iPod Emulator

Video Game emulators for playing games on iPod

Wouldn’t it be easier to play all your favourite video games in a single console, like your iPod, rather than carry all your hardware around and work your way through a maze of cables and wire each time you play? Aside from this, isn’t it also better if you can play your favourite games without all its bugs and with your own settings? The creation of video game emulators made these conditions possible.

Since the introduction of video game emulators in the late 90’s, video game emulators have become widely popular and powerful. This is mainly due to the fact that they are more beneficial and cheaper than their console counterparts. Most video game emulators are developed for fun and available free of charge. This is why more and more video games are converted to ROM data to run on emulators. Due to the beneficial and free nature of video game emulators, the video game industry is facing a major transformation in delivering countless codes from their hardware receptacles. The video game industry is threatened by the fact that video game emulators may actually replace game consoles in the future.

Before, video game emulators were created to support PC, MAC and other desktop platforms. Nowadays, video game emulators are more prevalent on handheld devices such as cellular phones and most commonly, on iPod devices.

There are numerous video game emulators for iPod that are offered free of charge. There are also some which have been approved for admission on the Apple App Store, such as Sega’s official console emulator, Ultimate Genesis, and DOSBox’s iDOS. Video game emulators for iPod do not rest on Sega and DOS games alone. Numerous video game emulators for iPod were developed to support other game consoles such as NES, GBA, PSX, MAME, SNES, Gameboy, Gameboy Color and N64. Video game emulators are used by downloading and installing ROM data for a specific game you wish to play. For iPod, to install a video game emulator, the usual way is to jailbreak the device. By jailbreaking, the device allows you to install applications which are not licensed by Apple.

iPhone Emulator also available.

Warning about Jailbraking iPod and iPhone

Keep in mind, though, that warranty on your iPod is void once it has undergone jailbreaking. (uninstall the Jailbreak before any servicing or Apple authorised repairs). After the jailbreak and installation of video game emulators on your device, you need to download a ROM that will run on your emulators. ROM data are not perfect copies of the game you wish to play, so, expect that you will experience some minor problems when you run it on your video game emulators, such as low audio and video quality. Also, your iPod is not an actual game console, so your video game emulators will just “emulate” what it can, depending on your device’s specifications. To run your ROM data on your video game emulators, you need to know a little knowledge of SSH to allow the data to be saved on your device. Once this is done, you should be able to play ROM data on your video game emulators, pretty much.