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theHFIC
Member
if this winds up truly allowing unrestricted bring your own ROMs emulators to the iOS app store, why would they go 3rd party app store and risk paying .50 cents per additional download past 1M out of pocket?
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
Ofc when the OG apple store suddenly magically also allows it just before the third party store launch
theHFIC
Member
Yah that’s the goal of this whole mandate that started everything: fair market. Apple wants to keep the business to their app store so they’ll change restrictions to keep customers. This is the competition EU wanted.
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
Almost but not quite. This is still software Apple wants if Apple wants when they want it. If people were to flee the App Store for alternative ones they lose the data tracking monopoly they created with the App Tracking Transparency scam too.
Apple is trying their best not to make competition to the App Store viable and to ensure nobody has a reason to use the alternative App Stores, not to make the viable. Restrictions put in place, the “mini” app review still needed, and the Core Technology Fee are all designed not to make any of the EU demands meaningful or viable.
Sure, to do that they are also giving up some concessions to the peons like us to quiet people down. If the alternatives are not viable and less restricted we will be back here once the regulators start looking at something else a few years down the road…
cyberheater
PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 PS4 Xbone PS4 PS4
Brilliant news.
I Love Rock 'n' Roll
Member
Apple does what Nintendon't!
gaming_again
Member
Chrono Trigger on my iPhone?
Comandr
Member
Chrono Trigger has been available on iOS for 12 years.
Quasicat
Member
I’m thinking this is still not happening. The part about the software being downloaded with the emulator and the whole “applicable to local laws” section which makes me think this has to happen from the ip holders...regardless of whether or not I have the original games.
I do hope I’m wrong.
I do hope I’m wrong.
phant0m
Member
Yup, and it works on tvOS too
phant0m
Member
As awesome as this is, playing old games with on-screen touch controls sucks ass. And having a separate controller is cumbersome. You’re honestly better off buying a $60 SBC device from Anbernic or Miyoo. Physical controls, removable storage, plus you’re not subject to Apple’s whims.
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Buggy Loop
Member
vodka-bull
Member
This. RG35XX H costs <100€, it has physical buttons, plays almost all retro games, is a dedicated machine that doesn‘t charge anything per subscription, has a great display and you won‘t be disrupted by any messages whatsoever.
SidViscous
Member
Still don’t know why Nintendo/TPC has never cashed in on the nostalgia and released something like this.
Add online battle and trading between contacts, charge $4.99 for the first couple entries of the Pokémon Retro series… laugh all the way to the bank.
Would make a fraction of what a game designed for mobile with predatory monetisation makes them, and one less selling point for their next console. They know what they are doing with their current mobile strategy.
Pallas
Gold Member
Comandr
Member
This logic is fundamentally flawed.
1) this game wouldn’t be competing with anything. So it’s not a paid app vs freemium app battle. They can both exist.
2) one less selling point for their next console? Are you suggesting that Nintendo would ever use the ability to play a 26 year old game boy game as a selling point?
Pokemon is the highest grossing franchise of all time. Releasing the game that sparked that to billions of devices around the world… you don’t think that would be a profitable endeavor?
Even if only 1% of smartphone owners purchased the game at launch, that’s an estimated 68 million sales. At $4.99 less the 30% App Store cut, that’s $3.49 x 68 million.
That’s over $237,000,000 dollars. Idk seems like a worthwhile endeavor to me for what amounts to essentially a slightly enhanced rom.
So it doesn’t matter if it would make less than “a predatory mtx based game.” Because at the end of the day, it’s still a lot of fuckin money.
StereoVsn
Member
Yep, its a pretty great device. I recently got this one for some Genesis, some Saturn and so on. I really would have loved this format but for more powerful chipset to get better Saturn and Dreamcast emulation, but Anbernic will Anbernic, lol.
Banjo64
cumsessed
iGBA
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/igba-gba-gbc-retro-emulator/id6482993626
Emu64 XL
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/emu64-xl/id6483251916
From purple town:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/igba-gba-gbc-retro-emulator/id6482993626
Emu64 XL
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/emu64-xl/id6483251916
From purple town:
Comandr
Member
I appreciate the break down from the blue hair group but, like with most things, they appear to be wrong.iGBA
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/igba-gba-gbc-retro-emulator/id6482993626
Emu64 XL
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/emu64-xl/id6483251916
From purple town:
The app page itself illustrates that it auto saves. I accept that maybe that function doesn’t work currently but this breakdown seems misleading.
Bernoulli
M2 slut
He said you lose the save when you switch to another app on your phone without closing the gameI appreciate the break down from the blue hair group but, like with most things, they appear to be wrong.
The app page itself illustrates that it auto saves. I accept that maybe that function doesn’t work currently but this breakdown seems misleading.
Comandr
Member
Maybe the problem was on his end. In my in depth testing of 5 minutes I went full grandma and opened every app on my phone, switched around a bunch and it was still updating the auto save with the latest frame and current timestamps.
DaGwaphics
Member
Apple's got that "I feel like a fresh lawsuit" energy going on. 