It seems a lot of people want NES ROMs, but it also seems when they try to get them they are greeted with this unpleasant message: No NES ROMs Found. Please Upload ROMs to /var/mobile/Media/ROMs/NES. What does this mean?!? I’m going to to my best to try to answer this question because I know a lot of you are getting pretty annoyed about this.
What this all comes back to is that firmware 1.1.3 really messed things up for us. Before 1.1.3 was released there were some problems with adding NES ROMs to the iPod Touch, but no where near as many as there are now. The main thing that is most likely confusing and messing up a lot of people is the fact that NES ROMs were saved in a slightly different file path back on 1.1.1 and 1.1.2. 1.1.3 and 1.14 use the new different file path.
So, what are the two file paths?
For an iPod Touch with 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 the ROMs were saved in /var/root/Media/ROMs/NES
For an iPod Touch with 1.1.3 or 1.14 the ROMs go in /var/mobile/Media/ROMs/NES.
So the only real difference is that the “root” and “mobile” were swapped. Unfortunately this is more than enough of a change to cause major problems for a lot of you.
The next question a lot of you are probably have in your head is: But I never upgraded to 1.1.3, I’m still running 1.1.2, so why am I getting this same message?”. You are getting this message because you most likely updated to the newest version of the NES emulator (v2.0.4) and this version is made for 1.1.3. From the many e-mails I have received, I have noticed that the ones that are successful tend to be running the older version of the emulator, the one that was made for 1.1.1 and 1.1.2.
What can those of you who are having problems do? The answer is, you’re going to have to create the new file path EXACTLY as you see it above. This includes the proper capitalization. You can do this by downloading Mobile Finder in your installer.app or using any program to SSH into your iPod Touch. For the two programs I like, as well as for a guide of how to SSH, look at this post.
If you do all this and you still aren’t having any luck, uninstall the NES emulator and all the folders you just created. Make sure you save the ROMs, before you delete them! Once you have removed EVERYTHING, restart your iPod and try the entire process again. Hopefully the second time around it will work.
February 28, 2008 at 11:04 pm |
Thanks for this, I’m gonna give this a try right now.
February 28, 2008 at 11:05 pm |
Trying now…
I really hope this works!
February 28, 2008 at 11:10 pm |
HOLY JESUS IT WORKED YOU ARE MY HERO!!!!
February 28, 2008 at 11:50 pm |
well it didnt work for me the first time, now im uninstallling
i just wish this would work already
February 29, 2008 at 1:20 am |
can anyone help me change /var/root/Media/ROMs/NES to /var/mobile/Media/ROMs/NES.. I have an NES file and I have mobilefinder installed.
-Thanks
February 29, 2008 at 11:15 am |
finally now I understand why it won’t work LOL
now I just hope I can physically get it to work
March 1, 2008 at 6:15 pm |
where is ishare
March 2, 2008 at 2:08 am |
how do i get the old nes emulator?
March 2, 2008 at 5:12 pm |
I don’t feel like mannualy doing this stuff can I just get old version??????
March 3, 2008 at 12:33 am |
If someone can give me the version number of the old nes emulator I can probably find it. Then you would just have to replace the new version with the older one using SSH or iBrickr.
March 3, 2008 at 5:33 am |
Could Any one show me how to upload to /var/mobile/Media/ROMs/NES this file to iphone please?
My Iphone have NES icon but can’t open it.
ThankS a lots.
March 3, 2008 at 9:48 am |
If you downgrade to the older nes app do you need to move the roms to /var/mobile/Media/ROMs/NES
also does the older app work with 1.1.3 or 1.1.4?
March 3, 2008 at 9:00 pm |
I don’t understand how u create a file path. Can someone please help me?
March 4, 2008 at 1:23 am |
^^
same. I downloaded mobile finder already but don’t know how to change the path to /var/root/Media/ROMs/NES instead of /var/mobile/Media/ROMs/NES can anyone help?
March 6, 2008 at 2:02 am |
omg i want tosuck your dick! thanks soo much
March 6, 2008 at 8:58 am |
I just went through this last week, it was a bitch. I tried the download from the ipod, nothing. I used a program called cuteFTP (for windows) to make a FTP connection to my ipod. (a week ago i didnt know what this was. Use the youtube vids) but it really worked. set up the program, create/delete/copy files etc in your ipod as you wish. i created the ROMs folder in my NES folder and it worked like a charm. use this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1cTDb6qnWk
good luck all
March 6, 2008 at 6:55 pm |
that didnt work what a waste of time
March 8, 2008 at 4:01 am |
Hi Lonman06!
Could you help me how to unlock the iphone ?
I bought this phone on the Ebay,It worked perfectly with the firmware1.1.3.
Now The phone’ve been lock by the Itune,and I did run restore from the Itune,But I didn’t have the right simcard to activate the phone.I didn’t have turbosim.I live in Australia.Any one know how to unlock it without the turbosim,Please help me!
