Numberzz Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 Yes, you read that title correctly. Someone has almost finished making a Playstation emulator for the iPhone. Now, the first thing you might say is: "THERE IS NO WAY THE IPHONE IS FAST ENOUGH LOL!!1" That is where you are wrong: the original Playstation actually has a 33MHz processor, which is slower than the one found on the iPhone. The iPhone also has more RAM. Beside from the controls, which the developer says will look different, it is looking pretty good. Hopefully not what it will look like Full Story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke255 Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 the iPhone may have a faster processor but it is an emulator not a virtualiser which means the resources required would be far greater than the original system plus the iPhone os and the emulator are using those resources too so its probably best not to chuck out the playstation just yet. Still one to look out for though. LOL@ the mock up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krazubu Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 Also, you can't compare so easily a 33Mhz specialised processor to an other "classic one". Theorically it could be 4Mhz and beat a core duo to its own task. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numberzz Posted December 12, 2007 Author Share Posted December 12, 2007 Ok Ok, lets all stop this and settle on: "the processor is fast enough LOL!!1" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snerler Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 How fast is the iPhone's processor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke255 Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 LOL not meaning to nit pick numberzz it is intresting info and the program obviously has some potential or it wouldn't have got this far. Am looking forward to more news on this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaiNeR Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 The iPhone§'s processor is a 624Mhz ARM chip CPU on 1.1.1 iPhone runs at 400Mhz CPU on 1.1.2 iPhone runs at 412Mhz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Even if this thing works (which I'm assuming it will), I highly doubt it will be playable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special-K Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 It'd be pretty awesome if I could play Crash Team Racing on that. Haven't played that in a MINUTE. Matter of fact, I'm gonna check Amazon for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apowerr Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Too long didn't read. If I had read it I would probably agree with Mebster in that it't be difficult to play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 gpSPhone ftw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkLord7854 Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 So.. How the heck are we going to store the ISOs for the PS discs? Or are they really small? (Also.. there's ways to overclock the iPhone CPU ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarmeB Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 i had already written about this, but no one answered me psx4All Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vbetts Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Eh...The visual chip in the iphone can't be to impressive, so am I guessing right saying that the emulator is more cpu based? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 I agree with krazubu on the matter. A piece of hardware is specifically designed to do something. The iPhone while with larger specs is not designed to play PS games. I'm not saying that the iPhone's speed sucks, its just that it won't work; try to play NFS on gpSPHONE.... It's pretty crappy. The gameboy was probably slower than a 486 and it doesn't run faster on non OEM stuffs. Even the NES app glitches here and there. Just my opinion...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarmeB Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 I agree with krazubu on the matter. A piece of hardware is specifically designed to do something. The iPhone while with larger specs is not designed to play PS games. I'm not saying that the iPhone's speed sucks, its just that it won't work; try to play NFS on gpSPHONE.... It's pretty crappy. The gameboy was probably slower than a 486 and it doesn't run faster on non OEM stuffs. Even the NES app glitches here and there. Just my opinion...... i'm playing gba roms with the gpSPhone 1.1.2 and i can say that they run very very well...so i think that, the iphone and the ipod touch could run the psx emulator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Looks promising But it would be soooo awesome to run OS X on an iPhone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 heh? The iPhone does run OS X. I was amazed when I saw stacks on the iPhone. Just like Mac OS 10.5, the animation and everything! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 That "stacks on iPhone" link won't load Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 That "stacks on iPhone" link won't load Working fine here. Try again now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaiNeR Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 i managed to get stacks working ok, i removed it though. Thought it looks a little cluttered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numberzz Posted December 13, 2007 Author Share Posted December 13, 2007 I don't know about you guys, but this is what I am going to be playing in Latin class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Working fine here. Try again now... Oh..working now Looks cool but I mean what if you could run a fully functional copy of OS X? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special-K Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Edit songs on the fly with Logic, or word docs with Pages. That'd be pretty cool, but probably never gonna happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soündless Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 I don't know about you guys, but this is what I am going to be playing in Latin class. will this work on the touch? i cant afford no AT&T! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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