temper4iPhone: a TurboGrafx-16 Emulator for iPhone
posted May 27th, 2008 1:37 PM EDT by Blake Patterson in Emulator, Jailbreak
The iPhone and iPod touch are about to receive an injection of retro gaming goodness thanks to iPhone developer ZodTTD. He is in the process of developing temper4iphone which is an iPhone port of Temper, an NEC TurboGrafx-16 and TurboGrafx-CD emulator written by Exophase for the GP2X.
A fourth-generation game console that debuted in the late '80s, the TurboGrafx-16 (known as the PC Engine in Japan) was arguably the most powerful 8-bit game console. Featuring particularly advanced graphics hardware for the time, the TurboGrafx-16 ran some of the most accurate arcade conversions of the day and is very highly regarded by retro gaming enthusiasts. Some of the best games available for the Nintendo Wii's Virtual Console are TurboGrafx-16 titles. Youtube movie:
As the above video demonstrates, the emulator is already running smoothly and with working audio. The ability to play the many great TurboGrafx-16 titles on the iPhone, whenever the mood strikes, is something any retro game-loving iPhone user should be excited about.
temper4iphone is currently in beta. Stay tuned for more information about this project as it nears release status.
Gee. How many games is on that iPhone? About 200 or so?
My main question is whether these retro games play better on the iPhone than BlackBerrys or WinMo 6 cellphones? Supposedly the iPhone games will be better than N-Gage for Nokia.
Does the iPhone play these retro games better than the PSP? I'm guess it would because theoretically the iPhone hardware is better than the PSP's.
The iPhone's ARM processor runs at around twice the clockspeed of the PSP's MIPS core, but then I believe the PSP has better 3D graphics hardware. But for this type of emulation, the CPU is the critical component.
Certainly the iPhone is far more powerful than any N-Gage phone…
The iPhone may be powerful, but until we get a gamepad that can connect via the dock connector, it's pointless to think about retro gaming on it.
R-Type is already hard enough as it is with a real gamepad, imagine with a touch-screen virtual one.
MooCow, you seen the other story about the gaming accessory: http://toucharcade.com/2008/05/23/icontrolpad-gaming-accessory-for-iphone-and-ipod-touch/ ?