iGBA: GBA & GBC Retro Emulator stands as a remarkable, lightweight retro emulator tailored to transport you back to the golden era of gaming with the legendary Game Boy family. This emulator is a virtual gem that allows you to relive your cherished childhood moments with classic Game Boy, Game Boy C…
As long as it doesn’t include a bios file, and is completely free (including no in app purchases), I doubt it. Emulators like igba are all over the Google play store, Nintendo only shows its fangs when they try to make money or contain proprietary code.
But this app has no ROMs and the search page only takes you to a public domain homebrew ROM page. You can add and run your own ROMs but they don’t even mention it for fear of crossing Apple or Nintendo.
I’d imagine it is just a matter of time before Nintendo sends Apple a C&D, before this gets taken down?
Edit: Welp, that didn’t take long. Hopefully anyone who cares got a copy on their phone and don’t change phones for the foreseeable future.
As long as it doesn’t include a bios file, and is completely free (including no in app purchases), I doubt it. Emulators like igba are all over the Google play store, Nintendo only shows its fangs when they try to make money or contain proprietary code.
And actually, looking at it
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fastemulator.gba&hl=en_US
There are paid android emulators on google play, so if Nintendo hasn’t already taken them down, I can’t see them doing that here
It was not taken down because of Nintendo, xD, the emulator was a copy of GBA4iOS and did not mention that it is based on GBA4iOS.
That was Apple’s fear.
But this app has no ROMs and the search page only takes you to a public domain homebrew ROM page. You can add and run your own ROMs but they don’t even mention it for fear of crossing Apple or Nintendo.