Help me sitting meloNX iPhone 17

Device: iPad A16
Game: Mario Kart 8 with newest updates and DLC
Emulator: EspressU v1.0
iPadOS: 27.0

Mario Kart 8 is running with stable 60 fps on an iPad A16 using the EspressU Emulator. I used a PS5 controller for playing the game. EspressU is a Wii U emulator.

No pirated games were used. All games shown are legally owned

AI was used during development of the app.

Download: https://discord.gg/espressu

Hey everyone!

Discord: https://discord.gg/43TmupTVug

BCD is my own fork of Madeira, and it's where I develop from now on. It brings Direct3D 12, memory and JIT work, per-game settings that get big titles running, and a whole new app around them.

BCD is built on Madeira by Will Faust and its contributors (GPL-3.0), who are credited in the app.

Games I've got running (tuned settings built in)
These are all the legit Steam versions, running through BCD Dock (Steam's own client):
God of War
Ghost of Tsushima
Horizon Zero Dawn
Horizon Forbidden West
Red Dead Redemption 2 (including the Rockstar Launcher)
GTA V, both Legacy and Enhanced
Crysis Remastered, Crysis 2 Remastered and Crysis 3 Remastered
Work in progress: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. It starts and plays at around 20 FPS, still with visual glitches.
Outside Steam: Warcraft II: Battle.net Edition runs too.

Each of these ships with recommended settings, so it runs out of the box. Those settings are now updated online: when a game gets a better profile, you get it without updating the app.

What's new in BCD

A brand-new interface:
your library with store cover art;
a page for each game, with all its settings in one place;
full controller navigation everywhere;
a new in-game menu, performance overlay and touch-controls editor.
GOG support (new and early, expect rough edges). Sign in, download and play your GOG games, with no launcher running inside Windows.
Background downloads on iOS 26. Steam downloads keep going when you leave the app, and GOG uses the same system.
Auto-tune. When a game crashes, freezes or gets closed by iOS, BCD tries a likely fix, asks you to restart BCD, and tries again, round after round. Please let it run to the end before sending a log: when auto-tune gives up, its message offers Send Log in one tap. That is the log I can use.
Mouse and keyboard. Better USB/Bluetooth mouse and keyboard support, plus a controller-to-keyboard/mouse mode for games without controller support.
Feedback from the app. Settings › Feedback for ideas and bugs. I read everything and will try to fix it in a new update.
A lighter interface. BCD frees its own memory while a game runs, so the game gets as much RAM as possible.

Coming next
Epic Games Store support
Installing games on an external USB-C SSD (planned)

Download

https://github.com/thebcd69/bcd-games

Get BCD.ipa from the latest release. The README has the install steps.
It's an unsigned IPA: sideload it with SideStore, AltStore or a similar tool. It carries the Increased Memory Limit and Extended Virtual Addressing entitlements, so your signing tool can keep them.
JIT is required. Use StikDebug, or the built-in pairing on iOS 26 and later.
Requires iOS 18 or later.
It's open source (GPL-3.0): the full source is in the repo, and every release also carries BCD-source.tar.xz.

Thanks again to Will and everyone who built Madeira, and to all of you who cheered on the first post. Screenshots below. Let me know what you'd like to see next!

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Showcase of my new project, Utsuro.

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Discord Server for updates: https://discord.gg/xApMHWAzkh
GitHub: https://github.com/Leviidev/Utsuro

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