NoiseES: The Perfect App For A Nintendo Nerd

Released in iTunes a few minutes ago, NoiseES by Shaun Inman might as well be the coolest iPhone app I’ve stumbled upon this week. It’s a retro / pixel / 8-bit style music player that allows you play old Nintendo chiptunes, saved as NSF or NSFe files. Basically, old soundtracks from NES games.

Totally awesome.

I’ve bought the app as soon as I saw it in the App Store because let’s face it: I’m a Nintendo nerd. I remember playing with the NES as a little kid with my parents, and now I can listen to that Super Mario Bros 2 soundtrack on my iPhone again. With an app that looks like some kind of old stereo took straight out of Mother, with a fake Nintendo logo and – this is just great – pixelated UI elements. That’s right: Inman took the standard iPhone buttons and recreated them in 8-bit graphics.

As for the app itself, you have to download some music files first and transfer them using iTunes’ file transfer feature. Then, you’ll be able to browse music by albums, artists, songs, companies and years.

NoiseES is available at $2.99 in the App Store. Nintendo nerds: you know exactly what you need to do.

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