why name all those when retroarch is a thing?No, as emulation is technically illegal. You can still use GBA4iOS, iNDS, Provenance, Happy Chick/New Gamepad and some other emulators through Cydia Impactor on a computer (for a 1-week profile), paid yearly signing services such as the Build Store, or enterprise certificates (which get revoked erratically-there's no rhyme or reason to when they'll work or stop working) through sites such as iEmulators.com on iOS or through the Play store on Android.
Retroarch doesn't really run well on iOS, so...why name all those when retroarch is a thing?
ios is horrible anyway. and retroarch has a per-core configuration, if you set it up that wayRetroarch doesn't really run well on iOS, so...
Also, retroarch wouldn't really run very fast on iOS. the closest thing to retroarch which works well on iOS would be Happy Chick or New Gamepad, which have a bunch of emulators built in. Plus, each different console has a different button layout, which needs to be changed on a per-console/emulator basis.
Since when? Some might not like it and if you are playing in their house they may block it by some means but that is far from illegal.No, as emulation is technically illegal.
Only way to play legally is to buy the actual cart dump it yourself and then play it on there. To download a rom is illegal regardless of weather you own it but you are allowed to dump and use the backup for your own needs.
That might depend where you are in the world, and I am not sure if the "I own it but downloaded it anyway" approach, or an equivalent, has been tested in court. Being a civil thing in most places the owner would have to demonstrate loss, and if you downloaded a copy after purchase of a cart/disc/whatever and did not share it in the process (there is a reason they go after p2p types for the uploading) then loss gets hard to demonstrate.Only way to play legally is to buy the actual cart dump it yourself and then play it on there.
Equally emulation is not illegal. To that end if you own the game you have options to emulate it within the bounds of the law.
The two you mentioned use retroarch for PS1 and N64 so wtf is the bullshit you speak of. (and they run fullspeed on my 5s)Retroarch doesn't really run well on iOS, so...
Also, retroarch wouldn't really run very fast on iOS. the closest thing to retroarch which works well on iOS would be snip, which have a bunch of emulators built in. Plus, each different console has a different button layout, which needs to be changed on a per-console/emulator basis.
Point me at any case that stated emulation was illegal, the closest we have that I am aware of is the bleem case and they were on track to win that one before they went bankrupt.It's not exactly legal either in alot of cases
Point me at any case that stated emulation was illegal, the closest we have that I am aware of is the bleem case and they were on track to win that one before they went bankrupt.
Alternatively any popular emulators that are illegal thanks to stolen code from another emulator, bundled ROMs (including things like BIOS images) they have no agreement to distribute or demonstrably stolen specs (see also clean room reverse engineering).
The wording changes but you usually get a phrase like "substantial non infringing use", that being writing or running homebrew. Even in places where interoperability (the other big legal concept underpinning a lot of it) is not a thing, or it is more dubious owing to some measure of protections being bypassed in the dumping, that it runs commercial games tends to only speak to it being more accurate and you can't really legislate against that.
The closest I get to any ruling that might distantly trouble it is from the same logic that gave us "hacking tools" laws, widely held to be a bad idea for my hex editor has both fixed a database that was broken and hacked a file before, and my port scanner has found a way through a firewall... for someone I was running a security check on.
Anyway this then means that any infringement, usually a civil law broken if any, is a user choice and not one the emulators make.