(via Business Wire / Engadget Japan) - A couple of days ago Sega announced that Sonic The Hedgehog is now available for play on the new iPod nano with video, the iPod classic and the fifth generation iPod. Sonic fans can purchase and download the game from the iTunes Store for $4.99 (www.itunes.com). Sonic has been designed specifically for the iPod and is available on the 22 iTunes Stores around the world.

“Sonic The Hedgehog is one of the most beloved video game characters of all time,” said Simon Jeffery, President and COO of SEGA of America, “And with the installed base that iPod enjoys Sonic now becomes available to a whole new group of casual and hardcore gamers just in the time for the holidays.”

Similar to music and video content on the iTunes Store, customers simply find the game on iTunes and click the "Gift This Game" button.

Yesterday (or today, it depends on where you read the blog from) ZodTTD has release the Worlds first Game Boy Advance Emulator for the iPhone and iTouch.

Some releasse info:

It requires a bit of installation.
- Unzip the gpSPhone.app directory to /Applications
- Change the "gpSPhone" file permission to 0755
- Place gba_bios.bin (GBA BIOS) in /Applications/gpSPhone.app/
- Place roms anywhere on iPhone / iTouch but preferabbly in the default file selection directory: /var/root/Media/ROMs/GBA

Today I have released gpSPhone .. ...This is a GBA emulator based on my port of gpSP to the GP2X. gpSP is a great GBA emulator written by the talented Exophase. I ported it to the GP2X, and added an (iPhone/iTouch compatible) dynarec. By using this coding technique, fullspeed performance of GBA is obtained on the iPhone/iTouch.

Things that still need work:
- Compatibility is lower than usual but many games are playable. This is being worked on as a high priority.
- Sound output is disabled, but it IS being emulated. So performance will only get better as this feature gets worked on.
- Auto frameskip might be off. Switch to manual frameskip if needed.
- GUI and instructions need a lot of work.

via YuSukebe

A japanese programmer has just started the porting of the PC98 emulator Neko Project II to the "just hacked" IPod Touch (The NEC PC-9801, or the PC-98, is a Japanese microcomputer manufactured by NEC. It is different from the IBM PC in many ways as it uses its own 16 bit C-Bus instead of the ISA bus. BIOS, I/O port addressing, memory management and graphics output are also different. PC98 first appeared in 1982 and many hentai games has been programmed for this platform). The japenese coder tested the game "Toshin city" from the legendary hentai game software house Alice Soft (アリスソフト: the game ruins but stops at the menu screen.

Sia il videoproiettore/lettore DVD/Ipod slot ispirato a R2D2 che la  WebCam Wireless/Skype Phone di R2D2 erano già stati presentati sia al CES di Las Vegas che al Cebit, ma finalmente la giapponese Nikko (famosa in Italia per le macchine RC giocattolo) ha messo in produzione questi due capolavori della creatività Geek e, a settembre, saranno in vendita nei negozi giapponesi e nei più forniti negozi online.  Entrambi questi modelli sono stati realizzati con cura maniacale e possono essere controllati in remoto tramite computer per farli girare in casa sotto il nostro controllo (in attesa di sviluppare i nostri poteri Jedi)!!
Unico problema è il prezzo piuttosto elevato e il fatto che entrambi questi gioiellini sono prodotti in serie ultra limitata.