Now Get NES on Your Shadow

Posted by Mike Benton on July 17th, 2008

Thanks to Joe for bringing this one up. For all of you that would enjoy having NES on your Shadow or other Windows Mobile device, prepare to be thrilled. You can be up and running your favorite game in no time. Just follow these instructions.

  1. On your Shadow go to mobile.surrealnetworks.com
  2. Click on Applications for Dash
  3. Scroll down to Pocket Nester Plus and download it
  4. Run the cab file if it doesn’t automatically
  5. Go to Start > PocketNesterPlus > Options > Controllers > and assign the keys to your liking. Don’t forget to assign a key to Menu
  6. Go back to Internet Explorer, from the same page you downloaded PNP from is a link (in the same paragraph) that lists a directory of NES roms/games.
  7. Download the game you want and start playing!
  8. The mega packs don’t work so we’re creating one for you. Should be up in the within a day.

Enjoy!

For another source of ROMs see our page on NES Pocket Nester Plus

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39 Comments

  • tito said:

    it doesn’t work for me I downloaded it and it says that it is meant for a previous version and when I change the controls nothing works the game goes by itself and I’ve tried with multiple game only button that works is menu

    any ideas?

  • whoaday said:

    tito, once you have found the menu button, make sure you go to the controller setting and change the keys. one thing to point out is that when you are changing the key setting, delete them all and then go one by one and add in the keys. this way you know that they all have been switched. also I doesn’t say ” button a = 6″, it has it on some sort of button layout system.

  • Mike Benton said:

    tito, did you skip a step in the instructions?

  • Russel said:

    i found this little gem on the shadow forums a while ago.. it’s awesome! definitely a must have! most of the games run at full speed too.. i just turn off the sound to get the more troublesome games running better..

  • kenneth said:

    the only thing about this is device is known to freeze on apps like this installed, so make sure this is what you want to download and is it worth having to master reset the phone and having it crash… i work on these i should know

  • tito said:

    I didn’t do step 5 when I download the pnp and install it I go to start and I can’t find it so I download a game and when it pops up I hit the menu key and then reset the controllers but it still doesn’t work and I deleted all the keys and put them in separately

  • Russel said:

    @kenneth

    at times i’ll be playing a game, for example metroid, and pause it to go to the main screen to check a text message i just recieved.. i’ve had it running in the background while doing other things, and the worst that’s ever happened to me is that it slows down windows mobile and locks up the task manager so i have to turn my phone off then on again.. i’ve never had it completely freeze or lock up my phone where i had to do a master reset.. but that’s just my experience :)

  • tito said:

    hey thanks guys I just re downloaded it and restarted my phone and now it works :-)

  • derrick said:

    i try to play wrestlemania and it freezes, wtf is up with that?

  • Mike Benton said:

    tito, I would suggest uninstalling it completely and starting back at step one.

    derrick, yeah some of the FREE games don’t work I had a problem with one or two so far but nothing that breaks me heart. I even found some new ones. Star Trek the Next Generation is difficult to ‘lock the transporter’

  • Pollirox said:

    can anyone gimme any ideas on the key setting for the controllers..i tried everything..and it just doesn’t work  i reinstalled it  tried  resetting the controllers and  nada. what whoaday said  it’s true  it has some sort of button layout system . like if i go 1 for the  A buttton it’ll say 0×31  if i go 3 for the B button it’ll say 0×33   can somebody help me ??

  • Vlad said:

    To the people who had troubles with getting the controls to work. When you go to Options > Controllers. You first set up your controls, then check that last setting that says (Alternative Key Scanning). I had that same problem, but when I check that key, it works fine. Love this emulator.

  • Vlad said:

    tito, the Nester is in the Games section/folder. So Start > Games > Pocket NesTer

  • Mike Benton said:

    thanks vlad, I missed what he meant :)

  • ERIC said:

    I don’t understand where you have to go to set the controls…everything downloaded fine but I can’t do anything cuz I have no controls

  • derrick said:

    can someone list all the games that freezes like wrestlemania for example?

  • marcello said:

    this would be the first app i have wanted to try 4 my shadow, but just wanted to know if there r alot of problems w/ the fone crashing …

  • john said:

    i honestly think that the snes is better, it has better games, lol. (that’s in my opinion), even though it runs a little slow its still cool!!

  • law said:

    where to get games for nes

  • Mike Benton said:

    derrick, let’s just list them here as they show up.

    law the games are available from the same place as the program

  • Nick M said:

    I have had this for a couple of days now and I love it!! So far none of the games have crashed on me and they all run great. Wish i could play Duck Hunt though lol.

  • Alex said:

    This is awesome! Thanks for the post!

  • derrick said:

    what games won’t crash? cause i tried playing wwf wrestlemania and super mario bros 3 and couldnt

  • Cykle666 said:

    so far, my phone crashed when I tried Ninja Gaiden and Metal Gear. I went ahead and deleted the program because it didn’t really work for my phone. I don’t know what everyone who says it works for the did to their phone to make it work, but my shadow doesn’t like this program!

  • Nick M said:

    I didn’t tweak the phone at all i just downloaded the games and played them. I haven’t tried WWF yet but super mario three and ninja gaiden worked fine for me.

  • derrick said:

    never mind, i got it working, it seems i hadnt assigned the controls, lmfao, silly me

  • benji said:

    it doesnt work to change the the controlls, it wont let i

  • L said:

    can someone site wat website to get games

  • x said:

    i downloadesd everything according to the directiions and nothing is working not even the menu button somone plz help

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  • Rich said:

    what should i do if the game is playing in slow motion? it was working fine yesterday and i haven’t installed any new apps since.

  • verbara said:

    I have Mario 3 for regular nintendo on my shadow and it works well but how do i save a game? One of the options is load state or save state but i get lost after that.

  • ssskittles said:

    So i followed all the steps but, the screen is blank. I try to open up my ROM but nothing happens, the screen remains black. Maybe i skipped a step or something? have any ideas to help me out. Thanks

  • Ti said:

    I’ve tried assigning the controls; however when I start the game, it does not respond to any of them.

  • Ti said:

    Never mind I reset the controlls and it’s working!

  • keyla said:

    i’ve downloaded the game as instructed and when i go to open rom under pocket nester nothing is there no games or anything. i just have a black screen. i downloaded to my pc and transferred the file over…

  • KEYLA said:

    OK I FIGURED IT OUT. ONCE YOU DOWNLOAD THE GAME PACKAGE GO BACK TO INTERNET EXPLORER PAGE WHERE YOU DOWNLOADED THE PACKAGE AND READ TO THE END OF THAT PASSAGE IT SHOULD SAY NES ROM FILES CLICK ON THAT AND YOU’LL SEE A LIST OF THE GAMES. PICK THE ONES YOU WANT AND DOWNLOAD THEM THEN WHEN YOU BACK IN GAME MODE THE BLACK SCREEN GO TO FILE OPEN ROM AND YOU’LL SEE THE GAMES YOU DOWNLOADED IN YOUR MY DOCUMENTS FOLDER AT THE END OF THE LIST… NOW I HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET THE CONTROLLERS TO STICK WITH ALL THE GAMES. SEEMS LIKE I’M RESETING IT EACH TIME I PLAY….

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  • jeffdman64 said:

    every time i try to download a game it says error cant view item on screen. does anyone know how to get pass this


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