How To Play Nintendo NES Games on your iPod Touch
Posted on January 6, 2008
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This little HowTo explains how you get Nintendo Entertainment System games running on your iPod Touch.
The procedure should be identical for the iPhone but I haven’t tested that.
First things first:
Your iPod needs to be jailbreaked (see HowTo here)
- Click on installer on your iPod Touch home page.
- Click on install and go to the Games folder
- Select NES package and click install
This will get you the emulator to run the so called ROMs with (the actual Game packages)
Now you will need to create two new folders on your iPod Touch.
To connect to your iPod Touch use a FTP client like Cyberduck
- Click on the Settings button on your iPod Touch home page
- Click on WiFi and click the blue arrow button of your WiFi to get the details
Use the IP address as the host for your FTP client
The user name is root and the password is alpine
Create two new folders inside the Media folder
They need to be named
ROMs (mind that this is case sensitive so make sure the s is a small letter and the ROM are capitals)
Inside the ROMs folder create another sub folder and name it NES
Now go and get yourself some ROMs like the all time classic Super Mario Bros 3.
There are many websites out there but I found theoldcomputer.com has the most comprehensive list.
Download the zip file and unpack it. This will get you a file called example.nes
Upload this file to your iPod Touch with your FTP client.
Now go to you iPod Touch home page click on the NES button and select the ROM from the list displayed.
Have fun!
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I cant connect to the iPod, any ideas?
how do i get nitendo on my ipod touch i dont have installer im not jail broken yet because i dont know how to im version 1.1.3 on my ipod touch.
i have windows vista on my computer, and i’m trying to use SmartFTP, but my ipod touch won’t let it connect. i have no idea what i’m doing wrong.. i’ve also tried cute FTP, but i had the same problem there. please help me..
“No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.
[22:58:54] Cannot login waiting to retry (30s)…
[22:58:54] Client closed the connection.
[22:58:54] Active Help: http://www.smartftp.com/support/kb/58”
–> my problem..
I encountered same problem. I am using windows xp so I used smart ftp and filezilla and niether will connect to my ipod. Help please!
LTOOLS will do the job.
They can be freely downloaded and provide access
to the linux-partition of the ipod, if already installed with the free ipodlinux-installer.
With ipodlinux, it’s even possible to play NES games on an ipod 5G. Metroid Fusion for the GB Advance ran fine, but a little too slow once on a now long overwritten ipod-configuration of mine…
Well-said, I speak only aboutthe ipod video color 5g, i don’t have any ipod touch.
And I speak for Windows-Users, not Linux which will soon be added to my OSes.
i tried to download it . the part dat says THE A SELECT FILE WILL SHOW UP .. didn show up so i wuzn able to dwnload the 1.1.1 what do i do
Please use pscp.exe to copy roms into your ipod. It works for me and I have 16G ipod toucith 2.0.1 firmware.
“C:\temp\pscp.exe” c:\temp\smb3.nes root@192.168.xxx.xxx:/var/mobile/Media/ROMs/NES
pscp is putty secure copy
it works!
do ipod touch and Iphone is the same plateform?
and Cyberduck is using in Mac Os, Now i used window which program i have to used for transfer FTP?If have any program,can you show me the step to get the file into Iphone or Ipod Touch..
Thanks
Hi Visal,
the platform is the same for iPod Touch and iPhone and the procedure should be identical fro Windows. As a replacement for Cyberduck you can use filezilla a free FTP client for windows.
hth
i havent got a instaler on my ipod touch but could you also help me about music cose i add music and if i want to add music again the itunes delets it
actually, all you need to do is install it by cidia, and you dont need to do all this make new folder. Just go on sections, games, NES, install, confirm. Simple
I’be been surfing the net hoping to find a Nintendo NES application/installer. I have gone through a lot of Ipod Download Games sites but none of them offers it. Are there any site where i can download it. I’m wondering, are there any restrictions when it comes to location sites?
I’ve installed installer on my 1st gen ipod touch with firmware 2.2.1 but it doesn’t have an install tab on the bottom – how can i install the nes games?
does it work on 2.2.1 frimware
it should work on any firmware, what it sounds like is that most of you do not have jailbroken ipods.
if you DO have an ipod which is jailbroken, you need to install SSH suport (like OpenSSH) in your package installer on the ipod (likely Cydia), from there it will help you set up commands through terminal to allow your various ftp clients (doesn’t matter what you use..) to connect to the ipods.
also, keep in mind your ipod has an embedded user name and password for the ftp seperate to the ones you use for your account or the ipods name itself (mobile and alpine) respectively.
just do a little google homework and you should be able to get around these little hitches. I’ve got gba/snes/psx and nes running on mine without a hitch now
oops! Root as the default user name.. Mobile pass is alpine as well, but your superuser mode should be set to “root”