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JL-Mod

Developer(s)	woesss
Latest version	0.81+MC_0.98.8
Active	Yes
Platform(s)	Android
Emulates	J2ME Mascot Capsule V3
Support ($)	PayPal Qiwi
Programmed in	Java, C C (Mascot Capsule)
License	Apache 2.0
Source code	GitHub

JL-Mod is an experimental mod of J2ME Loader with support for games Developed for the Sony Ericsson's 3D engine "Mascot Capsule V3".

Overview & compatibility

Released in 2020, the emulator is currently capable of playing thousands of J2ME games, more than 96.7% of the J2ME library with supports most 2D games and also 3D with Mascot Capsule V3 support. Has some new and experimental features. Converts .jar files offline using its own resources. Easily launches both 2D & 3D apps. Samsung & Nokia API implemented. Supports different keyboard layouts and customization. It is highly accurate, with the right frame rate for each game, as well as vibration. Has slightly improved performance through hardware acceleration, but games won't run too fast. Runs almost every Nokia game, especially Gameloft games, even ones that don't work with KEmulator or FreeJ2ME. Dev wroted a wrapper for the Win32 version of the Mascot engine, which was provided to the NTT DoCoMo i-mode (DoJa/Star) emulators. Using this wrapper, for support Mascot Capsule V3 on KEmulator and FreeJ2ME on Win32 version of JRE or It's worked on use KEmulator 1.0.3 mod or Official Sony Ericsson SDK/JDK or here for Windows, JDK doesn't work on X64.

Features / Settings

Fast emulation
Highly compatibility
Bluetooth API support
Samsung / Nokia / Motorola API implemented
Siemens API implemented
Touchscreen input support
Supports external virtual keyboards and QWERTY input
3D support + Mascot Capsule 3D V3 support (Mascot Capsule 3D API implemented)
Menu key remapping support
Buttons customisation support
Supports different keyboard layouts and customization
Individual settings for each application.
Highly accurate, with the right frame rate (FPS limit support) for each game, as well as vibration.
Hardware acceleration support (but games won't run too fast)
Screen gravity support
Screen orientation
Accelerometer support
Scaling support
Immediate processing mode

→ Add support of external shaders filters

Only PPSSPP (.vsh format) shaders are supported, to put them in the JL-Mod/shaders folder in the working folder of the emulator, further in the game settings, select the graphics output mode: HW acceleration (OpenGL ES) and select the shader of interest A small collection of compatible shaders Here

→ Game setting

FAQs ★ In JL setting ★

Q. Enable Action bar

– Enable display of screenshot button, side menu

★ In game setting ★

Q. Resulation

A. Set the resolution of the loaded game. Select in the game settings and also specify any resolution, specify any for 3D and touch games, since they often have auto-scale, supports 4k.

Q. Background

A. Choosing a background color under the main game.

Q. Scale
A. Image scale from the specified resolution.

Q. Screen gravity

Q. Screen orientation

A. Changes screen orientation: Landscape, Portrait, Auto

Q. Filter
A. This function increases the quality of the game, but may also decrease the performance.

Q. Graphic mode
A. Selecting the render mode The graphics mode only affects the final scaling of the frame and the way it is delivered to the screen

1. Software - Used by CPU to output 2D and 3D graphics

2. Hardware OpenGL ES - The mode uses OpenGL ES 2.0 directly - this can be more profitable if the device does not supports newer versions

3. Hardware window - Outputs a frame in a way that is used for buttons, lists, progress bars and other UI

4. Hardware Surface - Available since Android 6.0+ uses the interface that is usually used for video output

Q. Shaders
A. Shaders are GPU microprograms that affect the game in one way or another in order to improve it or replicate the visual features of some on-screen devices, such as displays on portable consoles or old tube TVs. Shaders can significantly alter the game, but also reduce performance. In addition, shaders can have customizable parameters, if there are such an icon for accessing them will be displayed on the far right side and opposite the name of the selected shader.

Q. FPS limit
A. When game running fast, it allows you to reduce fps for a comfortable game, for example Rayman 3 128x128.

Q. Touch input

A. Used in games with touch controls, Ex. 640x360 / 800x480 resulation games.

You can also disable the button overlay, as they are not needed

Q. Save / Load state supported?
A. No, because It's impossible, JL-Mod doesn't emulate hardware, so it can't save the CPU/RAM state.

