Turn your phone into a retro gaming console

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A list of games console emulators along with links to games which all run on your Android phone/tablet.

All emulators and roms currently run smoothly on Galaxy S7, they also worked flawlessly on my S4.

Console: PlayStation 1
Emulator: Fpse
Price: £2.77

Install:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.emulator.fpse

Roms:
https://m.emuparadise.me/Sony_Playstation_ISOs/2

Console: PlayStation Portable (PSP)
Emulator: PPSSPP
Price: FREE

Install:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ppsspp.ppsspp

Roms:
https://m.emuparadise.me/PSP_ISOs/44

Console: Nintendo 64
Emulator: MegaN64
Price: FREE

Install:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aspieapps.free.emulator

Roms:
https://m.emuparadise.me/Nintendo_64_ROMs/9

Console: Super Nintendo SNES
Emulator: Snes9xPlus
Price: FREE

Install:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.explusalpha.Snes9xPlus

Roms:
https://m.emuparadise.me/Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_System_(SNES)_ROMs/5

Console: Nintendo DS
Emulator: DraStic DS Emulator
Price: £3.75

Install:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dsemu.drastic

Roms:
https://m.emuparadise.me/Nintendo_DS_ROMs/32

Console: Game Boy Advance
Emulator: My Boy! GBA Emulator
Price: £4.18

Install:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fastemulator.gba

Roms:
https://m.emuparadise.me/Nintendo_Gameboy_Advance_ROMs/31

Console: Atari
Emulator: A2600
Price: £1.99

Install:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.explusalpha.A2600Emu

Roms:
https://m.emuparadise.me/Atari_2600_ROMs/49

Console: Sega Megadrive
Emulator: GenesisDroid
Price: FREE

Install:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.halsafar.genesisdroid

Roms:
https://m.emuparadise.me/Sega_Genesis_-_Sega_Megadrive_ROMs/6

Console: Sega Dreamcast
Emulator: Reicast
Price: FREE

Install:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.reicast.emulator

Roms:
https://m.emuparadise.me/roms/dreamcast/

Console: MAME
Emulator: Mame4Droid
Price: FREE

Install:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seleuco.mame4droid

Roms:
https://m.emuparadise.me/M.A.M.E._-_Multiple_Arcade_Machine_Emulator_ROMs/7

If you'd like to complete the experience with a joypad then there are Bluetooth controllers out there which will work with most of these emulators. I bought the T3 Wireless (link below) for a barg £8.76, works great on PSX, PSP, DS among others, with no hitches. You just have to connect to your device and map the buttons.
http://m.gearbest.com/video-game/pp_197587.html?currency=GBP&vip=760164&gclid=COvWn4DI69MCFdTnGwodAaAAOg

FP Edit: Thanks for the upvotes everybody. Hope it brought you a few hours of fun filled nostalgia

lichenit

9 years ago |

LeafH0use

WarDragon1984

N64 is considered retro. *feels ancient*

HeyGuysAmIRelevantYet

i5trucker

What if I don't have your silly pound money

Lol!

DHTxTc

If the app doesnt require a licensed version im sure you can find a free cracked uptodate APK for android/ maybe even a modded Android APK.

ToMatomoto

You can also just connect a wired Xbox 360/One controller if you have a USB C type phone and a USB 2.0/3.0 to USB C adapter.

Beyonder13

Thank ya !

Hey man, no problem.

LonelyBrannigan

Maybe I can go back and finally finish Crash :/

gorgosaurusrex

They're remaking the Crash Bandicoot series for PS4!

shortpantslover

Or just buy one on Ebay or Lukiegames.

SorryForBadEnglish

The Real Deal > Emulation

Exactly. I have an SNES and some other consoles. I love them. It brings back warm feelings from when I was a kid. I really need that.

30Jonseredi

Or download all that for free

FuMarvchu

Dot

DonkeyFartSuperPunch

putzcommander

Frown: can run n64 on phone but not on my pi.

kmikl

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Optimization-for-Nintendo-64 Get a heat sink set. :)

Robvp

The 3 runs it doesn't it?

AxelYamanaka

It should, since the original could run it at a very bad frame rate.

