I’ll admit it: When the oh-so-damned-clever coding community managed to get an SNES emulator running on the N900 at fullspeed with features like TV-out, I got all kinds of excited. Hell, even Nokia was excited about it until they got smacked by the Mighty Hand of the Law for showing it.
Well, it just got even better.
Some nerds (and we mean that in the most positive of ways) have managed to get a PS3 Sixaxis controller to pair with the N900, and they’ve modified the SNES emulator to play friendly with it. Best of all, they were nice enough to write up a set of instructions and share it with everyone. It is by no means for the faint of heart — there’s a good bit of manual hackery to be done, at this point — but if you’re ready to dive in, you can find the instructions here.
[Via Giz]
NOKIA ROCKS
This is exactly the sort of thing that hackers and modders have been submitting for Nokia’s PUSH N900 MOD IN THE USA competition.
If you’re into hacking yourself or know someone who is, or if you just like watching other people tinker and hack stuff to pieces, here’s a good place to find it: http://blogs.nokia.com/pushn900/usa
There’s cash prizes and a trip to CTIA 2010 in Vegas to present submissions to a panel of tech judges up for grabs!
I have been the proud owner of the N900 for nearly a month now. I also own an HTC Magic and think the N900 is a far superior phone. I am a Linux user (Linux Mint and Sabayon) on my computers and love how open this phone is.
I am still playing with the phone and learning but am getting to grips with it. I have added the testing repo which has opened up a lot more to play with.
Look forward to chatting to all the other N900 users at http://www.NokiaN900Forum.net this really does feel like an enthusiasts phone, not just another run of the mill handset.