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Retro Nintendo controllers now work with Apple devices

Earlier this year, Apple brought support for Nintendo’s Joy-Cons and Switch Pro Controller to iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Mac. Now, the company has extended that to older Nintendo gamepads.

On Twitter, developer Steve Troughton-Smith shared that as of iOS 16.1, the Nintendo Switch Online Super Famicom controller is working with his Apple TV.

Separately, MacStories confirmed that Switch Online’s Nintendo 64 controller is also now compatible with Apple devices. As Troughton-Smith noted, these are the Bluetooth/USB-C versions of the retro controllers, so the NES controller should work as well.

Meanwhile, it looks like iOS 16.1 brought support for several other new game controllers beyond the Nintendo catalogue. Digging into the iOS 16 code, 9to5Mac says it also found listings 8Bitdo, the Logitech F710 Gamepad and Bada Moga XP5-X Plus.

Outside of the newly added controllers, Apple devices also offer support for PlayStation and Xbox controllers.

Via: 9to5Mac

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Two unreleased NES games are being auctioned on eBay

Two “unreleased, one-of-a-kind, never-digitized” Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) titles have been listed on eBay.

According to a tweet from the Video Game History Foundations Frank Cifaldi (via Kotaku), one of the titles, Battlefields of Napoleon, was only released in Japan. The other is a Rare title developed for the Nintendo Power Glove. The latter game even includes box art images that would have been mailed to Nintendo for printing.

It’s unclear why both titles weren’t released, but the Rare game likely didn’t see the light of day because the short-lived Power Glove was an awful accessory. At the time of publication, bidding for Battlefields of Napoleon, which also includes a WATA-certified development board and two CHR ROMs, sits at $7,877 USD (roughly $10,829 CAD) on eBay. Since the game was digitized, a ROM for the title is technically available, though Cifaldi says only its owner can release it.

In the eBay listing, the seller says that Battlefields of Napoleon was “rescued from a dumpster after The Learning Company acquired Brøderbund in 1998.” The Rare title, on the other hand, is a prototype of a game called Scanner that’s completely playable. The title is currently listed at $7,400 USD (about $10,176 CAD) on eBay. Its listing says that the game “was in the early stages of development and was demoed at the 1990 Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago to gauge retailer interest.”

Cifaldi aims to purchase both games for the Video Game History Foundation, a nonprofit that preserves video games, and is hoping for donations to purchase the titles. Donations currently sit at $4,000 USD ($5,500 CAD).

While unreleased video games often appear in online auctions, it’s rare for two games to drop in one week and even less common for them to be for a console as old as the NES.

Image credit: eBay, (1)

Source: @frankcifaldi, eBay, (1) Via: Kotaku

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This YouTuber created an operating system for the NES

YouTuber Inkbox Software has given the NES an operating system called the NESOS (“nee-sohs”).

This is particularly notable considering the retro console is limited by its old technology. As a result, NESOS had to be compressed into a small 48K file. He also had to contend with

With the OS, though, Inkbox has added a word processor, settings app and eight 832-byte files, as well as a pointer and movable icons. Of course, all of this works very slowly, but it’s more about the fact that he was able to get it working at all. That said, this certainly makes it feel authentic, which Inkbox says was the goal.

“I want NESOS to feel like an actual operating system that Nintendo might have made back in the day for the NES,” he says in a video. “What would it have looked and felt like?”

You see more about the process in Inkbox’s video:

NESOS is available as a ROM via Inkbox’s site and ROMHacking.