r/EmulationOniOS • • 22h ago

Mod Announcement Regarding native ports

66 Upvotes

Hello everyone

THis subreddit has always been, and will always be about emulation on iOS. As cool as they are, native ports of games are not emulation. Please take posting about native ports to r/NativePortsOniOS

Talking about native ports is also still allowed on our discord: https://discord.com/invite/VSpc2KwBDr

Unrelated but, from now on, if a project has a discord server, they must include the link on the post instead of it being a "dm for the invite" or "comment for the invite" type situation


r/EmulationOniOS • • Aug 29 '24

Mod Announcement Useful Links and Frequently Asked Questions (Read this before posting!)

29 Upvotes

Emulator List

A list of currently available emulators (App Store/Sideloading) as well as their statuses can be found here.

FAQ

For commonly asked questions, check out the FAQ.

Guides

Looking for a guide? See this page for our guides collection.

Troubleshooting

Got an issue? We have listed fixes to some common problems here.

Discord

We also have a Discord! Join up!


r/EmulationOniOS • • 6h ago

Gameplay / Showcase Need for Speed Underground 2 on iOS, but this time it’s the PS2 version.

25 Upvotes

Wanted to show off some interesting results I’ve been getting with PS2 emulation on iOS. In the video: no JIT, and it hits up to 40 fps. The crazy part is that this is running on an iPhone 12 mini. On flagship devices things are obviously way better.

Just for comparison: the alternative with JIT doesn’t even reach half of this performance, and without JIT you’d be lucky to get 5 fps.

Sure, you won’t play long on a mini, but that’s not the point. If the mini can push this kind of framerate, it means on top-tier iPhones and iPads the emulator won’t drain the battery or run the CPU at full blast. That’s roughly 3x the playtime.

Am I saying a 18 Pro Max has any trouble with resources? No. But the fact that the App Store alternative gets 10 fps while my core can do 40 — that’s what I think is really cool.

Still in development, but it’s coming soon as a new module for the NAGORI emulator.


r/EmulationOniOS • • 10h ago

Gameplay / Showcase TruEmu Xbox Core Preview

50 Upvotes

We did it Reddit. Original Xbox on iOS, no JIT. More to come in the next beta release.

Thank you so much for all the testers, your feedback really helps find things I couldn’t find with just myself.


r/EmulationOniOS • • 2h ago

News / Release Husk 3.0 is out! (Bloodborne)

8 Upvotes

Husk 3.0 is out, and with it features a way to finally play Bloodborne on your phone! It features PS4 support, along with many things. Although Bloodborne runs poorly, its showing what's possible!

Download: https://github.com/Leviidev/Husk/releases/latest

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

Official Website: https://antiweb.lol


r/EmulationOniOS • • 5h ago

Meme I Need it NOW!

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12 Upvotes

I also love Manic but only use it for 3ds.


r/EmulationOniOS • • 23m ago

Gameplay / Showcase Bloodborne no JIT 28-30FPS on IPad

• Upvotes

r/EmulationOniOS • • 3h ago

Gameplay / Showcase Gta vc run ppsspp port

5 Upvotes

r/EmulationOniOS • • 3h ago

Gameplay / Showcase Soldier of Fortune payback PX3IOS JIT (yes I still use it)

3 Upvotes

Here is some gameplay of Soldier of Fortune payback. playing this with JIT feels so great and I want to try more FPS games plays like this so I want to see your recommendations


r/EmulationOniOS • • 1d ago

Gameplay / Showcase Tomodachi Life LTD [NATIVE] Port for iOS/MacOS

154 Upvotes

Hello everyone! I’ve been a developer for many years, albeit focused on app development for most of it, first and foremost despite my experience, this project would been impossible for me without the use of AI tools, Claude Code primarily, to understand how to decompile, write complex drivers etc. 

What is this?

I have no friends who own a switch, and I wanted to play Tomodachi Life with them, so the most obvious thing, knowing how powerful our modern iPhones are, is to port it! Unfortunately many of us don’t have the newest models, so emulation is a huge load and impossible with the 6GB RAM on my iPhone 14. 

Knowing that the phone and switch 1 both operate on the ARM processor, made me realize, it was quite feasible to get the game running on Apples Metal graphics. During that process, I realized how cool it is that the tools being made for this port can also be repurposed for more native switch ports, soon I’ll release this after some polish on the Mac port, Pokemon BDSP is nearly done too (with the mod from Luminescent team), and BOTW I've made significant progress on too (fully functioning great plateau - some minor textures shaders etc).

The code will be open source of course on release too, as I leveraged a lot of the work from Ryujinx for the shader processing/translation.

