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Prior to Before the smartphones gaining we know today were staples of mainstream acceptanceculture, mobile phones and their technology were quite pretty rudimentary and was often relied reliant on apps to be made in Java applications seeing as a primary programming the language was designed to be portable (though proto-smartphone devices using Windows Mobile and Symbian were also somewhat popularas 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 Gamelofttitles.

.<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 e.g. Peperonity.

Earlier black-and-white cell phone games (both in Japan and worldwide) didn't get as much love either when it comes to emulation and preservation of game binaries. There were however recreations of Snake and Space Impact for Nokia phones on their website at one time, along with remakes of the aforementioned games for Android and iOS.

==J2ME <small>(Java 2 Micro Edition)</small>==A free cross-platform language capable of working in devices with highly reduced capabilities, . It was basically Java stripped down to the bare essentials.

While originally not intended originally 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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|style!colspan="text5"|PC|-align:center;"|[[KEmulator]]|style="text-align:center;"|Windows|style="text-align:center;"|0.9.8|style="text-align:center;"|Mid|style="text-align:center;"|✓

|style="text-align:center;"|[[Sj-Boy-JavaEmulator]]|style="text-align:center;"|Windows|style="text-align:center;"|?|style="text-align:center;"|Low|style="text-align:center;"|✗

|style="text-align:center;"|[[MidpX]]|style="text-align:center;"|Windows|style="text-align:center;"|?|style="text-align:center;"|Low|style="text-align:center;"|✗

|style="text-align:center;"|[http://multiphasicapps.net/doc/ckout/readme.mkd SquirrelJME]|style="text-align:center;"|Windows|style="text-align:center;"|?|style="text-align:center;"|Mid|style="text-align:center;"|?

|style="text-align:center;"|Nokia SDKs|style="text-align:center;"|Windows|style="text-align:center;"|Official|style="text-align:center;"|Mid (Nokia-only)|style="text-align:center;"|✓

|style="text-align:center;"|[https://github.com/hex007/freej2me freej2me]|style="text-align:center;"|Multi-platform|style="text-align:center;"|2017-09-23|style="text-align:center;"|?|style="text-align:center;"|?|}{| class="wikitable"|+Other

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|style="text-align:center;"|[[PSPKVM]]|style="text-align:center;"|PSP|style="text-align:center;"|[http://sourceforge.net/projects/pspkvm/files/latest/download 0.5.4 (2009)]|style="text-align:center;"|Mid|style="text-align:center;"|✓

|style="text-align:center;"|[[phoneME]]|style="text-align:center;"|Android|style="text-align:center;"|?|style="text-align:center;"|?|style="text-align:center;"|?

|style="text-align:center;"|[[JBED]]|style="text-align:center;"|Android|style="text-align:center;"|?|style="text-align:center;"|?|style="text-align:center;"|?

* ''';MidpX''' is one :One of the older emulators. Fixed low resolution (176x220) and compatibility, no handler app support.* ''';Sj-Boy-JavaEmulator''' is more :More compatible than MidpX. Can take snapshots. More resolutions (but still buggy).* ''';KEmulator''' has :Has even more features and compatibility (even 3D emulation) than other ones. Has support for custom resolution and full screen (View/Options). You can even set a proxy server for mobile java Java apps that connect to the internet under options. Requires Java Runtime Environment installed. Is the optimal recommended solution. Last update is was in 2012, closed-source.* ;PSPKVM:Available for cell-phones. Might be the first one that's open-source. Last update was in 2009.;freej2me:A new open-source emulator and the only one known to be multi-platform. A [[libretro]] core is also under development. SDKs for certain Nokia platforms e.g. Series 40 and S60 may still be available, and while the emulators that come with them are made with development in mind, they can also be useful for playing most Java games and Symbian applications.* PSPKVM is available for cell-phones. Might be the first one that's open-source. Last update is 2009.* '''freej2me''' is a new open-source emulator and the only known one that is multi-platform. [[Libretro]] support is also in works.

==ExEn <small>(Execution Engine)</small>==Properitary free A freeware solution developed by French mobile game developer In-Fusio around 2000, . It was a Java-based solution presenting itself as an alternative to the limitations of J2ME in 's game development (offering missing feautures like sprite zooming, parallax scrolling, rotations...).

Achieved It achieved relative success and widespread hardware support in Europe, and was also used in China.

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|style="text-align:center;"|EXEN-V2 Generic Simulator|style="text-align:center;"|Windows|style="text-align:center;"|(will upload later)?|style="text-align:center;"|Low|style="text-align:center;"|✗

* ;EXEN-V2 Generic Simulator is a :A very old dead emulator for ExEn software. While many games will go in-game, they'll crash at various points.

Being the turnkey solutions firm that they are known for, as their chips are used on millions and millions of el-cheapo "Shanzhai" devices all over the world (especially those counterfeit Nokias and Goophones among other things), Mediatek has also come up with their own mobile platform and API known as the [http://news.softpedia.com/news/Opera-Mini-Arrives-on-MediaTek-s-Runtime-Environment-MRE-238105.shtml Mediatek Runtime Environment], aka MAUI. It is aimed targeted for those so-called "smart" feature phones, i.e. those that offer similar functionality similar to advanced OSes standard mobile operating systems like Android, but are watered down for entry-level users. An SDK is available on their [http://mre.mediatek.com/en/sdk/2.0 developer site] for members, and .<code>VXP </code> files for games and other applications appear to be available on the usual WAP sites.

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|style="text-align:center;"|Mediatek MRE SDK|style="text-align:center;"|Windows|style="text-align:center;"|[http://mre.mediatek.com/en/sdk/2.0 3.0]|style="text-align:center;"|?|style="text-align:center;"|✓

==WGE <small>(Wireless Graphics Engine)</small>==

==N-Gage <small>(Nokia)</small>==

Has a revision called the QD. Rom ROM dumps of N-Gage games are available.

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|style="text-align:center;"|N-GageCool|style="text-align:center;"|Windows|style="text-align:center;"|1.2.1 ($)|style="text-align:center;"|Terrible|style="text-align:center;"|✗

* ;N-GageCool is a :A dead payware emulator for the N-GageWindows. It only partially emulated the J2ME-based N-Gage exclusives and nothing else from the rest of the bunch.* No :Outside of this emulator, no real emulation solution exists yet for the N-Gage as a whole.

==Japanese i-mode <small>(DoCoMo)</small>==

?????????? unknown, none in English{{No known emulators}}<!--speaking web ==Japanese mobile (Other)==?????????-->

* [httphttps://books.google.frcom/books?id=tCxvX60J8OAC&pglpg=PA145PP1&lpgpg=PA145&dq=i-mode+emulator&source=bl&ots=iwOSOKVnTR&sig=pNoSwATDNBLXVf41gULgCDkrdm8&hl=fr&sa=X&ei=DBw6VbWbB4HrOILYgZgK&ved=0CF8Q6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=i-mode%20emulator&f=false BookMicro Java Game Development] mentioning , mentions Japanese i-mode emulators that are currently dead, like i-tool.* [httphttps://www.gamedev.net/pagearticles/resourcesprogramming/_/technical/mobilegeneral-and-gameplay-developmentprogramming/the-clash-of-mobile-platforms-j2me-exen-moph-r1944 ArticleA 2003 article from GameDev.net] about the major Western mobile phone systems