Apple now allows gambling ape on the App Store at the beginning of this month , but the first one to be published has quickly been pulled .
For a brief menstruation of fourth dimension the iGBA app enabled Game Boy Advance plot ROMs to be enjoyed on an iPhone , but because the app fell foul of Apple ’s strict App Store guidelines and was chop-chop removed .
The good tidings is there was n’t anything about the emulator itself that Apple took offense with , it was rive for a reason any other app in any other class would get the chop for .
9to5Macheard from Apple because it was a ringer of an existing loose source dick calledGBA4iOS , which has been aroundsince the days of Io 7 . So it was n’t removed for the obvious reason – that Apple got wind of the app being used to hijack game .
Apple did n’t offer any specifics initially , other than to say one of the violations was of the copyright section of the guidelines ( 5.2 ) , which take : “ Make certain your app only includes cognitive content that you created or that you have a license to use . Your app may be off if you ’ve stepped over the production line and used content without permission . Of course , this also mean someone else ’s app may be removed if they ’ve “ borrowed ” from your work . ”
The other assault related to spam , but again Apple did n’t get into specifics , until it told internet site like 9to5Mac andMacRumorsthe lawful reason for the removal .
That actually bodes well for the future tense of emulators on the App Store because it advise Apple is n’t being over - zealous about enforcing legal ownership of ROMs directly out of the logic gate .
Of course , there ’s a sound grey domain when it come up to using emulation apps to diddle retro video game from preceding systems . It ’s consider morally OK if you have bought or own the game on the other platform . However , because so many games from past geological era are unavailable or rarefied , it make possession tricky .
It seems unlikely iGBA will make it back onto the App Store , but hopefully the much - loved GBA4iOS , which emulates Game Boy , Game Boy Colour and GameBoy Advance games , will launch an prescribed App Store app for handheld Nintendo retro goodness .
