Unbelievable. You can now play arcade games on a digital camera. What's next, Quake on a toaster?

Have you ever played a videogame on an electronics device that was never designed to play games? Well, one enterprising individual has done the unthinkable - James Surine has ported the MAME arcade game emulator code to the Kodak Digita DC265 digital camera. That's just bizarre, but it's also very cool, and incredibly original.

Right now it's in a very early form and you can't get the arcade ROMs onto the camera to the directory the program needs without an extra Flash ROM reader. We tested the emulator with Ms. Pac-Man and, surprisingly, the game plays almost perfectly. It's a little slower and there's no sound, but it was pretty damn cool to walk around the office and show off the arcade game running on the colour LCD screen of the digital camera.

The controls are very sticky - the digital camera has a four way directional pad, but the controls don't respond the way they should. Also, the current form of MAME on the Kodak camera doesn't support the entire library of ROMs other versions support, due to memory restrictions of the unit. The programmer is working to get as many of the usual features of MAME into the digital camera version as possible, though.

If you want to keep an eye on the progress of MAME for Digita, click here.


Courtesy of IGN.com