How to play Pokémon and other Game Boy games on your iPhone
techcrunch.comApple finally updated its App Store guidelines to allow global developers to host retro game emulators on iOS. Now, you don’t need to jailbreak your iPhone or download any sketchy software — you can get a sophisticated emulator right in the palm of your hand for free on the App Store.
No one is more vindicated by this shift in Apple’s policy than Riley Testut, the developer who made GBA4iOS about a decade ago when he was in high school (when he released GBA4iOS, I showed half of my AP Statistics class how to play Pokémon on their phones during class — sorry, Mr. Cinelli). But back then, you had to sideload the app through a loophole, and eventually, Apple caught on and ruined our fun. By fall 2014, GBA4iOS was dead. RIP.
But things have changed a lot since 2014, and since its launch, Delta has been downloaded 3.8 million times, and two weeks after its launch, it’s still topping the app store charts.
“It’s surreal how good the reception has been, and how many people are playing it,” he said in an interview with TechCrunch detailing the app’s history and development. “This is the app I’ve been working on for 10 years.”
<p lang=«en» dir=«ltr» xml:lang=«en»>before emulating Pokemon on my iPhone I had to use my TI-84 like an animal pic.twitter.com/t7uMj8J5KS— Riles
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