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<div>[[File:Article_img.jpg|thumb|The Nintendo 3DS handheld console]]The Nintendo 3DS is the latest handheld console by Nintendo, released in 2011. The most notable feature of this console is the use of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostereoscopy autostereoscopic] (i.e. without glasses) 3D, which can be configured using a slider.<br />
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Do not expect the 3DS to be anywhere near fully emulated for a long time. The system had only started getting hacked for homebrew quite recently, so reverse-engineering effort are still work in progress. <br />
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There are a lot of sites claiming to have a working 3DS emulator. Most of them are scams. Use common sense to distinguish the real ones from fakes. In particular, anything claiming to run commercial games should be considered malware until proven otherwise. A YouTube video is not a proof. Public source code and news sites reporting legitimacy are.<br />
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==Emulators==<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
! scope="col"|Name<br />
! scope="col"|Operating System(s)<br />
! scope="col"|Latest Version<br />
! scope="col"|Active<br />
! scope="col"|[[Recommended emulators|Recommended]]<br />
|-<br />
|style="text-align: center;"|[[3dmoo]]<br />
|style="text-align: center;"|Windows, Linux<br />
|style="text-align: center;"|(nightly builds)<br />
|style="text-align: center;"|✓<br />
|style="text-align: center;"|✗<br />
|-<br />
|style="text-align: center;"|[[Citra]]<br />
|style="text-align: center;"|Windows, Linux<br />
|style="text-align: center;"|(nightly builds)<br />
|style="text-align: center;"|✓<br />
|style="text-align: center;"|✗<br />
|-<br />
|style="text-align: center;"|[[TronDS]]<br />
|style="text-align: center;"|Windows, Linux<br />
|style="text-align: center;"|1.0.4<br />
|style="text-align: center;"|?<br />
|style="text-align: center;"|✗<br />
|}<br />
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===Comparisons===<br />
* [[Citra]] is an early in development open-source 3DS emulator, made by experienced emulator developers. It is considered experimental, and runs simple homebrew applications and is even able to render title screens of some retail games. It's not useful for actually playing games yet, however, though it can play Ocarina of Time 3D to some extent. It's very very slow though.<br />
* [[3dmoo]] is another open-source 3DS emulator, made by experienced developers in the DS hacking scene. It was released shortly after Citra and has received similar progress since then.<br />
* [[TronDS]] is a closed-source 3DS emulator, presumably made by the iDeaS author. Little is known about it other than that it can run simple homebrew. It cannot be used for playing games.<br />
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===Emulation issues===<br />
The Nintendo 3DS '''currently has no functional emulators''' if you're looking for playing games; this is mainly because for a long time the hardware was documented only sparely, and homebrew code execution was hard to achieve. Nowadays, the hardware is better known and homebrew exploits are published. It will still take a while until emulators can be used to play games, however. Be prepared to wait.<br />
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Using other emulation scenes as a reference expect to wait 4-6 years for an emulator to play the majority of games, but it could take as long as 8-10. Buy a 3DS if you can't wait.<br />
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[[Category:Consoles]]<br />
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<div>[[File:Xbox-and-Controller-S.png|thumb|250px|The Xbox console and controller]]The '''Xbox''' is a 6th generation console produced by Microsoft in 2001. Known originally as the DirectXbox, this console is notable for essentially being a PC, as a result of using components from both Intel and Nvidia, as well as being [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86 x86]-based. It is, in theory, the most powerful console of the 6th generation as a result (in practice however, the [[GameCube emulators|GameCube's]] architecture allowed for better optimization and more impressive technical feats; the reason for Xbox versions of games having better visuals than their PS2 and Gamecube counterparts has something to do with the Xbox being easier to develop, as the API for it is similar in some ways to Windows NT).<br />
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==Emulators==<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|+PC<br />
! scope="col"|Name<br />
! scope="col"|Operating System(s)<br />
! scope="col"|Latest Version<br />
! scope="col"|Active<br />
! scope="col"|[[Recommended emulators|Recommended]]<br />
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[Cxbx]]<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|Windows<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|[http://www.emucr.com/search/label/Cxbx Git]<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|✓<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|✗<br />