No not really. You can play like 3 games on it

RetailCat

Hell yeah I got an s7 a few weeks ago been looking for something like this, cheers.

chickenharmigiana

I can only play rpgs/menu based games on my phone. Everything else is too hard on a touchscreen

Last1augh

I have an android. I connect a micro to USB adapter to convert a 360 USB controller.

aBastardNoLonger

I beat Super Mario 64 on my old Razr

kisselFL

Connect a Wii Remote via Bluetooth. Map the buttons to keys. Map the keys to emulator controls.

JoeMalmsteen

Wait, what? You can do that??

Kalel64595

can you save the state on any of these emulators? in the free versions that is

Shltles

You can on most i think, at least the Gameboy ones

I believe so

AThreeFootTallChocolateMooseWithFudgeEyes

You can on the Gameboy ones. you can on Snes9x as well

tornadosandwich

I've never seen an emulator that doesn't save your game progress

GeekyGuyTitus

Drastic, the 3ds emulator, can save state

Thewolf1083

hblb229

How do you control the games tho?

See final image.

FuzzyX

Bluetooth PS3 controller.

HesADandyGuy1nSpace

I wish there was a way to give your favorites priority over other favorites

notsohandsomejack

Share the post and send the link to yourself as a text or just bookmark it if your on a pc

I use a Mac!

My condolences.

CanonInTheStreetsFanonInTheSheets

Or, you know. Folders.

bifz

Looks a like nice feature. Maybe we should suggest it to the Imgur staff!

alovelypintofguinness

This is it. The greatest post in Imgur. I see you guys in 6 years or when I get tired of this

VoxDawg

No NES?

gamehero1829

I prefer to buy the game not because of legal reasons but because I want to play on my big screen with a real controller

IronicUsername

The problem is that almost every game other than menu-based RPGs suck to play on a touch screen.

See last image regarding bluetooth controllers

I'm aware but the problem with THOSE (for me anyway) is I'm not going to carry them around and, if I'm at home, might as well use the PC.

Evanjulian

Try drastic for nds, it's work quite well touchscreen. I used to play rune factory 3 on it. And the performance good enough on old LG G4

Not hating on the post though, to be clear. A lot of people will appreciate the info.

Before anyone gets hurt, I want to say: do. not. download. ROMs. Well, unless, of course, you own the game already.

Otherwise, you are breaking copyright laws, which will get you in some decent trouble next time you get busted for posession.

TheDejectedEntourage

Piracy is too commonplace for a comment like this to have an effect- endless torrenting, cracking, streaming etc... Everyone does it

In most cases game authors overlook retro gaming due to minimal commercial value. Beyond that upload bad, download often ok.

No, upload bad, download a bit less bad but still bad. Plus, stuff like Virtual Console disagrees with your value statement.

KeeperOfWind

Better yet, don't throw away your old phones and turn them into consoles.Phone bluetooth + ps3 controller and a HDMI cable can go a long way

Tell me more about this hdmi cable

oh, found a blog on it. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/make-retro-game-console-old-android-device/ that was faster then imgur limited text

ONE LAST THING JACKIE, I highly recommend a ps4/ps3 controller the guy that was explaining to me said you would get less input lag.

I wouldn't buy without looking up more research as I've only seen this done at a local tech store. But you would take the hdmi adapter) 2)

2) plug it into the phone, plug the hdmi cable into it, then it would display everything on your tv, hide the touch buttons inemu setting 3)

3) https://www.amazon.com/Aibocn-Universal-Adapter-Samsung-MHL-enabled/dp/B00V7UEE8Q you would need something like this

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9 years ago (deleted Aug 30, 2021 8:06 PM) |

More or less I think the idea of using your old phones & current phones is the concept. Everyone has a old S5 or S4 just hanging around.

artistsconcept

What is Super Fancom? Another kind of SNES?

therearenospoons

Japan version of snes

Foag

I work for a cell phone company: dude came in today with the new S8 running GameCube... my weenus moved a little

grumbleghoul

My elbow skin also moved a little reading this..

