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  Where can I find an iMode emulator?

At present I only know of one iMode emulator and it is in Japanese. How NTT DoCoMo are planning to take over the world with an iMode emulator that only supports Japanese, is beyond me. Still, it is possible to use for us with a Latin alphabet.

The emulator runs in the Windows9x environment, and requires the Visual Basic Runtime SP3 extras. To get the iMode emulator up and running you first need to download the emulator itself, and although I do not usually host software not written by me on this site for copyright reasons, I've made an exception this time. First of all it was impossible for me to read any copyright notes in the application because of the Japanese language, and further I had problems downloading the archives from the locations I was given. PLEASE let me know if I am violating any software piracy laws by doing this, and the archives will quickly be removed from this site.

First unpack the imode_sim.zip archive to a directory of your choice. Then unpack the vbrt63_3.exe file (self-extract) to the same directory. Then run SETUP.EXE found in the same directory. You'll now start to notice the strange characters that your Windows cannot render. Just click straight through the installer. Finally lanuch the emulator by running I-Tool.exe. If someone that can read Japanese could fill out the blanks, I would appreciate it very very much!