I installed Ignited via SideStore. No Jailbreaking necessary. Not computer tether. SideStore can renew the side loaded emulator every 7 days when on WiFi. The iPhone is perfect for DS emulation with a stylus.

(Ignited is a fork of Delta with more options, and SideStore is a fork of AltStore, with no computer tether needed)

  • @[email protected]
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    112 years ago

    I play on my Android phone and I honestly love being able to just install the APK once, or even just install the emulator from like the Play store.

    Pokemon is like the perfect game to play on phones though, HG/SS is my fav Pokemon game in the series and it has a bunch of cool custom ROM versions too. Pokemon games just play so well on phones.

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      52 years ago

      The DS Zelda are also amazing. They don’t require any buttons to be played (except for L trigger to activate your tool faster) I created a full screen skin with no buttons just dual screens. Save load and home buttons at the bottom and it plays wonderfully.

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    62 years ago

    I play Pokemon via PokeMMo and I urge you to check it out! It’s available for desktop, mac, Android and iOS. You just need the roms of the games you want to play and then you create your character and choose your starting region.

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      52 years ago

      Can you explain more what it is? Unfortunately, I’m already using all 3 free apps so I can’t add it for now.

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        Sure! It’s an app/game you download which uses the Roms of the different games to enable you to play Pokemon online with other players, but you don’t have to engage with them. You can also choose to just play each game as if you were offline and then transition into a new region after the top four, while having access to your pokemon from the old region. It’s a lot of fun, but the devs rebalanced the games a bit, which makes it a bit harder, but still fair :) Here’s the link where you can find more information: https://pokemmo.com/en/

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      22 years ago

      The emulation itself is melonDS packaged into an iOS app. It also does GameBoy, GBA, NES, SNES, and N64 (which works astonishingly well, going through PaperMario64 too)

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    22 years ago

    Never heard of the sidestore, but it seems so cool! This gets me closer to switching to iPhones than any of Apple’s events do. If the sidestore has a real file manager and local music player, and possibly even Firefox+uBlock origin, I would seriously consider switching to iPhone.

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      12 years ago

      iOS has a native file manager app that works quite well. SideStore is great. The one caveat is that it’s limited to sideloading 3 apps if you don’t pay for an Apple developer account $99/year I think. Also EU has passed a law forcing Apple to open his store but nothing has happened yet. We’re all crossing fingers.

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        If the EU does that and Apple follows through in America (doubtful), Apple will most likely have my money. I’d love to have the good parts of iPhones but I can’t stand how locked down it currently is.

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        12 years ago

        The native file manager kinda sucks. It’s clunky and doesn’t have many features. On the other hand, FX on Android is super fast and feature rich. So much better than the stock Android file manager.

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    22 years ago

    it’s been a few years since I’ve used an iPhone, mainly because of the third party apps thing. Don’t these usually get shut down for violating Apple’s enterprise license agreement or something?

    • LazaroFilmOP
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      12 years ago

      This uses the legal 3 testing app you can load via Xcode which is an Apple app. SideStore simply facilitates that process.

  • @[email protected]
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    22 years ago

    That’s awesome. Does it perform well? Last time I tried heart gold emulation it was so laggy and I couldn’t fix it and gave up. This looks really cool tho in tempted to try

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      I’m on iPhone 14 Pro and it works flawlessly! Even has fast forward (I think 125% without JIT). The emulator even has microphone and lid closing functions for the games that use it.

      Edit: it was also working on my iPhone X with no issues.

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    As for stylus, I’m using this. It’s a capacitive stylus (works on iPhone, unlike apple’s pencil) but it’s battery powered to keep a thin point and high precision vs the rubbery knob stylus.

  • @[email protected]
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    12 years ago

    Been using Delta via AltStore for a couple years now, never heard of these options! You consider these better than those?

    • LazaroFilmOP
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      22 years ago

      I switched from Delta/AltStore about 2 weeks ago. Ignited and SideStore are based on them but unlock more options. The no need to pair with your computer every 7 days has been amazing. Join their Discord for more info.

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    I’m just at the beginning but I love the fresh gameplay and look and still get memories of Pokemon gold. I also recommend the Zelda on DS (Phantom Hourglass was awesome!!!)

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      22 years ago

      If I had a 3DS. Also I have my phone with me at all time.