How To Install Mame Emulator & Roms On 3.1.2

This will allow you to play Mame games on your iPhone / iPod Touch, though personally I think this only really works on the iPhone 3GS, on other devices the lag and sound is terrible, I know I've tried it on them all. Feel free though to try for yourself. The best games to try are things like 1942, Ghouls & Ghosts etc. This is the most recent version ( mame4iphone 1.5.0 ), and the overall look and feel of the emulator has been improved, and best of all, its free!

NOTES ;

a) Device must be jailbroken

b) Device must have SSH installed

c) PC must have winscp and winraar installed

Installation Instructions ;

1. Open Cydia, this new mame4iphone is available via public repo's so will already be available, no need to add extra repo's

2. Now select ;

Search / Type in and install ;

mame4iphone

3. Exit Cydia / The app will now be on your springboard but will need the game roms added via ssh

4. On your pc go to ;

http://www.rom-world.com/

5. Scroll down the left hand column and select mame roms

6. Browse for desired game roms

( Some roms are in 1 part, others need 2 or 3 parts downloaded )

eg ;

a) Ghouls & Ghosts ( World ) was downloaded in 1 part

b) 1942 was downloaded in 3 parts

c) Some will need more than 1 part downloaded but dont tell you which parts go together

d) Some roms wont work on iphone, its trial and error unfortunately

e) Of all the emulators this was the trickiest to get working roms for =(

7. Download roms to desktop, these will be in zip format, they stay in zip format and are ssh'd that way ;

a) Single zips are ssh'd just as they are onto iphone

b) Multiple part zips need to be altered to make a single zip to ssh onto iphone

eg ;

c) Download 1942 zips to desktop in the order they appear ; Set1 / Set2 / Set3

d) Double click the set2 zip / highlight all files inside it / drag and drop into set1 zip / now delete set2 zip as it isnt needed anymore

e) Double click the set3 zip / highlight all files inside it / drag and drop into set1 zip / now delete set3 zip as it isnt needed anymore

f) Set1 zip is now complete and ready to be ssh'd onto iphone

8. Enable ssh on iphone

9. Open winscp on pc and login to your device

10. Now select ;

Back / Mobile / Media / Roms / Mame / Roms

11. Drag and drop the completed zip files into this folder / copy

12. Exit winscp and disable ssh

15. Open app and select new game, this should play if you have done everything correctly

( On first try of each game you may need to press right on d-pad to get it started, be patient, some times it takes a minute or two to respond )

As I stated earlier this does work, this is also the latest version of mame, but, it is fiddly and isnt as easy to set up as other emulators, but once working, some of the games are great fun.

THIS IS FREE AT THE MINUTE SO DOWNLOAD NOW!