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For the iPad, not the iPhone. Standing my iPad up and using my SNES classic controller to play emulators is wonderful.

You wouldn't lose the nice little original games either, it would just make stuff like GTA3 playable.

Woah. How do you do that?

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Jailbroken iPad + Emulator + BT Stack + Wii Remote connected to SNES Classic Controller (which are only available from the Club Nintendo rewards store, but any classic controller would do). It's amazing.

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I mean, they could properly port Resident Evil 4 to it or something if it had an official controller, something that wouldn't be possible with just a touch screen. You can get a keyboard for it, so it's not as if the touch screen input is particularly sacred.

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The original version of Push Panic has been removed from the app store so it has been rereleased by the developer, it's currently free (universal) to allow original users to redownload - http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/push-panic!/id494497219?mt=8

A must if you haven't played it before.

Also, looking through Appshopper earlier I noticed that the 3 Hector games are all 99p now (both for iphone and ipad). I didn't even realise Telltale had brought out new episodes, worth a look?

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I'm quite happy I didn't! It's a nice enough looking game but I found it fairly basic, sluggish and slow to actually take your turns, and generally a frustrating experience.

Put it a different way, there's nothing there that would make me play it over (say) Carcassone, Chess With Friends (a far far better strategy game), or (say) Fire Emblem or Ghost Recon on 3DS.

It's OK, but it's not brilliant, and when I've got a stack of brilliant games still to play, this didn't quite cut it. I couldn't get past the opportunity cost of spending time on it.

Agree it's no Carcassonne but it's ok enough to keep in the same folder.

There is some element of luck in what powers & characters get drawn to you. Also some strategy involved in that do you want to attack the enemy crystals or defend your own & survive the onslaught.

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Jailbroken iPad + Emulator + BT Stack + Wii Remote connected to SNES Classic Controller (which are only available from the Club Nintendo rewards store, but any classic controller would do). It's amazing.

snesipad.jpg

I mean, they could properly port Resident Evil 4 to it or something if it had an official controller, something that wouldn't be possible with just a touch screen. You can get a keyboard for it, so it's not as if the touch screen input is particularly sacred.

Amazing. Might look into this jail breaking malarkey. Are there any downsides?

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Flick Soccer! is free for the weekend, it's kind of like Flick Kick Football but, in my opinion, less dull. The game-modes are better and you feel a bit more in control. Sure worth trying for free.

Triple Town is also free, and is some Facebook puzzle game thing. It's kind of brilliant, to an extent. You place down three patches of grass and they turn into a bush, link three bushes and they turn into a tree, three trees become a little house and so on and so on until you run out of room.

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Problem seems to be that you get 1,500 turns, which is enough for about five games based on how good you are, but then you have to buy more turns using coins. If you run out of coins, you have to either buy more coins via IAP to unlock more turns, or just buy the "unlimited turns" IAP which, at £4.99, is pricey. I'd buy it in a second at 69p, but whether you want to shell out a fiver really depends on how hooked you get.

I should warn you that it is very easy to get hooked.

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Ok this is a must download game

Great Little War game is currently free

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/great-little-war-game-hd/id426392350?mt=8

I find that GWG gets old very very fast. The games soon become a real grind, and that's to do with the AI in some way I think.

Let's put it this way, it often gets mentioned in the same breath as Advance Wars when people talk about iOS strategy games, and it actually has barely a fraction of the playability of AW. Lovely to look at, but that's about it.

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Amazing. Might look into this jail breaking malarkey. Are there any downsides?

It's a bit of a game in the sense that when a new firmware comes out, you need to wait for it to be jail broken before you can update to it (if you want to keep it jail broken). But other than that, none at all!

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Considering I've just completed the last mission on GTA, something I didn't manage on the PS2, I'd say complaints about its controls are somewhat overblown. As a benchmark its the best implementation of a traditional console game I've seen on a touchscreen, both the driving and the on foot movement are spot on. The only real problem is the combat, which is every bit as clumsy and unreliable as it was in the original so at least it's a faithful port in that regard.

I'd like to see them do Vice City next, that had more reliable auto-targeting at least.

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Jailbroken iPad + Emulator + BT Stack + Wii Remote connected to SNES Classic Controller (which are only available from the Club Nintendo rewards store, but any classic controller would do). It's amazing.

snesipad.jpg

I mean, they could properly port Resident Evil 4 to it or something if it had an official controller, something that wouldn't be possible with just a touch screen. You can get a keyboard for it, so it's not as if the touch screen input is particularly sacred.

Just got this working on my iphone, just to see if I could, and I now want an ipad more than ever.

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I... don't really get it. I don't see the purpose of connecting controllers to an iPad to run games or emulators on. I mean it's quite cool in an awesome geek gadgety sort of way, but utterly pointless, since you're crippling the portability and effectively just using it as a tiny TV.

Hmm, I need something new to play on my iPod.

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I find that GWG gets old very very fast. The games soon become a real grind, and that's to do with the AI in some way I think.

Let's put it this way, it often gets mentioned in the same breath as Advance Wars when people talk about iOS strategy games, and it actually has barely a fraction of the playability of AW. Lovely to look at, but that's about it.

It didn't feel so bad playing through on my phone when I got it in the 10p android sale but it is really tedious now!

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Hunters: Episode one.

I'd not heard of it/got it yet but a friend put me onto it. The app store recommendations mention Xcom and Jagged Alliance in the same breath. On that basis alone it sounds brilliant - yet is anyone here playing it/can recommend?

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Yes indeed. iCade native support on snes9x, md.emu, pce.emu and gbc.emu (all but the same guy).

You can use a wii remote too if you are so inclined.

With that and mame4all its literally emulation heaven

I have iMame currently. Is there any benefit in changing to mame4all?

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Hunters: Episode one.

I'd not heard of it/got it yet but a friend put me onto it. The app store recommendations mention Xcom and Jagged Alliance in the same breath. On that basis alone it sounds brilliant - yet is anyone here playing it/can recommend?

Get's boring after a while, there is no storyline - only missions that are repeated daily with a slight twist on the same maps

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