Nook Simple Touch hacked to play Playstation games

[Veho]

Well, I say "hacked." The only "hacky" part about it is rooting the device, and that's hardly a hack any more.

[Sean] wrote in to share the project with us. [...] He uses Free PlayStation Emulator (FPSE) to run the games. There is an Android version which provides the touch-screen controls you see above. We figured the graphics would be awful, but the video proves us wrong. Other than being in black and white we think the graphics are fantastic. Just one hack was necessary to make this happen. [Sean] uses NoRefresh to keep the Nook from refreshing the screen which is what causes the film-negative type of flashing after several page turns.

I didn't even know that NoRefresh thing was a thing, I thought the flashing was inherent in the hardware.




Source: Hackaday.com


The games seem to run a bit slower, which is okay since that seems to offset the low refresh rate of the screen. All in all, it's pretty interesting.

 

[BORTZ]

I saw this on Lifehacker the other day. I was blown away.

 

[chavosaur]

Holy...crap...
I have a nook color that I bought specifically to hack into an android tablet to enjoy psx emulation since my psp broke.
This is too cool though, I coulda saved money!

 

[Rydian]

Here's it running FF7.

http://imgur.com/a/wWp7D#0

XD

 

[BORTZ]

Here's it running FF7.

http://imgur.com/a/wWp7D#0

XD

Holy... Level 4.