This is app store competition does. Apple didn’t want an emulator-friendly app store to become super popular.
Apple warns that developers are “responsible for all such software offered in your app, including ensuring that such software complies with these Guidelines and all applicable laws.” This raises the question of whether anyone can release a game emulator or only the companies that own the rights to the games distributed for it.
A good move, and great for distribution, but this does look like it’s difficult to publish an emulator unless you could control the games too. I don’t see this clearly permitting a general purpose emulator. It’s possible, but knowing Apple, I would expect that this could let Nintendo publish an emulator but not necessarily an open source project.
I’m glad to see it, but this to me feels more like testing the water then jumping into the deep end.
Man that rule is such bullcrap. Imagine a photo editor that only allowed you to edit your own pictures and only those matching the app's content rating.
I really don't see Nintendo publishing an emulator that runs on hardware they didn't make (yay unnecessary e-waste).
Android Market: hey we did that too!....in 2010.
Except they've been pulled recently after the Nintendo fiasco
Did they? I think I remember some authors no longer taking payment for them. Maybe some others took theirs down of their own accord. I don't remember hearing about Google themselves taking anything down
No, I didn't mean to say Google did that. Not like Google is a great company, but I'm saying there was a scare a bit ago from the emulator publishers themselves when that happened. At least I thought that's why aesthersx got taken down, and I thought I remembered others as well. Obviously people seem to disagree
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welcome to 2010s
5 B.E. (Before Enshittification)
Is there any good game boy emulator ? I want to play Pokémon.
Drastic is a fantastic DS emulator for android, it recently became free. I bought it over a decade ago and has been a blast.
Looks like my next phone will be an SE. Literally the one and only reason I swapped to Android was to have easy access to GBA games.
Didn't know hell froze over.
This is app store competition does. Apple didn’t want an emulator-friendly app store to become super popular.
A good move, and great for distribution, but this does look like it’s difficult to publish an emulator unless you could control the games too. I don’t see this clearly permitting a general purpose emulator. It’s possible, but knowing Apple, I would expect that this could let Nintendo publish an emulator but not necessarily an open source project.
I’m glad to see it, but this to me feels more like testing the water then jumping into the deep end.
Man that rule is such bullcrap. Imagine a photo editor that only allowed you to edit your own pictures and only those matching the app's content rating.
I really don't see Nintendo publishing an emulator that runs on hardware they didn't make (yay unnecessary e-waste).
Android Market: hey we did that too!....in 2010.
Except they've been pulled recently after the Nintendo fiasco
Did they? I think I remember some authors no longer taking payment for them. Maybe some others took theirs down of their own accord. I don't remember hearing about Google themselves taking anything down
No, I didn't mean to say Google did that. Not like Google is a great company, but I'm saying there was a scare a bit ago from the emulator publishers themselves when that happened. At least I thought that's why aesthersx got taken down, and I thought I remembered others as well. Obviously people seem to disagree
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welcome to 2010s
5 B.E. (Before Enshittification)
Is there any good game boy emulator ? I want to play Pokémon.
Drastic is a fantastic DS emulator for android, it recently became free. I bought it over a decade ago and has been a blast.
Looks like my next phone will be an SE. Literally the one and only reason I swapped to Android was to have easy access to GBA games.