Installing EEMame to play MAME games on Nokia
9300i / Turn your Nokia mobile to arcade game statition
Since I'm keen on old school arcade games I checked online if I can
install and play
MAME
(Multimedia Arcade Machine Emulator) games (roms) to my Nokia
9300i mobile.
The information on the topic on the Net is pretty much muddled so
it took me a while until I found that in order to install a
MAME
port for Nokia 9300i I will have to use
EEMame - MAME for Symbian
Mobile Phones .
The first thing I came across before I finally found
EEMame
was
EMame
9210 .
Emame is a port of Mame that is compatible with Nokia 9300i since
the 9300i mobile has backward compatibility with the older 9210
phone.
To save memory since the Nokia 9210 has low memory capacity the
Mame 9210 application is actually separated in 4 applications each
of which containing a set of drivers for a number of mame rom game
files.:
The whole application Emame9210All.sis is separated into the
following parts:
EMame9210Set1.sis EMame9210Set2.sis EMame9210Set3.sis
EMame9210Set4.sis
For convenience the developers has provided also a
.sis file
containing all the up-mentioned 4 parts in one
.sis
archive
For some convenience I have created a
mirror from which
you can download EMame9210All.SIS
Though the Emame9210 would install on the Nokia 9300i and you'll be
able to run each of the 4 exe files from the Nokia file manager I
couldn't make the application work with any of the listed roms that
are marked as a tested on the Emame9210.
Honestly I didn't really spend much time trying, so it could be my
fault that I couldn't bring the Emame9210 on my 9300i mobile. Be
aware that trying to run some rom files downloaded from
romnation.net and listed as
compatible with the 9210 arcade emulator led the Emame9210 programs
to crash.
So assume the Emame9210 is not really compatible with the Nokia
9300 phone. Anyways this first time though mournful was just a
plunge-board to the "real deal", e.g. the real joy experienced when
I found out that the
EEMame port is available for Nokia
9300i
To install the EEMame on my Nokia 9300i
I
downloaded and installed the eemame-series80-1.1.SIS . The file
is also available through
EEmame's
official website download section along with few other EEmame
for a few other Motorolla and Nokia powered devices.
Another thing I really liked about EEMame is that it's released
under the
GNU
General Public License
So far so good 'till now I was having a complete working version of
MAME to my Nokia 9300i mobile but I was lacking any games
and I was absolutely lazy to scrape through the internet to find
some working rom files for the EEMame, not to mention that only a
exact set of rom files is compatible to the device and you have to
check and download the compatible games one by one ... this is
pretty much insane especially if you're a busy man as I am.
I assumed somebody has already done the hard task of downloading
and creating a pack with rom files that run on the EEMame so I
spend approximately some half an hour to look for a preliminary
prepared pack of rom files that would run on the EEMame mobile
(Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator).
The original announce for the availability for download of eemame
218 rom games which are compatible with EEMame
could be red here
You can
download MAME_S60v3_and_working_ROMSET_by_herbalb.rar
here
Herein I will include
herbalb original message found along with
his 218 rom games pack for EEMAME :
Some time ago I made a romset that includes 1320 of 1321 Roms
known to work with EEMAME (also included). Hope some of you will
like it and have fun playing these original arcade games (i.e.
Wonderboy, Ghost N Goblins, Joust, Arkanoid, 1943, Burger Time,
Contra ...).
By the way, when starting a game and you read 'press OK to
continue' just push left and then right on the directional pad on
your phone and the game will start.
I tested them (many of them) on my N95.
You can also try this version of EEMame to use with the Set above
(I have not tested this version as i am using the one includet in
the set) Happy new year and peace to everyone.
herbalb
NOTE: I am happy if you share it with others but please do not say
it would be your own work. It took me hours to do find all
necessary games for this set, so please be social,
thanks.
As you can see in herbalb's message the ROM games for EEMame are
not tested with other mobile phones except the N95.
I downloaded and tested his EEMAME rom pack set and I have to
confirm almost all the game are loading with EEMame perfectly
fine.
However there is two minor down-sides of the EEMame on Nokia 9300i.
First you will probably have to play the rom games without a sound,
because when sound is enabled almost all the games will work slow
as hell, and second most of the MAME emulated games will occupy
just a small portion of your screen and you won't be able to enjoy
the joy of playing the game on a full wide screen on your
cellphone.
Anyways life is not perfectly anywhere, being able to play all this
wonderful oldschool arcade directly on your Nokia 9300i mobile
turns your mobile into a sophisticated game station and guarantees
you a lot of fun.
I have prepared a list of all the rom files included with
MAME_S60v3_and_working_ROMSET_by_herbalb.rar, you can check the
whole
list of roms available for EEMame on Nokia 9300i here
I have also made some few modifications in the readme of the
herbalb's archive and have included the necessery sis file to
install and run EEMAME on Nokia 9300i the new archive can be
downloaded here.
Just in case if you need to download some specific rom files from
the whole collection please
select your preferred EEMame
ROM file here
Well, That's all folks! All left now is to truly enjoy your classic
nitendo & arcade games playable directly on your Nokia 9300i
mobile! :)