If you want to play games that aren't in the iOS App Store, Apple makes it pretty tough for you. Usually, the only solution is to, but that's something most avoid because it will void the warranty and may cause potential bricking issues.

In some cases, you don't actually have to jailbreak your iOS device to play some of your favorite retro games. By using a few hacks, you can successfully play,,, and drum roll please. Game Boy Advance games. You DO NOT need a jailbroken iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch to play your favorite GBA games, and I'm going to show you exactly how to do it, so follow along and ask questions if you need to. Please enable JavaScript to watch this video. Supported Devices for GBA4iOS Emulator While I'm currently running on my iPhone 5 (as you can probably tell in the video), we also tested this GBA emulator out on an iPhone 5 running iOS 6.1.4 and it worked fine. Also, it should work on other Apple devices like an iPhone 4S running 6.1.3, too.

Just test it out on your device to see if it works. No foul if it doesn't—it's easy to remove. UPDATE: GBA4iOS 2.0 Is Out for All iOS 7 Devices (2/19/14) If you're running iOS 7 on your iPad or iPhone, you'll want to install and use instead of the version in this article. How to Install the Game Boy Advance Emulator Previously, we used —made available by of —to download GBA4iOS, but it has since been 404'd by hackers. While that site may be shut down, there is an alternative way to install the GBA4iOS application onto your device, by performing the following steps. • Apple has blocked the application from downloading, so go to Settings ->General ->Date and Time and change the date to anytime in 2012 before continuing. • Open up any web browser on your device and head on over to to download GBA4iOS, made available.

• Scroll down until you see GBA4iOS (the emulator) and press Done. • This will prompt a download pop-up. Press Install. Certain games don't work on the emulator, so head over to Reddit for the.

This contains the most frequently asked questions regarding nds4droid. Please read this before rating the application one star and getting in a tizzy! ROM Download for Gameboy Advance Super Mario Advance 4 - Super Mario Bros.

Big names such as Donkey Kong Country, Final Fantasy VI Advance, Super Mario Advance 2, Zelda: A Link to the Past, and more all work. To see how to play retro-style games using emulators on your Android devices, too, check out our gaming sections for the,,, and. How to Remove the GBA Emulator Removing this side-loaded app is just like removing any other app on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. Simply long-press on the GBA4iOS icon and click on the X when it appears. This should get rid of everything, but just in case, you may want to check out your General Settings to see if there's something called MBS-HelloApp-Provision in the Profile section. Since emu4ios.weebly.com was hacked and deleted by the hacker, I, along with 2 other creators have decided to make a new download location that will look better than the old.

WARNING: This site is still in EARLY development and we are giving this link out for those that want to use the apps because of the hacking. Go to to download the emulator. Its all still there and works! If you are getting the GBA4iOS 2.0 update soon, check back on to get custom made skins easily and free when it is released! Thank you Reply.

This contains the most frequently asked questions regarding nds4droid. Please read this before rating the application one star and getting in a tizzy! Where do I download ROMs? I have no idea, please don’t ask this. When I launch it, all I see is a list of files. Yes, you must pick a ROM to load.

The list of files is (by default) the root of your SD card. Navigate to where you put your ROMs (try the Downloads folder if you downloaded them on your phone) and select one! Nds4droid is way too slow! Well here’s the thing: you’re emulating two discrete CPUs in software on a device whose primary purpose is to make phone calls.

The on the desktop is a 3 GHz Core 2 Duo processor. When it comes to game speed, the biggest factor is the CPU load of the main ARM9 processor of the DS. If you have FPS drawing enabled, it is the first percentage that appears in parenthesis. Games that don’t consume much CPU will run much faster. As time goes on nds4droid will become more fine tuned, so expect things to only get better (but not magically, astronomically better). POKEMON!!!1 The Pokemon games contain many sneaky things in them designed to make the ROMs not run on emulators. As far as Pokemon goes, things will be a work in progress for the foreseeable future.

