Temper4iphone brings TurboGrafx 16 emulator to iPhone

iPhone hacking geniuses have already brought us the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) emulator, the Game Boy Advance (GBA) emulator, ScummVM, the emulation engine that allows you to play popular LucasArts and Sierra games and Playstation (PS1 or PSX) emulator for the iPhone.

And if you are still not satisfied, then ZodTTD who had released the first public version of the Playstation (PS1 or PSX) emulator for the iPhone and iPod Touch has recently ported TurboGrafx-16 emulator, Temper, to iPhone.

Here is some background:

Temper was originally developed for the South Korean GamePark 2X handheld and ran ROM- and CD-Based titles designed for NEC's 16-bit system, which was a smash hit in Japan (as the PC-Engine) but enjoyed modest success in the West under its Turbo-fied moniker.

ZodTTD has built an application called Temper4iphone, which ports Temper the TurboGrafx-16 and TurboGrafx-CD (known as the PC-Engine and PC-CD outside of the USA) emulator to the iPhone and iPod Touch.

The application is still in its beta and is only available to beta-testers currently and not yet available to general public.

You can checkout the video clip of the ported emulator running on the iPhone below:

As you can see just like other emulators we have seen before this one too makes use of iPhone's touchscreen for the game controls.

One can expect to play games such as Bonk (platformer), R-Type (space shooter/shmup), Devils Crush (pinball), Dracula X (a Castlevania game) and many more, all of which can apparently run at 50 fps even in landscape mode.

It will be interesting to see if such emulators that have been ported to the iPhone are available via the AppStore. Would you be interested?

 

 

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