GoldenSun3DS

I play Gamecube games on my GPD Win handheld PC with real buttons. It's like a 3DS, but plays PC games and has X360 controller integrated.

zekesonxx

Dolphin is a fucking glorious emulator.

fakepointgenerator

What was he playing? And what was the frame rate like? I remember trying it a while ago and it was like 3fps

I hear the emu is well into development, same as PS2X.

GreetingsPrograms

PS2 running of mobile phones?!

Itsnotdapopo

Play! Is a ps2 emulator currently in development for android, ios, PC, etc.. The games run slow, if at all. Here's the site Purei.org

dgodbey

From what I've heard, the slight similarity in architecture is making developing the emulation on Android go by faster than on PC. Maybe.

Really? You mean the NES classic or the emulators?

Supposedly, it's easier to make an Android app emulate the PS2 than it was for a PC program. But could just be rumors /speculation.

tandem178

God, I know the PSP took a lot of heat for being shit, but I loved that thing

Get the retroarch app that contains emulators for all of these consoles and it's free

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squirreltactics

ckop11

neverlandninja

BecomeAnAstronaut

OldKingColeman

Tkeleth

Retroarch is great, I've been using it on Linux instead of having a bunch of different emulators. Takes a little work to setup. Worth it.

ImInuk

Is that why it almost shares name with the distro with likewise name

EwGrooss

Except it isn't on iPhone

Phischstaebchen

who cares for minority-hardware? ;)

korze

Retro arch and Provenance are on iPhone.

SmittyWerbenjaegermanjensen1

Just checked. They're not there

Are you stupid?

I checked the App Store. They aren't there. Unless you were talking about somewhere else

ButCanTheyBeatGoku

janglinjack6

Knightasteran

Funboringness

They have one of the best gameboy shaders I've seen.

ManhwaGoddess

dunadunadonut

highlordsnuffles

Doot

LinguisticLuniel

cpento

døt

waytooyoungtofeelthisold

Sorry to be old and dumb but would it work on my kindle? I can't find anything concrete online.

Worked for me but I installed android on mine

The newest android OS available for the 5th gen 7in fire tablet is 5.1.1

An Amazon Kindle or an Amazon fire tablet? It'll work on any android os

They are technically the same thing, amazing just stopped using the word "kindle". So the new one is called the Amazon Fire tablet

The kindle(black and white one) doesn't run Android. Not out the box anyway

That's the e-ink one not the normal one

helagos

Dat

Sinjai

dot

NanoPi

tried to run it on MEmu. the menu is permanently glued to the mouse pointer.

I ended up testing joystick support in other emulators

kronokel

synergi92

stevtom27

ServerMonkeyKing

I've never dooted before, but ...... doot.

youresorttorepostingcomments

Don't worry you're still cringey as fuck

JaderaidTyler

WeHaveTheGifs

App .

Valj

kukluxklanaintnuthingtafuckwit

How is it on Raspberry Pis?

It's called retropie it's very well documented and there are some sites where you can get images that are pre loaded with Rom's

DanParry

Kaluaman

thedarknessvisible

sgtaliin

FabledHer0

SerpentGundam

Threadnomancer

Is it coded properly? I couldn't fucking play mario on the other one I had

rustypc

trktrky

Mathafok3r

doot

MrPublicRelations

AConcerned3rdParty

jpparkenbone

DefineInsanity

FennecFyre

rudilee

PeaceOotTunes

T. Hanks

Thoraxe123

ElRadis

I want to know more! Please explain

It's just an app that contains lots of different emulators and their bios's.

Thank you kind human

JohnyCarlos

Retroarch, search it in google play, you will know what to do next.

minkuschild

PersonWithAPaintbrush

[Cries in IPhone]

Khassius

It don't find it easy to set up (as to start a game for ex). But yeah it's better to have retroarch than a single emulator.

thisusernameisloading

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.retroarch

AlexDice2

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Retroarch

LawlThisUsername

mememurderer

The sass is strong in this link. Thank you. Truly.

What is this sorcery ?

theycallmewillywonka

Let me Google that for you. Lmgtfy.com

Arnoxthe1

This. The only problem is it requires you to learn about it some as it's a little complicated to get up and going. For a phone emulator...

it works great though.

Or even better, I would just go out and buy a Gameboy SP if you have the funds. That way, battery on your phone is conserved, it's much...

more portable than a full blown controller, and has some of the best portable games available for it.

