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Retro game emulators on iOS that dont require jailbreak - Lemmy.world
lemmy.worldRetro 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.
Thanks! Really helpful. Not a big fan of emulators but I’m sure it’ll be useful to some users here