Apple updated its App Store rules Friday to allow emulators for retro console games globally with an option for downloading titles. However, the company warned that the developers are responsible for making sure that they follow copyright rules. Android users can already access a ton of emulators to play old classics on their devices. Apple’s update […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
After Apple changed its policy allowing gaming emulators from third party developers on the App Store, the first ones have started to show up.
Just over a week after Apple changed rules to allow game emulators on iPhone and iPad, the first have made their way into the App Store. Emulators arrive on iPhone Apple made a change to guideline 4.7 of the App Store Review Guidelines in early April, reversing a rule that effectively banned the submission of console and classic game emulators for iOS and iPadOS. The change, which specifically allows apps to run "software that is not embedded in the binary," with "retro game console...
Update: The app has been removed from the App Store, as spotted by Parker Ortolani. It’s unclear if the developer or Apple removed the app. Apple changed the App Store rules last week to seemingly permit game emulators on the iPhone for the first time. Following that policy change, the first emulator apps are now appearing on the store. iGBA is a free Game Boy game emulator for iPhone and iPad, which can indeed load and play ROMs downloaded to the device — a category of application that...
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iGBA seems to have taken unauthorized code from earlier GBA4iOS project.
A week after Apple updated its App Review Guidelines to permit retro game console emulators, a Game Boy emulator for the iPhone called iGBA has appeared in the App Store worldwide. The emulator is already one of the top free apps on the App Store charts. It was not entirely clear if Apple would allow emulators to work with all and any games, but iGBA is able to load any Game Boy ROMs that users download from the web and open via the Files app on the iPhone. Accordingly, it seems like...
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Frankly, another unauthorized software related to Nintendo getting taken down is par for the course and not all that surprising. However, it is notable that iGBA's takedown originated from something other than Nintendo's DMCA legal hounds. Apple either removed it for its own reasons or the developer of the GBA4iOSRead Entire Article
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