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Apple Updates App Store Guidelines to Permit Game Emulators, Website Links in EU Music Apps
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this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2024
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Doesn’t seem like the rules let users bring their own ROMs which preclude most emulators but Apple hasn’t ever really rejected companies releasing their own games that run on embedded emulators like ScummVM
ScummVM link for the lazy
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/scummvm/id6446184412
Tempted to throw Sam & Max on my iPad now...
Why? It doesn't say they can't. It simply says the emulator app can't distribute ROMs that may infringe copyright, nothing else.
Because it doesn’t specifically call out allowing users to bring their own content but does call out allowing developers to distribute their own makes me skeptical that Apple would approve a stand alone emulator with out games (because there is no point to the app) and wouldn’t approve an emulator with games that breaks copyright, maybe the way around it would be including some homebrew ROMs with it.
They haven’t removed ScummVM in the past so it could be possible but based off of other developer experiences I have my doubts how these rules will be enforced
They just have to include two indie / open-source games and that's it, problem solved.
Okay… so that would make it a possibility to make a game running on an embedded emulator but it has an exploit injected to change the game the emulator is displaying - right? (I’m no developer by any means, I just love modding my old consoles)