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Nintendo 64 Emulator for Android Brings Mario Kart and Ocarina of Time to Your Phone

Categories: Android, Applications, Gaming
By: , IntoMobile
Friday, March 4th, 2011 at 8:48 AM
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The only fitting response to Nintendo ragging on smartphone gaming is to release an N64 emulator on Android, isn’t it? Yongzh has recently released N64oid on the Android Market, complete with transparent on-screen controls (with the option to use the accelerometer as the analog stick for tilt control), or you can configure hardware controls, ideal if your phone has a physical keyboard. There’s also save/load support, which is a must for any serious gamer. In terms of game selection, Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, Diddy Kong Racing, and Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time are just some of the titles shown in screenshots, and I presume there’s support for the popular ROM formats.

I’m actually kind of surprised to find these apps on Google’s official app store – there are all sorts of intellectual property complaints Nintendo could bring to bear. The iPhone App Store doesn’t allow this kind of thing at all, which is great for content providers like Nintendo, but not so great for end-users who want their 64-bit mid-90s gaming jollies on the go.

N64oid can be found over here costing $4.99. Yongzh has a few other emulators in both free and premium varieties if you’re looking for something a little older-school – Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, Game Boy, Atari, and Game Gear apps can all be found on his Market page.

[via Android Police]

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  • Anonymous

    This is really good that Nintendo 64 emulator is now available for Android phones. The phone should have 800 MHZ processor to process the games in real time without hang while play. The game play is not good as physical keypad but I love to try some game on my Android phone.

  • Miemilio

    La idea excelente, pero va muuuuy lento… Funciona, pero injugable.

  • http://www.mgtdesign.co.uk Michael Thomas

    I wish Nintendo would bring out some iPhone apps!!! Sega have why don’t Nintendo. I would be happy to buy old snes games for my iphone.

  • guest

    you are able to play it on iphone, i play that and zelda ocarnia of time on my android phone