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Real or Fake: Game Boy emulation on the PS3 |
Listed in: PS3 Tags: Linux, playstation 3 updates, PS2, SIXAXIS
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Real or fake? That's the question we're asking you today as our magical research hamsters found something interesting over at the Digital Battle website. It's claiming to be a video showcasing a Game Boy game running on the PS3. The question is: Is it bogus or not?Here's what gets us about this video. During the opening, you see a short shot of the controller being dangled in front of the screen while playing. The only problem is, the SIXAXIS looks almost like the PS2 controller, and the lighting obscures the actual color of the controller. It could simply have been a PS2 controller dangled in front of the screen. On another note, you can see Linux running in the backlground, but it could just have easily been a computer running Linux to play the game.
Sigh... so, watch the vid and let us know your verdict and why. Is it real or fake?
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you can see the ydl logo on the upper left
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Kinda agree with the 4:3 ratio. Kinda big...
Yah, what kind of person would actually just dangle a controller. Cmon, if you're gonna show that GBA Emu is running, your gonna show some proof that 1) you're playing, 2) Show us some footage with you ACTUALLY playing it.
It's possible to play EMU games right now on linux, so I don't see why IT would be THAT far of an idea, but well see...I have gentoo/KDE 3.5 and I haven't experimented with any Emulation as of it...
Hmm, for all we know, it could be just video of a PC running the damn thing as a AVC movie on the Ps3 lol.
Who knows...
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It can run on just about anything these days. As for the controller, it could be just a normal PS2 controller with a USB plug.
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plus that was a game boy color game not gameboy advance!!!!
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Thats what Im doing right now with SNEX9X, I can play SNES Games with the PS3 controllers I have.
If they can get a GB emulator to work on Linux, then this is indeed real.
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I made a post in the QJ.net forum (ps3 linux) on how to install it.
You can also run mame on PS3 Linux and all capcom arcade games. where were you guys!
And QJ please read your forums sometimes... This is really old news.
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USB Adapter, there are plenty of them...
So, why do people keep doubting these ?
This is why linux is almost useless on PS3, because 90% of the people who have PS3's have no clue how to use linux.
Here it goes....90% if not all programs that run under linux will run on you PS3, if you know how to "make/install" them...no sorry, no easy little .pbp's to put in a directory....it takes a TINY bit of manual work....but pretty much every emulator should work...
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Vietone, you seem to know how to "install" something in linux, you should grab some GB emu's and see if they work....
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http://www.webdesignerchoice.com/
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As for the shell it has a top menu so it might be GNOME but im not sure. KDE can have its menu on top too.
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If you pause the video when the controller is in front of the camera, you will see no thick plastic dongle that the actual metal USB male adaptor's connectors are housed inside (the one that has the USB icon etched into it on your PS3 USB-mini cord). Furthermore, if you held a PS3 controller up to light you would notice that it is not opaque like normal PS2 controllers; some light actually passes through it, to where you can see the edges of the circuit boards near the corners of the controllers. Being that it was held up between some sort of camera light source AND the television, this would have been plainly visible.
You can test my theory by recording yourself doing the same thing with your PS3 controller (use a flashlight if you have to) and tell me if I'm full of crap, go ahead.
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since the ps3 can run linux, it can also emulators that linux can run, albeit softmode.
i am not this low as to make a video of something crappy. i would rather wait and see P-A-R-A-D-O-X which will blow any wannabe's dreams of a minute of fame.
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Anyways, it's either completely fake or just an emulator on Linux.
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