{"id":71202,"date":"2023-08-04T08:21:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T07:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pley2win.com\/pc\/one-of-the-worst-consoles-ever-is-getting-an-emulator\/"},"modified":"2023-08-04T08:21:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T07:21:41","slug":"one-of-the-worst-consoles-ever-is-getting-an-emulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pley2win.com\/?p=71202","title":{"rendered":"One Of The Worst Consoles Ever Is Getting An Emulator"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Some wonderful maniac is developing an emulator that will one day let people play Zeebo games. And\u2026oh wait, you might be asking \u201cWhat\u2019s a Zeebo<\/span>?\u201d Fair question! Well, it\u2019s a fairly obscure digital-only console released outside of the United States in 2009 in just two countries. And while it\u2019s not a great console with a library of beloved classics, it\u2019s still nice to see that someone is working hard to preserve this odd piece of gaming history. <\/p>\n

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The Zeebo<\/span> launched in Brazil in June 2009, and later that year came out in Mexico. (And by 2011 it was all over<\/span>.) The budget console was basically a phone with a controller that connected to your TV. Games and apps on the Zeebo were built using BREW<\/span>, the same software that powered many early flip-phone games, though the specs inside the Zeebo were a bit more powerful than your average non-smartphone. Still, it wasn\u2019t a powerhouse of a console, and that was kind of the point: to provide people in parts of the world who might not be able to afford expensive, imported consoles with a way to play video games and surf the web via 3G. It was also digital-only to circumvent piracy, forcing players to buy games through its online store. And now, someone is building a PC-based emulator for this strange, nearly-forgotten machine.<\/p>\n

As spotted by GamesRadar<\/em><\/span>, on August 1 developer Tuxality<\/span> uploaded a video of themselves fiddling around<\/span> with their made-from-scratch Zeebo emulator. While only a few games will boot in the emulator\u2014and they don\u2019t work very well yet\u2014it\u2019s still impressive to even see this much work being put into a device that most folks haven\u2019t even heard of.<\/p>\n