Play all three of your favorite Nintendo Mario games in one plugin! Features Super Mario Brothers, Super Mario Brothers 2, and Super Mario Brothers 3. Controls auto adjust the classic NES controller to your phone or tablet.

This is a project that I’ve been working on for months, and is the beginning to a small lineup that I like to call “Pretendo”. Play your favorite original Nintendo games on your mobile device. For the first installment, I wanted to do Super Mario Brothers, and decided to throw in part 2 and part 3 for free.

You may be wondering about copyright issues here… so did I… so I did the research before starting the project. Emulators are nothing new, and have been deemed perfectly legal software to own and use. It’s the physical ownership of the ROM’s (game files) that are questionable. Thats why I designed the “Pretendo” system plugin as a shell that handles all of the interaction and controls, but pulls the working game files from an online resource instead of bundling them with the plugin. As long as you pull the rome from another host, your app does nothing more than what google would do when linking to these rom sites. The ROMS are never in your app, nor your possession. 100% legal. It’s the owners of the ROM site that it pulls from that would ever have to prove that they owned the original games (ROM’s are legal to own if you have purchased the original retail version, for backup purposes). However… don’t expect to submit a super mario brothers game to the Apple app store and get approval… they won’t let it happen. Could you get away with including a lesser known Nintendo title as a game within a larger app and get it past Apple? Probably. Google Play store… probably not an issue. But this is more intended for someone like me that just wants to play classic nintendo games on their mobile devices, or to make a nintendo app for their kids to play with for personal use and not for commercial distribution, so use at your own risk. I would LOVE it if Nintendo released their games in mobile format on the app store, and would have no problem paying $5 a piece for them… but they don’t. So, being a die hard classic Nintendo fan, I created this nifty little plugin to allow me to play my NES games on my mobile devices. These are the games I played when I was growing up, and would rather play a good game of super mario or paperboy over call of duty any time! :)

There is a section in the control panel that links up to the ROM, but for privacy reasons, we *** out the actual link. However we do show you the base website that the ROMS are pulled from if you are curious and want to explore it.

The plugin features the classic Nintendo controller (oops… I mean “Pretendo” controller), which automatically sizes perfectly for any mobile device… iPhone, iPad, android phone, android tablet, windows mobile, etc). The perfect balance between arcade screen and controller area was achieved so that controls feel natural and not hard to push the buttons or move the D-pad. The only two minor issues at the moment are that we highly recommend portrait mode, as landscape doesn’t look as good (functional, but not as sleek as portrait), and sound is only available through your devices headphone port, which is a hardware limitation based on how the ROM files output the sound and how the plugin inter pets the ROM data.

Things to consider when using this plugin… 1) Apple isn’t going to approve an app that uses Nintendo’s game files. Use it for personal builds to play yourself, or build an app for your kids. You may also have some luck hitting the Cydia market with it. 2) The rome are hosted on the internet, so there’s no legal issues with the rom files. 3) If using this for more than non-commercial personal use, make you you disclaim any copyrights and trademarks that belong to Nintendo. 4) By downloading the plugin, you agree to hold myself, Buzztouch, and/or any affiliates harmless of any legal action resulting from direct or non direct use or misuse of any of this plugin, either in part or in whole. Again, the rome are from a third party source, so they are coolroms.com’s responsibility,but just wanted to make sure everything was covered.

Remember, you get all THREE Super Mario Games in one in this plugin! These are the full games, from start to end, as they were originally released. They are not clones or just a few levels, but the real deal.


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Version History:
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Version 1.0 - Initial Public Release

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iOS Project:
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Compatible with all apple devices (3.5” iPhone, 4” iPhone, and all iPads)

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Android Project:
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Compatible with all Android phones and tablets