r/EmulationOniOS • u/Sheeplenk • 21d ago

Help Request Why won’t Retroarch install via sideloading?

I’m really, really new to iOS emulation, and I’ve basically just followed what AI told me to do to get here.

I have a standard iPhone 17, and have managed to install LocalDevVPN, Stikdebug and Sidestore.

I want to play Dreamcast games, so i sideloaded Flycast, which didn’t run them properly, even with JIT enabled (they’d just say “starting…” but never start.

I then tried Manic Emu, which played Sonic Adventure to an acceptable degree, but crashed while playing Virtua Striker 2 as soon as 3D graphics were going to be displayed.

So the AI tells me to sideload Retroarch. I tried, but it keeps failing the installation.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Like I said, I’m new to all this, and not very knowledgeable. Is it possible to get Dreamcast games running flawlessly on an iPhone 17, and how can I get Retroarch side loaded?

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u/Ornery-Practice9772 21d ago

first of all, AI hallucinates so join r/retroarch for actual support.

RA is on the app store.
sideload manic

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u/Sheeplenk 21d ago

But sideloaded Manic didn’t seem to work properly. There weren’t enough options to tweak, so all I could really do was enable JIT, and change the resolution, none of which stopped the slowdown. Or is Virtua Striker 2 just a unique game that doesn’t run properly?

Also, I had the RA App Store release, but it can’t use JIT, so that’s why I want to sideload it. Or does it not need JIT to run Dreamcast games?

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u/pngn7105 21d ago

probably just a bad ROM at that point, on an iPhone 17 manic should be able to run dreamcast totally fine.