vNES Light beta 2 emulator running at 60 fps mode shows buttery smooth gameplay

vNES Light, NES emulator for Windows Phone, has been one of the highlights of work done by the community. In case you didn't know - Microsoft has banned emulators from the marketplace but that doesn't keep away enthusiastic developers from porting emulators to Windows Phone. vNES light Developer Nudua  is hard at work and has been consistently working to improve the performance of the emulator. Mango update has a direct impact on the performance of the application since Mango bumps the 30 FPS restriction to 60 FPS making gameplay 2x smoother. More after the break.

By Rahul Mathur

Homebrew Atari Lynx Emulator running on Windows phone 7 (Video)

We at WPSauce are a big fans of emulators. I have been playing emulators since early 2003-2004 mainly SNES, Nintendo 64, Saturn and then moving on to Play Station games. Android users have had emulators available legally on the marketplace for ages now, apparently - they are being removed now (whoops!) - Windows Phone 7 marketplace guidelines do not allow emulators, no surprise here. But fear not, homebrew community already have three distinct working emulators for you to get your hands on.

By Rahul Mathur

NES emulator for Windows phone in works, beta coming this week (Update: It's here!)

We reported about the GameBoy emulator, which will be released in couple of days, a few days back. Now we came accross this XDA thread, where Silverlight dev. Nudua is building a NES emulator called VNesLight for Windows Phone 7. He has already ported popular Java NES emulator VNes to Silverlight 4 and is taking it a step further to make it work on Windows phone as well.

By Rahul Mathur

iPhone theme for Windows Phone 7 emulator

Tired of the plain and dull looking emulator ? Wish to change the look of  your emulator to resemble any mobile device ? No problem. Jeff Wilcox recently released his Samsung Focus Windows Phone 7 emulator theme. It gets you closer to the experience of a real device, not technically of course but visually.

Taking clue from Jeff Wilcox's theme idea - Vangos Pterneas created an iPhone theme for Windows Phone emulator. I think it's pretty crazy and refreshing at the same time.

For more information on implementing the theme, click here.

I think I am going to try making a Mozart theme for my emulator. Creativity knows no bound - show us your cool emulators in the comments below.

By Rahul Mathur