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First post, by KJ_Jose

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Remember your Nokia black and white feature phone? Including its games? You probably still want to play those games now, I suppose.

What ports of these games have you found (on any platform)?

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Reply 2 of 5, by KJ_Jose

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ratfink wrote:

not sure about a feature phone but i still have my 6310i with snake ii and asteroids.

A feature phone is a cellular telephone (or cell phone) that has more limited capabilities than smartphones (e.g. Android). Nokia black and white phones are examples of feature phones.

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Reply 3 of 5, by Stojke

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I think there is no need to port actual games, but simply write an emulator. Those phones were a lot more limited than new technology smart phones. They should be able to easily emulate them.

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Reply 4 of 5, by kolano

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There is...
http://developer.nokia.com/community/wiki/Emulator
...but perhaps that is post the transition from "feature" to "smart" phones.

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Reply 5 of 5, by idspispopd

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@Stojke: Emulator for one devices or several devices? Can you dump the firmware from those phones, or download it from somewhere? Anyway you'd have to deal with the whole UI of the phone just to play the game. And probably not one phone model contains all such games, so you'd have to point the emulator to another firmware to play a different game (installing software is possible for Java programs, but I don't know if the built-in games are written in Java and are available outside the firmware).
I suppose a port is the easier way.

@kolano: The emulator is indeed for Symbian based phones which definitely are smartphones (although some people may not see all of them as smartphones because a lot of them don't have touch screens).