The flood has really started. Programmer Stepwhite has ported the InfoNES portable NES emulator to the iPhone, and along with it a whole bunch of classic game ROMs, including Super Mario Bros, Metroid and the Legend of Zelda. Right now it's too slow to play, and the control system looks horrendous – an on-screen touch version of the NES controller. You can see how bad it is in the video below.

It's possible that this could be a video fake, but as Stepwhite has a project page on Google Code and the source is available, any of you intrepid readers can test it out and report back in the comments.

This is just a stepping stone, of course, to the true Holy Grail of iPhone hacking: An Apple Newton emulator.

Project page [Google Code via TUAW]