Isn't it illegal to spread any Gameboy BIOS image?
GameBoy Advance emulator for iOS, no jailbreak required
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#22This is really cool. I found that the game music was a little laggy/skippy while playing Pokemon Sapphire, but that's really no issue for me.
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I'm using an iPhone 4 on iOS 6. I closed out of non-essential multitasking apps, and it sped up a bit, but not to full speed.
Edit: The deleted comment I was replying to asked what device I was using.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
MacBuildServer created at least one of the certs they use for signing inhouse/universal distribution apps on 2013-05-15T16:48:45Z, and it has not yet been revoked. If it does get revoked, they can just remove that part of their service, and continue to allow people to upload their certs, keys and provisioning profiles for building server side. (o.O) Once MBS becomes more popular, Apple will have to react to prevent o…
Yep, it's just this one feature, the rest of the build service is safe, and potentially cool from a features standpoint. I assume the fear is it would be fairly trivial to add an app store on top of this.
Right, that is the fear, and I think Apple may only act if the competing App Store is affecting their bottom line via lost revenue. But who would build something like this knowing Apple can shutdown their business at any time?
Cydia is the only real competing appstore I am aware of, and they are relying on iOS bugs that Apple keeps patching.
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#24Its always amazed me that Nintendo hasn't cashed in yet on creating an official emulator for iPhone/Andriod and releasing thier huge collection of old games in an official marketplace for people to download.... there is no doubt how popular that would be. Everyone would be playing pokemon again.
Ignoring the obvious legal issues of 3rd party games, Nintendo seems to strongly believe that it's back catalog is worth quite a bit of money and seems to steadfastly against doing anything that may devalue it. They seem to prefer to sell 5k copies of an old game at $5-10 each than 200k copies at $2 on a platform they don't control.
It's too bad so many of the games of the NES or SNES era could probably never be republished due to rights issues. I'm sure there are many cases where X was sold to Y which may or may not have been sold to Z who went out of business. I bet there are great games that would be in legal limbo if someone decided to try to publish them again.
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#25I'd never seen MacBuildServer.com until just now but they completely violate the terms of service with Apple. They are using their enterprise development certificate to bypass the AppStore. They won't be around long.
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#26Its always amazed me that Nintendo hasn't cashed in yet on creating an official emulator for iPhone/Andriod and releasing thier huge collection of old games in an official marketplace for people to download.... there is no doubt how popular that would be. Everyone would be playing pokemon again.
I also have trouble understanding this, perhaps they fear market cannibalism? For example old Pokemon taking money from new Pokemon?
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#27This is really cool. I found that the game music was a little laggy/skippy while playing Pokemon Sapphire, but that's really no issue for me.
Same while trying out FF6. Also the graphics would sometimes be slow to redraw (ex: during cutscenes).
Overall I love what this team has done, playing these old games on my phono feels downright like magic. It's a shame that Nintendo won't bring these games officially to mobile platforms.
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#28Isn't it illegal to spread any Gameboy BIOS image?
The GBA doesn't have a BIOS; you're thinking of ROMs (effectively, the cartridge contents dumped to a file). ROMs are covered by copyright, and are indeed illegal to distribute without authorized consent (which Nintendo would never give). However, there are homebrew ROMs you can legally download and distribute. No emulator I know of, including this one, illegally ships with (or describes how to illegally obtain) copyright-protected ROMs.
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#29Isn't it illegal to spread any Gameboy BIOS image?
The GBA doesn't have a BIOS; you're thinking of ROMs (effectively, the cartridge contents dumped to a file). ROMs are covered by copyright, and are indeed illegal to distribute without authorized consent (which Nintendo would never give). However, there are homebrew ROMs you can legally download and distribute. No emulator I know of, including this one, illegally ships with (or describes how to illegally obtain) copy…
The GBA does in fact have a bios, but modern emulators do not require it except for some rare edge cases that their reverse engineered bios can't handle.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
They're using MacBuildServer, which provisions it with its own enterprise account, which is against ToS and I would expect macbuildserver's public provisioning to get shut down and the profile revoked
Yeah, this is blatant abuse of the enterprise certificate program. This kind of activity sucks for those of us that use the enterprise signing cert for legitimate purposes.
This is definitely an abuse of the program, but it hurts to see you use the word 'legitimate' to mean 'apple-sanctioned'. They're not tricking anyone, just letting people install custom apps without paying apple a huge* developer fee.
*$100 is more or less acceptable, $100 per year for revocable permission to compile is awful