If you have an old phone at home that you don’t use at all, take it out of the drawer, dust it off and charge its battery. Your smartphone still has a lot of war to fight, although not in the way you expect and we are going to talk about this aspect in this article, since you can turn your mobile into almost any console with just two applications.
We discovered this little trick thanks to TikTok user JonnieKaster , who applied it to a 2016 Android tablet with version 8.1 of the operating system . This means two things: the first is that you can do the same with your terminal and the second is that it doesn’t matter if it’s very old, since the device used by this user is 7 years old and runs the program perfectly.
Our recommendation is that you reset it to the factory to eliminate any files and optimize it only for this function. Of course, remember to download at least the most recent version of Android available for the phone.
Your mobile as a portable console
Once you find that old mobile that you have at home and have charged it to 100%, it is time to know the procedure that you must follow to transform your phone into a PSP , Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 2 or any other console with the exception of the most powerful on the market. This is thanks to two applications that you can download from the Google Play Store completely free of charge: RetroArch and Dig . The procedure is not complicated at all, so continue reading the post to fully appreciate the steps that need to be followed.
The first thing is to download and install RetroArch on the smartphone. This app is a collection of emulators that you can run on your device very easily. What you have to do is the following:
- Open RetroArch on your Android terminal.
- Select the option “Online Updater” and then “Core Downloader”.
- Here you can install a large number of emulators and just tap on any of them to start the installation process. When you have completed, a pad will appear to the right of the platform.
Now, the ideal would be to connect a controller to play comfortably and control the game perfectly. To do this you can use one from PlayStation, Xbox or PC , although we leave you the steps below to make it clearer:
- Activate the Bluetooth of your Android phone and connect the device in question.
- Open RetroArch and access the gear wheel settings.
- Select the “Input” section and scroll until you find the “Port 1 controls” section.
- Here you can configure the buttons of the controller and check if it recognizes them.
Start playing your favorite games
Everything is almost ready. Once the previous steps have been completed, it is time to start playing and for this you have to download Dig. When entering, it will ask you for a series of permissions that you can accept without problem, so don’t have any qualms. After that, it will carry out a preliminary configuration and a scan in search of the ROMs that you must download to your smartphone . For the latter, we recommend you have a high-capacity SD card to install a lot of games without problem.
Select the folders to scan and Dig will order them perfectly to provide you with your game catalogue. At the end you can select the platform and then the title you want to start. When you’re inside, use the remote you’ve previously connected to move and enjoy like never before and anywhere.
