N-Gage (service)

N-Gage 2.0

Developer	Nokia Corporation
Type	Mobile Gaming Service
Generation	7th generation
Release date	3 April 2008
Discontinued	October 2009
Predecessor	N-Gage
Dumped	www.n-gage.com
Emulated	✓

N-Gage service (also referred to as "N-Gage 2.0" or "N-Gage Next Generation") was a mobile gaming service (It wasn't device like N-Gage) from Nokia that was available for several Nokia phones running on Symbian OS S60v3 (S60v5 on N97).

Emulators

N-Gage 2.0 games are packaged differently than normal Symbian .sis/.sisx applications and have the extension ".n-gage" and can only run via the N-Gage 2.0 Launcher application. The game resources are protected by DRM. They cannot use any native Symbian APIs, instead they use a proprietary API from the N-Gage SDK.

The N-Gage API is in fact an extension of the RGA API available in the Open C++ plug-in.

Only select companies are allowed access to the N-Gage SDK. To gain access they first must be approved by Nokia and sign a NDA.

Name	Platform(s)	Version	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
N-Gage 2.0 Installer		1.40.1557	Mid	✗	✓	✓
N-Gage 2.0 Launcher run through EKA2L1
EKA2L1		git	Mid	✓	✓	✓

EKA2L1

1). Install the "5320 XpressMusic" - (SYM.ROM and SYM.RPKG) ROM dump on EKA2L1, and restart the emulator 2). After go to the EKA2L1 file directory and then install the "N-Gage 2.0 v1.40.1557 by BodyZ, Fixed by FROST_A-52" app and close the emulator 3). Copy and put the ".n-gage" file of your game in this path of the emulator: \data\drives\c\data\n-gage\ or \data\drives\e\n-gage\ 4). Open the emulator and click on the " (Games)" application and wait for the game to be installed. Once it's done, restart the emulator, open "Games" application again and play.

Download

• Collection 1 (Archive.org)
• Collection 2 (Archive.org)
• Collection 3 (mega.nz)
• Collection 4 (oldfag.top)
• Collection 5 (spcs.me)

screenshots

How to play

S60 devices

1). Hack your phone, you have to install an application called "HelloOX2" on your phone, run it 2). After (if phone hacked), install the "N-Gage 2.0 Installer v1.40.1557 by BodyZ" 3). Put game files with ".n-gage" extension on SD card 4). Turn on patches in "RomPatcher+", and open the N-Gage 2.0 Installer 5). Wait for it to preparing games and then install them 6). After (if games installed) turn off patches in RomPatcher+ NOTE: If it didn't work, try reinstalling the app.

The following versions need to be installed on the device:

Platform(s)	Version with OS
Nokia	1.10.1345 3250 / N91 / E60 / N80 / E70 1.21.1536 9.1 (240x320, 320x240) 1.40.1557 E90 1.40.1557 9.2-9.3 (240x320, 320x240) 1.30.1541 9.4 not supported Symbian^3
Samsung / Sony Ericsson	not supported 9.2 1.40.1557 9.3 not supported 9.4

Overview

N-Gage 2.0 was a service for S60v3 mobiles (Symbian OS 9.1-9.3), although it was also (officially) implemented on a single S60v5 mobile, the Nokia N97, (and unofficially on other phones, like the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music, which obviously used touch wrappers because it didn't have buttons). On 30 October 2009, Nokia announced that no new N-Gage 2.0 games would be produced, effectively shutting down the N-Gage 2.0 platform. All N-Gage services, which includes purchasing of games and various online features, had reportedly ceased operation by the end of 2010 and on March 31, 2011, the service was finally closed, stopping the game activation server, so purchased Games can no longer be activated after formatting the device memory.

Arena

There are games with multiplayer via Bluetooth and the N-Gage Arena (via the Internet). Can't play Arena because the service is closed.

