iPod touch App Store: Emulators out of the question?

[boganrulz]

Will Emulators be aloud on the 2.0 app store or do they fall under the bad stuff.

Only asking cause i have tried to load on a GBA emulator onto ipod touch and it spazed out and didnt work.

Replies appreciated

 

[Phil A.]

Will Emulators be aloud on the 2.0 app store or do they fall under the bad stuff.

Only asking cause i have tried to load on a GBA emulator onto ipod touch and it spazed out and didnt work.

Replies appreciated

There's nothing that bans emulators per se, but most (if not all) would fail to be accepted because they rely on copied / hacked roms.

 

[sunfast]

I have a feeling Apple said emulators would not pass muster to be on the app store. I may be mistaken though.

Emulators for things like GBA, NES etc are all a bit shady however (with no really legit way of getting ROMs) so I can't see Apple allowing it

 

[motulist]

I would bet that the installer system will be broken so that people can install whatever apps they want without having to jailbreak their whole phone.

 

[goosnarrggh]

There's nothing that bans emulators per se, but most (if not all) would fail to be accepted because they rely on copied / hacked roms.

There is a ban on everything of the sort. See the license agreement:

3.3.2 An Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means, including without limitation through the use of a plug-in architecture, calling other frameworks, other APIs or otherwise. No interpreted code may be downloaded and used in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple’s Published APIs and built-in interpreter(s).

Emulators would be disqualified because, in order for them to be equipped with the capability of loading and executing the ROM files, they'd be running awry of the ban on "... lanuch(ing) other executable code by any means..."