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This is an awesome emulator to have on the iPhone, I highly recommend it if u like playing the old NES games! The ROMs run at good speeds but it may be a little tricky with the buttons, u need to get use to them lol I love the psx4all (Playstation 1) and gpSPhone (Gameboy color) emulators and now with snes4iphone (Super Nintendo) the iPhone is always fun to play with when ur bored or waiting inline, etc. ZodTTD is just a machine with making his emulators/games lol I give him big credit for the work he is doing!
Thanks for the tutorial on the NES

Dusty

yhea, nes rom’s are really sick, played on my friends

PS: Damn you Dusty. Damn you….

Wow, now I think I want to buy one! Playing Zelda on my iPhone would definitively be an achievement for me!

I installed the nes rom app but when i go back to check to install the bigboss nes rom pack 1, it’s not in my installer. Can someone help me with this
thanks for your help

The markmon source doesn’t work anymore so you can’t get the bigboss roms. I will post another fairly easy method later today

Another way to get the NES roms on your iphone:

Programs needed on your iphone (through installer):

- NES
- OpenSSH
- BSD Subsystem

- if you are not sure if you have these or not, go to installer, then to uninstall and it will list the programs you have.

Programs needed on your computer:
- WinSCP – http://www.winscp.net – free download
- if you are using a mac I believe the process is the same with the program cyberduck.

The NES roms:
- download from – http://www.theoldcomputer.com/Libarary's/Emulation/NES/ROMs/NES_roms_summary.htm
there is like 900 available. Extract each of the roms to a special folder so you can manage them easier. You can also rename the rom files – Super Mario Bros 3 is listed as smb3 and thats how it will show on the phone unless you change the name.

Putting them on the iphone:
- Connecting your iphone to the computer
- Open the program WinSCP

Once WinSCP is open it will be asking you for a host name. This is the ip address. To get this – On your iphone – tap settings, wi-fi, then the blue arrow ( > ).

The next fields are the user name and password

User name – root
Password – alpine

these are the defaults

Then hit login and be patient, the first time you login will take about 30 secs, an error message may pop up saying it’s been waiting for more than 15 secs, keep waiting and it will be fine. Once you are logged in, you will see the folders of your iphone.
Next steps:
Open c the folder ‘media’
create new folder ‘NES’
Open the folder ‘NES’
create new folder ‘ROMs’

- folder names are case sensitive.

Last step:
On the left side of the WinSCP window go to the folder where you have saved the roms, drag each one over and hit copy.

Once you are done, tap the nes icon on your iphone, then start playing. Takes a bit of time to get used to the controls, but it is fun.

Thanks for the walk-through. The last two steps are backwards though:
Open a folder called ‘ROMs’ in the ‘Media’ folder.
Then in ‘ROMs’ open one called ‘NES’ where you then dump the actual NES ROMS. Worked perfect for me after that.

Cheers

thanks for the update

The BigBoss source moved to sleepers.net/iphonerepo However I don’t see his ROM pack there but I put ROMs on with the WinSCP method.

This is awesome!! I am going to try it right away!! What a great way to waste even more time!! lol

Hi

http://www.theoldcomputer.com/LibararyÂ’s/Emulation/NES/ROMs/NES_roms_summary.htm

This site is not working. You know any more site for NES Roms

thanks
Deba

Sorry for the last post.
This site is working.

cheers
deba

it says “using username “root”
authenticating with pre-entered password.
access denied

it’s asking again for
‘root@192.168.1.3′ session password

That is right, tried it the way in the tutorial and you have to reverse the file names.

I added a correct guide with pics to my blog

http://ruffdeezy.blogspot.com/2008/02/easiest-way-to-add-nes-roms-to-your.html

hi i was wondering if anyone can tell me how to add rom’s without a computer … i tried the method above and like a futher post says..it doesn;t work anymore. does anyone know another way to do this , i use a mac book, and ziphone jaibreaked my phone so i do not have a password?

thanks!

hi, im having trouble installing some apps onto my iphone i tried downloading the NES emulator and it says “Package Failed to Download” can anyone help? Thank you!

http://www.iphoneincanada.ca/3rd-party-applications/fix-installer-package-download-failed-cant-find-host/

Check out http://www.phoneroms.com for how-tos, etc.

I added the guide to my new site http://www.iphoneuser.ca/search/label/Apps

I am having the same problem so now I just use iBrikr to move them from my computer to my iPhone

I have the nes package and can install it, but it says it is missing the roms?? I don’t know where to find this, I am relatively new to iphone and really really want this feature but just can’t seem to get the just of it, any help would be great
thanks

hey i tried both programs to connect to my ipod touch and i just get a time out cant connect message what am i doing wrong
thanks

Here is a working NES Rom Source: http://123locker.com/

Just go to source’s, add the source I provided, then go home,then go back to installer, then go to game’s, then there will be BigBoss’s NES Game Collection, then install it!

Hope it works for you!

Thanks Haha123! I actually just wrote a post about this that will be up Sunday…thanks though