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Apple Updates App Store Guidelines to Permit Game Emulators, Website Links in EU Music Apps
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wouldn't it be great if apple just took over the market for retro roms, sold them to us for a decent price and paid commissions to the owners
Nintendo, who is notorious for going after game emulators, is going to HATE this. If they’re smart, they’ll get ahead of this and offer a virtual console for $$$ on the App Store.
Personally, I think Apple is doing the right thing. There is nothing inherently illegal about game emulators, just like there isn’t with the torrent protocol or bitcoin.
It’s ultimately up to how people use it. Some people use a knife in the kitchen, some people use a knife to kill people. That’s not the fault of the knife.
Personally, I think Apple is doing the right thing. There is nothing inherently illegal about game emulators, just like there isn’t with the torrent protocol or bitcoin.
It’s ultimately up to how people use it. Some people use a knife in the kitchen, some people use a knife to kill people. That’s not the fault of the knife.
only 0.50 euro core tech fee per install that the dev needs to pay to have it in the main app store (yes apps in the main store under new rules need to pay that fee)
I just saw the update email about this and ran to find this thread, lol. There is no language in the rules update email that says this is EU only, and I live in the US.
This has nothing to do with the DMA. It's a specific administrative decision by the EU Commission based on another regulation. This decision is going to be appealed by Apple and in the mean time, Apple is following the decision.
If these companies gave two figs about getting money for their abandonware they would have set up a storefront years ago. Nintendo would have made a lot of extra ¥$€£ had it sold GBA games directly on the App Store for $7 a pop.
Nintendo shuts down their 3DS eshop and roms are the only way to access many games that are now gone.
There is a big difference between playing old Gameboy titles on your phone that it is not your fault there is no way to reimburse the original creators for is very different to copying games that you can still legally pay for.
If they gave two dogs about retro emulators that they no longer sell games for they would have closed them down on Android years ago.
Oh goody, I hope this works out and doesn’t have some crappy restrictions.
Hopefully Nintendo and others will go after the emulators just like did with the company on lagdroid recently.
Same, dear Zorin. I deeply wanted sideloading on the iPad just for this, and now that they are allowed (we’ll see how SEGA and especially Nintendo react to this), I have little reasons to use App sideloading.
Nope, not at all my position. Not even close. But far be it from me to take your rope away.
Looks like the main reason for alt app stores suddenly evaporated 
By offering it officially, 99% wont bother loading alt app stores...
Next complaints will be the poor touch controls affecting game play.
By offering it officially, 99% wont bother loading alt app stores...
Next complaints will be the poor touch controls affecting game play.
Emulators themselves are fine, as long as they don’t provide any copyrighted games or code they don’t own. In fact, Steve Jobs himself endorsed Bleem! for Mac a very long time ago, saying that you would be able to play PS1 games on your Mac. Bleem! was considered legal when Sony tried to sue them, so instead Sony bought them and discontinued the project immediately.
you seem to forget that allowing emulators this way means Apple still get to review the app and control it on the app store and running on phones if issues are found. all in house.
it's just an app, like any other app.
the opening up of iOS to alt app stores was a total change of the existing experience.
that's what people were concerned about so it is nothing more than Apple now allowing a different category of app in the store. They backflipped on protecting IP rights of ROM holders is really the only change.
And they have effectively neutered the main reason anyone would install an alt app store.
So they can lose in court for the 3rd time? Sony and Nintendo can say whatever they like about emulation, it doesn’t make it legally true.
True, forbidding Emulators is like forbidding Knives, since people could go out and do illegal stuff.
Me too
It's ludicrous that back catalogs from the likes of Nintendo just sit and rot (officially)
