Turn Your Android or iPhone Into Portable Retro Gaming Arcade

Basics You Need To Know

The emulator is a program that allows a personal computer or video game console (cross-console emulation) to emulate a different video game console’s behavior. It allows you to play different kinds of console games on different kinds of portable devices. A ROM is a copy of a game that exists as a file on your system. Basic formats of ROM’s are bin,cue and ISO.

For iOS Devices

In order to use emulators on your iOS device, it needs to be jailbroken first. We don’t have official emulator apps for iOS devices. Open Cydia store(jailbroken apps store) and search for emulators. Example psx4all, genesis4iPhone, SNES9X, NESoid.

For Android

For Android surprisingly we have tons of emulators available in Google Play store. Just search for it in the play store and you will find many.

For Sony PlayStation

FPse is a perfect emulator to play Sony PlayStation games on an Android phone. It supports third-party controllers like IcontrolPAD, BGP100, and Zeemote.

For Sega Genesis

RetroArch Android is a good app to play Sega Genesis games on your Android. It also supports Plug and play detection of many USB / Bluetooth gamepads.

Also consider AndroGens, DroidGEN.

For Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES)

Snes9x EX+ and Tiger Arcade are the best choices for SNES games.

For Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)

John NES is an NES/Famicom emulator for Android.

Download ROM’s

After downloading Emulators on your device it is time to download ROM’s. There are a number of sites provides tons of game ROM’s for free. Sites like EmuParadise, PDRoms, FreeRom’s and ROM World provides free ROM’s.

Setup is done, What next?

Both iOS and Android Emulators generally offer controller support. You can connect PS3 Controller and Wii Classic Controller to your device for convenience. Third-party controllers like Zeemote and iControlPad are specifically designed to work with mobile devices.