SNES Mario Kart power slides onto (non-jailbroken) iPad?

You’re looking at Super Mario Kart, running on the Apple iPad, courtesy of emulation guru ZodTTD. When do you get to play it, faithful reader? Hard to tell. If, say, the iPad had already been jailbroken, all you’d need to do is wait for a suitably safe jailbreak method, download RockApp or Cydia, grab the snes4iphone emulator you see running above, and fire up the ROM. However, the intriguing thing about the above video is not that it’s running an SNES game — but that ZodTTD claims he compiled a special version of his snes4iphone emulator “specifically for non-jailbroken iDevices.” Since Zod is almost certainly a developer, it’s possible he (or she) output the emulator as an .ipa file and is testing it on a fresh iPad using Apple developer tools, but if we’re lucky, it could instead mean that someone has finally found a way to sideload apps onto a stock Apple device. Either way, peep multitouch karts sliding and shells flying on video, right after the break.

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