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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Damn, I love people under article’s comment keep ignoring that the Alternative App Store he’s building, AltStore is already able to install on your iPhone/iOS for years via sideloading: https://faq.altstore.io

I personally used a forked version of it tho so that it can renew natively on iPhone called SideStore

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I was worried that you would be giving dev access to a remote server to achieve that, but they actually use a fucked up wireguard tunnel to do fake loopback to sort of psuedo-host the AltServer locally. Super cool

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

I read that wrong and thought that was to emulate the iphone and I was pretty stunned!

[–] [email protected] 53 points 7 months ago (1 children)

When I saw this, I was like "why did Riley not release Delta and instead released GBA4iOS under a different name?"

Appearently because the release wasn't authorised by Riley and they haven't provided the source code per GPLv2 demands anyways; clearly against its licensing. Scummy move.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, and they’ve done a shitty job of it too. Downloaded it out of interest and ran Super Mario Land. It looks like crap and it’s full of ads that you can’t pay to remove.

Also, while it shows up when I search, it’s not in my App Library at all, which is odd.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

If you use a dns level ad blocker there aren’t any ads. I didn’t know there were any until I read your post.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Does cutting off its internet access stop it from tracking? Like does it work without internet?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Apple sucks in a lot of ways as a company, but I do find it hilarious that Nintendo has zero chance of winning any legal battle to get these taken down, their out of their legal weight class

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don’t know about that. Billion dollar company vs trillion dollar company isn’t as bad as 100k dollar developer vs billion dollar company.

Giants fighting giants don’t have the same ability to attrite each other.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

You're right, remember tho that apple was sued by samsung and google at approximately same time and they all still standing, so nintendo ain't gonna win this, they just gonna brawl a little

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

iMovie and Logic/Garageband emulators on Switch

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm too sleepy so i don't understand, please elaborate further

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Haha. Just a petty way for Nintendo to get back at them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


In an email to The Verge, developer Riley Testut said the app is an unauthorized clone of GBA4iOS, the open-source emulator he created for iOS over a decade ago (and recently resurrected for the Vision Pro).

A Mastodon user found that iGBA does not reference the license, which may violate its terms.

I’d suggest reading developer Mattia La Spina’s Github-hosted privacy policy before diving in.

I did not attempt to find or play any Commodore 64 games with Emu64 XL and deleted the app.

That control is breaking down now, with the EU’s Digital Markets Act making the company permit other app stores and sideloading on the iPhone.

Whatever the case, emulators being allowed feels like a win; it’s just a shame the first apps to take advantage of that aren’t quite up to snuff.


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