Nescaline is a Nintendo NES emulator for the iPhone, which costs $7 and comes with five homebrew NES games. Or it did. The application was pulled from the App store almost immediately when it was found that by simply entering a URL, you could download any pirated ROM and play it.
A cryin’ shame indeed, as it sounded like a pretty good app. According to the Cult of Mac’s resident deviant, John “The Mustache” Brownlee, “Nescaline has a full feature list, including multitouch, light gun and save state support.” All that you need for some retro-gaming fun.
Nintendo should do this itself. Nobody’s going to buy an old NES or SNES to play games, but imagine a SNES emulator on the iPhone inside which you could buy Nintendo games. It wouldn’t be competing with the Big N’s current lineup, and we’d all be happy. There is already a SNES emulator on the Cydia store, the App Store for jailbroken iphones, and it works great. In fact, I lost a good few hours to it last week playing the original and best, Super Mario Kart.
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