Rockman EXE: Phantom of Network

Game: Rockman EXE: Phantom of Network (Mobile, 2004)

A native Windows port of the Japanese mobile game (an i-αppli) Rockman EXE Phantom of Network, played without an emulator. The repository only holds the README and the issue tracker: the program is published already compiled and its code isn’t published, so how it’s made can’t be checked beyond what its author explains. According to the README it is fully playable on PC and adds render scaling, remappable keys that mimic the buttons of the GBA games, compatibility with the unofficial English fan translation, and with the unofficial leaderboard for the online ranked virus battle mode. There is one build for the Japanese game (PoN.PC.JPN.zip, 58 MB) and another for the translation-patched one (PoN.PC.ENG.zip, 9.6 MB); we haven’t checked what is inside each file or why their sizes differ so much. Version 1.0.1, from February 21, is the latest of 2 releases.

You needThe original i-αppli game files of Rockman EXE Phantom of Network (PoN.jar and PoN.sp), which are not included: the README points to SciLab Secrets for how to obtain them. To play in English, those files already patched with the fan translation. Windows.

How it gets to PC

Native layer

Console

Java ME, BREW, iOS, and Android

Original studio

Capcom

Author

StraDaMa