It's weird to say but people never really stopped developing games for a lot of these systems. For instance, go to itch .io and search for gameboy roms. I played a demake tribute to Halo for about 30 minutes last night that was really artfully done. Delta is a great app and there are a ton of ways to play great, non-pirated games on it, whether you're ripping retro cartridges you own or buying honest-to-goodness brand new games that were developed for a platform Nintendo stopped supporting decades ago.
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Hands-On With the New App Store Delta Game Emulator
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The on-screen joystick surprisingly works well when playing Mario Kart 64. I just don't care for the on-screen D-pad.
PPSSPP will be out in a few weeks. Then you’ll be able to play WipEout and Locoroco on your iPhone which is the DREAM.
(If Sony trawl these forums: port these games to iOS and I will give you money for them)
The files app has been very slow and buggy and crashes on both my phone and iPad in the last few weeks. Just moving files around, viewing files etc, can make it just crawl to a halt.
Is this for sure? I admit that I am a bit ignorant on the technical side of things, but it seems that PPSSPP uses JIT?
The PPSSPP emulator could come to the App Store this year (Update)
PPSSPP is one of the top emulators on Android, and the app's creator says it'll come to the App Store later this year if Apple allows it.
I can only go by what I’ve read
Just looked through it and the developer said JIT shouldn't be required.The PPSSPP emulator could come to the App Store this year (Update)
PPSSPP is one of the top emulators on Android, and the app's creator says it'll come to the App Store later this year if Apple allows it.www.androidauthority.com
I can only go by what I’ve read
Wonderful!
I can't believe Steve Jobs was maliciously endorsing illegal activities. Just taunting Sony.
I don’t think anyone can say for certain how litigious future rights holders might be. Could they hang out in the shadows, wait until this reaches a critical mass and then demand access to purchase histories in order to see if those folks have roms the holder thinks they shouldn’t have. MOST LIKELY NOT. But, as with anything related to the rights of content you didn’t create/own, avoid trying to make massive amounts of money on it and you’re most likely going to be ok. And, secondarily, don’t let anyone know you’re doing it.
Let’s be real. Most ppl aren’t using it for anything they own and ripped lol. I literally live with 3 prime examples of this.
I used my share of Roms when I was unfortunately using lagdroid and I knew no better and thought lagdroid was a good OS (PlayStation Roms) as a kid but I realized both it was a terrible Os and I was contributing to piracy so I stopped. 🤷🏾♀️
These anti-trust suits have zero relationship to whether or not Apple allows emulators on their App Store. Nice try tho.
We're both well aware of what ROMs most people are using. My point is that you can't fairly dismiss this as a piracy tool when there are, in fact, many legitimate uses for it. Emulation being a good thing and piracy being a bad thing aren't mutually exclusive viewpoints. Otherwise I'm pretty sure we'd have to cancel YouTube, delete iTunes, and ban Plex worldwide because they're all tools that are frequently used for digital piracy, in addition to their legitimate uses.
Nope, I’m in the UK. We left the EU a few years ago.
iTunes and emulators are not the same thing 😂 YouTube actually is fairly good about copyrighted material when reported. Good try though.
Emulators are good in theory but enabling ppl to be nefarious with it is exactly why lagdroid ha the reputation it has as cheap (which it is) and shady.
I know I'm a day late, but I love how it already outranks the Delta airlines app in App Store search.
Can you show us on doll where Android hurt you?
In any case, out of the box (so without providing any additional bios files), this particular emulator only enables people to 'nefariously' play games that run on systems that haven't been sold in around 20 years or more.
So even if we assume for the sake of the argument that it's exclusively used for piracy, the economic harm is pretty much non-existent. Or put differently, users aren't exactly stopping Gameboy, NES or SNES hardware and software sales.
That's the thing, Apple Arcade will be just fine. It seems to have found a niche as a game library for kids, which is much needed on the scam and garbage ridden app store.
And, the content providers themselves are not meeting the market desire. I've seen a few articles talking about the fact that the only "legit" Tetris on iOS is an enormously bloated, horribly written abomination. It's just Tetris.
It hasn’t hurt me anywhere. I chose a much better ecosystem and os. I’m sorry if that offends you that I’m not a lagdroid fan.
But thank you for justifying the nefarious use of emulators. Much appreciated. /sarcasm