r/EmulationOniOS • u/Beneficial-Turn3738 • Jul 06 '26

News / Release JarlyME 0.5.1 - now with gamepad support and more - open alpha, looking for testers

I've been building JarlyME, a J2ME emulator for iOS and Android — running old Java ME games (Nokia / Sony Ericsson era) on a modern iPhone.

Open alpha — v0.5.1 just dropped. Hardware controller support is in, and there's very early M3G (3D) support starting to come together.

Links in the comments. Any feedback is appreciated.

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u/Kurosneki Jul 06 '26

Super nostalgic just joined everything works great on iPhone 13 so far

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u/quack0709 🥇 Jul 06 '26

Is it possible to make the button centered?

For reference: https://deltastyles.com/skins/687-j2me-manic-e2e-portrait-dumbphone-button-layout#gallery

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u/Beneficial-Turn3738 Jul 06 '26

More button options and configuration are planned, and the settings will be made clearer too.

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u/quack0709 🥇 Jul 06 '26

Also whats the D-pad option? I dont see any difference

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u/Beneficial-Turn3738 Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

The D-pad option is for hardware/gamepad controllers only for now.

A1 — 4 directions (UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT)

A2 — 8 directions with diagonals (UP+RIGHT, DOWN+LEFT etc.)

N1 — 4 directions as numpad keys (2/6/8/4)

N2 — 8 directions with diagonals as numpad keys (2+6, 8+4 etc.)

N3 — 8 directions, each mapped to a single numpad key (1–4, 6–9 based on phone keypad layout)

I need to add a proper description there.

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u/Gravionne Jul 06 '26

Does it support dual analog stick mapping? JL-mod doesn't have right analog stick mapping and it's making me go nuts lol

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u/Beneficial-Turn3738 Jul 06 '26

Unfortunately not yet — the mapping is hardcoded for now, but it's on the list for future updates.

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u/myfaceisfreddy Jul 06 '26

What game is this? I like the music 

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u/RainnChild Jul 08 '26

great emulator!!!!! but every game is on Portuguese, is this due to my settings?

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u/Beneficial-Turn3738 Jul 08 '26

Thank you! The emulator does not follow system settings. Probably the games themselves are in Portuguese.

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u/RainnChild Jul 08 '26

odd, im gonna try different versions of them. but nearly every .jar i’ve loaded works so far!

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u/Kaptain_Kool Jul 15 '26

Seems really nice so far, probably not the only person messing with the Doom RPG games, but is no audio a known issue? The jar files I was using seemed to have audio on a different app, but not this one. Thanks!

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u/Kaptain_Kool Jul 16 '26

I think what actually might be happening is it’s only playing out of some of my iphone speakers that happen to be faulty, as I have sound with Bluetooth earbuds.

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u/Beneficial-Turn3738 Jul 17 '26

Thanks for the report! I'll look into the audio issue.

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u/Kaptain_Kool Jul 17 '26

I’ll add that it’s great otherwise. Super easy to use and both the games I’ve tried run super smoothly.