones. That is quite a smart phone.
It’s the same guy (ZodTDD) that has developed numerous hacks for a jailbroken iPhone (including this very same PSX emulator) that allow emulation for various old gaming greats and there is a video of the Palm Pre running PSX software below. Just in case you didn’t believe us. I’m trying to get in touch to see how long it will take before he ports the emulator to work on an old Nokia 3210 I’ve got in a drawer somewhere. We are not completely certain of the legality of this but if you asked us to put our freedom at stake we would say it is most probably very, very illegal. Impressive though, as a tech demo.
Source: Engadget
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3shirts | 02/07/2009 07:07
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Does no-one read the comments? After the recent story about iPhones emulating playstation, a lot of people mentioned FPSece for Windows Mobile which has been doing this for ages.
Playstation emulation on mobiles just isn’t big news.
sibbor | 02/07/2009 07:39
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Just my thought. I’ve got a WM device; HTC Touch Diamond, and been fooling around with it. Although I think it’s great PSX emulators gets mentioned more
Chimpanzee | 02/07/2009 08:27
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I’ve got a Touch Pro. I never even thought that it might be able to run PSX games though.
ghost5 | 02/07/2009 14:11
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I second that – maybe I’ll write a story about FPSece and get some TSA points
YOURMUMANDME | 02/07/2009 10:54
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Is there anything this guy can’t do with a mobile phone , some toilet tubes and double sided sticky tape ?
biobas69 | 02/07/2009 12:34
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highly illegal, and i thought TheSixthAxis was against all forms of playstation naughtiness. in fact i remb see a comment/post saying that any sort of news regarding hacking or such would not be tolerated. yet here it is a news items . tut tut.
biobas69 | 02/07/2009 12:35
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oh. and WOW on smart phone.
colmshan1990 | 02/07/2009 13:49
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All I want to know is will it work on my Nokia N95 8gb?
Tuffcub | 02/07/2009 14:18
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Was in the forums last week.
AllTheApesEscaped | 02/07/2009 19:44
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Who needs them? No one.
Who wants them? People who want a horrid control scheme/interface
Still the work done by the related devs/groups is very impressive.
Argon123 | 02/07/2009 21:02
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wow