It'll only work for homebrew apps.

Also, if those analog nubs are anything like the ones on my Pandora, they're useless, but the d-pad is a dream.

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The software would need to be made specifically for it, as in, the application would have to actually interface with it. I very highly doubt it'll actually map to touch events (at least not officially, maybe some software addon will do something about that eventually). I imagine any applications that are aware of the icontrolpad will turn off the onscreen touch control display.

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Yeah, it looks like it comes apart and goes together easily enough that you can just carry it in a bag or something and put it on when you need it. It's also cheaper than having a phone and a game device since someone might need a phone, so may as well get some kind of gaming/emulation device out of it.

Probably could be a bit more pocketable, but you can't expect a whole lot from such an addon.

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Also, at the moment, mobile phones or Pandoras are pretty much the only things which can reasonably play PS1 or N64 games portably, as well as acceptable SNES emulation (I know PSP and dingoo can do it, but not some more intensive games.).

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Yeah, I imagine PSP just isn't fast enough for reasonable SNES emulation to the level we have on PCs. The early zsnes versions that could run on 333Mhz PCs at 100% speed and 60 FPS didn't have fantastic compatibility, so something that's just a snes9x port, which is a rather compatible emulator probably will never get full speed and frame rate as well as being able to run games with minimal to no bugginess, especially more crazy games or games with special chips. What might be possible is an emulator completely from scratch that doesn't really strive for great compatibility but something better than we have as far as speed to compatibility balance like zsnes was back in the day. The gains wouldn't be worth it, anymore, though. Maybe early on when homebrew was just becoming possible on the PSP and it still had a long future, but now it's just far behind and there are many competitively priced handhelds that can play SNES games rather well, like the cortex-a8 based ipod touch or iphone or droid 1, all which can be bought for really cheap, and have controller adapters for (I suppose even this one, though I don't know about emulator compatibility; I imagine the "zodttd" ones work/will work with it, since he's kinda involved in that community.).

I was shocked that the bike race scene in chrono trigger worked as well as it did in snemul DS, though, but mode 7 is hardware accelerated on that, I guess, but most stuff on that emulator either didn't work at all or was severely broken, even super mario world couldn't be reasonably completed (Most bosses didn't work.).

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