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TORFdot0@lemmy.world to Apple Gaming 🕹️@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

[xPost from c/apple_enthusiast]Emulators for iOS that dont require jailbreak

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[xPost from c/apple_enthusiast]Emulators for iOS that dont require jailbreak

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TORFdot0@lemmy.world to Apple Gaming 🕹️@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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Retro games and Apple devices are two of my main tech interests. A lot of people, including myself for the longest time, think that there is no way to emulate games if you use Apple devices unless you go through the frustrating process of loading AltStore/jailbreaking. However there are plenty of emulators that run via a web app that can be installed via safari. The essential iOS app thread inspired me to make this thread since these didn’t really fit the criteria of an “iOS app”. I’m going to list the sites and platforms that I use but please post your preferences in the comments. Afterplay [https://afterplay.io] is my personal favorite. It can play SNES, GB/GBC/GBA on the free tier. NES, Genesis, and DS support is part of the premium tier ($6 a month). Whether you are on the free or paid tier, this is the only web emulator that I know of that has true save and ROM syncing between devices. Afterplay uses lib-retro cores as its backend and exposes a lot of different options that other web emulators don’t. A major con of this project is that it doesn’t have offline support at the moment but it has been announced as coming. DS Player [https://ds.44670.org] is a DS emulator that uses desmume-wasm as its emulator core. It allows you to connect to dropbox to sync saves. It features offline support but is a lot more barebones than afterplay’s ds core. Its totally free however Emulator.JS [https://demo.emulatorjs.org] is another project like after play in that it is a web frontend for a lot of js/wasm ports of lib-retro cores. It runs a multitude of systems including N64 and PS1 and it runs them at actually playable speed. However I can only seem to get it to work with touch controls on iOS. I don’t know if that is a problem with my controller (I use a razor Kishi 2) or with the emulator.js. It recognizes the controller just won’t rebind the controls no matter what I do. [Eclipse](eclipse emu.me [http://emu.me]) is a web emulator with focus on NES, SNES, and GB/GBC/GBA. It allows you to connect to google drive and manage your library via the cloud. It also has offline support and is completely free. Mods, I’m not involved with any of these projects so I’m I’m sorry if this breaks rules on advertising.
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    I posted this a few days ago on c/apple_enthusiast and thought it would be a good post for here as well.

    I really can’t recommend https://afterplay.io highly enough. I love having all my roms and save in one place across my devices. If you need support the dev, @vapidness@lemmy.world is active on the afterplay discord

    It’s one of the few emulation apps that are actually worth a subscription price IMO

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      Thanks! Really helpful. Not a big fan of emulators but I’m sure it’ll be useful to some users here

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