List of N-Gage 2.0 supported devices

Platform(s)	Models	Description
Nokia	Officially announced N78, N79, N81, N81 8GB, N82, N85, N86, N86 8MP, N95, N95 8GB, N96, N97, N97 mini 5320 XpressMusic, 5630 XpressMusic, 5730 XpressMusic 6210 Navigator, 6710 Navigator 6720 Classic E52, E55, E75 Possibly supported N71, N75, N76, N77, N80, N91, N91 8GB, N92, 3250, 5500, 5700, 6110 Navigator, 6120, 6121, 6290, E50, E51, E60, E61 (E61i), E62, E65, E70, E90 Cancelled N73, N93, N93i	Landscape or portrait 320x240 (except N97, with a 640x360 screen), also 3D Graphics Hardware Accelerator supported (games running on devices such as the HW-Accelerated N95 have enhanced performance). Only compatible with Symbian S60 3rd edition (S60 5th edition on N97)

List of N-Gage 2.0 Games

N-Gage 2.0 Games

Title	Release date	Developer	Publisher	Genre(s)	Availability	Version	Note / Source(s)	Download
Age of Empires III	28 April 2009	Ensemble Studios	GLU Mobile, Microsoft Game Studios	Real-time strategy	Trial, Crack	1.52		💾/💾 (crack)
AMF Bowling: Pinbusters!™	17 June 2009	Eclipse Interactive	Vir2L Studios	Sports	Trial			💾
Asphalt 4: Elite Racing™	20 January 2009	Gameloft Romania SRL	Gameloft S.A. (Distributed by Nokia)	Racing	Trial	1.3.7	[1]	💾
Asphalt 3: Street Rules™	2 April 2008	Gameloft Bulgaria EOOD	Gameloft S.A.	Racing	Full	1.2.7	[2] 3D remake of the original Asphalt 3: Street Rules.	💾/💾
Block Breaker Deluxe	25 April 2008	Gameloft Romania SRL	Gameloft S.A. (Distributed by Nokia)	Puzzle, Arcade	Full	1.0.3	[3]	💾
Boom Blox	3 December 2008	IUGO Mobile Entertainment	EA Mobile	Puzzle	Full	0.0.69		💾
Bounce Boing Voyage	7 August 2008	Nokia	Rovio Entertainment	3D Platformer	Full	1.0.0	3D remake of the classic embedded Bounce games.	💾
Brain Challenge™	2 April 2008	Gameloft Inc., Gameloft Software Beijing Ltd.	Gameloft S.A.	Educational, Puzzle	Full		[4]	💾
Brothers in Arms DS	14 July 2008	Gameloft Romania SRL	Gameloft S.A. (License by Ubisoft Entertainment)	Action, Shooter	Full	1.2.3	[5] Expanded remake of the mobile game Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood 3D.	💾
Café Hold’ Em Poker	23 April 2009	Digital Chocolate, Inc.	Digital Chocolate, Inc.	Sports	Trial			💾
Café Sudoku	27 January 2009	Digital Chocolate, Inc.	Digital Chocolate, Inc.	Puzzle	Trial			💾
Café Solitaire 12-Pack	21 October 2008	Digital Chocolate, Inc.	Digital Chocolate, Inc.	Puzzle	Full			💾
Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D	22 December 2008	Polarbit AB	Vivendi Games Mobile (Distributed by Nokia Corporation)	Racing	Full	0.9.13	[6]	💾
Dance Fabulous	9 June 2009	Digital Legends	Nokia	Arcade	Trial			💾
Dirk Dagger and the Fallen Idol (Dirk Spanner and the Fallen Idol)	19 August 2008	Jadestone Group AB	Nokia Corporation	Graphic Adventure	Full	0.99	[7]	💾
Dirk Dagger and the Nuclear Zeppelin	15 October 2008	Jadestone Group AB	Nokia	Graphic Adventure	Trial			💾
Dogz	25 August 2008	Gameloft S.A	Gameloft S.A	Life Simulation	Full	1.3.6		💾
Ducati Moto	18 September 2009	Vir2L Studios LLC	ZeniMax Europe Ltd.	Real-time strategy	Trial	2.2.7		💾
FIFA 08	7 April 2008	Gamelion Inc.	Electronic Arts, Inc.	Sports	Full	1.0.30		💾
FIFA 09	18 November 2008	Electronic Arts Mobile (Romania) SRL	Electronic Arts, Inc.	Sports	Full	0.5.5	[8]	💾
Guitar Hero: World Tour Mobile	18 September 2009	Connect2Media, MachineWorks Northwest LLC	Activision Publishing, Inc., Hands-On Mobile, Inc.	Dance, Music	Trial	1.0.10		💾
Hooked On: Creatures of the Deep	3 April 2008	Infinite Dreams	Nokia	Fishing RPG	Full	0.74		💾
