[boe_dye]

Simple answer regarding ROMS, is that you don't download them from Cydia.

There is a gross questionable legality regarding roms. Some places consider them warez while others don't.

The real answer to that question is what ROMS are you downloading. NES, SNES, Sega, N64 and PSx are all no longer made and considered obsolete. Under the law there is a blurb concerning legally obsolete:

Legal Downloading Terms

However, you should know that while you can play these games on your iPhone, the idea is more of a novelty then anything else. Even NES games run a bit sluggish and have been more trouble then what they are worth.

Emu's were one of the first thing I installed when I Jailbroke, and I thought "Cool! I can play Super Mario Brothers!". But when I installed it, it was just kinda "meh". The sound was choppy, and the controls are a bit odd because you aren't really pushing any buttons so it was all a bit queer.

Which isn't to say that the dev didn't do a great job in putting it together, it's just one of those things that in the end doesn't gel well together.

I can't really vouch for the SNES, Sega, and PSx ones, but seeing as how the NES is the most basic, I can't imagine the others being any better.

And I really don't know a whole lot. Most of the time, I just feed off of the knowledge and wisdom of the real talent here. I just have a talent in being patient and translating that knowledge into laymen's terms.

Originally Posted by matsite100

Hi gang, let me start off by saying thank you, you seem to be a fountain of knowledge. I'm quite the newbie at all of this so this may even seem redundant yet I could not locate these answers.
The Iphone browser SetupiPhoneBrowser.1.81.exe from google codes doesn't seem to work nor the older versions. I know it to be the best yet there is nowhere else to find it, can you advise?
Also there are 2 apps. that I can't seem to put a anme on but thought maybe I'd give it a try with you,
1) an app that can hide other apps.
2)a multi app or multi app platform.....ie.: An app that can have say safari and text messages open at the same time, so you can just shift through without say Safari having to always reload.
Many thanx

Answer to Number 1) The app you are looking for is "Poof". It will hide whatever app you want including itself! Which you don't want to do. I can understand that you might want to hide somethings just to remove clutter. I have iTunes and Weather hidden.

Answer to Number 2) A multi app platform. An App that can more then one apps open at a time! Well the answer to that is Backgrounder! Very functional, and easy to use. Although I will tell you this, do the the amount of memory the iPhone has, backgrounder works well as long as you don't go overboard. I mostly use it for internet radioBOX, I stream alot of online radion via SHOUTcast when I am driving. But when I am using something like Google Maps or xGPS, it usually crashes the backgrounded application.

But when you are using something like radioBOX, flycast, dtunes or whatever with safari or email, or whatever, it works pretty good.

Generally speaking though it will do what you are looking to do, just as long as you don't set it for every single app to stay open all the time.

[matsite100]

Wicked stuff!!!!!
Poof works great, backgrounder ...Well I'm still trying to figure it out, as I'm not too sure if as an example, I'm using Safari and Dtunes at the same time, the web page doesn't seem to reload ( which is a great thing ) yet I keep wondering if its continuously using the internet to stay on the page...I'll have to check that through the usage in the "General" app.
Thanx again.
If I may ask you a few more questions as you really seem to know your stuff,
There is an app called Screen Splitr which I can't seem to get to work. Through the settings inDTunes I activate the TV out tab, turn on The app go back to the browse section and play...Say any video I have there, the Iphone 3g screen goes blank and nothing happens on the computer to which it is hooked up to.
I'm completely at a loss with it.
There is also the issue about still trying to locate a working copy or similar "Iphone Browser " so if you may have any ideas on that as well it would be greatly appreciated.
BTW have you ever tried out the Video Recorder ( not the Cycorder) but the one that claims you can upload to the internet, post it to youtube and the works....Well I've tried on two separate occassions to get in contact with them via emails and never received word back, I even tried to purchase the full version. I did at first take the app, installed it tried it out and it worked great until you tried to upload to anything. Every program started to freeze up then the system would no longer work and needed to be reprogramed from scratch...

There is a newer version out now and wanted to see if anyone has yet to use it or has had any similar problems.
Thanx yet once again