Game Boy Emulator for iPhone Now Available in App Store Following Rule Change [Removed]A week after Apple updated its App Review Guidelines to
permit retro game console emulators, a
Game Boy emulator for the iPhone called iGBA has
appeared in the App Store worldwide. The emulator is already one of the top free apps on the App Store charts.
It was not entirely clear if Apple would allow emulators to work with all and any games, but iGBA is able to load any Game Boy ROMs that users download from the web and open via the Files app on the iPhone. Accordingly, it seems like there are no game restrictions for emulators, unless Apple mistakenly approved iGBA on the App Store.
iGBA works with Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance games. It is important to note that it can be illegal to possess certain ROMs from game developers, but
homebrew Game Boy games are typically in the clear.
iGBA
appears to be a copy of Riley Testut's
open-source GBA4iOS emulator, but with ads that can track users. GBA4iOS is the predecessor to Testut's current Nintendo game emulator
Delta, which can be installed on the iPhone outside of the App Store, and will soon be available through his
alternative app marketplace AltStore on iPhones in the EU. It is not clear if Testut plans to make Delta available in the App Store following the rule change.
<strong>Update:</strong> As noted
by Parker Ortolani, the iGBA emulator has been removed from the App Store. Apple told us it removed the app for violating the company's app review guidelines
related to spam and copyright, after learning that it was a knockoff app that copied another developer's submission (likely referring to GBA4iOS).<div class="linkback">Tags:
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