GBA4iOS Debuts 2.0 Update for Game Boy Emulator With iPad Support, Easy Installation

[Polaroid]

How to install save games? :/

 

[Skika]

This is AMAZING!

 

[blackcrayon]

I'm actually really interested in this now. Are there any other apps that can be downloaded outside the App Store on a non-jailbroken device?

It's a standard way for developers to distribute iOS software- standard dev accounts can serve apps over the web for testing for a limited # of users, and enterprise accounts can send to an unlimited # (or at least a very large one AFAIK).


I should add, if you're a developer yourself, you should be able to resign the app with your own developer certificate and run it without having to deal with changing your date (just have to deal with paying the developer fee and renewing it once a year

 

[bsolar]

Why would this be posted in direct violation of forum rules?

Emulation itself is legal. Not sure how the forum rules should be interpreted given that in this case a certificate was most likely abused. What happened in the past in similar cases?

 

[Rudy69]

Presumably the "set clock back to before Feb 19, 2014" warning will be needed from some future date when the key expires or Apple cancels it.

I'm guessing it's actually already expired, which is why they don't mind using it (and why we had to wait until today for the release).

 

[tgenius]

Nope.. won't work on my 5 running 7.0.4 either.

 

[irnchriz]

Got it on my rMini but can't download on anything else now, says it can't connect to the amazon s3 servers.

Edit:

Ah, tried again. Set date to current, then download it. Set date to anytime in 2012, click link again and it installs.

Set date back to current and play it.

Sorted!

 

[Reason077]

I'm guessing it's actually already expired, which is why they don't mind using it (and why we had to wait until today for the release).

It worked for me (iPhone 5 w/ iOS 7.1b5) shortly after the article was posted.

 

[BaldiMac]

Emulation itself is legal. Not sure how the forum rules should be interpreted given that in this case a certificate was most likely abused. What happened in the past in similar cases?

If you want the talk in general, of course emulation is legal. But the specific app being discussed is pretty clearly not.

 

[ladeer]

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[bsolar]

If you want the talk in general, of course emulation is legal. But the specific app being discussed is pretty clearly not.

As far as I understand the only illegal thing in emulation is providing copyrighted code: that's why emulators don't provide BIOS images or ROMs directly but it's the end user supposed to provide them. As long as in this app there is no BIOS or no ROM included it should be 100% legal.

A different story is the certificate abuse, on that I don't know.

 

[T-Will]

Doesn't work for me either. Won't even launch, it's stuck in a "installing" cycle over and over.

Try disabling wifi then reinstall. I've noticed some of the apps I beta test won't install when connected to corporate wifi.

 

[Toby777]

I initially had problems downloading the emu via the link.

Would just load and load and load....

So I tried manually going to http://gba4iosapp.com and it worked, though funnily enough there was no Download link up the top. So I re-added /download to the end of the URL and this time it loaded the page. Clicked the Download button and it's now on my phone and starts up fine.

EDIT: Hmm.. trying to sync to Dropbox and when it comes to allowing the app to create the folder, I get an error from Dropbox saying, Error Authorizing App - Only a limited set of users can receive access tokens while this app is in development mode.

 

[baryon]

Sweet, thanks!

That worked! Only issue now is that playing these games on a touchscreen sucks...

 

[slamchampion]

I'm RIGHT in the middle of pokemon ruby on the original version... is there a way to transfer my game to the new one? I really dont want to start over but I really want to use this new version, too. From what I can see, there's no way to insert save state files into the save state folder on itunes.

 

[Nermal]

How to install save games? :/

According to the documentation:

Can I transfer saves files between my device and computer?
Yes, but only save files (.sav), not save states or cheats. Open iTunes with your iOS device plugged in, then click on your device in the top right corner. Click "Apps" at the top of the screen, then scroll to down to the "File Sharing" section. Click GBA4iOS, and now you can drag saves in or out.

 

[BaldiMac]

As far as I understand the only illegal thing in emulation is providing copyrighted code: that's why emulators don't provide BIOS images or ROMs directly but it's the end user supposed to provide them. As long as in this app there is no BIOS or no ROM included it should be 100% legal.

A different story is the certificate abuse, on that I don't know.

Emulators must have significant non-infringing uses in order to be legal. This app is being promoted exclusively as a way to play non-licensed Nintendo ROMs.

 

[Albright]

"Game Boy" is always two words, and it's "Game Boy Advance," not "Advanced," SO MANY FRIGGIN' HEADDESKS

And yeah, this whole thing is fishy as all hell. I can't believe so many of you are actually installing this.

 

[ludachrisvt]

Hmmm the iphone asked me if I wanted to actually run this software from Developer X from Beijing, China. Nope, I don't. *deletes app*

Who the hell knows what we are ACTUALLY installing on our devices?

 

[slamchampion]

Hmm, anyone else having trouble with the dropbox feature? I feel like that might be able to be of use for loading save states maybe?

 

[bsolar]

Emulators must have significant non-infringing uses in order to be legal. This app is being promoted exclusively as a way to play non-licensed Nintendo ROMs.

I don't see anything special which makes this particular emulator less non-infringing that all the other emulators available. Particularly, I don't see any promotion of it being exclusively to play non-licensed ROMs, although obviously that's always a possibility with an emulator.

 

[kwokaaron]

Wow... never thought this day would come. Brilliant!

 

[BaldiMac]

I don't see anything special which makes this particular emulator less non-infringing that all the other emulators available. Particularly, I don't see any promotion of it being exclusively to play non-licensed ROMs, although obviously that's always a possibility with an emulator.

It's a straightforward example of contributory infringement. The only real defense would be if they could establish that the emulator has "substantial non-infringing uses" as established in the Betamax case. I don't think there is a case for that here.

 

[jswright2005]

Here is how you get it to work

Directly from iemulators' website:

We strongly recommend you read these instructions before downloading an app.

Step 1: Change the date on your iOS device to 2012

Open Settings, and go to General.

Tap on "Date & Time"

Toggle off "Set Automatically"

Change the date to 2012!

Step 2: In the drop-down box below, select your app then hit install!

Step 3: Once the application has been installed and opened once, just change your date back to 2013!

WARNING: If your device powers off or reboots in any way, make sure to change your date back before launching the application again, otherwise it will not launch properly

 

[Trhodezy]

Me too... I tried restarting, and reinstalling the app, doesn't help. Any ideas? There's the loading circle, it goes through completely saying "installing" but then it simply collapses back into an empty grid icon.

Try setting the date back before the 19th of feb then reinstalling.