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And Boom, Jackass/Vita/SNES Prophecy Fulfilled

Posted on Wednesday, November 7 @ 02:14:15 Eastern by Heath_Hindman

Earlier this year, I wrote a joke piece about Vita homebrew intended as nothing more than harmless joking. I had a feeling people would eventually try to play Super Nintendo games on the Vita, but somewhere deep down, I wanted to believe it wouldn't happen. Today, I looked around the internet, and found this:

And this less recent gem:

And then I said this:

So is the SNES confirmed to be the greatest system of all time? With the release of every single new piece of game hardware comes a frantic scramble to mak it play Super Nintendo games as quickly as possible. If you really want to play those games for free, regardless of location, there's been PC-based emulation of these things for over a decade. If you really crave them portable, and their being "free" is another appealing factor, there's been a PSP-1000 for that, for like seven years now.

Will we ever truly be able to leave the past behind us, or will the ghosts of 16-bit haunt every new system for as long as we live. I have to admit, it's nice to see certain games still getting attention, and that if I were dead, I would also haunt everyone possible, but at the same time, this trend is disturbing.

Tags: SNES, ps vita

Comments

Ivory_Soul
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Nov 7th, 2012 at 2:48 am
All the PSP models are downgradeable for custom firmware, but seriously why do we want emulators on the Vita? Smartphones can do that these days. I have a Genesis/Snes/PS1 emulator on my phone. There still isn't a single decent N64 emulator on any handheld device. That system must be a pain to code for.

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Nov 7th, 2012 at 10:46 am
Because the Vita has tactile buttons.... essentially the EXACT controls of SNES.

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Bras
Joined: Jul 2008

Posted: Nov 7th, 2012 at 8:21 pm
No joke, you know how hard it is to play Mega Man with a touchscreen or a cell keypad?

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xclant
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Jan 2nd, 2013 at 4:40 pm
Now that you mention it my vita is pretty much a snes controller with a pretty oled screen built in...

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Sourdeez
Joined: Feb 2012

Posted: Nov 7th, 2012 at 3:40 am
My android smartphone has a nes, snes, and 64 emulator. Its the only way I made it through a flight.

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thedarkstar
Joined: Feb 2011

Posted: Nov 7th, 2012 at 6:45 am
What emulator do you recommend? Did it cost you anything?

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Sourdeez
Joined: Feb 2012

Posted: Nov 7th, 2012 at 7:14 am
John NES light. its free.
SuperGNES. its free.
N64oid. Its free. but I only use it to play games like paper mario. Without a n64 controller I dont really like using it.

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thedarkstar
Joined: Feb 2011

Posted: Nov 7th, 2012 at 8:10 am
Cool, thanks man. I was never sure which ones to trust, and I usually ended up finding pay ones only when looking. I will have to get some roms on my phone stat!

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Fieperskaivu
Joined: May 2011

Posted: Nov 7th, 2012 at 8:37 am
Mario Kart 64 isn't bad either =)

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Fieperskaivu
Joined: May 2011

Posted: Nov 7th, 2012 at 9:12 am
This is like predicting consoles will have controllers...

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Ivory_Soul
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Nov 7th, 2012 at 11:47 am
I forgot, my android phone also has a GBA emulator.

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