Previously on Gadget Lab: Apple TV hacked to bits. This time we have support for RSS and some somewhat dodgy looking reports of emulation for Genesis, NES, SNES and N64.
The RSS support takes advantage of a new plugin architecture for the Apple TV and adds an extra entry on the main menu. Just click through for a list of feeds, then on through until you get to the headlines. Not so practical, but not useless either.
On the next hack we'll remain skeptical for now. Supposedly various separate console emulators are up and running on Apple's box. While this is by no means impossible, especially as the Apple TV is running OS X and should let you run just about anything, the evidence is sketchy at best. The new Awkward TV wiki has the rundown, but all you get is a list of links to emulator sites with "Working!" written alongside. If you follow the links there are no mentions of Apple TV.
There is a video up on YouTube, but it seems very suspicious, especially the fact that an N64 controller hacked for USB seems to be working.
There is no reason that this couldn't work, and it would certainly be sweet to get Mario and Sonic running, but we'll wait and see.
You can check out the video after the jump.
Emulation [Awkward TV via Engadget]
AppleTV RSS Plugin Beta 1 Available [twenty08]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOiJq7M0-YA
.png){kind=logo}
