How to Play NES Games on Any Android Smartphone [In-Depth Guide]

Have you ever thought about how much fun you had playing these Nintendo games during your childhood? All the joys and frustrations of Super Mario Bros, Mega man, Contra and the legends of Zelda?

If so, then here's a solution: all you need to ease those memories is your Android smartphone, an active internet connection, and this handy guide that explains everything there is to know about classic games from Nintendo Entertainment games. System on an Android Smartphone.

Step 1: Download an NES emulator

First, you will need to download a free NES emulator as shown in the steps below:

• Go to Google Play Store, then search for Nostalgia.NES.
• Once you find the app, tap install and wait for the download to complete.
• When downloading, you can just open the app to preview how the app works, etc.

Step 2: Finding and Downloading NES Games

Next you will need a ROM of the game you want to play, i.e. the digital equivalent of a game tape. You can find many of these for free on the web as shown in the steps below - below:

• Open your phone's web browser and just search for NES ROMs and you can just tap on one of the links and download a game of your choice, in our case we went to: https://www.emulatorgames.net /roms/nintendo/ to download our ROMs.
• Once the download is complete you will see that it is a .zip file which in this case does not need to be extracted as you will see in step 3.

Also, because the NES is a very old console, all of the games it runs are also very old 8-bit games that only take up a few kilobytes of storage at a time, potentially allowing up to to thousands of games on your smartphone without worrying. about your internal storage running out or your smartphone slowing down.

Step 3: Load and play games

Once you have selected your favorite game and installed an emulator on your Android phone, you can simply load the newly downloaded game and relive your childhood as shown in the steps below:

• Open the Nostalgia emulator again and it will start scanning for ROMs automatically.

• Once you see your newly downloaded ROMs inside the emulator, tap on one of them and play.

That's pretty much how you too can play any NES game you want, right from your Android smartphone. Also, if you really want to experience that Nintendo Nostalgia, it's definitely worth investing in a USB controller with an OTG (USB-C male to USB-A female) adapter, both of which can be purchased on Amazon under Rs.1000.