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Before the smartphones we know today were staples of mainstream culture, mobile phones, and their technology were pretty rudimentary and often relied on apps made in Java seeing as the language was designed to be portable (though Windows Mobile and Symbian were also somewhat popular as proto-smartphone platforms of choice). This didn't keep games from being developed for these platforms. Casual simplistic games and rip-offs of retro franchises thrived, but it attracted some genuinely fun games that forever remained obscure, such as those from Gameloft.

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|Symbian

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|[[N-Gage (service)|N-Gage 2.0]]

|[[Mophun]]

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<code>.JAR</code> files of Java-based non-Japanese cell phones can be still found online with some effort, namely on WAP sites offering (pirated) mobile content.

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While originally not intended for games (until its more advanced game-oriented API came), it became the ''de facto'' market standard for cell phone gaming - due in no small part to the SDK being free and without licensing costs.

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|[https://archive.org/details/phoneme-svn.dump SVN Dump]

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;Samsung Java SDK

;LG SDK

;Pstros

;SJ Boy

;Minisoyo

:One of the older emulators. Fixed low resolution (176x220) and compatibility, no handler app support. The installer may contain adware.

:Emulator from a company that used to develop solutions to allow users to try J2ME game demos on their computer before purchasing them. Doesn't have any known advantageous features. Requires : [https://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp JRE].

:It's a pure Java implementation of Java ME.

;J2ME Runner

;[[phoneME]] <small>(unofficial ports)</small>

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|release = 7 October 2003

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'''[[N-Gage]]''' is a mobile phone and a handheld game device developed and designed by <i>Nokia Corporation</i>,

Originally a joint Nintendo-Nokia cellphone handheld hybrid project slated for 2005, Nintendo backed away from the project (and its plans for NES/Game Boy ports for mobile were repurposed for their Virtual Engine project). Nokia continued the project on their own anyways and released N-Gage on October 7, 2003, for <abbr title="$377.10 in 2018 money">$299</abbr> as the most powerful handheld of its time, that is up until the DS and PSP came along and ended Nokia's hopes at dominating the handheld gaming market. It had an ARM920T CPU at 104 MHz.

Has a revision called the ''QD'' which was unveiled on April 14, 2004, with an ARM9E CPU. ROM dumps of Symbian and N-Gage games are available.

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:Early attempt at a commercial N-Gage emulator. Haves no real benefits over other offerings

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A [https://blackberry.qnx.com/en QNX] based operating system used in BlackBerry devices.

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|BlackBerry Simulator Series

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PalmOS is a mobile operating system developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants (PDAs) in 1996.

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==Acknowledgments==

* [https://www.gamedev.net/articles/programming/general-and-gameplay-programming/the-clash-of-mobile-platforms-j2me-exen-moph-r1944 A 2003 article from GameDev.net] about the major Western mobile phone systems.

==See Also==

* [[Cellphone games preservation]]

==References==

{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Cellphone emulators|*]]