iPhone App Store Welcomes Retro Game Emulators
Apple’s revised App Store Review Guidelines have opened the doors for retro game emulators. Following the rule change, many emulators previously available only via side-loading are now transitioning to the App Store.
Emulators Now Available
Several emulators have already launched, offering support for various classic consoles:
- Delta: Supports Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color, Nintendo DS, NES, SNES, and Nintendo 64.
- Consoles: A multi-platform emulator for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro.
- eNES: A lightweight NES emulator.
- Emu64 XL: A Commodore 64 emulator.
- Folium: Supports Game Boy Advance, Nintendo 3DS, and Nintendo DS (with PlayStation and Sega Genesis support in development).
- Gamma: A PlayStation 1 emulator.
- iDOS 3: An x86 emulator for DOS games and software.
- iMSX2: An MSX and MSX2 emulator.
- RetroArch: A frontend for various emulators.
- Retroman: An 8-bit emulator for NES games.
- SameBoy: A Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator.
- ScummVM: For classic point-and-click adventure games.
- UTM SE: A retro PC emulator.
- VirtualFriend: A Virtual Boy emulator.
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