Pokemon needs no new introduction. It has been a series that has
housed hearts of millions of people all over the world. This anime series is
based on various flora and fauna with which, this world is filled. These flora
and fauna have been transformed into living beings that become friends of their
masters and serve them in each and every condition. The masters treat them as a
family member and as closest friends with whom, they talk, travel and
experience new things around. Masters are found and a Pokemon fight is made to
go through for some particular bet. In all, this experience counts for the
master to go further and achieve the next level.
Pokemon gadgets and goodies have gained a huge popularity
since the launch of cartoon series. According to an estimate, Pikachu, one of
the leading Pokemon characters, is still in the list of most bought soft toys.
The Pokemon cartoon series actually begun with the game made for Game Boy which
was published by Nintendo. It has been about two decades since the beginning of
the franchisee and the popularity of this franchisee has reached sky-heights.
There have been hundreds of replications of Pokemon game since the popularity of the franchisee. There was a time
when this was available only for Nintendo device, but with the advancement in
the technology and popularity, the game is available in various forms,
beginning from a simple PSP to a hi-fi smartphone. This is the reason; hundreds
of emulators and ROMs are easily available over the Internet so that you can
easily have an access to these games on your portable device.
To understand the concept as to how your iPhone will support
the Pokemon game, we begin from the root level, which is the need of an
emulator. Emulator basically is a software that helps in running ROMs, which
are the files meant for a particular game or software that run on your device.
There are a large number of emulators available over the Internet, and you need
to make a wise choice while choosing it. The device for which, the emulator is
needed also plays a vital role in making the choice.
Get Pokemon for iPhone without jailbreak
[Note - This method
has been tried and tested on iPhone 5, iPhone 4, and it worked without any
problem. This tutorial should work for iPhone 6 as well.]
Steps to install Pokemon for
iPhone in case your phone has not been jailbroken are mentioned below. Keep
in mind that these are the steps only and only if you haven’t made your phone
undergo the process of jailbreak.
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Step 1: DO NOT upgrade your
iOS 8 phone to iOS 8.1. Updating to the latter version restricts the working of
the best emulator app that is GBA4iOS. SO, if
you have an older version of iPhone running on iOS 8, donot update it. Just keep it as such. If by
mistake, or as a factory setting, your iPhone is working on iOS 8.1, you will have to jailbreak your phone in order to
install and run the mentioned emulator.
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Step 2: Change
the date of your phone. In order for the app to run smoothly, you will have to
go through some extra steps. Every time you
restart your iPhone, you will have to change the date of your iPhone. You will have to set the date to some past
duration for this purpose. In order to do so, you can follow the steps
mentioned below.
i.
Open the
“Settings” on your iPhone.
ii.
Go to
“General” option and select “Date & Time” in the menu that appears.
iii.
If the “Set
Automatically” option is set to ON, simply turn it “OFF”. This would restrict your iPhone to automatically update its time to
the present date through the Internet connectivity.
iv.
You will have
to alter the date setting. Change the date to at least a day back. For basic
allowance purposes and for preventing any mishap, change the date to at least a
month prior to the present date.
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Step 3: Open
the Browser on your iPhone. The default browser of iPhone that is Safari can be
a good option for this purpose. What you need to do is install the official
GBA4iOS app. For this purpose, you can follow the mentioned steps.
ii.
Click on the
link saying “Download GBA4iOS”.
iii.
You will be
prompted to confirm the download. So tap the download button.
iv.
Click on the
“Install” button.
v.
Being a
little heavy, this app might take some time to completely get installed.
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Step 4: After
the app has been downloaded and installed, open the app’s icon available on the
Home Screen. When you firstly open the app, a screen asking for confirmation
will pop-up. Tap on the “Trust” option.
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Step 5: The
steps for installing the emulator ends here. Now comes the task of finding the
game that could run with the app. For this purpose, you need to find out the
ROMs of the game that you want to play, like for the present scenario, you need
Pokemon for iPhone. This can be
achieved by finding the ROM for the Pokemon game, which can be easily found
over the Internet. You can use any browser for this purpose. There are various
sites that provide ROMs but the most trusted location for this is CoolROM.
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Step 6: After
searching for the best ROM, you need to download it by tapping on the
“Download” button.
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Step 7: Now
the most important thing is running the downloaded ROM. For the functioning of
the game, you need to open the emulator and run the file in that emulator. This
will lead to the game getting played smoothly, and hence help you in achieving
your aim of running the Pokemon game on iPhone.
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Step 8: The final
step in this process is changing back the date and Time. After running the
emulator for the first time, you can revert back the date and time to the
actual condition. No need to keep the time of the past generation.
Download Pokemon for iPhone (Jailbreak Versions)
In case you have updated your phone to iOS 8.1, or have a
jailbreak version of iOS, you will have to follow some different steps. The
steps in this case are mentioned below.
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Step 1: In
case your phone is already in the Jailbreak mode, you can skip this step. But
if your iPhone has iOS 8.1 and is not a jailbreak version, you will have to go
through the procedure of jailbreaking your phone. Though the process is a bit
risky but there are professionals who can achieve this task with simplicity.
There are various helping kits and guides available for jailbreaking your phone
too.
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Step 2: Now, you
will have to launch Cydia, which is the manager of the Jailbreak package on an
iPhone. This helps in installing the apps on your phone that are third-party
and are not available on the official Apple App Store. In this app, you will
have to search for GBA4iOS app. There are a few Pokemon games that you won’t be
play on this emulator and for that purpose, you will have to download and
install NDS4iOS emulator.
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Step 3: Download and
Install the desired app, say GBA4iOS. After getting installed, open the app and
confirm the launch. The app is good to go.
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Step 4: The next few
steps remain the same as in the non-jailbreak version. For the next step, you
will have to surf the Internet in order to find the desired ROM compatible with
the downloaded emulator. These ROMs are easily available throughout the
Internet, CoolROMs being one of the most trusted spaces for the same. Make sure
that you find the desired ROM as is needed for your requirement.
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Step 5: Now all you
need to do is Download the ROM and run it with the installed emulator. In this
manner, the app or the game would start running smoothly without any sort of
lag.
The above steps teach us, how one
can get Pokemon for iPhone. Following the above mentioned simple steps, getting any
game for iPhone becomes easy as ROMs are available for numerous games, which
cannot easily be found on the App Store. All you need to do is surf some safe
sites for this ROM and see if it is compatible with the emulator that you have
installed. In case the emulator does not support your ROM file, you can go for
ROM from some other source but for the same game, or can find the emulator that
supports that ROM and install it on your iPhone.
So the simple steps for making the Pokemon game run on
your iPhone have been mentioned above. You can follow these steps and achieve
the objective. Now you can also be one of the competitors competing against
your friends in this game. Pokemon is an addictive game
and the various versions of this game grasp the player in such a manner that
the gamer cannot leave his phone for long. He comes back to his phone in order
to play this game. So install the
emulator on your iPhone and enjoy the gaming experience.
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