Mega Monsters	23 October 2009	Firemint	Nokia Corporation	Puzzle	Trial	0.3.62		💾
Metal Gear Solid Mobile	11 December 2008	Ideaworks3D, Ltd.	Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. (Distributed by Nokia)	Action, Shooter	Full	[9]		💾
Monopoly Here & Now: The World Edition	3 March 2009	Venan Entertainment, Inc.	Electronic Arts, Inc. (License by Hasbro, Inc.)	Simulation	Trial	0.0.102		💾
Midnight Pool 3D	27 June 2008	Gameloft Divertissements Inc.	Gameloft S.A. (Ported by Gameloft Bulgaria EOOD)	Sports	Full	1.2.4	[10] It's the 3D enhanced remake of Midnight Pool.	💾
Mile High Pinball	6 May 2008	Ideaworks3D, Ltd.	Nokia	Arcade, Pinball	Full		[11] Sequel of N-Gage classic	💾
Million Dollar Poker	30 June 2009	In-house	Gameloft S.A.	Sports	Trial			💾
Need for Speed: Undercover	17 March 2009	IronMonkey Studios Pty Ltd.	Electronic Arts, Inc.	Racing	Trial		[12]	💾
ONE	28 October 2008	Digital Legends Entertainment	Nokia Corporation	Fighting	Full	1.25.4	Sequel of N-Gage classic	💾/💾
Pandemonium!	6 May 2009	Ideaworks3D, Ltd.	Eidos Interactive Limited (Distributed by Nokia Corporation)	Action, Platformer	Full, Crack	2.8.2	[13] Port of PS1 game	💾
Powerboat Challenge	23 October 2009	Fishlabs Entertainment GmbH	Fishlabs Entertainment GmbH	Racing	Trial	1.0.9	[14]	💾
Prince of Persia	11 March 2009	Gameloft Software Shanghai Ltd.	Gameloft S.A. (Licensed by Ubisoft Entertainment SA)	Action, 2.5D Platformer	Trial	1.3.6	[15] It's the 3D version of the 2D side-scrolling platform game Prince of Persia.	💾
Pro Series Golf	3 July 2008	Mineshaft Entertainment	Nokia Corporation	Sports	Full			💾
Real Football 2009	31 March 2009	Gameloft Software Beijing Ltd.	Gameloft S.A.	Sports	Trial	1.2.9		💾
Reset Generation	4 August 2008	RedLynx Ltd.	Nokia (Distributed by Nokia & Casting by AudioGodz)	Turn-based Strategy	Full	1.0.20	[16]	💾
Resident Evil: Degeneration™	18 December 2008	Ideaworks3D, Ltd.	Capcom Co., Ltd.	Action, Shooter	Full	1.00.05	[17]	💾
Snakes Subsonic	22 May 2008	BLT	Nokia	Puzzle	Full			💾
Space Impact: Kappa Base	19 April 2008	Method Solutions	Nokia Corporation	Action, shmup	Full	1.16		💾
Spore™ Origins	20 May 2009	Polarbit AB	Electronic Arts, Inc. (Distributed by Nokia Corporation)	Action	Trial	1.0.11	[18]	💾
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Mobile	16 September 2008	Universomo, Ltd.	THQ Wireless Inc. (Licensed by Lucasfilm Ltd.)	Action, Shooter	Full	1.0.8	[19]	💾
System Rush: Evolution	3 April 2008	Ideaworks3D, Ltd.	Nokia Corporation	Shooter	Full	2.53	Sequel of System Rush	💾
Tetris	25 April 2008	Electronic Arts, Inc.	Electronic Arts, Inc.	Puzzle	Full	4.21.41		💾
The Sims™ 2 Pets	18 June 2008	IronMonkey Studios Pty Ltd.	Electronic Arts, Inc.	Simulation	Full	1.0.27		💾
The Sims 3	14 July 2009	Electronic Arts, Inc.	Electronic Arts, Inc.	Simulation	Trial			💾
Tiger Woods PGA Tour	23 October 2009	Gamelion Studios	Electronic Arts, Inc.	Sports	Trial	0.4.16		💾
Tomb Raider: Underworld	25 August 2009	Distinctive Developments Ltd.	Electronic Arts, Inc., Eidos Interactive Limited	Action, Shooter	Full	0.2.9	[20]	💾
World Series of Poker: Pro Challenge	3 April 2008	GLU Mobile	GLU Mobile	Sports	Full	1.5		💾
Worms World Party	7 April 2009	Codeglue B.V., THQ Wireless Ltd.	Team17 Software Limited	Strategy	Full	1.0.615		💾

F.A.Q

Information by BodyZ

• Games from the first generation Nokia N-Gage (which is a smartphone, not an application) cannot run on N-Gage 2.0 due to the binary incompatibility of S60v1.x and S60v3.x.