In the meantime, try branching out. The Nintendo DS has and only a few feature the word “Pokemon” anywhere in them! How do I get ROMs on my device? The best way is simply to use the USB mass storage option on your phone.

Plug it into your computer and a folder should pop up. Copy your ROMs here. Take note of the path in the title bar, this is where you’ll need to navigate to in the file browser that pops up immediately upon opening nds4droid. What file formats does nds4droid support?

The only ROM format supported is.nds. However, nds4droid has built in support for extracting.zip,.7z, and.rar files. Nds4droid will search these compressed archives looking for a.nds file and will open the first one that it finds. Can I move progress between my computer and my phone? The save states are located at /mnt/sdcard/nds4droid/States on your device (that is, in the nds4droid folder on your SD card). From here, you can move them back and forth from your computer; they are binary compatible with so you should have no problem continuing from where you left off.

What settings do you recommend for the best performance? Sound off, vsync off, software rendering, threaded interpreter, no screen filter, and frame skip as high as you can tolerate (3+). Why don’t you make a fast forward option? Fast forward features work by running the emulator faster than the normal device (running it at 120 FPS when it normally runs at 60 FPS for example). Until you can run the game at full speed normally a fast forward feature won’t work.

DYNAREC!11 Why are you so sure so-called “dynarecs” are faster? Dynamic recompaliation is not some sort of magical pixie dust. The current interpreter nds4droid uses is very efficient — in fact in many ways more efficient than a dynamic recompiler, since on ARM targets we have to flush the instruction when performing the recompilation, a very costly operation. I’d like nds4droid translated to All of the translations are done by regular nds4droid users. If you can translate to a language that isn’t already done, or have some changes for an existing translation, feel free to submit them to me. Here is the file that should be translated: I have a question not answered here.

Well aren’t you just a precious little snowflake post a topic on the. This work is licensed under a. Author Posted on Categories. Date: 6/7/2015 Sadly, now Nintendo of America is attacking, yes ATTACKING, CoolRom for having roms for Nintendo-based consoles. Sadly this does include Nintendo DS.

I say go to emuparadise, just use a file manager (most tablets) or the “My Files” shortcut (phones) to take out the extra information that emuparadise adds into the filename. If there is a way to reason with NOA, please tell me. I’d like those bastards to know that they made our attempts to bring the games to the community I-M-P-O-S-S-I-B-L-E, almost.

The systems affected by NOA’s decisions are: Nintendo Entertainment System (NES.nes), Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES.smc/SNES.sfc), Nintendo 64 (N64.n64), Nintendo Gamecube (GCN.iso), Nintendo Wii (WII.iso), Game Boy (GB. The Undisputed Truth Law Of The Land Rar. gb), Game Boy Color (GBC.gbc), Game Boy Advance (GBA.gba), Nintendo DS (NDS.nds). Yeah, I know, it sucks I know the feeling •. Just for experimenting a bit, i tried to hard-run at least one game ( new mario bros ) disassemblying it (even if i got a few unknown functions) and improvising to run asm code with lame stubs,without having to define every functions.i got nothing but black screen and crash (of course,this was madness to begin with). I’m just curious to know what is your current strategy and what you have archived so far.messing with asmjit to native run code sounds too much hackery to me,it is really a good path to take? I’d be glad to help you out. First off if you’ve saved using save state all you have to do is enter said game and hit the settings button on your android smartphone (usually identified by the icon of three lines with your search, home and return button), then you hit the more button and finally select restore state and select the number of your save state.

If you can’t find it then chances are you saved your game using the quick save feature. If that’s the case then open up the settings and select the quick restore button. I’m rocking a galaxy note 2, and I’m well aware of the difficulties involved in trying to get emulators working. I really just want the emulator to play some basic games like hotel dusk, phoenix wright and maybe professor layton as most other games would be pretty bulky with more advanced graphics and all. However in the case of hotel dusk, I do wonder if the emulator uses a feature to emulate a DS being closed as some puzzles require that. I will try this once the game downloads, but for now I ask; what low power games can run fine with this emulator? H710 Windows 2003 Driver.

