It's been awhile since we covered NES emulators but it's nice to see one that is looking very promising: vNesLight by Nudua over at XDA. The latest version, beta 2, just became available and brings a ton of new changes (listed after the break). As you can see above, we gave her the ol' college try and honestly? Not bad, not bad at all. We were able to enable sound (under options) which...
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You could well have Pikachu following Ash around Pallet Town soon enough with the actively developed project Wario's Jewels 7 (WJ7), the first Windows Phone 7 Gameboy emulator. XDA Developers Forum member Badcam3 is collaborating with other developers including Samuel Blanchard to turn this idea into reality. We know Microsoft doesn't play ball with emulators in the Marketplace (for a...
Oh, now this is rather lovely. Fancy jazzing up the Windows Phone 7 emulator with some Nokia N9 goodness? Of course you do! You can now with a skin designed by tezawaly, which when implemented provides the user with a choice of three colors (as shown above). It seems every time I see more images of the proposed Sea Ray device, I look at my current device (Omnia 7) and want Nokia to come...
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Make way for SketchFlow, a template which allows you to muster up prototype apps for Windows Phone 7 using SketchFlow features and controls, which are then ran in the SketchFlow player (not the emulator) for quick testing, feedback from clients and more. You can check out the documentation for it over at CodePlex, it's really interesting. "For the phone template we have added a number...
Of all the new features, the one some of us are pretty excited about is turn-by-turn navigation in Bing. It was something that many of us got used to on Windows Mobile, so it's been a struggle in 2010-11 to have it go missing (especially with an EVO available for driving). While the system is hardly ground-breaking, it looks well implementd here and should greatly help when driving...
We've already seen the NES emulator ourselves and it's pretty cool, but what about one for Game Boy Pocket? Samuel Blanchard, a French .NET developer. has evidently thrown together a rough player for Windows Phone 7 and it looks pretty darn spiffy. Noting on his blog (translated): The emulator is far from complete. It lacks particular, the management of the Flash RAM and the backup...
Well, that answers that. In the meeting with Microsoft, the ChevronWP7 team evidently brought up the issue of emulators, specifically the NES one floating around, which we took for a spin a few weeks ago. The answer from Brandon Watson, Director of Developer Experience for WP7, should have been expected: unless there is a legal way to host and distribute those ROMs, it's a violation of...
The NES EMU 7 project, which made headlines over the weekend for reportedly not being allowed in the Marketplace (even though no has tried to submit it), is back with some improvements. In fact, if you have some techy knowledge and an unlocked device you can now make your own emulator + NES game to load on your phone. We did just that with MegaMan 2 (ka-lassic!) and gave it a spin on...
Looks like someone has some time no their hands as they went through that Long Zheng WP7 emulator video and "ripped" the audio for the ringtones and alarms, then trimmed them into individual files. Whew!Now a couple of caveats: these aren't the most exciting ringtones/alarms, in fact they all have a similar theme to them. Second, there's no way to know if these will be the "final"...
With the latest release of the Windows Phone 7 beta emulator, a lot of changes have happened, especially for developers. When running the emulator on a computer, as Long Zheng did at iStartedSomething, the first thing you'll notice is just how fast the OS has become. Remember, this is independent of your PC's performance (for the most part) as the earlier builds were much slower to...
If you're interested in exploring the Windows Phone 7 Series emulator but don't really want to bother with the entire development environment, we've found a way to do that. The emulator .exe file will need a few changes to the command line parameters to run independent of Visual Studio. You will still need to download the Developer's Tools for Windows Phone 7 Series but Redmond Pie...
When many first downloaded the Windows Phone 7 Series developer's tools, there were some complaints that the emulator lacked some of the WP7S features. It was only a matter of time before someone stumbled upon an unlocked version that had all the bells and whistles of WP7S. From the unlocked emulator, a video walk-through was produced that takes you through various application...