→ Font option (Small — Midium — Large)^{[N 1]}

Here you can set the sizes of small, medium and large fonts that will be used by the Games. Dimensions are in pixels.

If the Scaled Pixel Sizes check box is selected , the specified dimensions will be adjusted by Android to provide the same visible text size on screens with different resolutions. It is recommended to enable this setting when using virtual screen resolutions of more than 240x320 pixels.

The Presets button allows you to quickly set the font sizes that are most suitable for a given virtual screen resolution:

Resulation	Font
240x320	18 — 22 — 26
176x220	15 — 18 — 22
128x160	13 — 15 — 20
128x128	9 — 13 — 15

→ Screen option

Width and Height set the size of the virtual screen that will be available to the games. Many Games are optimized for a specific screen resolution (usually 240x320) and may not display correctly at other resolutions.
Scale if virtual screen resolution does not match smartphone screen resolution:

enabled - the virtual screen is scaled to fit the smartphone screen off - the virtual screen is located in the center of the smartphone screen without resizing

Maintain aspect ratio when scaling:

— Enabled - the virtual screen fits into the smartphone screen while maintaining the aspect ratio, possibly occupying only a part of it

— Off - the virtual screen is stretched to fill the entire smartphone screen, possibly with distortion of the displayed graphics

Screen filtering when scaling improves image quality, but requires more hardware resources

Presets allow you to quickly set the default resolution of the virtual display. The table below shows a list of standard resolutions (for example, HTC Evo 3D, screen resolution 960x540)

Resulation	Scale	Aspect ratio and screen orientation
128x128	4.21875: 1	1: 1
128x160	3.375: 1	Portrait 3.2: 4
132x176	3.068: 1	Portrait 3: 4
176x220	2.454: 1	Portrait 3.2: 4
240x320	1.6875: 1	Portrait 3: 4
202x270	2: 1	Portrait 3: 4
360x270	2: 1	Landscape 4: 3
405x540	1: 1	Portrait 3: 4
720x540	1: 1	Landscape 4: 3
960x540	1: 1	Landscape 16: 9

Options 1 through 5 correspond to standard screen resolutions for mobile phones. They provide the greatest compatibility (most games are optimized for one of these resolutions), but when scaling to the smartphone screen, the graphics quality may decrease slightly.
Choices 8, 9, and 10 provide the best graphics quality because they are calculated based on the smartphone screen resolution and do not use scaling. However, if the game is not optimized for these resolutions, it may not work correctly or not work at all. In this case, it is recommended to select a lower resolution.
Options 5 and 6 are intermediate in quality and compatibility. They are calculated based on the resolution of the smartphone screen so that there are exactly four physical pixels for each virtual pixel. This removes distortion when scaling. When using these options, it is recommended that you turn off screen filtering to sharpen the picture.

The Background button allows you to select the background color of the screen. This color will fill the stripes at the edges of the screen if it is not completely occupied by the virtual screen.

