Full MAME emulator for non-jailbroken iOS

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2013/02/full-mame-emulator-for-non-jailbroken-ios/

by ujeezy • 13 years ago

59 28 13 years ago

> This means if you have a program capable of tunneling into the iOS file-system through USB, you can once again have a working version of MAME on a non-jailbroken device

What kind of program would I have that is capable of tunneling into the iOS file-system through USB?

timdoug• 13 years ago

http://www.macroplant.com/iexplorer/ or http://i-funbox.com, for example.

kjackson2012• 13 years ago

Does anyone have any particular recommendations on which one is better? I don't mind paying for iExplorer, I'm just wondering if there is any issue with reliability/safety/security with either of these two.

joezydeco• 13 years ago

I believe iTools is the one that is recommended:

http://www.itools.ru/

ihuman• 13 years ago

iFunbox is a free one.

rcush• 13 years ago

It seems that Apple, for whatever reason, doesn't care about this emulator on the App Store. It's been there for weeks now.

http://www.macrumors.com/2013/01/26/fully-functional-mame-em...

drewblaisdell• 13 years ago

Is this a loophole for all emulators, then? Couldn't someone theoretically write an emulator for a fully homebrew Super Nintendo game that reads from the disk?

If I recall correctly, Apple doesn't care if you interpret other code (some sort of assembly, in this case) from the disk, just that you cannot download new interpreted code from the internet with your app (and even here they are lenient with apps that load HTML5 updates other-the-air).

geon• 13 years ago

> they are lenient with apps that load HTML5

The built in webkit js engine is exempt from the rules, or you couldn't use web content in apps at all.

RandomerThanU• 13 years ago

Meanwhile, on Android, MAME is freely downloadable from the Play Store, with 500000 downloads and no danger of imminent removal.

sjwright4• 13 years ago

Which is great, if you view your phone as a computer.

I'm a programmer and webmaster by trade, but I consider my phone to be an appliance. I want an appliance, not another computer to manage. I already have two desktops, two laptops, and a pile of VM servers...

rieter• 13 years ago

That's just sad.

Natsu2• 13 years ago

Why own a smartphone, then? You can buy a prepaid Tracphone or whatever that's a non-smartphone and requires absolutely none of that. No apps, no anything.

Why pay $700 for stuff you won't even use?

gosub2• 13 years ago

Your phone has a programmable cpu, so it is a computer. What you want is just very restrictive software.

supercoder2• 13 years ago

I wonder if any Apple story on the internet has ever managed to avoid the Android trollers. Seems you guys need to constantly validate your purchase with silly comments.

mpvosseller• 13 years ago

Would be cool if this app integrated with the new dropbox SDK for iOS.

clobber• 13 years ago

If this comments thread is to be believed, the original iMAME in the app store was not pulled by Apple, but on request of MAMEdev team:

ScottishCaptain: "iMAME was pulled ON REQUEST of mamedev.org because it reflects poorly upon the project (as I quite clearly stated before, but got flamed into oblivion). iMAME (and it's derivatives) is based upon MAME 0.37b, which is nearly 10 years old now (if you don't believe me, go check out mamedev.org's previous version section and look up 0.37b- it's from y2k)."

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/24/imame-app-gets-pulled-fro...

Also, "MAME" is trademarked to the MAMEdev team and they request that you get their permission before using it.

supercoder2• 13 years ago

If you've got a dev account you've been able to build MAME via Xcode for ages http://code.google.com/p/imame4all/

Full MAME emulator for non-jailbroken iOS

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