How to play Gameboy games on your iOS device

Posted by nkbish0p at 12:21

Tweet One of the great reasons for jailbreaking you iPhone is that it allows you to install "emulators" onto you phone, so that you can play some classic games designed for consoles right on your phone as if you have the console there with you. Although there are many emulators available for the iPhone, today I will be concentrating on emulators for two great 90's Nintendo handhelds, the gameboy advance and the gameboy colour.

You will require

• A jailbroken iPhone (you can read how to do this here)
• The repo http://www.sinfuliphonerepo.com/ added in cydia (read how to do this here)
• ROMS for the games you wish to play (you can search for these using google on your pc, game boy advance roms should have the extension .gba gameboy colour roms should have the extension .gbc
• iPhone explorer installed on your PC or MAC. (You can get this here)
• No money - This is all free

Installing the emulators on your phone

• Open cydia, tap manage, then sources, then sinfuliphonerepo
• To install the GBA emulator install "gps4iphone"
• To install the GBC emulator install "gameboy A.D.X plus"

Once Cydia has reloaded, both applications should be present on your springboard.

Importing the ROMs into the emulators

Annoyingly this isn't as simple as it should be. At the moment the best method that I can find requires a computer and your iPhone to be connected.

• Connect your phone to your computer and open iPhone explorer
• Your device should appear in the window
• Navigate to root/var/mobile/media/ROMs where you should find a folder for each type of emulator you have installed on your phone.
• Simply copy the ROM files to the relevant folder and they should show up in the emulator on your device!

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