• If you get the error "KERN-EXEC 3" when you try to start the game, then you need to close full access to the file system (press CapsOn or disable the patch on4all).

• If the error "Close sоme attachments and retry starting thе gаme. (Error -1000002)", then you need to free RAM (about 20 MB is needed for comfortable operation of N-Gage and games, although most games are 16 MB or less).

• An error (Error Code -18) means that you have something wrong with the P.I.P.S .. Reinstalling them should help.

• Also, if, when trying to start any game, we are almost instantly returned to the N-Gage application, and the game icon becomes translucent and when we try to start the game we are offered to delete it, then something is also wrong with "PIPS", "Standard C ++ Libriary" or "Open C LIBSSL". Most likely some of these components are not installed at all.

• If, when trying to install a hacked game, N-Gage writes that the file is corrupted and prompts you to delete it, then the installserver patch is not active (on S60v3.2 (Symbian 9.3) and higher) or installserver.exe is missing on S60v3.0-S60v3. 1 (Symbian 9.1 and 9.2).

• If, when you try to start any game, the device simply reboots, then you are using the latest Jbak TaskMan (v1.41 and v1.40) because of which this is happening. Just close it before starting the game or use the previous versions (v1.37 and below), there is no such problem with them.

• If, when installing hacked Asphalt 3: Street Rules ™ or ONE, an error [Unable to install game (Error -1)] appears at the end, then you need to download the corrected versions. Use a search for these keywords: Asрhalt3_fixed_bу_BodуZ and ONE_fiхеd_bу_BоdуZ

• When you first start the hacked version of Asphalt 3: Street Rules ™, the game crashes a lot of people after choosing whether to turn on the sound in the game. When you restart it, it may crash already at the stage of choosing the language of the game. We just start the game until you go through these two steps. After they have been successfully completed, in most cases the game will no longer crash on startup. Probably a little crooked hacking, that's why these departures.

• On N95 8GB (and possibly other models), after installing N-Gage, it will have 3 "phantom" games and an error reading the database after starting. This is due to the fact that after formatting from the Z: / drive, the file private / 20003B85 / gamepurchase.db is copied to the device's memory, which is responsible for the list of installed games. It has 3 games "installed": Asphalt 3, FIFA 08, Snakes Subsonic. And since after the format the games themselves are no longer in place, we get an error and 3 "phantoms". There are two options for solving this problem: 1) Delete file C: /private/20003B85/gamepurchase.db. Good if you haven't installed the games yet. Otherwise, you will have to reinstall everything anew. 2) Install these 3 games and the error will go away. Then these games can be deleted.

• After installing at least one N-Gage game on the memory card, the file E: \. Plau_mc.id will appear on it. This is a kind of checklist of all games installed on the N-Gage memory card. If you delete it, then the games installed on the memory card in N-Gage will become "gray" and when we try to start we will be asked if we really want to delete the game. So we don't touch him. If you have already removed it, then only reinstalling all the necessary games will help.

• Most of the problems with starting games that are not described in this document are solved by closing access to system folders and freeing up RAM.

• FIFA 09 at the time of launch requires about 25 MB of RAM, although further it consumes much less. Therefore, it is so easy on devices where 20 MB of RAM is free, it cannot be started.

• The cracked version of Brothers in Arms crashes after the first launch, and subsequent launches already work fine.

• Almost everyone in Brothers in Arms has a stutter. This can only be fixed by installing the game in the phone's memory, if it is enough.

• If Pro Series Golf crashes after hitting 2, then you need to replace the current P.I.P.S. at 1.01. This will cure the crash after the second hit, but the hacked version of the game will still crash periodically and there is nothing you can do about it. For those who have a license, an updated version of the game was released where this bug was cured.

• Since some N-Gage games were also released in SISX versions, if, for example, the SISX version of the game is already installed, then the N-Gage version may not be installed. And vice versa. Not all games released in N-Gage and SISX versions have this problem. But, for example, Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D in SISX will not install if the N-Gage version of this game is already installed. And vice versa.

See also

EKA2L1

N-Gage