Installation of video games emulator for Android phone user

The emerging of smartphones gradually changes the way of people interact with others and doing their jobs. Nowadays, millions of people visit website, create office documents, check money currency, and even sell applications through the small wonder called smartphone. It is no brainer that with the popularity of the smartphone makes many software developers create applications dedicated to the smartphone operating system. 

As gaming has become more and more portable, we should rejoice that many of the emulator developers ported their software inside the ponsels.

Android as one of the smartphone operating system has become another viral phenomena in smartphone users. And with millions of user, we could expect video games emulator keep coming left and right in the google play store.

Here are the lists of emulator that I have tested using my android phone and I have tested some of the emulator that work decent in my device. My phone processor is Cortex A7 –quad core processor with the speed of 1,7 Ghz. My operating system is Android 4.2.1 Jellybean

Nes – Nes emu free. Price tag zero

Free and already with safe state support. It should work with no problem.

Genesis – MD emu / MD emu free. Price tag 5$ for the premium version

The premium version work well in my phone. I have tested the MD emu free version but there are black border in the screen.

Super Nintendo - Snes9x EX. Price tag free

It is a free emulator with decent graphic, save state and load state supported.

Gameboy advance – my boy! Or my boy free. Price tag 5$ for the premium version

The premium version supports save and load state but the free version still works flawlessly although you can't do the save state in those fire emblem games ( I expect your characters to die a lot without the safe state : p)

PSX – Epsxe. Price tag 5$

From the maker of epsxe comes epsxe for android, a very good playstation emulator. It could find the cover of the PSX CD automatically and arranged the game like a library. The user interface was top notch.

PSP – ppsspp. Price tag free for the normal version

This is the PsP emulator. Yes you heard it right. This is the emulator of playstation portable for the android device. You wont believe that there is a free version and it has the same capability with the paid version (the paid version has gold colored theme). Using my current spec, I could not play the three-dimension game at full speed. Yet, I managed to play visual novels and some rpg like Lunar and Tales of the world Radiant Mythology 2 at decent frame per second.

Nintendo DS – Drastic 

This is the number one Nintendo DS emulator for android. Not only that many games already at the full fps, you can even use the touch screen input to play the game. You can even use only one of the screens as the main and left out the other one, which looks good for Castlevania games

The downside is the price is currently set at 5.99$

Nintendo 64 - N64oid

I have tried some emulators for N64 and most of them have lag in 3D games. The n64oid is one of the N64 emulator that has fewer hiccups in my android. I have not tried with the faster Android phone though so you may encounter smoother game play experience.

How to install emulators in Android Smartphone.

For installing the emulators, you need android smartphone (off course), running Internet connection, a google account (you can create email when you first click google play), credit card account (for premium software), and a micro sd cards with some games ROMS inside.

First, copy the game ROMS inside the SD card memory. It is preferable if you create folder games, then adding the "unit" folder inside (for example NDS folder), and then put the ROMS inside

Second, you can click on Google play icons and type the emulator name and touch "search". For reference use the list of emulators above.

Click the install button and wait until the installation finished.

Click the emulator icons and click open file. Then, you can try to find the Rom directory in the micro sd and click open

Check the emulator faqs if possible and try to change the setting to your preferences

The emulators list above is not complete and generally the emu that I have tested personally in my smartphone. Yet, I will update my list in the future and if you have some questions related to the emulator, you could ask me to my email or post in the blog.