Nintendo is probably never going to release its treasure trove of retro titles onto iOS any year soon, but if you want to experience the thrill of stumping tutrtles dead in Super Mario World on your gigantic iPhone 6 Plus display, there’s a simple hack that can make it happen.
SiOS – a new Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulator created by Lucas Mendes Meng – can be installed on any iOS 8.0.2 device and lower thanks to a little hack via iDeviceHypethat gives your iPhone access to SNES games like Super Mario Kart, Donkey Kong Quest, Yoshiland, and hundred of other ROMS. And you don’t even need a jailbreak.
Here’s how to play SNES games on your iPhone 6 right now:
Installing SiOS
Step 1: Open this page in Safari on your iOS 8 device and itms-services://?action=download-manifest&url=https://gba4ioskins.box.com/shared/static/xc1k8vzfx1rpws2ul6ok.plist” tap here to beginSiOS installation via iEmulators.com
Step 2: Go to Settings > General > Date and Time.
Step 3: Toggle Automatically Set to OFF, and roll your date back to August 8th, 2014.
Step 4: Once you’ve set the date two months back, retry installation.
Step 5: When installation finishes, tap SiOS app and and tap Trust
Step 6: Go back to Settings > General Date and Time and toggle Automatic back on.
Getting Games
Step 1: Go to CoolRom.com’s Super Nintendo Section and select a ROM.
Step 2: Tap ‘Download Now’ and then choose: Open in SiOS and the ROM will save in the SiOS app.
Step 3: Go into SiOS and select the desired ROM.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6tnN30mlXc
Source: iDeviceHype
Buster Hein is a freelance writer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Twitter: @bst3r.
24 responses to “Play Nintendo’s iconic games on iOS 8 without jailbreaking”
is it really Coolroms. com? the site is a crap
It’s actually CoolRom.com without the S.
coolrom.com.au seems to work
coolrom.com
Here’s the actual website to download the ROM file from, the one mentioned in the article is an domain holding/advertising site.
http://coolrom.com/roms/snes/
Ever since iOS 8, apps installed using this method seem to require that I set the time back much more frequently. It’s a hassle. Also, I’ve heard that iOS 8.1 prevents this method from being used at all.
I can vouch that it doesn’t work on iOS 8.1 beta
Why in god’s name won’t Nintendo release these games? I WILL PAY!
Because they have their own mobile platform, genius
And how many people are buying that mobile platform, genius? That’s right, very few. They are limiting their market that way. Hard headed.
I wouldn’t exactly call 45 million “very few”.
The iOS install base was 682M in January, so is likely north of 710M by now.
So the Nintendo install base is about 6% of the iOS base. That is “very few” comparatively speaking.
Edit: Source:
http://www.telecoms.com/210391/android-domination-to-continue-in-2014-iphone-loses-ground/
I prefer to call the Nintendo Wii-U, by its proper name.
The Wii-NES.
Buy the Wii-U (rhymes with “pee-eww”).
You will get a mini-tablet controller (cannot be used for phone calls or as a stand-alone tablet away from the Wii-U console and it cannot be used with a secondary Wii-U controller in the same room at the same time) and a Wii-Emulator that acts to the exclusion of the Wii-U hardware and completely ignores all Wii-U improved Wii coding.
With that brilliance, why ever would people NEVER purchase a Wii-U?
A crippled mini-tablet that is less-functional than an iPod with the battery life of only 3 hours.
An emulator that runs games by ignoring the current Wii-U hardware improvements.
A system that is vastly underpowered and filled only with lame kiddy games.
And best of all, if you post your gameplay videos on YOUTUBE, then NINTENDO has ILLEGALLY DECLARED that, by fiat alone, that it owns all copyrights to the video you created and owns all advertising revenue to all videos you post.
NINTENDO… corrupt arrogant incompetent THIEVES. Who wouldn’t want to do business with them.
web site address is wrong… http://www.coolrom.com
It just crashes when I launch the installed app in iPhone 6 803
Same, did you find a fix?
Yeah the lInk doesn’t work.
What the fuck is “Donkey Kong Quest”?
Feel free to do what you wish on your device, I don’t care about piracy on a “moral” level as long as anyone who uses this doesn’t go around chest thumping around saying iOS is a superior gaming platform to Nintendo portables when the continuing obsession I see on iOS sites is pirating Nintendo games.
It would be like being an Xbox fanboy, but being obsessed with pirating PlayStation games using your Xbox.
Also, comparing the iOS install base and the Nintendo 3DS install base 1 to 1 and suggesting that Nintendo 3DS is failing based on that is like comparing automobile sales to powerboat sales and suggesting that powerboats are a failing industry.
So true.
I have gotten this to work fine except there is this one issue. Now when im on safari, i have to continually verify server authenticities (or certificates). Is anyone else having this problem? I restored a backup because this was so annoying to deal with. I believe it was from coolrom.com and not iemulator.com
GBA4iOS works and looks a lot better than this.
Nintendo must have some value as people seem to be clamouring to play their games and get right pissed off that they aren’t available on their platform. Can’t say that about too many IOS/Android games.