→ Recommended Devices

Resulation	Devices
960x540	* HTC Evo 3D
480x800	* Samsung GT-S8000 / Galaxy S II / Omnia Pro * Sony Ericsson X1i * HTC HD2 / Leo
480x360	* BlackBerry 9360 / 9700 / 9020 / 9780
640x480	* Nokia E6-00
360x640 / 640x360	* Nokia 5800 Xpress Music / 5530 Xpress Music / N8 / C7 * Sony Ericsson SATIO / U5i Vivaz
320x480	* Samsung GT-S5292 / GT-S5296 / GT-S5380K / S7250 * Sony Ericsson Xperia X8
320x240	* Nokia E71 / E72 / C3-00 / Asha 201 * BlackBerry 8520 / 9220 / 9220 Curve/ 9300 * Samsung GT-S3350 / GT-S3353 / SGH-i617
352x416	* Nokia N80
240x432	* Sony Ericsson Aino
240x400	* Samsung GT-5230 / GT-S5230 * Nokia Asha 305 / 306 / 308 / 311 * LG KU990 / GS290 / GS205 / KP500 / GT505 / GT400
240x320	* Sony Ericsson K800i / K660 / W595a / Z750i / W595 / W910i * Nokia 6280 / 6300 / 5300 / 5310XM / N73 / N95 / N85 / X3-02 / X2-00 / X2-05 / X2-02 / 5000d / C2-03 / 2700 Classic / C2-01 / 220 / 216 / 215 / 222 / 225 / Asha 303 / 503 / 500DS / 202 / 300 * Samsung SGH-F480 / GT-S5222 / SGH-D900 / E900 / F400 / U600 / D600 / GT-C3312R / GT-C3310 * LG KS360 * Motorola RAZR V8 / ROKR Z6 / E2 / E1000 / E398 / V500 / V635 * Panasonic VS3 / MX7
208x208	* Nokia 6230i
176x220	* LG U8360 / GU230 / GU280 / GB230 / GB280 / A133 / GM205 * Motorola RAZR V3 / L7 / KRZR K1 * Sony Ericsson W810i * Samsung SGH-L700
176x208	* Nokia N91 / N70 / 7610 / 3250 / 6630 / 6681
176x205	* Samsung Z300 / Z500
128x160	* Nokia 5200 / 2300 / 2720 / 3110x / 3110 Classic / 6101 / C1-01 / Asha 110 / 2600 Classic / 2630 * Motorola L6 * Samsung SGH-E250i / J700 / E215L / E258 / F250L / GT-B2100 / C3050 / E2210 / E2210L / E2510 / M2310 * Sony Ericsson W200i
128x128	* Nokia 6030 / 3220 * Samsung GT-E2121 / E2120

★ Mascot Capsule 3D supported Devices

Resulation	Devices
Various (mobile)	* Android SH8158U / SH8168U
240x320 / 176x220	* Sony Ericsson F500 / J300 / K300 / K500 / K600 / K608i / K700 / K750 / S700 / Z500 / W350 / W550 / W600i / W800 / Z800 / T707a * i-mode 504i / 505i / 903 series / F-01A and later devices * EZweb (BREW) Toshiba A5304T * J-PHONE J-SH07 / J-SH51 /J-SH53 * Vodafone Live! 602SH / V601T / V601SH * SK-VM * Sharp GX10 * Motorola E398 / Razor V3 / V620 / V600 (V2) / V635 / V600 / V525 / V547 / V550 / V551 * Nokia Asha 200 / Asha 201
176x208	* Nokia 3250 / 6630 / 6681 / N70 / N91
176x205	* Samsung Z300 / Z500

→ Theme / UI

Dark	White

→ FPS

FPS

– Shows the number of frames per second

→ Force full-screen

Normal	Force Fullscreen

– Vibrates the forced full screen for the application

→ Button Shape

Rounded Rectangle

L1	L2	L3	L4

Oval

L1	L2	L3	L4

Rectangle

L1	L2	L3	L4

→ Keyboard Type

Rounded Rectangle

L1	L2

Oval

L1	L2

Rectangle

L1	L2

→ Scale Type

As is	Fit to window	Fill window (ignore aspect ratio)

API

API	JSR	Support
CLDC 1.1		✓
FileConnection API	JSR-75	✓
Personal Information Management API	JSR-75
Bluetooth API	JSR-82	✓
Wireless Messaging API	JSR-120
Mobile Media API	JSR-135
Web Services Specification	JSR-172
Security and Trust Services API	JSR-177
LocationUtil API	JSR-179
Location API	JSR-179
SIP API	JSR-180
Mobile 3D Graphics API	JSR-184
Wireless Messaging API 2.0	JSR-205
Content Handler API	JSR-211
Scalable 2D Vector Graphics API	JSR-226
Advanced Multimedia Supplements API	JSR-234
Mobile Internationalization API	JSR-238
Java Binding for the OpenGL® ES API	JSR-239
Mobile Sensor API	JSR-256	✓
Contactless Communication API	JSR-257
XML API	JSR-280
MIDP 2.0		✓
MIDP 3.0
Here Maps API
KDDI ezPlus API 2.5
KDDI ezPlus API 3
LG MMPP API
Mascot Capsule API
Motorola 3D API
Motorola FunLights API 1.0		✓
Motorola Gaming API
Motorola iDEN API
Motorola VibeLight API
Nokia IAPInfo API
Nokia In-App Payment API
Nokia SMS API 0.9
Nokia UI API 1.1		✓
Nokia UI API 2.0		✓
Project Capuchin API
Samsung API 1.0		✓
Siemens API		✓
Vodafone API 1.0		✓
Vodafone API 2.0

NOTE

In the mod, some settings are changed. The original "J2ME Loader" may not work correctly with games, templates and settings installed or configured by the mod. In order to not have to reinstall, reconfigure it is better to backup, copy and not specify the J2ME-Loader working directory at all.

