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Playing Moto Chaser on a TV from an iPhone
Touch Arcade —
It had recently come to light that the latest iPhone SDKs have an undocumented class that allows for apps to output its video to Video Out rather than to the screen.
A couple of interesting examples had been produced, but Ars asked Freeverse to modify their Moto Chaser [App Store] game to try using the new feature.
This is the result:
Outputting to video-out resulted in a performance hit, so the TV version of the game can only reach approximately 20 frames ...
News: Mix: MotoChaser video, Bose settlement, Dr Awesome, ComiXology
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond —
Following the discovery of an undocumented iPhone API which allows for the output of video through a Dock Connector-based video cable, Freeverse has created a demo version of its MotoChaser game that runs and displays on a TV. According to Freeverse Producer Bruce Morrison, who found the game ran best on the iPod touch 2G thanks to its faster processor, the game runs at 20 fps (frames per second) through video-out, compared to 26 fps on the device itself, and is “nearly playable,” despite only three hours of development time. A video of the demo in action is ...
Hidden feature turns iPhone into TV gaming device
AppleInsider —
... in the iPhone SDK last month, ArsTechnica's Erica Sadun got in touch with Freeverse, makers of Moto Chaser, and encouraged them to experiment with the APIs. A few hours later, the TV version of the iPhone game was born (video below). Though largely demonstrative, the game uses the iPhone's accelerometer for input and steering while routing the game's video through a video-out cable to the TV. Freeverse noted that the program ran best on the second-generation iPod touch, which ...
Hidden SDK Gaming Features, iPhone Games On Your TV
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News —
... hidden features in Apple’s iPhone SDK. Today, they broke ground with their research and have turned the iPhone into a complete gaming device fit for the big screen. ...
Secret iPhone video-out features hacked, used for video games
Engadget —
... Hey, just because using secret undocumented iPhone SDK calls might get you booted from the App Store doesn't mean it's not a good time -- Ars Technica commissioned Freeverse to mod its Moto Chaser game to use the hidden video-out features in iPhone 2.2, ...
iPhone games now have a TV out option thanks to some tinkering
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
... Erica Sadun over at Ars found a little tidbit of programming joy in the form of an undocumented way to push iPhone video to an external TV display. ...
Found Footage: First game demo for iPhone video-out
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
Filed under: Hacks, Found Footage, iPhone, iPod touch Around here, we used to call her "the unstoppable Erica Sadun" -- well, not to her face, but sometimes when she wasn't paying attention. The Queen of the iPhone Hackers has leveraged the undocumented video-out features in the iPhone 2.2 SDK, in cooperation with the clever folk at Freeverse Software, to produce the first playable demonstration of an iPhone game that displays on an external monitor. The one-off build of Moto Chaser plays best on a 2nd ...
Super-Secret SDK Video Out Feature Demoed
Mac|Life all RSS Feed —
... iPhone to push its screen to a TV instead of its display. The iPhone accelerometer continues to work normally, but the touch screen ignores all your tapping and swiping. Freeverse did a little coding magic and got Moto Chaser to display on a TV using a AV cable connected to the iPhone. The game plays at 20 FPS on a 2G iPod touch. That rate is means the game is "nearly playable" according to Freeverse Producer Bruce Morrison. You can check out the video below, and check out the full Ars Technica article here . ...
Playing with Your iPhone on a Big Screen TV Using Video-Out Feature
Touch Podium —
... that I personally saw, when playing on a larger screen, is that you will more clearly see the smaller details that developers have left out because of the small screen on the iPhone/iPod touch. I’m sure most, if not all of you, noticed that the tires weren’t spinning on the motor bike near the beginning of game play, right? Still, none-the-less, quite impressive, to say the least. I wouldn’t mind this video-out secret, personally.
(via Ars Technica)
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iPhone Gaming Comes to Big Screen TVs
Cult of Mac —
... We reported last week on developer/blogger Erica Sadun’s discovery of an undocumented feature in Apple’s iPhone SDK that allowed video out from an iPhone to be displayed on a TV monitor. Friday she revealed what is sure to become a popular exploit of this feature. ...
Hidden feature transforms Apple iPhone, iPod touch into TV gaming devices (with video)
MacDailyNews —
... response, I much preferred the Wii-like approach of holding the remote in my hands and looking straight at the landscape to play rather than maneuvering the entire system on the iPhone itself," Sadun reports. "The sound quality was noticeably improved. Instead of being piped through my phone's tinny built-in speakers, it arrived through my sound system. I could actually appreciate the sound design that went into the WAV and MP3 files for the game." More in the full article here . [Attribution: AppleInsider. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "James W." for the heads up.] ...
Games on the TV set from an iPhone
HardMac.com —
Source : Ars TechnicaIn firmware 2.2 of the iPhone and of the iPod Touch there is an undocumented library that after study allows one to use a television set as external screen.
Freeverse succeeded in very little time to make use of this feature in a special version of its software Moto Chaser and all functions perfectly. The display is done on the screen while the iDevice (that no longer displays anything) is used as remote control.
Of course, since Apple ...
Could iPhone’s Hidden Video Out Lead to Big Screen Gaming?
iPodObserver —
Freeverse producer Bruce Morrison has successfully demoed the iPhone game Moto Chaser being displayed on a TV. Mr. Morrison was able to achieve this with only a few hours of development time used to apply a ...
iPhone Used as Controller to Play Doom on External Display [Apple]
Gizmodo —
... Following Erica Sadun's article on how to enable the iPhone's undocumented TV-out features, Troughton-Smith came up with the idea of avoiding the iPhone screen except to draw the controls necessary to navigate through Doom's corridors. [ ...