|-<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|[http://dxbx-emu.com/ Dxbx]<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|Windows<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|[http://sourceforge.net/projects/dxbx/files/dxbx/ 0.5]<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|✗<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|✗<br />
|-<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|[http://xenoborg-emu.blogspot.com/ Xenoborg]<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|Windows<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|r19<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|✗<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|✗<br />
|-<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|[[XQEMU]]<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|Windows, Linux, OS X<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|[https://github.com/espes/xqemu Git]<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|✗<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|✗<br />
|-<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|Xeon<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|Windows<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|[http://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/xbox/xeon.html 1.0]<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|✗<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|✗<br />
|}<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|+Consoles<br />
! scope="col"|Name<br />
! scope="col"|Operating System(s)<br />
! scope="col"|Latest Version<br />
! scope="col"|Active<br />
! scope="col"|[[Recommended emulators|Recommended]]<br />
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|style="text-align:center;"|Xbox 360<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|Xbox 360<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|Patch based<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|✗<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|✗<br />
|}<br />
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===Comparisons===<br />
*Cxbx can boot around 61 games, with around a dozen in a playable state ([http://shogun3d-cxbx.blogspot.com/2009/11/cxbx-compatibility-list-updated.html List])<br />
*Xeon can emulate Halo well, but nothing else.<br />
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Consoles<br />
*Xbox 360 is backwards compatible, but it is not 100% like the [[Wii emulators|Wii]] is with the [[GameCube emulators|GameCube]]. While some work off the bat, some need patches downloaded and even then there are still issues with many games from graphical glitches and slowdown to full blown programming fails (falling through floors in Half Life 2).<br />
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==Emulation issues==<br />
Due to a lack of interest, or in some case very toxic behavior or potential legal threats towards devs, and the misconception that all Xbox games got PS2/PC/GC ports (that couldn't be farther from the truth), the Xbox 1 emulation scene is almost dead at the moment. <br />
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Compounded to this is the high level entry for the effort involved: emulating a complex (and partially undocumented) x86 CPU from scratch, undocumented NVIDIA graphical and sound components (the Nouveau project for Linux may be of help, but the GeForce architecture is notoriously complicated), obscure BIOS for each hardware revision posing problems with lots of stuff including video rendering. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20130517194502/http://www.ngemu.com/forums/showthread.php?t=132032 More]) There's progress nevertheless, but it's slow and interest is very low. <br />
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==References==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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[[Category:Consoles]]<br />
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<div>[[File:Xbox-360.jpg|thumb|The Xbox 360 console]]The Xbox 360 is a console produced by Microsoft in 2005. It is notable for being the first console of the 7th generation. Later, the console's life saw several updates to its OS, the dashboard, to alter its appearance, as well as the option of a motion-sensing camera, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinect Kinect].<br />
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==Emulators==<br />
<span style="color:red;">'''THERE ARE NO EMULATORS THAT CAN RUN COMMERCIAL GAMES PLAYABLY YET.'''</span><br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
! scope="col"|Name<br />
! scope="col"|Operating System(s)<br />
! scope="col"|Latest Version<br />
! scope="col"|Active<br />
! scope="col"|[[Recommended emulators|Recommended]]<br />
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://code.google.com/p/ex360e/ ex360e]<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|Windows<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|N/A<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|✗<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|✗<br />
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|style="text-align:center;"|[https://github.com/exjam/xbox360-emu exbox360]<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|Windows<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|N/A<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|✗<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|✗<br />