→ List of Mod changes

- Select a working directory.

- Store app database in a working directory.

- Indicators of the selected button colors in the settings.

- Templates are renamed to "Profiles".

- Assigning any profile as standard (when saving or in the profiles window).

- Adding, editing and set as standard in the window of the profiles list.

- 1 sec. limit for force close of the MIDlet.

- Confirmation dialogs when reinstalling existing ones.

- Choice of encoding is transferred to individual settings, a selection button from all supported by the system.

- Buttons shape setting has been moved to the individual, a variant with rounded corners has been added.

- Changed keyboard editing: fixed: drag and drop buttons; added: separate scaling on horizontally and vertically (can be made rectangular or oval).

- The "System Properties" field has been moved to the end of the settings, unlimit on the number of displayed lines, display of all parameters added by the emulator.

→ Support for Mascot Capsule 3D V3 (alpha build)

The implementation is not complete, somewhere a curve, little tested

Main problems

special effects are partially implemented - therefore, the color rendition may differ from the original.

Point sprites (usually used to display the simplest objects) are not fully implemented, if somewhere they are displayed differently than in the original - please inform. In some games (seen in "Medal of Honor") the 3D scene may not be displayed due to overlapping 2D background.

Try adding the following line to the System Parameters field: micro3d.v3.render.no-mix2D3D: true

Another one parameter turns on the texture filter (built into OpenGL), but this can generate distortion in the form of capturing extra texels at the edges of polygons: micro3d.v3.texture.filter: true without this parameter, the quality of textures is as close as possible to the original and looks more vintage.

How to use

→ System requirements

Android 4.0 +

→ Installation

Download a latest version of JL-Mod on your Android device.

Release

Next, Click (button) at the lower right corner in the main JL-Mod Windows and select the .JAR program on your file manager, after setup your game configures.

Download

Site(s)	Rating
dedomil.net	★★★★★
phoneky.com	★★★★
RuGame Archive	★★★★
seclub.org	★★★
oldfag.top	★★★
series40.kiev.ua	★★★
sleza-mobile.ru	★★★
dertz.in	★★★
oldhandhelds.com	★★★
spaces.im	★★★
mobile24.co	★★★
se.tom.ru	★★★
240x320m.ar.ua	★★★
siemensx70.narod.ru (siemens only)	★★★
uzsmart.ru	★★

→ Recommends Archive.org J2ME games collection here

Button binding / mapping

Keys : Default

Key	Action
D-PAD Up	`↑`
D-PAD Down	`↓`
D-PAD Left	`←`
D-PAD Right	`→`
D-PAD Center	`F`
D-PAD Left-Up	`↖`
D-PAD Right-Up	`↗`
D-PAD Left-Down	`↙`
D-PAD Right-Down	`↘`
LEFT-Soft Key	`L`
RIGHT-Soft Key	`R`
NUM1	`1`
NUM2	`2`
NUM3	`3`
NUM4	`4`
NUM5	`5`
NUM6	`6`
NUM7	`7`
NUM8	`8`
NUM9	`9`
NUM0	`0`
*	`*`
#	`#`

Screenshots (Mascot Capsule 3D)

Mascot Capsule 3D

— The two 3D API on Sony Ericsson mobile phones are Hi Corporation's Mascot Capsule 3D V3 and JSR-184, which describes the Mobile 3D Graphics (M3G) API for the Java 2 Mobile Edition (J2ME). Both API support high-quality model rendering, using transparent color blending and appearance properties, plus applying texture maps to the model's surfaces. Mascot Capsule V3 had already been field tested and offers opportunities to migrate 3D applications from existing BREW CDMA or DoJa/i-mode devices to the J2ME platform on GSM/UMTS phones. Each of these API takes a different approach to solving the same problem of rendering 3D models quickly while consuming few platform resources.