Thank so much!
March 9, 2008 at 1:15 pm |
i dont get how to do it AT ALL can some 1 please help me
March 11, 2008 at 8:01 am |
yo phongdu
had the same problem
just use ziphone newest version
when u run it just press
“do it all”
works 100%
March 11, 2008 at 1:57 pm |
guys dont worry i solve this problem with still no nes roms…look when u log in with winfcp…choose up in which location wish to go….press the var and then mobile and media and then roms and then nes and put…i solve it i have this prb over a year i wish to help
March 13, 2008 at 5:47 pm |
its impossible to use the Finder app from installer to get it to work. You have to install a app like CuteFTP and connect to your ipod. I use CuteFTP and when you connect just hit back space and go to the mobile folder. Then create a folder in mobile called ROMs and make a folder for the emulator you have, such as NES or GBA, then place all your roms here and they should save. I even went and deleted the fodlers i made earlier in my root folder for roms.
March 15, 2008 at 4:38 am |
EVERYONE I HAVE GOOD NEWS
I AM working on a repo
i have heaps of nes, snes and gba roms and currently am working on psx isos
i am downloading the ones that work
i may need some help from lonman06
March 26, 2008 at 3:16 am |
Very Cool Matthew!!! Please email the repo source when you get it running B.Has.Jesse@gmail.com thanks…I would really want GBA working for my iPod…
March 26, 2008 at 3:53 am |
what??????????
March 27, 2008 at 9:09 pm |
didn’t work for me. i’m using NES version 2.0.5-1. i’ve got firmware 1.1.4. i’m uploading to /var/mobile/Media/ROMs/NES via AFP, SFTP and FTP. and i’ve tried reinstalling/rebooting multiple times.
is anyone else continuing to have this same problem?
March 27, 2008 at 10:18 pm |
i’m having the same problem that …sigh…. has
The NES 2.0.5-1 didn’t recognize any file in /var/mobile/Media/ROMs/NES
March 28, 2008 at 4:08 pm |
I am pleased to announce that forums will be coming soon. Please click on the below link and tell me what you think.
I think this will be a good place where everyone can discuss iPod Touch hacking problems and it will be a great place to post sources and ishare account information.
http://lonman06.com/lonman06forums/
April 3, 2008 at 6:41 pm |
Hi I am back I been trying to get the nes games to work on my ipod tocuch 16 gig I have made a folder on my pc called
var/mobile/Media/ROMs/NES
I have 6 games in this folder to try nothen works
please help
thanks
April 4, 2008 at 9:37 am |
ok just made
/var/mobile/Media/ROMs/NES
on my ipod touch 1.1.4
now please let me know step by step
how do I upload ned ro the ipod.
thanks
ken
April 4, 2008 at 8:42 pm |
thanks for all the help I had to reformat my ipod touch inorder to get nes to work
thanks every one
April 27, 2008 at 3:14 am |
iPod touch /phones are so confusing. LOL
May 5, 2008 at 4:22 pm |
THIS IS GREAT NEWS!!!!!!! Now I know why ash doesn’t work!! Wrong file path!!
May 7, 2008 at 9:20 pm |
i need more sources for NES rom
May 7, 2008 at 9:22 pm |
PLEASE I NEED MORE SORCES FOR NES ROMS
May 14, 2008 at 11:45 am |
how are you supposed to get this to work?!?!?i have 1.1.4 so this is hard how do you get the roms
July 31, 2008 at 6:22 am |
NES Emulator v 2.0.5-1 from Installer app.
iPhone firmware 1.1.4
AFP to Root File System > var/mobile/Media
Created folder /ROMs
Created folder /NES
Placed all my collected roms into:
var/mobile/Media/ROMs/NES
Still unable to find installed roms.
Sad.
Previous version of NES Emulator worked under previous Firmware.
Any clues?
Yes, I’ve done it twice.
September 27, 2008 at 5:10 am |
So I’m new to the iPod hacking world. Can anyone give me breakdown of what to do. I’m lost.
I have the newest version of NES and firmware.
Thanks Dave
October 11, 2008 at 12:17 am |
This information helped me out immensely. I spent so much time trying to figure out why var/root/Media wasn’t working. Tonight is the first time I have jailbroken my iPhone and wasn’t aware about the directory change since everywhere you search online tells you to do it the old way.
November 26, 2008 at 12:36 am |
Holy Cow. That worked fine. Thank you so much for the info.
November 26, 2008 at 12:36 am |
That worked very well. Thank you so much.
December 13, 2008 at 4:19 pm |
Been trying to hours
Can anyone please tell me how to use the mobile finder to change the rom location??
December 29, 2008 at 2:05 pm |
Any1 got any gd sources so i cn get roms so i cn get ned plzzz
December 29, 2008 at 2:05 pm |
nes i ment