Java ME mobile phones

Before 2.5 generation of cell phones mobile games came pre-instaled with a device. If you wanted new game you had to buy new phone. Everything changed when mobile phones began to modernize. Introduction of Java ME, GPRS internet services and color display changed games. They became more advanced and could be downloaded on a phone via the mobile operator's network. Camera phones and EDGE internet services (called sometimes 2.75G) were another significant step in mobile games evolution. Their storage and graphic capabilities allowed to produce better quality games. Unfortunately Java games were still inferior in comparison with handheld console games due to the lack of processing power of the phones. Also there is a shitload amount of titles based on a movie licenses or dumbed down versions of console games produced only for quick cash. Because of that unlike in Japan mobile phone games in US and Europe never broketrough until arrival of Apple and Android smartphones.

If you want to emulate Java games on your PC probably the best way will be KEmulator Lite In a case of issues with running it check Java Runtime Environment version installed on your PC. It should be ok with JRE 6 Update 33 but in a case of troubles try with other versions. There should be also Java ME emulators made for iPhone/iPad and Android. If you want to play these games at your standard Java phone you can load them easily via Boototh, memory card or through WAP Games usually came in few different versions made for different phone models. They don't have to match exactly. A lot of games will run on different phone model that they were intented to. More important can be screen resolution or .jar file size so running them could be trial of error.

Java games are very easy to translate, there are a lot of tools for that in the internets. Also Japanese mobile games can't be emulated or played on non Japanese phones because of their distribution structure that resembles cloud gaming.