iCade for iPad

[galax]

All iOS apps have to restore purchases after they are deleted and re-downloaded, Atari Greatest Hits restores just fine.

 

 

As well as the Atari D9 I added an 'off' switch and an 8-way rotary which selects which iCade button the Atari joystick button maps to. The design is very simple- thr switches in the iCade just map to the switches in the Atari joystick.

 

I have a spare iCade and might build a second one, I'll take photos if I do. I am tempted to allow other controllers such as NES, Genesis, etc but that requires a little more logic. If I do i'll add some photos as I go.

 

[Greg2600]

iMAME is off the app store though, how did you get that to work?

[galax]

iMAME is off the app store though, how did you get that to work?

There are lots of other apps that support iCade, I use it with those. If you jailbreak you can use iCade.

 

I uploaded a quick video of the iCade + joystick to Youtube:

 

 

I've also listed it on eBay as I'm moving a few thousand miles this summer and am offloading quite a few things.

Edited March 25, 2015 by galax

[Greg2600]

There are lots of other apps that support iCade, I use it with those. If you jailbreak you can use iCade.

 

Wish it were that easy. Tried jailbreaking my iPad 1 and cannot get past a litany of file/folder permission errors.

[galax]

 

Wish it were that easy. Tried jailbreaking my iPad 1 and cannot get past a litany of file/folder permission errors.

 

I'm pretty sure I jailbroke my iPad1 using the jailbreakme website- it installed Cydia with no problems. I got an iPad 3 since then and haven't bothered.

 

I didn't finish that sentence, it was supposed to say "If you jailbreak you can use iMAME, and can use Blutrol to get the iCade to work with incompatible games". I looked into it some more though and Blutrol doesn't seem to work too well on iOS 7.1 and later.

Edited March 27, 2015 by galax

[Greg2600]

That's what I did, but even with Cydia I just couldn't correct the file permissions. I would change them all, get iMame to work. When I closed it and reopened, all the permissions would be changed back. I hate Apple, and this is one of many reasons why. Unfortunately Android tabs don't fit well in the iCade.