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by mulletbum
2888 days ago
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This might go under your "didn't pay for," but it does annoy me that apple doesn't allow emulators. I bought some SNES games, the console went under, I would still like to play them on my iPhone. I know it probably is a gray area for most people, but none the less, Apple could let it be done, but they don't. |
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I used to hang around the Dreamcast homebrew scene and the stance on emulators were that they were mostly a proof of concept/educational thing so you could talk about the emulators, how well they performed, bugs, etc, but you couldn't talk about where to get ROMs or distribute emulators with ROMs on the site.
I don't know how that'd work with iOS apps. In order to keep the emulator app separate from the ROM, you'd need to be able to download the ROM to some sort of general storage. Then the app would need to be able to access that storage. I guess you could do it off of dropbox. Point the emulator to some URL where the ROM is stored. Downloads the ROM on demand, etc.
The major point is that the app can't really have somewhere official that says "ROMs be here".