While the Cydia developers are mostly known for the themes and apps they provide, they’ve also had a significant contribution to mobile gaming.
Thanks to the millions of users from Apple that prefer to use the replacement software made by Cydia, a lot of people know what is a WinterBoard theme or a Cydia app, but there aren’t as many people aware that there are games as well that they should be aware of.
It’s true that the official Apple store comes with a huge variety of games for the iPhone, but there is a certain category of mobile games that are not available on the official App Store.
Those games are the ones that require the use of emulators, since the official policy doesn’t support them. Cydia however supports these emulator based games.
It is true that the themes and apps offered by Cydia manage to make the Apple products much more efficient and better looking, but their games manage to make these devices even better, by adding an extra dimension to what they can do, as far as entertainment is concerned.
Before you’re able to use the games available on the iPhone or on an iPod Touch that is Cydia enabled, the game emulators would need to be downloaded first. An emulator is a program that behaves the same way as the original hardware would, so a game will run on it. As long as a game is available in the form of a ROM, it can be played on a device that is Cydia enabled.
Quite a few emulators are offered by Cydia and they allow users to play a lot of amazing games.
Among these emulators, you will find snes4iphone, genesis4iphone, gameboy4iphone and many others. There are a number of Cydia sources which offer these emulators for download and they’re easy to find.
Downloading these emulators is done the same way as you would download a theme or an app. After you’re done with the download of these emulator packages, you will be able to play GameBoy, Nintendo or any other type of game.
There are a number of possible sources for Cydia games, but we can recommend two of them, and they’re Xsellize and iSpazio. You will find not only apps, but also some great Cydia games.
These are not the only sources though and you will find a lot of other places where games are available. You will find games from all kinds of platforms, including those from Sega Genesis, GameBoy Advance and Super Nintendo.
In order to use these Cydia games, the user needs to do the same thing as he would for a theme or an app from them.
They would have to do an iPhone jailbreak before they’re able to play those games.
Despite the fact that jailbreaking an iPhone is legal now, the warranty of the product can still become void as a result, so be careful when you do it.
Even though there are some possible downsides, jailbreaking the iPhone has its advantages and the Cydia games that are available as a result is one of them.




