Apple's App Store may well be a haven of new, always-updated touch-based gaming experiences, but what if you have an urge for some retro gaming? A recent guide will show you how to get Super Nintendo gaming on your iPad.

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Hack Lets You Play Retro Nintendo
Games on Your iPad
Jul 14, 2010
From PC World
Apple's App Store may well be a haven of
new, always-updated touch-based gaming
experiences, but what if you have an urge
for some retro gaming? A recent guide will
show you how to get Super Nintendo gaming on your iPad.
Of course playing emulated games on your iPad is nothing new - any
jailbroken device has been able to play hundreds of retro classics for many
months now. However, Lifehacker instructions detail how you can play Super
Nintendo games, amongst others, on your iPad all whilst controlling the action
with a connected wireless Wii remote.
To get going, you will need a computer nearby, in addition to a Wii remote, an
Apple 30-pin sync cable, a copy of jailbreaking tool Spirit JB and an iPad.
Once you have collected all the required goods, be sure to back up your iPad
and then get set on jailbreaking. With your iPad now jailbroken it's simply a
case of installing the snes4iphone app, adding some ROMS and syncing your
Wii remote via bluetooth. Play Retro Nintendo Games on Your iPad
Now we show you the steps in more detail. You can follow all the instructions
below:
What you'll need:
* iPad (obviously)
* Wiimote
* iPad/iPhone/iPod Sync Cable
* A Mac, Windows, or Linux Computer
Step 1: Jailbreak!
You need a jailbroken iPad. To do that, grab a copy of Spirit Jailbreak. (Guide:
how to jailbreak iPad) It works for iPads running iOS 3.2, runs on Mac,
Windows, and Linux, and requires just a single click.

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Before you jailbreak, however, you should know two things: first, you could
potentially mess up your iPad irreparably; Second, you should sync and back
up everything first in case you have issues.
Once you've done all that, quit iTunes and open Spirit Jailbreak. It'll let you
know in its tiny little window that an iPad is connected. If it is and Spirit is
ready, just click the Jailbreak button. When it's finished it may turn into a close
button, but clicking that close button may restart the jailbreak process. It's
okay to quit at this point.
If everything went well, you should now have a jailbroken iPad with Cydia
installed (it should show up somewhere on your home screen after you
jailbreak).
Step 2: Download snes4iphone
With Cydia already installed, you should find it somewhere on your home
screen. Launch it and click "Cydia Store: Products" once everything has
loaded. This will give you a screen filled with popular for-pay apps. Lucky for
us, snes4iphone is one of them and you can get it for $6. Click on
snes4iphone and then click "Purchase" in the upper righthand corner. Once
you do that you'll be prompted to authenticate using your Google or Facebook
account, and then to pay using your Amazon or PayPal account. How you do
it is entirely up to you. Once you've paid, snes4iphone will download and you'll
be ready to load up some games

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Step 3: Installing ROMs
There are a couple of ways to load games onto your iPad for use with
emulators. The first way is to SSH into your iPad and copy the ROMs over.
Your ROMs are stored at: /var/mobile/media/ROMs/
For SNES there will be another directory inside of ROMs called SNES
(assuming you've launched snes4iphone already). If you have other
emulators, it's likely their ROM directories will be here as well.
Alternatively, you can browse for ROMs online (or upload yours and put the
link into snes4iphone) and download them directly onto your iPad by going to
the Browse section of snes4iphone and clicking Search in the upper righthand
corner of the screen.
Step 4: Syncing the Wiimote

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Syncing the Wiimote is pretty easy. All you have to do is open up
snes4iphone, go into the options panel, and turn on Wiimote Support (it's the
last option). Once you do that, relaunch snes4iphone and you'll see it
searching for a Wiimote. Grab your Wiimote and hold down both the 1 and 2
buttons. Fairly quickly snes4iphone should find the Wiimote and you'll be all
set to go.
If you find you're running into problems you should turn off your iPad's
Bluetooth in your iPad's settings. This may seem counterintuitive, but because
snes4iphone uses another method to connect to Bluetooth devices (btstack)
your iPad's Bluetooth software may interfere.
Alternatives: SNES HD
This isn't the only method for playing SNES games on your iPad, and you also
aren't limited to just one console. Cydia has other emulators (NES, N64, etc.),
many of which contain Wiimote support, that you can download. If you have

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an iPhone or iPod touch and would prefer to use that as a controller instead of
a Wiimote, you can do that with SNES HD (follow the instructions on that
page for adding the necessary source to Cydia to download it). Be aware that
you'll need a to jailbreak your iPhone or iPod touch in order to use it as a
controller. Spirit may be able to take care of that for you as well, but it doesn't
support every iPhone and iPod touch so be sure to check before you dive in
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