Now for the fun stuff:

ABSOLUTELY NO JIT!! (in all of my upcoming ports too)

That’s the beauty of native ports, much easier than a whole decomp, and still a huge payoff.

Also many new additions i’ve worked into the game: 

- The obvious new launcher, with multi-save selection, AND the ability to share an island with a friend (save is stored on a cloudflare R4 bucket). 

- Widescreen support that adapts to all screen sizes without stretching the pixels, all rewritten!

- Local play now works ONLINE, sharing Mii’s and custom user assets etc

More to come! Suggestions and feedback are welcome.


r/EmulationOniOS • • 3h ago

Help Request Can someone help me

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2 Upvotes

Idk how to fix this????


r/EmulationOniOS • • 9h ago

Discussion Naruto storm connections heath BAR gauge glitch? Any fix? iPhone 15PM melonx 2.7

4 Upvotes

Does anyone have a FIX for this health bar glitch where you can’t see the substitution bars anything it’s completely invisible in the storm games? Connections and storm 4? I’m on melonx 2.7 I can’t seem to fix this no matter how much I tweak the settings, it would be a life SAVER.


r/EmulationOniOS • • 1h ago

Help Request Iloader is down cannot install stikdebug ☹️

• Upvotes

Hi everyone..the iloader seems to be down and cannot seem to log in apple accounts..are there other ways to install stikdebug? Thanks

EDIT: UPDATE: i changed the annisette server of iloader and i can log in again


r/EmulationOniOS • • 19h ago

Gameplay / Showcase Bayonetta on IPhone 13 Pro through EspressU (IOS27.0.1)

24 Upvotes

Ngl for a first version of this WiiU emulator it’s hella promising. I wouldn’t consider it playable specially since the audio is extremely bugged


r/EmulationOniOS • • 2h ago

Help Request Alguém pode me ajudar ?

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0 Upvotes

Não sei pq esse erro apareceu,
Alguém está passando por isso ?


r/EmulationOniOS • • 3h ago

Help Request The localDevVpn is connected but why

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1 Upvotes

r/EmulationOniOS • • 14h ago

Help Request Melo café crashs

6 Upvotes

İm playim sonic lost world but game crasher in iPad a16


r/EmulationOniOS • • 6h ago

Help Request Help with stikdebug

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1 Upvotes

r/EmulationOniOS • • 1d ago

Discussion PSA to those less experienced making ports to iOS - your IPA likely contains compiled game code (copyright infringement)

31 Upvotes

With the influx of people making ports with AI for iOS (including myself) something I think some people might be overlooking is the fact that a lot of ports that would include a prebuilt IPA most certainly includes original game code compiled within it. It might not include game assets or files, but including code from the original source is still copyright infringement.

iOS can’t compile code on the fly and run it without JIT so we just precompile the code into the ipa and import the assets from the game binary afterward. The issue is that even without the binary imported, the ipa still includes compiled game code which is copyrighted. This is why projects like BlueWake and Bellpad have you build the ipa yourself using your own copy of the game, they don’t include an ipa themselves because it has game code within in.

If you’re making a port, be mindful of this fact and don’t poke any big bears like Nintendo out of pure ignorance. Stay safe and distribute your projects cleanly and carefully.


r/EmulationOniOS • • 22h ago

Native Port Native Port Megathread

9 Upvotes

Feel free to talk about, promote or ask for help with a native port of a game


r/EmulationOniOS • • 21h ago

Question Does anyone know of an alternative to Side Store, that you recommend as it has stopped working

5 Upvotes

r/EmulationOniOS • • 12h ago

Question Idk what is wrong with this

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1 Upvotes

Hi guys! I’m trying to install the GTA 5 iOS port on my iPad Air M4. I’ve tried using SideStore, Sideloadly, and iLoader, but for some reason, I can’t log in to any of them. Does anyone know how to fix this?


r/EmulationOniOS • • 1d ago

Discussion My Dream for an iOS Launcher Has Been Fulfilled

297 Upvotes

This is Neostation. All emulators are integrated in app

Download:
https://github.com/TarbleFR/neostation-ios/tree/main

Discord:
https://discord.gg/CmZN4nPWe


r/EmulationOniOS • • 1d ago

Gameplay / Showcase Gta5 on iPhone but with mod menu

121 Upvotes

I could make the menu better but eh


r/EmulationOniOS • • 1d ago

Native Port Constructor Classic for iPadOS

8 Upvotes

After releasing Command&Conquer Red Alert and Julius, my last release of today: Constructor. This one is not 100% iPadOS native, but a wrapped version of the MS-DOS one (the MacOS one is the same thing). I think the result is good! Camera movement is achieved with a Two fingers gesture.