To those of you who were delighted that the homebrew community has fully cracked the iPhone open, here's an interesting development: another group of developers came up with a new program known as NES.app that is similar to iPhoneNES.

It seems like this is somewhat a "follow through" because the first parts of both the programs' changelog are similar. Anyway, NES.app uses the InfoNES emulation core so that it reflects the 6502 processor in a Nintendo Entertainment System.

It allows users to play ROM dumps of games designed for the NES. NES.app is currently on v0.41 and the changes since iPhoneNES v.20 are as follows:

* 0.22:[stepwhite] Added diagonal direction hotspots, SHOW_HITSPOT flags
* 0.23:[nervegas] Tweaks to orientation change, DEBUG shows hot spots now
* 0.24:
o [nervegas] Using K6502_rw.h from older core, Metroid and Punchout work!
o [nervegas] Made more improvements to orientation sensitivity
o [nervegas] Implemented slightly faster rendering
* 0.25: [nervegas] Enlarged controls for landscape mode
* 0.26: [nervegas] Change status bar background to black on landscape
* 0.27: [nervegas] Controller fix to allow button, then directional pad hold
* 0.28: [nervegas] Added save SRAM support (to save SRAM for games like Zelda)
* 0.29: [nervegas] Added auto-save state and "Saved Games" selection
* 0.30: [nervegas] Fixed SaveState for many games, +Mapper1 +Mapper5. This fixed Tetris, Bubble Bobble, Super Mario 2, others...
* 0.31: [nervegas] Fixed SaveState for Mapper4 games (Earth Bound Zero, etc)
* 0.32: [nervegas] Added delete option for saved games
* 0.33: [nervegas] Fixes to orientation changes on select menus
* 0.34: [nervegas] Fixes to mapper4 restore state (fixes Super Mario 3, others)
* 0.35: [nervegas] Implemented swipe-to-delete for saved games
* 0.36: [nervegas] Minor UI tweaks
* 0.37: [nervegas] Added working preference pane, reworked nagivation bar
* 0.38:
o [nervegas] Fixed default sound preference issues
o [nervegas] Save game state and preferences on "home" button press
o [nervegas] Fixed rom deletion (would delete from list, but not file)
* 0.39: [nervegas] Implemented preference groupings
* 0.40: [nervegas] Added auto-save preference to disable auto-save state
* 0.41:
o [nervegas] Added prompt to save games when auto-save turned off
o [nervegas] More improvements to preferences aestheticss
o [nervegas] Fixed bug causing multiple deletes to hit wrong file(s)
o [nervegas] Fixed auto-save on-exit of game not in progress

NES.app v0.41 comes with a complete Readme file that should provide users with vital information on installation and other notes from the devs. This particular program belongs to nightwatch (CoreSurfaces), bwhiteman (CoreAudio), dshadow (General), and wheat-_ (Icon).