Atari/sega/nes emulators on TB?

[ChezDigital]

I've tried Ataroid and NESoid but I can't seem to get the roms to load on my phone. Has anyone had any luck on the TB with these?

 

[neoterixx64]

SNES works fine.

 

[tarheelDan]

Second that SNES works fine (Snes9xEX), also Tiger GBA (gameboy advance), and N64oid (though Doom is too dark :/ )

 

[kalopsia]

NESoid worked for me. But the only reason I put it on there was for FF1.

When I saw Gameboid, I removed NESoid and have just been using it for FF1 DoS.

 

[ChezDigital]

I keep getting "Load ROM failed". They're supposed to be in zip format right? Although, when I try to unzip, I get invalid zip file. Do you guys DL from your PC or your phone? I used droidemuget...

 

[Treknologist]

I haven't had any problems with either of the Atari emulators I'm using on my TBolt. Not sure why you are having issues. Have you put them in a specific directory? That is what I did with mine.

 

[kalopsia]

Yep. Should be .zip files. If they are unzipping as improper files though, then maybe you just got corrupted ROM files. Do they work for you on your computer? The actual ROM files are the same afaik.

I put them on my phone through my computer.

 

[Treknologist]

Ah, I do not have zip files for the ROMs. I have the actual ROM files. Maybe that's the issue you are having?

 

[kalopsia]

Oh, BTW, for NES - you need the BIOS file.

Do you have that?

 

[zt]

Have been using Ataroid and Nesoid without problem. What has worked for me is to download ROM to my computer and unzip on my computer. For Ataroid, copy .a26 file to a directory on phone or for Nesoid copy .nes file to a directory on phone. Next I run Ataroid / Nesoid on the phone, browse to directory I coped to, and can play the games. Did have 1 ROM so far that wouldn't run, probably a dozen others that work fine.

Tried to download and unzip directly from the Thunderbolt and never had any luck, kept getting errors on the unzip. Thought I read somewhere that you didn't need to unzip the files, but haven't tried that yet because procedure I mentioned above works fine for me.

 

[tallen316]

Not to butt in on the OG post, and please dont take it that I am, but where do you get/download these ROMs to run on emulators?? I am not very familiar with them and just trying to learn about them.

 

[ChezDigital]

I got Ataroid, NESoid, and SNESoid via the market, and I used DroidEmuGet to DL the ROMs, also from the market. I'm going to try and DL the ROMs with my PC and see if that helps.

 

[MRW1215]

I downloaded Gameboid and SNESoid, but haven't used either one, yet. I also bought FPse; anyone know if that runs well on the Thunderbolt? Also, is there a N64 emulator? I couldn't find one on the market at all.

I just wish I knew a safe place to get ROMs for these things. I'm pretty paranoid about what I download, as I don't want the headache of getting my computer infected with viruses. There's one site I've found that seems fairly decent, but I'm still wary of actually downloading any of their files. :/

 

[Littleairjordan1]

Same here tallen316 i need help too

 

[MRW1215]

I know it's probably against the rules to ask where to get ROMs here, but what about the BIOS files needed for the emulators? Is that against the rules to ask for, too? I don't know where to get those. :/

 

[zt]

I've been using Ataroid and Nesoid and have never needed a BIOS. What are you trying to use that needs this?

 

[MRW1215]

Gameboid and FPse both prompted me to obtain BIOS files in order to run games. I didn't get the prompt when I opened SNESoid, but I assumed it worked the same way.