Leegionnaire

Normally I'd say go for the real thing, but retroarch is sweet. Everything you can think of is on it. I've been playing earthbound

Having no buttons doesn't work so well in games that require fast button-pressing such as Super Mario and Metal Slug. If you're willing...

How so? Download the game you want to play > open the app> pick the relevant emulator> choose load then browse to and select the game

As someone who got Castlevania Aria of Sorrow running just fine, I think it's a little more complicated than that. For example, the...

screen may need to be adjusted.

the app has a default aspect ratio, so if you want it to fill your screen you have to change the settings, thats the same with all emulators

SaltyNun

If you save in the game without saving state, and you completely exit retroarch, will the game load your save? 1/2ish

King of Swing would not remember my progress no matter what I did. PS, good taste, I finally finished everything in DoS after 105 hours.

I couldn't figure out how to adjust settings and stuff in it. It doesn't seem that well made.

twostepsfromlost

It can do anything but the interface isn't user friendly. Google can tell you how to get most games to run well on it.

So because you're an idiot and can't figure something that has copious amounts of documentation out, it's not well made? Okay IKEA-boy.

iFoxhound05

Bruh, its 2017. Nobody wants to spend an hour setting up an Emu lol

If you're on iPhone, Android, Windows, or Raspberry then you will spend more time than 0 on configuring your emulator. You're an idiot.

grabus

Please reconsider when to call someone an idiot..

You're an idiot too.

badacha

Me too.

BruceValanchesSecondChin

And here I am with my iPhone...

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boamere

Gba4ios and Nds emulators off the build store online my d00d

BearsBeetsandBattlestarGalactica

Subscribe to BuildStore. 10 dollars a year and access to all the emulators you want on iPhonr

YoureGonnaStandThereOwningAFireworksStand

1/2 There is a program called impactor. As long as you have an Apple ID it will sign it and put the emulator on your phone.

2/2 you have to do it once a week. But what it does is it uses a application that acts as a developer so Apple thinks it's okay

IyellSAILwheneverIgetthechance

Unless it's jailbroken then you're good

Unlucky son. You can always invest in an old android handset. Will still run most of these emulators pretty well.

spx39

Even my old 45$ HTC could run Drastic at 60 fps. Drastic cost almost as much as the phone :P

SuitedPanda

Nah man just get tweakbox and TuTuHelper, that's what I have and mine isn't jailbroken

Taur622

Sucks to suck. Nah, jk bruh. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Mormole

There are some emulators for ios. I used my old iPod as a more portable gameboy advanced for a while

jwb300

Http://builds.io

rugmiem

Sauce

Haackv2

GBA4iOS

6Oh4

Honestly I have a shitload on my psp and I had a ton on my note5. Its fun for a bit but then you never play.

UvaroviteKing

I like how he takes an extra little two steps to scoot more left so he can hit the wall instead of clipping that column

FazeJev

Build store is a paid work around for all of these i this at iemulator website

am0k

Jailbreak

iPhone users are so amazed by their ability to move the icons on their home screen anywhere when they jailbreak....

TrijezniMujo

oh start complaining. I finally bought a better phone and then guess what? INFINITY BLADE IS ONLY FOR IOS (went from Iphone 4 to Honor 7).

spokejesse

You can download gba4ios on the second latest ios firmware off safari with one easy search for those who dont know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You can still get emulators for iOS and you don't even need to jailbreak

ArcticEwok

Admitting to using an Apple product on imgur? You brave soul.

SalmonSushee

Changed to android a month ago. Don't miss anything except for the fucking emojis.

MOTHERFUCKINGLUCIFERMORNINGSTAR

Got an S8 then?

Got a pixel

MadFistWilly

Different emojis? Dealbreaker.

Actually it almost was. The android emojis look terrible.

TheBreadlord

Which.. you can just change to look like whatever the fuck you want. You can have iphone emojis too. Google yielded promising results.

It requires jailbreak, which isn't out for Android 7.1 yet. :(

acme64

*rooting, stock android can do that with 1 command, You mean your phone manufacturer locked it down. But you don't need root to change emoji

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