iPhone Roms - How to Get Games on your iPhone / Touch
By Aaron Besson at 27 May, 2008, 10:47 am
I have recently been getting allot of people asking about gaming on the iPhone and how to get various emulators running properly and have a good source of ROMS to play.
So I thought I would put together a little tutorial on how to install the source (repo.iphoneroms.com) to installer, and install the Emulator of your choice, and then how to install the ROMs of your choice.
Notice:
It’s always a good idea to back up your iPhone before doing anything like this. Not that this is a touch install, but you never know.
Installing
- First thing you want to do is make sure that you have Installer on your iPhone of course (if not click here for a quick tutorial by iClarified). Make sure you have a good WIFI or EDGE connection/signal, and turn your Auto Lock setting to never for now so you dont have to restart if the iPhone goes to sleep.
- Fire up installer and tap on sources, and then tap on Add, then type in the following url:
http://repo.iphoneroms.comTap ok, and Installer will refresh the sources. - Once your sources have finished refreshing, tap on install and then tap on the category Emulators
(or you can search for the emulator you are looking for) you must install the Emulator before you install the ROMS / Games - In this example I am going to install the GameBoy Advanced Emulator, but you can install anyone you like, the steps are pretty much the same.
Tap Install and let it do it’s thing, depending on your connection it may take as long as 5 mins to install - Next we want to install some games, you can do this by either searching for the game, checking out the Recent releases, or browse the different ROM categories. In this example I am installing the GBA ROM, Grand Theft Auto Advanced, but you can install any ROM you wish once you have the Emulator for it Installed.
- Once you have installed the ROMS/games you want, tap the home button to soft boot the iPhone and finish installing the Emulator, you’ll see a new icon for the GBA/NES/SNES etc Emulator. Tap on it to open it up. From there you will see your ROMS you installed listed, There are also some settings you can play with to get controller looking and set up the way you want it.
Game play isn’t the best with some of the ROMS and games, but you will find iPhoneRoms.com has allot of games to choose form and the community keeps adding more and more games. Thankfully unlike before where you needed to FTP into the iPhone to upload ROMS, you can easily try out new Games and uninstall them on the fly through installer if you don’t like how they play. There were other repos before with ROMS and emulators, but iPhoneRoms.com seems like a good place to get them all.
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I noticed that you have all the emulators except playstation, have you ever goten this one to work?
will it be possible to play Game Boy Color roms on the GBA emulator?
Didnt work. It says error. comes up invalid source. Im using a 3G iphone with 2.1 installed and jailbroken . Have Installer and Cydia.