NES Lovers Grew Up And Now They’re Coding For Palm

In case you missed it back in June, the Palm Pre was rooted by extracting the Root ROM from a Palm tool used to reset a device with damaged software. A lot has been learned from examining the code inside that ROM but we’re most amused by one thing in particular. If you grew up in the 80’s there’s a pretty good chance you know the Konami Code by heart. So did the developers of WebOS, the firmware running on the Palm Pre. By inputting the familiar (UpUpDownDownLeftRightLeftRightBA) set of gestures the handset enters Developer mode for connection to the SDK which was leaked last summer but is now in open release.

14 thoughts on “NES Lovers Grew Up And Now They’re Coding For Palm

  1. I didn’t know (or more likely I completely forgot). I think it’s kind of cool. It’s not enough to get me to go back to a palm device, but it’s kind of cool. I could never have beat Contra without that code (but I was never great at side scrollers).

  2. anyone asking for a emulator
    with the classic apps thingy, you SHOULD be able to run LJP http://www.little-john.net/ which can run nearly any 16 bit and lower system
    i have every nes and every gameboy game produced on my centro and a few snes such as terranigma, chrono trigger, earthbound and others
    it wont play a few games(see mario kart) but it can play most games at full speed(some snes games may require a little overclocking to achieve this but thats no big deal, done 100% in software like the psp, just kills your battery faster)

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