|-<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|[[Xenia]]<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|Windows<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|N/A<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|✓<br />
|style="text-align:center;"|✗<br />
|}<br />
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===Comparisons===<br />
* ex360e was made for super-high level emulation of Xbox Live Arcade titles developed with XNA Game Studio. It doesn't run anything.<br />
* exbox360 can't play anything yet.<br />
* [[Xenia]] is the emulator that's made it the furthest so far. Currently, it can only run two commercial games.<br />
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==Emulation issues==<br />
Due to requiring a large amount of resources (see [[Dolphin]] and [[PCSX2]] for specifications for their respective consoles), as well as the hardware not being properly documented yet, there is currently no usable Xbox 360 emulator. However, there are a few emulators in their proof-of-concept stages right now.<br />
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[[Category:Consoles]]<br />
[[Category:Very Early Emulation]]</div>197.6.188.58https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php?title=PlayStation_3_emulators&diff=8451PlayStation 3 emulators2015-04-24T19:28:39Z<p>197.6.188.58: </p>
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<div>[[File:Sony-playstation-3-slim-1.jpg|thumb|The PlayStation 3 console]]The '''[[gametech:Playstation 3|PlayStation 3]]''' (known shorthand as PS3) is a console by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony Sony], released in 2006/2007. This console is notorious for being difficult to work with, due to the newly-introduced [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_%28microprocessor%29 Cell Broadband Engine] architecture that no game developer outside of Sony has worked with prior to launch.<br />
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==Emulators==<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! scope="col"|Operating System(s)<br />
! scope="col"|Latest Version<br />
! scope="col"|Active<br />
! scope="col"|[[Recommended emulators|Recommended]]<br />
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| style="text-align: center;"|[[RPCS3]]<br />
| style="text-align: center;"|Windows, Linux<br />
| style="text-align: center;"|[http://www.emunewz.net/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=199 GIT]<br />
| style="text-align: center;"|✓<br />
| style="text-align: center;"|✗<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align: center;"|[https://github.com/AlexAltea/nucleus Nucleus]<br />
| style="text-align: center;"|Windows, Linux<br />
| style="text-align: center;"|[https://github.com/AlexAltea/nucleus/releases 0.0.3]<br />
| style="text-align: center;"|✓<br />
| style="text-align: center;"|✗<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align: center;"|[http://wololo.net/downloads/index.php/download/8128 Short Waves]<br />
| style="text-align: center;"|Windows<br />
| style="text-align: center;"|[http://wololo.net/downloads/index.php/download/8128 0.0.2]<br />
| style="text-align: center;"|?<br />
| style="text-align: center;"|✗<br />
|}<br />
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===Comparisons===<br />
* [[RPCS3]] is at its very early stages, and it shows a lot of promise. It can boot quite a few commercial games right now, (albeit most of them run at <1FPS, have heavy glitches, and crash pretty early on) and even more games can boot their splash screens.<br />
* Short Waves was made by an unknown developer. It's not known whether the emulator is active or not.<br />
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==Emulation issues==<br />
Due to the complexity of the Cell processor architecture, plus the fact that it would take a LOT of resources to get such games emulated (as an example, see specifications in [[Dolphin]] and [[PCSX2]] for their respective consoles), '''there is no usable emulator''' for PS3.<br />
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[[Category:Consoles]]<br />
[[Category:Very Early Emulation]]</div>197.6.188.58https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php?title=PlayStation_Vita_emulators&diff=8450PlayStation Vita emulators2015-04-24T19:27:54Z<p>197.6.188.58: </p>
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<div>[[File:vita.png|thumb|The PlayStation Vita handheld console]]The PlayStation Vita is the latest handheld console by Sony, released in 2011/2012.<br />
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==Emulators==<br />
<span style="color:red;">'''THERE ARE NO EMULATORS THAT CAN RUN COMMERCIAL GAMES PLAYABLY YET.'''</span><br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! scope="col"|Name<br />
! scope="col"|Operating System(s)<br />
! scope="col"|Latest Version<br />
! scope="col"|Active<br />
! scope="col"|[[Recommended emulators|Recommended]]<br />
|-<br />
| style="text-align: center;"|[[RPCS3]]<br />
| style="text-align: center;"|Windows, Linux<br />
| style="text-align: center;"|[http://www.emunewz.net/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=199 GIT]<br />
| style="text-align: center;"|✓<br />
| style="text-align: center;"|✗<br />
|}<br />
