Super Mario World on your iPhone, coming soon. If it was not impossible (but complicated) to launch a Super Nintendo or Mega Drive emulator, now Apple has decided to authorize these applications.
The manufacturer has included this possibility, until now prohibited, in its new rules of use. Probably a way for Apple to counter future app stores on iPhone, requested by the European Union.
The issue of emulation continues to be thorny at a legal level. Specifically, they allow you to start a console game, usually an old one, through a small program. If the software is not banned, downloading the games is against copyright law in France.
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However, manufacturers are relatively tolerant on this issue, even if Nintendo recently removed a popular emulator from its Switch console.
Apple, always willing to avoid controversy, preferred to ban them from its App Store… until today. Now we will have to wait for developers to provide users with emulators adapted to smartphones before being able to play the classics from the 80s and 90s.
For Apple, this is a way to finally make these programs safe because they are validated by the company and perhaps attract new Android users.
Source: BFM TV
