Emulation on iOS: We've Tested It!
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- Опубликовано: 28 апр 2024
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You can customize controls when you have a controller connected. It doesn’t give an option otherwise. The official switch n64 controller is working well after remapping.
Yup, it’s right in the Delta options for controllers.
Pretty sure dolphin, provenance and ppsspp have iPhone support if side loading as they need JIT to properly run.
Can’t remember if apple allows the emulators to use JIT, if not it kinda explains the performance issues. As I remember when side loading delta or dolphin iOS it was recommended to also use JIT which was another workaround.
I think they don't, I read somewhere that's the reason some more famous emulators will be skipping the App Store for now
No JIT so no very high end emulation for now... Dolphin is out of the question until JIT.
I just did some minor research and found out that only browsers are allowed to use JIT as apple has deemed it unsafe because of its vulnerability
JIT is Java based, which means Apple has little to interest in it because of its security issues.
@@ibleminenAnd all the browsers are basically skins of Safari webkit basically no Chromium on ios they all have to use webkit as a base so that Apple has control over the security
I had to go into general settings and remap there. I love it now.
Been having a blast checking out some missed DD games. Really hope 3DS support gets added relatively soon as well
They don't allow jit on ios which massively impacts the performance of emulators so it's unlikely for newer systems to get added if even the ds emulation had some performance issues
Regarding how to you get games on the device; the same way you get any other files on any other computer: SSDs, SD cards, wired or wireless LAN, cloud services or other servers on the internet…
I’m happy for people having fun but for the foreseeable future the emulators I’d be interested in are on macOS or AltStore
Cool that this is now possible! Hope we will see more emulators down the line. The chipset should be able to handle much more!
I’ve been rocking emulators on iOS since the very first iPhone and version of iOS, before it was even called iOS. It’s one of the first things jailbreaking opened up to us with those devices. Even using a Wii Remote on them has been around since I can remember. Glad it’s finally official, like 17 years later.
So out there question since I know it’s easier to just get a Macmini but do you think Apple TV could run these emulators and such?
Wow flashback to late 90s early 2000s seeing Mariokart run like that.
You can also put the ROMs on a cloud service and access it that way.
iCloud is working great for me. Google Drive is an option too but it didn’t work for me.
can they take this away from iphone once you download it? if it gets banned etc?
Can we have PSX / Vita emulator as well? Is it hardware feasible?
No N64 issues performance wise on my 15 Pro Max. Some texture glitches though.
the controls are remappable on delta. i just did it earlier today
Funny thing is... All the games tested here run absolutely flawless on my iPhone 11! ...And I am absolutely allergic to FPS dips or frame pacing issues. Could it be a PAL/NTSC issue regarding the N64? PAL rom running at 25FPS on a 60Hz display?
The only issue I have with Delta is the lack of resolution/ scaling settings. Would love my SNES and NES in 3/4 instead of 7/8. I play in landscape with a D8 telescopic controller.
Same no lag at all on my iPhone 12 mini
Whats the situation in Canada with this? I’ve also been waiting forever for emulators
I'm running Android on a S23 Ultra and emulation on it is amazing. My phone paired with a Backbone One PlayStation edition is great. Playing the Vita game Tales of Innocence R with the English patch and HD textures at 3x internal resolution with stable frame-rate. On the GCN emulation, I'm playing Star Fox Adventures at 3x internal resolution. It's crazy how powerful these little devices are. I remember trying to run zsnes on a Pocket PC in 2002 and that thing struggled with some games like Killer Instinct. It was a ViewSonic V35; it had a 300MHz CPU😂 32MB of RAM. Yup, I was the cool 20 year old 😅
I’m most interested in PS2 emu on ios, but I understand it’s currently impossible w/o JIT. Crazy how demanding emu is with Death Stranding and RE8 running natively on iPhone 15.
There is play! It is not as good as pcsx2 but it’s still a ps2 emulator
WWF No Mercy keeps crashing on Delta and it makes me so bad 😭
Yoooooo, he has the exact same GameSir controller I have!!! Been playing all kinds of games with it on my iPhone 15 Pro Max and loving it.
Same, it’s very good!
Weird it's works fine on my iPhone 12 mini no lags at all
Love that WarioWare Twisted runs perfectly on portrait mode. Really gives iOS games a run for their money
We also need testing on a M1 and M2 Ipads
Done... it works, but it's an iPhone only app, so basically ugly resized on the iPad... the native iPad Delta is in the works
I guess Dreamcast emulation is a pipe dream then.
why?
Why? Modern iOS devices should be plenty powerful enough if the emulator is well optimised.
It's struggling with N64 emulation.@@kortyzol420
@Zveebo The front end is the problem, it's a long way from being optimized enough to run Dreamcast
Sadly Dreamcast, GameCube PS2 and up are unlikely to happen. Apple still restricts access to just in time (JIT).