Tried this today for Love Plus. Oddly enough i can only get a maximum stable fps of abt.28~44, and thats with tinkering with as many low quality filters and using the JIT value 100 (no idea if it’ll work, but meh). It seems though, that regardless of whether im using the highest possible filter (eg. SuperEagle) or lowest LQx2 or even just normal, the fps still stabilizes at most 31~36, give or take. Needless to say it isnt very noticeable so most of the time I can live with just leaving everything at the highest ‘settings’. Yes the game lags as hell, but impressively playable considering that its running on a PHONE processor. (S4, non octa core atm) Appreciate the work and here’s hoping for more updates!

I seem to be unable to properly move my nds4droid saves to desmume. I get a black screen. When I press it, everything is messed up: no sound, some visual glitches that resolve after a short while and the two screens are swapped. The screen that should be at the top is now at the bottom. This screen now functions as the top screen. If I save and reload, most of these issues are resolved, but the sound is still gone. Disabling and then enabling audio doesn’t do anything.

I’m using desmume 0.9.8, which is the latest version that is present in the Ubuntu/Mint repositories, Along with the currently latest version of nds4droid that is present in the Play Store. Even if you say that the save files are compatible with DeSmuME I’m having problems with it. I can’t seem to get it right. I take nds4droid state files that are named ds# to my computer and try to load them with DeSmuME but it says “Error loading savestate.

It failed halfway through; Since there is no savestate backup system, your current game session is wrecked.” What is the correct way to do this? I would love to go on playing my games on computer when I’m home for a better performance with sounds. I’m looking for help on how to resolve this issue.When I copy across the save game file (ending in.dst) created by Desmume on my mac and I want to continue the game on my android phone (Samsung Galaxy S3 LTE) the emulator doesn’t even see this file even though this FAQ claims that they are compatible. I copied this.dst file into the designated area on my phone (/mnt/sdcard/nds4droid/States) yet nothing works.What save game file formats does this emulator use (nds4droid)?

As I’d like to get up and running asap. How can I convert them or make the save game file show up in the emulator so I can simply continue playing? Any help would be appreciated and yeah I’m new to using this emulator.

Hi, thanks for making this. I have a small, if highly specific request – would it be possible to put the keyboard mappings file in a non-root folder? At the moment it’s in data/data/com.opendoorstudios – one phone with a hardware keyboard is fine with mapping, but another non-rootable phone isn’t. For some reason this phone won’t have its keystrokes recognised although the keyboard presses do work were there is an existing keyboard mapping (‘T’ for touchscreen on/off works).

So while I can access the root folder to check on the mappings in the working phone, I can’t transfer them to the other as I can’t access the root folder. I realise this is highly niche and perhaps there’s a better solution than what I suggest but it’d be great if you could help. I tried rebuiliding the APK from your source but Android Studio didn’t want to compile it.

You’re wrong on this, the only reason why NDS emulators for android and laptop or desktop are so slow is because the programming is not as efficient as the NDS console, therefore requires more cpu cycles to match the speed of the NDS consoleThat’s why modern CPU’s with 3.0 ghz dual core are running the game smoothly, in other words is 10% hardware 90% programming, other similar case would be Dolphin emulator the Gamecube console hardware is very old and slow, but since the programming of the Gamecube consolewas very well optimized the game runs smoothly. Don’t blame the hardware, it is the programming. Nds4droid will never faster than Drastic no matter what due to DeSuME core that on this emu even Drastic retro version far superior than this latest one,,even DeSmuME itself slow ass FUCK!!! And author of that emu was a fucking ASSHOLE that full of crap,,higher spec not guarantee smoother gameplay,,,people did’nt spend money at all for paid emu that 100% guarantee fullspeed emulation with cheap prize or buying pretty cheap ds rather than keep using free shitty emu like DeSmuME and upgrading hardware or even buying new pc with higher price i’ll never understand their mindset the dumbest thing i’ve ever heard.