How to download roms from your phone and play games

[1barlog17]

From what I've found when downloading ROMs is some just don't work and u have to find one that does,and some of the websites u get them from just won't download to your phone u have to put them on your computer then usb mount and download them. I've found roms4droid.com to be the best one for downloading straight to your phone but sometimes u just find a Rom that doesn't work and you have to keep looking. I know how frustrating it is at first I couldn't figure it out forever and I was pissed cause I just wanted Mario on my Droid but once you find the right Rom and or site to download it from its really easy hope that helps :-)

[yzingerr]

Uuugh. I am so frustrated.
Can you please help me?
I worked all night and all day. Followed the directions to a t.

After dowloading the rom from freeroms.com I went into astro and unlocked the file. Then went into snesoid-downloads--- then click on the game I downloaded. It brought up a screen with up, down, left, and right arrows (+) the left and right softkeys, and the 4 buttons on the bottom right corner.

The background was flashing red with what looked like outlines of buildings, and red dots trying to form a word.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong??? I have the snesoid lite app, as I'm not paying 4 bucks if I cannot figure it out. Which means I need snes roms. Everytime I try and download a SNES rom from freeroms.com?? I hit download and it brings up a page of crazy weird writing, almost looks like an html code.

Sorry to write a life story, but I really need help??
And computer is not an option- has to be done from my phone.

Thanks!!!!

Go into options and turn on "transparency"

[yzingerr]

P.s.you don't need astro manager, just download them as the zip file and leave them alone.. snesoid plays them just fine as is.

[RomVillage]

Very cool stuff! Can't wait to play on my new droid!

Here is also a good source for roms , no bull**** either!

Thanks again for the how to!

[KevinIncredible]

does this work with gameboid?

man i cannot get this to work.. i downloaded my gba.bios file onto my sd card but it says no appropriate folders.. i heard some bios folders dont work.. could this be my case?

[RomVillage]

Very cool, it's really nice to see the classic games on my phone! If you guys need game roms check out www.RomVillage.com

[Roiyaru]

I went through all the steps listed, well tried too, but when I got to opening and extracting the file from Astro it didn't give me an extract option and I'm kind of at a loss of what to do now.

[Inverse]

jeez, why are you guys doing everything the hard way. Just download the roms onto your computer and transfer them over, simple as that

...I don't know why this is, but I don't see a lot of people talking about Rom Gripper in here. It's probably the most convenient ways to download roms to your phone. It has an integrated feature in all the "oid" emulators.

Rom Gripper is on the Android Market, and will pull the game you search for directly to your phone and then plays it. Yes, you keep the rom. No unpacking, no unzipping~ no ridiculousness.

The only reason you would ever need to get it off your PC is if it's a game Rom Gripper doesn't have. I don't know why anyone would suggest the manual method when the feature is already on your phone. You don't even have to open a web browser.

[jstme]

If an old fart with his first smart phone can do it, it works! (But not the first try) READ AND FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS CAREFULLY!

My mistakes:

I down loaded the emulator for NES, then downloaded Nintendo 64 games, no workey <duh>

On the freerom page, I clicked "download now" , but *not the ROM download*

Astro: After extracting, the emulator did not see the file, only the ZIP......refresh key helped here!

If a dolt like me can do it.........

Thanks again! Mike

[DroidToro]

I found an app called "emulator roms" that makes the process brainless. App store interface with easy access to emulators and roms