Update - I've posted on how to get the SNES roms working properly here. Instructions and video included.
Since the NES roms are so easy to add your iPhone (or iPod touch) I was excited to learn that there is a Super Nintendo (SNES) emulator available for the iPhone. Super Nintendo was awesome and it would be fun to play again. I installed the Super Nintendo emulator on my mac and it's great. Now I wanted to play the roms on my iPhone.
Here's how to get the emulator on your iPhone
1. In installer, go to sources, edit, add, and add this source
http://zodttd.com/repo/
2. Press the home button, then go back into installer, then games, then install snes4iphone.
There was a source to add the roms automatically but that doesn't seem to work anymore. It was s.apfelphone.net.
Looks like we will have to SSH the roms into the iPhone.
If you don't know how to SSH into your iPhone, go here.
The directory for the SNES roms is:
/var/mobile/Media/ROMs/SNES
You can download the roms from
http://www.theoldcomputer.com
Once you have added them to the iPhone through SSH, open the program snes4iphone and play the games. The roms that have the file extension of .smc are added to your game list. The roms with the extension of .fig aren't added to your game list.
I added the follwing games :
- NHL 98
- NBA Live 98
- Super Mario Kart
- Street Fighter 2 Turbo
- Aladdin
One problem:
None of them worked!
Every time I loaded one in the app, it said "loading rom, failed".
WTF.
I've read online that not all roms work, but I tried 5, none of them worked. Does anyone else have this problem? Does anyone else have a better way of added SNES roms to your iPhone that actually works? I would like to know. Super Mario Kart is one of the best games and I would like to play it more, LOL. Please let me know.
Update: 2008/05/23
I tried putting the ROMs in this directory:
private/var/mobile/Media/ROMs/SNES
and I keep getting the..Loading Rom...Failed showing up. Who has gotten these to work and for what games?
8 comments:
Hmm... Thanx for your tutorial... I tried and it works! I'm using 1.1.4... I'm not sure why it is not working for you..
Oh.. one more thing, I put the ROMs here:
private/var/mobile/Media/ROMs/SNES
Thanks, I will give that a shot later and update things. I thought that directory was for 1.1.2 and below, guess I was wrong.
Yeah, still doesn't work with that directory. What games are you using?
Hmm.. thats weird.. I did use Super Mario Kart because u said that its the best game...
hmm...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml684z-iETU
Found this... try that... hope it helps...
thanks dude, i will try that and let you know how it goes
You need to "chown mobile *" in the SNES directory. I was having the same trouble until I did that.
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