— The Mascot should not be confused with normal JSR-184 implementations. Normally the Mascot was exclusive to Sony Ericsson and Samsung, Nokia versions (which were generally brutally inferior to Sony Ericsson, in any Java ME standard) used to use normal JSR-184, as for example in Worms Forts or Asphalt 3 3D

— Sony Ericsson phones. That used Mascot Capsule 3D (MBAC / MTRA) technology, which makes launching / modding games for SE 3D even more affordable!

→ Fishlabs Entertainment GmbH

Mascot Capsule 3D was/is used by multiple studios but the one who made the most use of this standard was the relatively popular Fishlabs Entertainment GmbH studio is a German mobile game development company established in 2004. It has been committed to the development and leading 3D mobile games developer, using its Abyss Engine 1.0/2.0 on smartphones. Such as Galaxy on Fire 3D series, Heli Strike 3D, Robot Alliance 3D, Tank Raid, Blades & Magic or Robot Alliance, among others 3D games.

→ Mascot Capsule 3D Engine (Micro3D Edition / Polygon 3D)

HI Corporation announced that the company has executed a worldwide license agreement with Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB ( Sony Ericsson) for its 3D rendering engine "Mascot Capsule Engine".

Mascot Capsule Engine represents real-time 3D rendering software that enables a full 3D perspective for content display, applications running on a wide variety of embedded devices such as mobile phones, handheld games, arcade game equipment, including the background etc. Already implemented in Japanese devices such as NTT DoCoMo's i-mode 504i and 505i series handsets, Vodafone KK/Softbank 934SH Vodafone Live!, J-SKY's J-PHONE handsets and au/KDDI's EZweb (BREW) handsets, WILLCOM 9/series, EMOBILE H11T and overseas mobile phone terminals such as Motorola, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics, etc. Micro3D Edition has been embedded in over 20 million handsets shipped. With its adoption by Korea's largest mobile carrier SK Telecom's SK-VM, Mascot Capsule Engine is gaining recognition around the world as the mobile standard for 3D rendering engine software. There are more than 300 3D games released. BREW version of Mascot Capsule Engine for use on the model A5304T (manufactured by Toshiba), the first BREW-embedded mobile telephone handset released by KDDI. The number of "Mascot Capsule" installed is said to be about 2:1 in Japan and overseas.

Mascot Capsule 3D

→ History of Mascot Capsule

Year	Mascot Capsule 3D Announced
March 2001	The world's first 3D drawing engine for mobile terminals, Mascot Capsule V1
2002	Mascot Capsule V2
August 2002	Mascot Capsule V3
August 2003	Mascot Capsule V4
October 2007	Mascot Capsule eruption
May 2008	Mascot Capsule Rendering
October 2010	Mascot Capsule eruptionST, which easily draws content for stereoscopic viewing

V1, released in June 2001, the first mobile 3D service was launched in Japan through the new J-PHONE terminal, The Java compatible terminal "J-SH07" released by J-PHONE (Vodafone) from June is equipped with a 3D polygon engine called "Mascot Capsule Engine". J-PHONE Group, Bandai Networks, and HI announced that they had agreed on 3D polygon technology for mobile phones and implemented it on a prototype of J-PHONE. This was a simple service with 3D characters made of Polygon moving around on the display on the mobile phone by adopting HI's Mascot Capsule V1.
Vodafone: 3D polygon character service based on 2D using J-PHONE / Mascot Capsule V1.

J-PHONE Group, one of Japan's three largest mobile phone network providers, announced the launch of the world's first mobile phone with 3D (three-dimensional) image capabilities.
The 3D technology jointly developed by Bandai Networks Co. Ltd. of the famous Japanese video game company Bandai Co. Ltd. and 3D software developer Hi Corp. will be applied to the prototype of J-PHONE's newly designed mobile phone.
J-PHONE will launch this new mobile phone with 3D technology in mid-2001. This technology will promote interesting image functions (such as adding 3D images for events) and enhance the interactive mobile communication functions provided by J-PHONE through its mobile portal J-Sky.

