Get Your Hands on the New SNES Classic Edition From there, select one of the 'NES / Famicom' entries from the list to download the base emulator for classic Nintendo games. Next, open RetroArch and select 'Load Core,' then tap 'Download Core' on the following screen. When you download ROMs to your device, make sure to keep it in a folder you'll remember, like 'SD Card/NES.' Step 4: Download an NES Core We can't link to ROM sites directly, but you'd be well served to google Emuparadise if you know what I mean. ROMs are freely available on the web for download, but just know it's illegal to download a game you don't already own, even if NES games haven't been on store shelves in ages. Play Super Mario 64 on Android (No Emulator Required) Luckily, there are tons of gamers online that have converted their cartridges into files known as ROMs, which is the game data originally stored in the cartridges. That was over 20 years ago, so many NES games have long since been forgotten. The original NES was released way back in 1985.