iNES for Symbian S60 3rd edition devices allows you to play good ol’ Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and Famicom cartridge games. In order for iNES to work, files with “.nes”, “.nes.gz”, “.fds” and “.fds.gz” extensions should be placed in “E:\Others\iNES” directory. The new version fixes a few bugs in the sound chip emulation, adds the…
Virtual GameBoy Advance 3.1.1 S60 3rd Edition released
The new, 20% faster, version 3.1.1, of Virtual GameBoy Advance (VGBA) for Symbian S60 3rd Edition devices has been released. For those not familiar VGBA, this handy app will let you play all those beautiful Nintendo GameBoy Advance games. The emulator runs cartridges from “.gba” and “.gba.gz” files, place into “E:\Others\VGBA” folder. The new version…
ColEm 2.1 for S60 3rd Edition
ColEm is the ColecoVision videogame console emulator, that will run ColecoVision cartridge files with .cv, .cv.gz, .rom, and .rom.gz extensions, placed in “E:\Others\ColEm” folder (where you should also put the “COLEM.ROM” file). Among many things, new version brings several usability improvements such as addition of the config menu, palettes, fast forwarding on non-QWERTY phones, and…
Changing mobile gaming habits
The new research from Nokia indicates that mobile phone gamers are looking to the next generation of mobile gaming to meet their needs to easily discover, share and play fun and high quality mobile games. The results found mobile phone gamers frequently play mobile games for an average of 28 minutes per session, value improved…
iNES 3.1 for S60 3rd Edition devices released
Following his earlier article – “Emulators for S60 3rd Edition phones“, Marat Fayzullin just released iNES for Symbian mobile phones running the S60 3rd edition devices. The new application runs games written for Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Famicom, and Famicom DiskSystem consoles, and can open files with “.nes”, “.nes.gz”, “.fds” and “.fds.gz” extensions. Using iNES…
Emulators for S60 3rd Edition phones
Dusan Belic asked me to write an article about emulator applications available for the newest S60 3rd Edition phones from Nokia. As I have written some of these emulators myself, this article is inevitably going to become a shameless self-promotion job, but let us first look at what emulators are and what makes the 3rd…
All N-Gage games now EUR 9.99
Symbian Watch already announced that three N-Gage games at Nokia Software Market were discounted. Well, now all available N-Gage games are priced at the same price of EUR 9.99. Please note that (unfortunately) I’m not paid by Nokia. 🙂 Nevertheless, I still encourage all Nokia N-Gage owners to visit the Nokia Software Market and get…
S-Tris 2, a free Tetris-like game
Introducing S-Tris 2, a freeware Tetris-like game powered by Clickgamer’s mobile game engine Edge. As the follow-up of their highly popular S-Tris title, this new game features an additional “maniac” game mode, submittable highscores and customizable options and key mappings. The game can be downloaded for free. All Symbian OS platforms are supported, including S60…
Two UIQ 3 games: Another Ball and Can’t Stop Solitaires Collection
Epocware today announced two new games for Sony Ericsson smartphones – Another Ball and Can’t Stop Solitaires Collection are absolutely different but power of both games’ thrilling action is equal.
Shockwave.com enters the mobile gaming market
Atom Entertainment, Inc. (now part of Viacom) recently announced that its leading online games destination Shockwave.com unveiled a mobile games store offering a vast library of the best mobile titles from Shockwave.com each month. The new store offers around 40 games priced between $4 and $7 each, and includes mobile versions of Shockwave.com’s popular titles…