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===Comparisons===<br />
*Vita emulation in [[RPCS3]] is a small side project by a couple of developers, it currently can only display a simple 'Hello world' and run a basic atomic test sample.<ref>[http://www.emunewz.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=164933 EmuNewz Forum post]</ref><br />
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===Emulation issues===<br />
The PlayStation Vita '''currently has no emulators'''; this is mainly due to the fact that the hardware has yet to be documented. Once the console has been hacked (to some degree, at least), and the hardware is well known and its functions are documented, emulation can begin.<br />
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The PS Vita's PSP part can still be hacked, but none of the existing exploits so far allow for anything useful on the PS Vita side. Yet. Please forget about those PSP/Vita emulators for PC Sony like so much to use in their trade shows. It's incredibly unlikely for those to get leaked.<br />
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==References==<br />
<references/><br />
[[Category:Consoles]]<br />
[[Category:Very Early Emulation]]</div>197.6.188.58https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php?title=PlayStation_4_emulators&diff=8448PlayStation 4 emulators2015-04-24T19:15:59Z<p>197.6.188.58: </p>
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<div>[[File:PS4.png|thumb|PlayStation 4]]The '''PlayStation 4''' is an eighth-generation console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment in 2013. Notably, it is the first PlayStation console to use the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86 x86] architecture, making it easier to program for than the [[Playstation 3 emulators|PlayStation 3]] while also having the same architecture as PCs.<br />
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==Emulators==<br />
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<span style="color:red;">'''THERE ARE NO EMULATORS THAT CAN RUN COMMERCIAL GAMES PROPERLY YET. ANY YOUTUBE VIDEOS THAT PURPORT TO OFFER PS4/XBONE EMULATORS ARE SCAMS!'''</span><br />
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Even though the PS4 does have an x86 CPU like normal PCs, it doesn't mean it'll be easy to emulate as the x86 instruction set is '''huge'''<ref>{{cite web | url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130517194502/http://www.ngemu.com/forums/showthread.php?t=132032 | title= Why is XBOX emulation premature?}}</ref>. However, nearly all of x86 instructions are well documented (though some other specifics aren't) so the possibility is there. Another thing is there is currently no documentation on the GPU (a modified Radeon 7970M with disabled stream processors) used in the PS4's APU and the console isn't hacked - please don't even ask about PoC emulators until it's hacked. All that said, don't expect any functional PS4 emulators for a very long time, like 10 years.<br />
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==References==<br />
<references/><br />
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[[Category:Consoles]]<br />
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<div>[[File:Xbone.jpg|thumb|Xbox One and Kinect]]The '''Xbox One''' is an eighth-generation console produced by Microsoft in 2013. Early in its life, it was heavily criticised for intrusive [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management DRM], such as always-online and lack of used game sharing. These have since been removed. Notably, this console runs on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86 x86] architecture, so it is essentially a PC.<br />
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==Emulators==<br />
<span style="color:red;">'''THERE ARE NO EMULATORS THAT CAN RUN COMMERCIAL GAMES PLAYABLY YET.'''</span><br />
===Emulation issues===<br />
Despite this console using the same architecture as PCs, it is not any easier to emulate than other consoles as the architecture used is complex and uses undocumented hardware. We have no way to know for sure because the console is not even hacked yet to a degree that people can look and test stuff and tell for sure, let alone for a full emulator to be written.<br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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[[Category:Consoles]]<br />
[[Category:Not Emulated Yet]]</div>197.6.188.58https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php?title=Wii_U_emulators&diff=8446Wii U emulators2015-04-24T19:14:02Z<p>197.6.188.58: </p>
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<div>[[File:Wii U.png|thumb|The Nintendo Wii U]]The '''Wii U''' is an eighth-generation console released by Nintendo in 2012. It is the first console by Nintendo to output to high-definition (HD) resolutions, such as 720p and 1080p. It includes a tablet-like controller, known as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_U_Gamepad Wii U GamePad], to provide certain additional gameplay. Notably, it can play all [[Wii emulators|Wii]] games, as well as supporting the Wii Remote controllers for native Wii U games.<br />
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==Emulators==<br />
<span style="color:red;">'''THERE ARE NO EMULATORS THAT CAN RUN COMMERCIAL GAMES PLAYABLY YET.'''</span><br />
