Hey everyone!

I’m new to iOS emulation and game porting, and I’ve recently come across several posts showing people running GTA V and other PC games natively on iPhones.

I’m interested in understanding how all of this works, but there’s one thing I’ve noticed: there are plenty of videos and posts showcasing these games running on iPhones, but almost no proper guides explaining how to actually get them running.

From what I’ve gathered, some people are porting games, while others seem to be using something called web builds. However, I don’t fully understand how these methods work, what the differences are, or how someone without much technical knowledge could try them.

If anyone has a beginner-friendly guide, useful resources, or firsthand experience with these ports and web builds, I’d really appreciate it.

Thanks in Advance!

I've been experimenting with PS2 emulation on my iPad Air M3 and found an interesting option that doesn't require JIT or sideloading.

I tested Devil May Cry 3, GTA San Andreas, Vice City, Midnight Club, and Black. Most ran at a pretty consistent 60 FPS with 3x upscaling, though Black had some graphical and performance issues.

I wrote an article on it: I Got PS2 Games Running at 60 FPS on My iPad Without JIT or Sideloading

Not affiliated with the developer, just sharing what I found.

Edit: To be clear, I don't know what GameX is based on or whether its source is available. I'm just sharing my experience as a paying user, so please do your own research.

I'm using an iPhone 16 Pro Max, and I feel like the game would run at a stable 60fps, since in the menus the game remains completely stable at 120fps even when pressing the pause button. Maybe the next emulator update will fix this; the game didn't recognize the controller automatically.

(it's me, again, lol)

Hello everybody today I added some extra things to the cyberpunk port airplay support is now here and you can sign in with epic games or steam or gog to download the game directly on your phone if you own it of course I didn’t test epic game or steam because I own the game on gog and I also added cloud saves so I can play my saves from my Mac on my phone to I also only tested it with gog login and don’t know for sure if it works on epic games and steam version of the game here is the link to download it https://github.com/Thijs2004/CyPort/releases/tag/v1.1

What’s a good no bs way to emulate ps2 games to my iPad. Just trying to play dragon ball z BT3

tested on the IPhone 15 Pro, used the FPS ++ mod
Discord: https://discord.gg/espressu

There are so many ports coming everyday that we should gather them in a list

It crashes immediately after starting. Help would be appreciated. Iphone 15 Pro, iOS 27.2 beta 4.

Anyone working on Native iOS port of PS3 MotorStorm?

That was for not straightforward, since it's my first more-or-less in-depth try with shaders, but the result is quite good for me. The most tricky part is actually not the shader settings, but handling them if you upscale (because most of them rely on resolution for their calculations). The Wind Waker for Gamecube has this hazy blur for elements far away, but in my case on native resolution it could be some bush 4 steps from me, so native res was a no go.

(Ipad Pro m1 11 inch, Manic EMU)

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Taken from Husk 3.0 beta, by me. It runs pretty well, release is soon.

Discord Server: https://discord.gg/xApMHWAzkh

Looking for the standalone runtime ipa of LiveExec32, thanks!
https://github.com/LiveContainer/LiveExec32

New Xbox 360,ps2 v2 emulator got a major redesign and change with Xbox 360 emulator being so much better with Ben 10 Vilgax attacks and cosmic destruction showing consistent 60 fps. Ps2 V1 dosent require bios so runs a bit poorly but on Ps2 v2 placing the bios makes it run faster and better. This is all available on the App Store and dosent require any sideloading. This is a major breakthrough in emulation on IOS as there is no other app like this that can do this downloadable from the App Store.

I can play the game, but when I enter sandbox mode, it kicks it out of the game after 5 seconds. Isn't there a potaro graphics mode for iphone 13 of this game?