From Oatmealdome Apple still does not allow us to use a vital technology that is necessary for Dolphin to run with good performance: JIT.
Therefore, if we want to run a GameCube or Wii game on an iPhone, it is necessary to translate the game’s PowerPC code to ARM so that the CPU can understand it.
Dolphin uses something called a Just-in-Time (JIT) recompiler to achieve this. Whenever the emulated console wants to run game code, Dolphin will use its JIT to translate the PowerPC code to ARM, and then execute the results.”
Almost any device can run these emulators. It would be much more interesting if they could do rcps3 or something
The N64 controller from switch works flawlessly on delta this guy 😂lol the delta app is superior to every other emulation app
Android users are like aliens observing Earth (apple users) slowly catching up to them
android has had this for 30years lmao
Yeah I've had emulators on my Android for years and they work flawlessly lol.
2 deuche bags
I’m personally excited for emulators to trickle out to Apple TV.
I’ve been using my Apple TV to stream the top screen of my ds through delta, made a skin with only a large bottom screen. It’s been pretty fun for Pokemon
So funny hearing all this, even the rom loading aspect like it's revolutionary technology when I've been using emulators more than a decade now on Android lol
It’s just that it’s new to apple. I’ve emulated on android in the past, but it’s cool that now you can do it on apple products
Been having fun experiencing the 3DS for the first time on Citra for Android.
If that's your first experience with a 3DS, then let me tell you, your experience through Citra is inferior to the real thing.
And that's because the devs didn't put the work to emulate the system itself to give you the full unfiltered experience. But instead they only tried to make 3DS games work on their emulator (some work better than others, while some barely work at all).
On the other hand, Mikage is an emulator that is being developed to emulate the 3DS 100%. To give users the full experience of actually having a 3DS. And not be an emulator that just plays 3DS games but doesn't have any of the unique features of playing them on a 3DS (Streetpass, Mii compatibility, friendlists, etc).
Its like playing RE4 Wii Edition on an emulator and not playing it with motion controls or listening to Ada Wong calling you through the Wiimote speaker. Those type of experiences elevated that version of RE4 over the rest. Hell, even the Switch version of RE4 is inferior to the Wii version because it lacks any of those unique features. Its just a straight port.
it's fine, but basically requires you to have a Backbone controller and at that point, I'll just emulate on my modded OLED Switch.
Uh no it doesnt, I use a Dualshock 4
@@MegamanEXEv2 two separate devices. Now you need a stand, a surface for the phone, carry controller, have the battery charged…
@@denisruskin348oh boo hoo
@@chrisbrown113096 well no, it’s genuinely less convenient than a modded switch or even steam deck at that point. that and the dev behind delta is kinda a d**k
@@denisruskin348 cry abt it lil bro
Problem is that JIT is a no-no for Apple. So we won’t be seeing Dreamcast, PS2 and GameCube anytime soon.
troll store bester
Imagine working at Nintendo and spending your lunch hour kicked back playing Mario Kart on your iphone.
Oh no... now Nintendo is going to come after DF lol
deltas n64 emulation still leaves a lot to be desired. my fav game sin and punishment is unplayable:/
Too bad its not available in the EU to force use buy AltStore Subscription 😢
It’s only 1,50€ plus tax… Worth it.
Pretty sure its because it costs money for the developer in the eu version after a number of downloads
@@ibleminen yeah, because he released it to AltStore. But it’s pointless, since it was approved to the App Store anyways …
@@Henriette187 yeah sure, per device, iOS 17.4 only 🫠
While outside of the EU you could get it for free, download to unlimited devices, even for iOS 14 devices … see the issue?
@@PumpedSmartasspretty sure he had it on AltStore before emulators were allowed on the AppStore. Also he is the creator of AltStore, so it makes sense for him to have it on there. Also pretty sure he mentioned that he couldn’t have it on AppStore and AltStore at the same time
i want psp so i can play gta sa in my iphone on the go :D
Let me explain something to all of u guys
Playing ur retro games on an apple device perfectly is like asking pineapple on ur pizza from an Italian chef, which is the nicest thing he'll gonna do to u is slice u with a chopping knife in his hand
now end this conversation by either get an Android and continue ur life, or get one of these ARM or x86 handhelds which are plenty on the market
i don't think any translation required for what i said i described it as perfectly as i could so DF channel could end to these kinda content in future efforts
now i love this channel and i don't wanna see it ruined by an obsolete Apple which is full of worms when u wanna take a bite
Or just buy an Android phone and do whatever the hell you want with it.
Apple's infamous "walled garden" isn't for your safety. It's for your subservience.
Ok bro...
"whatever the hell you want" 🤣ok buddy..
Why not have both???
average insecure android user
nah, we're good bro
Do people really still get excited about emulation? After you’ve played a few old games the novelty wears off pretty fast.
Guys stop mainstreaming emulation
Don’t see this delta emulator at all. Fake news.