ok I realize that this can be really annoying, but as a last resort, you can get a nintendo emulator such as pocket nes and play lots of those games....i know that all of the games you mentioned are for nintendo(never heard of bubble bobble though)

> I have fairly thoroughly scoured the posts for the last few months, and I can't
> seem to find any answers....
>
> Every game that i get, including DKong and Pacman, as well as Contra and Bubble
> bobble, shows up in my games list, but when i run it, i get a black blank
> screen, then it cuts back. I have lots of memory free (i'm running a Jornada
> 548 with SH3 processor and 32MB ram) but still nothing. Actually contra gets
> past the liscensy screen before it cuts out, but not much farther. The other
> ones are dead on arrival. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks
>
> -DaveyJ
>