I’ve had the NES emulator sitting on my iPhone for some time now, but I had no ROMs to speak of. I knew it was a piece of cake to find them, but the installation did require a few steps, and to tell you the truth I simply wasn’t interested enough to take the time.
I found the situation much like the original jailbreaking processes… Do this, then do this, hold down this button and stand on your right foot. I can’t say I enjoyed going through that regamarole… Until great apps like ZiPhone came out that made the process insanely easy.
The same thing is going on now with the NES Emulator for iPhone. Installing the app and ROMs is now incredibly easy.
First, you need to start with a jailbroken iPhone (of course). If your phone isn’t jailbroken, check out ZiPhone for a quick and painless method of jailbreaking.
Second, install the NES Emulator from installer.app. I believe the application is in the games folder.
Third, click on the ’sources’ button in installer.app. Click ‘edit’, then ‘add’ a source. When the URL entry screen pops up enter http://123locker.com and add the source.
Fourth, after you’ve added the source, go ahead and browse all packages available. Look for ‘NES Roms’ in the list and install. This might take some time as I think the source is getting bombarded with downloads. A side note here, I can’t guarantee the source will be up forever, so go ahead and get it now if you’re interested in playing a bunch of vintage NES games on your iPhone!
Finally, after the package is installed, open your NES Emulator and voila, check out all the games you have available! There’s a bunch, from Bubble Bobble, to Castlevania, Pinball, Mortal Kombat, Burger Time… and well, you get the picture. I haven’t counted but I’d guess there’s well over 50 titles for you to enjoy.
I’ve played some of the games and so far while I’ve got a kick out of it, I have to admit I find the controls a little hard with no actual tactile buttons. I find myself pressing in the wrong place to move left, move right, or what have you… But still, the emulator is a cool little app and the NES ROMs are all classics.
If you install this let me know what you think… and if you have any installation problems let me know!
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written by Mr. Mayor \\ tags: iPhone, NES Emulator, ROMs
April 21st, 2008 at 8:28 pm
well… exiting the NES rom by pressing the home button when i was playing pinball crashed the phone & put it in recovery mode. iLiberty couldn’t get it out of that mode so I had to do a restore in itunes. i won’t be installing NES again. i’ll stick to genesis
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:14 am
Ouch.. sorry to hear that Al… I should have added ‘do this at your own risk’.
So far no problems with it over here. Have played pinball a few times too with no issues.
What firmware did you install on?
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:18 am
yups hitting that home button does crash the device sometimes, let me into a hint as to why, its because it keeps running the game in the background if you just hit the home button you do have to actually tell it to end the game, and also try the Gameboy Advance Emulator thats a blast and then interface is alot easier to use
April 28th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
work perfectly…so far no problem…hopefully it doesn’t crash…thanks a bunch
May 13th, 2008 at 11:07 am
I just wanted to know if there is an in game command for ending the game like Jacob said. Thanks a lot and sounds great. anyone else having it crash?
May 18th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Thank you sooooooooooo much!!! Tried a million in one things to get roms on my iPhone nothing would work. Your instructions were so easy to follow no problems at all. I have been playing the games without any problems. Thanks again!!!!!
June 30th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
I’ve setup an NES ROM installer.app repository with several games:
http://www.forgeniuses.com/?p=65