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> Notably, Apple confirmed to us that emulators on the App Store are permitted to load ROMs downloaded from the web, so long as the app is emulating retro conso
by tiltowait 3y ago
> Notably, Apple confirmed to us that emulators on the App Store are permitted to load ROMs downloaded from the web, so long as the app is emulating retro console games only.
Speculation (and conclusions!) all over the internet, including this site, post-emulation announcement was that Apple wouldn't allow retro game emulators, so this confirmation is pretty exciting[0].
[0] For some reason, any time someone says something like this, someone has to jump in and point out Android has allowed emulators forever. To anyone tempted to do that: so what? We aren't talking about Android.
- idle_zealot 3y agoThis is an odd requirement. It would make sense to require that no BIOS or decryption keys be distributed with the app, but the requirement for "retro" only is pretty arbitrary.