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!

Comments

6 Responses to “How To Play Nintendo NES Games on your iPod Touch”

Dans l’antre de la découverte » Blog Archive » Courage … on January 7th, 2008 2:42 pm

[...] assez courageux pour ajouter ceci à mon Ipod [...]
Jess on January 21st, 2008 11:51 am

I cant connect to the iPod, any ideas?
jane on February 13th, 2008 12:22 am

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.
Tink on February 14th, 2008 9:57 pm

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..
Tink on February 14th, 2008 10:00 pm

“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..
Akash Chaudhari on May 14th, 2008 10:44 pm

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!