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NES Emulator for iPhone and iPad Now Available on App Store [Removed]
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Very little thanks to illegal distribution of ROMs. If people wish to play and experience old titles, people need to pay for that access.
Correct, that's why we're lobbying Apple to reverse course on this. Apple will decide.
There is copy protection being developed for the web. Google pulled back for now, but they are very much part of WDRM that will eventually be baked into every browser wanting access to content sites protected by it.
So you're lobbying Apple to prevent legal apps on the assumption that what people do is illegal because of games that you probably no longer sell and which run on hardware most people no longer have?
Worst take on this matter
A company telling me the owner of the device what i can and can't do with my property
This is a perfect example of why Apple needs to be forced to allow normal software installation.
It's MY iPhone, not Apple's iPhone. I should be able to go to Github and download the .ipa and install it, without interference from Apple. I should be able to download the source code, compile it myself, and install it without Apple forcing me to do it again 7 days later.
Apple's behavior is criminal.
It's MY iPhone, not Apple's iPhone. I should be able to go to Github and download the .ipa and install it, without interference from Apple. I should be able to download the source code, compile it myself, and install it without Apple forcing me to do it again 7 days later.
Apple's behavior is criminal.
I say this with all due respect, what you’re doing is utter trash and I hope you step on a minefield of legos for eternity.
Also this is a super weird thing to boast about on here.
But but but... it will turn iOS into Android, and it will make it less secure.. so trust us we are keeping it locked for your own safety.
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delta is now out on the AppStore! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/delta-game-emulator/id1048524688
Aww, it's not available in Italy
Edit: It is available through AltStore PAL in the European Union.
You got to be kidding me. Why did you release it in the first place, and then remove it? Makes no sense. Why fear? This is America...
You are going to get different answers for this, but technically speaking if you have a physical copy of the software (game) and transfer your copy to a new medium (ROM), and retain the original media, you *should* be legal. However as many things, it is not that simple. the DMCA (https://www.copyright.gov/dmca/) has made it illegal to circumvent copy protection, and illegal to break encryption. If you have a valid key to decrypt something, that is not breaking encryption, that is just unlocking it. Most modern consoles employ some sort of encryption or other copy protection on their official game media, meaning the act of ripping (which is breaking encryption and dumping the contents) is against the DMCA. Now, the DMCA is only enforceable in the US, and explains why most online repositories of game ROMs and ISOs are in Europe/Asia. Just having possession of a ROM or firmware image that can only be obtained through illegal (in the US) methods is sometimes justification for the license holder to sue. Typically they do not go after individuals, but folks that redistribute, provide software to be able to rip, or (in the most recent case with Nintendo) readily provide instructions that tell folks how to circumvent copy protections in order to sell you a product/service.
Good luck!
Apple does allow emulators now, so your remark made/makes no sense, as you were blaming Apple for not allowing something they allow. The developer just pulled his own app.
I was just pointing out that Sega wasn't marketing that as a generic emulator, as they were just selling their games using it. That is a huge difference. Unless you can point me to some link showing that you could load your own ROMs on that Sega app, at which point I would fully agree with you.
Edit: Thanks for the 1990s EA info, though, as I wasn't aware of that specific case!
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Using that logic, many computers over the years have run pirated software, so would you want to make computers illegal? How do you define the threshold for legitimate usage?
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OK.
That doesn’t mean you have a say in prohibiting emulators.
Your opinion on the existence of emulators is meaningless.
You wouldn’t even have the tools you use to write your games (on macOS -if you do), if it was more locked down and every macOS app had to play by Apple’s rules.
Their good reasoning was probably just money. 💴💴💴💴💴
Wanting to sell games of their own.
…and so is a lot of junk available in Apple’s App Store. Including copycat apps or outright clones of legitimate original apps - that Apple seems to have little issue with approving.
Anyone who believes that Apple’s App Store is free of junk is deluded.
Apple are happy to approve all kinds of junk, as long as it makes them money in the App Store/through in-app purchases.
…such as denying people the old, original game experience they know from their youth - by replacing original soundtracks with generic new music?
We can argue about licensing and copyright restrictions and how software should e publicly distributable or not.
But for the sake of the preservation of works of art in their original form, Sega’s way should not be the only one.
Found some. Quick question… do you know if they make NES controllers that work with the iPhone? Thanks.
Sure… he spent maybe months developing an app and then a few hours after its release decided maybe this is not a good idea…
No, no one at all pressured him 🤣