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===Emulation issues===<br />
We have no way to know for sure when will this console be hacked or when it would be released because the console is not even hacked yet to a degree that people can look and test stuff and tell for sure, let alone for a full emulator to be written.<br />
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You might have read about an unofficial branch of Dolphin with Wii U support - don't get your hopes up. While the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC PowerPC] architecture in the WiiU is the same as the Wii and GC (this fact alone was the reason why Wii emulation was added to Dolphin, originally GC-only), this support is nothing more than the file viewer features (region, internal name, various info, list of files and folders inside ISO and a way to extract them) being expanded to Wii U disc images. Nothing has been done on the actual emulation front and the Dolphin developers have said that they're not going to add Wii U support to Dolphin.<br />
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[[Category:Consoles]]<br />
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<div>iPhone devices started the smartphone craze which would go on to replace conventional mobile phones in both Japan (which had its own subset of cell phones) and the rest of the world, with more advanced touch-controlled devices.<br />
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Unlike their direct competitor, Android-based smartphones, they have currently no working emulators, as the official iOS SDK (Mac-only) only allows for running your own projects, i.e. they run code generated for an x86 target rather than ARM code as used by iOS.<br />
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Many of the currently available "simulators" only try recreating popular iOS apps (like browsers) in a PC application with no real emulation involved. Some notable scams in such fashion are called iPadian or variations on the name, and are often adwares. A project to emulate various smartphones (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Apple TV 2G) called iEmu, started in 2011 but got mysteriously abandoned two years later before anything usable surfaced. There has been recently a project to convert iOS apps to Android apps but nothing released yet as well.<br />
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Your best bet, until a new emulation effort is ever started, is to hope for whatever iOS app you are interested in, to have an Android port. Which is often sadly not the case (until very recently) for the vast majority of the older game apps, especially Japanese ones - as the Android is perceived often to be the more piracy-friendly platform. That appears to be gradually changing lately, and isn't as much concern for non-gaming apps, but the older apps are unlikely to get ported for the most part.<br />
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iOS apps are distributed in the ipa format. Like its Android counterpart, apk files, they can be opened as a regular zip file most of the time and their contents dissected this way.<br />
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[[Category:Emulators]]<br />
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<div>iPhone devices started the smartphone craze which would go on to replace conventional mobile phones in both Japan (which had its own subset of cell phones) and the rest of the world, with more advanced touch-controlled devices.<br />
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Unlike their direct competitor, Android-based smartphones, they have currently no working emulators, as the official iOS SDK (Mac-only) only allows for running your own projects, i.e. they run code generated for an x86 target rather than ARM code as used by iOS.<br />
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Many of the currently available "simulators" only try recreating popular iOS apps (like browsers) in a PC application with no real emulation involved. Some notable scams in such fashion are called iPadian or variations on the name, and are often adwares. A project to emulate various smartphones (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Apple TV 2G) called iEmu, started in 2011 but got mysteriously abandoned two years later before anything usable surfaced. There has been recently a project to convert iOS apps to Android apps but nothing released yet as well.<br />
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Your best bet, until a new emulation effort is ever started, is to hope for whatever iOS app you are interested in, to have an Android port. Which is often sadly not the case (until very recently) for the vast majority of the older game apps, especially Japanese ones - as the Android is perceived often to be the more piracy-friendly platform. That appears to be gradually changing lately, and isn't as much concern for non-gaming apps, but the older apps are unlikely to get ported for the most part.<br />
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iOS apps are distributed in the ipa format. Like its Android counterpart, apk files, they can be opened as a regular zip file most of the time and their contents dissected this way.<br />
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