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Free Smartphone Game Emulators

On this page you can find the best smartphone game emulators for your mobile phone. Those smartphone programs are not games themselves but emulate all the games of old consoles like the Super Nintendo directly on your smartphone screen. That means you can for example play classics liker Zelda or Super Mario wherever you go on your phone! At the moment there are smartphone emulators for the GameBoy Color, the Sega Genesis, the NES and Super Nintendo and MAME.

What You Will Need

Beside the emulator's smartphone program that you can get here and has to be installed on your smartphone, you will also need the original game file of the console game. Those "ROM" files have to be in the same folder your smartphone game emulator is before you can select and run them from within the emulator program. Since sharing and distributing such ROM files is illegal you will however have to use your imagination if you want to get them.


Picodrive: Sega Genesis Emulator For Smartphones

PicoDrive is a free Sega Genesis emulator that supports hundreds of different games, including many classics like Pirates! and Dune. Most of the console games work at acceptable or good speed. The smartphone game emulator comes with many different features and options like free save/load game and the choice between landscape or portrait display modes.

Credits: Original source by Dave @ finalburn.com, modified by Parallax20

Smartphone Download: here

PocketSNES: Super Nintendo Emulator For Smartphones

PocketSNES is a free smartphone game emulator for the Super Nintendo console and supports hundreds of different games, including many of the old classics like Zelda III and Donkey Kong Country. Please note however that not all games available for the SNES will work on this version and some may run very slow. Like PicoDrive this emulator comes with many different features and options like free save/load game and the choice between landscape or portrait display modes.

Credits: Original source by SpaceMonkey, modified by Parallax20

Smartphone Download: here

PocketGnuboy: GameBoy Color Emulator For Smartphones

PocketGnuboy emulates both old GameBoy consoles by Nintendo: You can play GameBoy Classic games on it as well as the newer GameBoy Color games. Since those games have less strict hardware requirements this emulator does also allow sounds and comes with the usual features.

Credits: Original source by unknown, modified by Parallax20

Smartphone Download: here

MameCE3: Mame Emulator For Smartphones

The MameCE3 emulates the Mame32 arcade games. Curently it supports over 200 of the original console games. A list of those is included and most of them are reported to work very well.

Credits: Original source by Techmaster, modified by Parallax20

Smartphone Download: here

PocketNester: Nintendo NES Emulator For Smartphones

PocketNester emulates the Nintendo NES console, the predecessor of the Super Nintendo. The smartphone emulator comes with many different features and options like free save/load game and the choice between landscape or portrait display modes.

Credits: Original source by Rick Lei, modified by Parallax20

Smartphone Download: here

Pocket Clive: ZX Spectrum Emulator For Smartphones

A smartphone emulator for the old ZX Spectrum computer. Sometimes it is a bit rough and ready, but still runs a fair amount of programs and games on your phone.

Credits: spacemonkey

Smartphone Download: here

ScummVM: Play Lucas Arts Adventures On Smartphones

This awesome emulator allows you to play many of the classic Lucas Arts adventures like Indiana Jones, Monkey Island I and II and even Sam and Max directly on your smartphone!

Credits: scummvm.org

Smartphone Download: here

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