Jailbreaking your Iphone for a Nintendo Emulator
Feb 13th, 2010 by Nintendo DSi
Lets look at how you can play some calssic Nintendo Games on your Iphone or Itouch.
The process you have to perform in order to accomplish this is called jailbreaking. This term has been given to this process and effectively means you are allowing your Iphone or Itouch to run unathorised code. Such code is not authorised to be run by Apple and they have stated that this does void the warranty of the device. However you can easily restore your device back to original (un jailbroken) status through Itunes.
The reason we are even talking about the Iphone and the meaning of jailbreaking is because devices which have had this operation done can run Nintendo emulators and mean users can play some classic Nintendo games among other things. That equals good times.
Walking through the Jailbreaking process:
What will you need?
Jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch
SNES4 iPhone SNES Emulator
TotalCommander software
T-PoT.0.2.zip
Squid
SNES Roms
To jailbrake your iPhone or iTouch you will need a PC or MAC along with the current upto date software used to do this. Connect you device to your computer and run the software to achieve this. The latest software for you device version can be found on wiki, here. Once you have found the title of the software just Google it to find a download. Below are the steps for TotalCommander.
Lets begin….
Install TotalCommander
Extract the T-PoT.0.2.zip archive
Open TotalCommander, click on Configuration at the top, then Options
Click on Plugins in the left column
Click Configure under File System Plugins.WFX
Click Add and find the T-PoT.0.2 folder and select the T-PoT.wfx file, click Ok
Close TotalCommander down and open it up again
In the Drop Down Menu on the right that says [-C-] change it to the last option [-/-]
This shows all of the files on your iPhone / iPod Touch we will use this software to transfer files to your device
Next step…… – Installing the iPhone SNES Emulator on your iPhone / iPod Touch
Open TotalCommander
In the right column locate the folder called applications
Drag the SNES4iPhone directory onto the applications folder
let it do its thing
Next step…… – Installing SNES Roms to play with your iPhone SNES Emulator
Use TotalCommander and navigate to the following path-
for Firmware lower then 1.1.3 in /var/root/Media/ROMs/SNES/
for Firmware higher or equal to 1.1.3 in /var/mobile/Media/ROMs/SNES/
Transfer your ROMS by dragging and dropping them into TotalCommaner
Next step…… Playing games
Open up the iPhone SNES emulator and select the settngs you want. You can just run with default. now just select the SNES game you want to play and let it roll.
