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For those who miss the glory of playing NES Emulator in iPhone, Jonathan Zdziarski has enhanced its capability to run the application on top of iPhone 3G! What an exciting news to hear. He definitely knows what game fans want.

The application can be downloaded since July 20, only 10 days after iPhone’s launch day. I salute him since he is able to hack the handset for less than 10 days! The application called NES.app, emulates the Nintendo hardware environment into iPhone 3G. The emulator uses NESCore, obtained from pNESx and InfoNES.

To run the games, first we need to download the NESapp-2.2.1.tar.gz (the latest version) and install it. After installing the NES.app, load the games’ ROM image into the application. Although has successfully hack the iPhone 3G, the author himself declares that he does not support piracy. I don’t know what the statement means. Is there any “legal ROM image” out there?

Hey, I read about it in the Internet and it does! It is actually legal to have a Nintendo ROM image, if and only if purchased from Nintendo’s official Virtual Console (for Wii).

Anyway, here are the features of NES.app:

• Multitouch: Use the directional pad + A + B, or other combinations
• Zapper Tap: Tap objects on the screen to shoot them
• Full Screen: Enlarge your NES picture to the max possible
• Save State: Save an instant snapshot of your game and come back to it later
• Game Genie: Use Game Genie cheat codes

Anyone-who has the iPhone 3G-willing to share his/her experience of using NES.app for us?

Update: Since the author keep updating its software version, I remove the direct download link. Please take a look at NES Emulator download page and select the bottom version one (for iPhoneOS v2.0) for the latest.