Booths of J-Fon West Japan Co., Ltd. A new terminal "J-SH07" equipped with the 3D polygon engine "Mascot Capsule Engine" for mobile phones, which was jointly developed with Bandai Networks Co., Ltd. and HI Co., Ltd. and announced in March 2001, and the Java service announced in April 2001.

Mascot Capsule Engine technology specially designed and adopted by manufacturers supplying terminals to J-PHONE, to NTT DoCoMo, including the 504i series of devices released in May 2002, and for au handset models C3003P and A5302CA. A revised version of Mascot Capsule Engine from Hi Corp., which fully utilizes the functions of mobile phones.

V2, released in 2002, Bandai Networks and HI will release the 3D polygon engine "Mascot Capsule V2 for J-PHONE" for packet-compatible mobile devices of J-phone. In addition to being installed on the 2.5-generation terminal "J-SH51" (manufactured by Sharp) released on 2002. This engine is an upgraded version of the "Mascot Capsule Engine" that was previously implemented in Java application compatible mobile phones. In addition to the conventional 3D expression, it is possible to create a more realistic 3D effect by using the light source setting function. Mascot was installed in NTT DoCoMo's 504i series, which made a significant improvement in processing speed, and allowed more three-dimensional characters to be expressed with the addition of shading effect.

Bandai Networks, HI, and Sharp supply 3D polygon engine to Sharp's mobile phone "GX10" for Europe and Overseas i-mode service compatible mobile terminals manufactured by Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

V3, released in the second half of 2002, introduced the Z axis and made the background 3D to have a sense of space. made it possible.

V4, released in 2004. The Vodafone V602SH also features the industry’s first T4G graphics accelerator chip and Mascot Capsule V4 3D polygon engine for 256K-appli.[1]

Mascot Capsule V3 and Mascot Capsule V4 for embedded devices supports platforms of iPhone / iPod touch produced by Apple Inc.

Mascot Capsule eruption (eruptionST *)

Info here

Mascot Capsule Renderion

Info here

→ Mascot Capsule V3

Mascot Capsule V3 is a light 3D rendering engine that operates entirely on software basis, without requiring specialty hardware. It can run at high-speed even in the environment with limited hardware resources

→ Mascot Capsule V4

Mascot Capsule V4 is a 3D rendering engine that is compliant with JSR-184 (Mobile 3D Graphics for J2ME 1.0/1.1). The internal API structure, computing precision and data format of Mascot Capsule V4 is almost equal to the specification of JSR-184. In addition to the OpenGL ES 1.0/1.1 rendering and works with a 3D accelerator chip. Mascot Capsule V4 also supports our own software rendering.

→ Moscot Capsule eruption

Mascot Capsule eruption is a real-time 3D drawing engine developed based on the concept of improving expressiveness and development efficiency at the same time. It can be linked with a 3D accelerator chip that supports the international standard OpenGL ES.

→ Moscot Capsule eruptionST

In October 2010, the Mascot Capsule eruption ST, which supports stereoscopic vision, was launched. By adopting Mascot Capsule eruptionST, high-speed 3D graphics drawing that maximizes the performance of iPhone / iPod touch became possible. The supported platforms of Mascot Capsule eruptionST are iOS installed in iPhone / iPod touch / iPad, Android, BREW, Java, Linux, Symbian, WinCE, and Windows Mobile. When used in combination with Java to fully control each version of OpenGL ES at the native layer, the complexity of OpenGL ES control from the Java layer can be reduced, making applications more compact, faster, etc. A stereoscopic display technology 3D graphics engine "Mascot Capsule eruptionST" , has been produced by Sharp mounted for 3D stereoscopic liquid crystal display and the Android smart phones " SH8158U / SH8168U.

→ Features

Runs at high-speed even in the environment without enough hardware resources such as mobile phones, handheld games, arcade game equipment, car electronics, etc. Since it does not require an FPU for calculation and requires less memory, it is suitable for embedded devices and mobile phones with limited resources

Mascot Capsule library can be implemented on any devices, and it supports various environments including native, Java, etc.

Displays the special file format converted from the data, which was created in commercial 3D authoring tools.!/!

A native software library for displaying 3D graphics on small devices such as mobile phones, handheld game consoles, and PDAs.

Data created with a commercially available 3D tool is converted to a dedicated format, and the data is used for display.

It is also possible to directly specify and display the primitive data.