The life of the Game Boy Advance emulator, which has already been removed, is short-lived in the App Store
If you didn’t take advantage of the moment of glory, it looks like you won’t be able to get the app anymore.
If you’ve had a few decades behind you, you’ve probably saved a place in your childhood to enjoy the gaming consoles that are almost a relic today. You can turn your iPhone into a retro gaming console or use Android emulators, though not always That Applications they end up settle in official stores And this is the best example.
Long live the short-lived GBA emulator!
It’s been a few days now iGBA app This was on the lips of the most astute users of the Internet. We’re talking about an application that allowed emulate a Game Boy Advanced game console and that it can be legally downloaded through the App Store.
At first, the Internet was filled with tutorials and news about how to use the official emulator in the App Store, which did not have time to stand out. Apple has already removed it from its official app store. and it seems that this is not only a copy of the emulator created by Riley Testut, but also quite a problematic application.
UPDATE: iGBA is no longer available on the App Store.
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According to the information published by the developer of the Delta emulator, as you can see below these lines, Apple has approved the arrival of a copy of GBA4iOSan emulator of said gaming console that Riley developed in high school and which served base for Deltayour current emulator.
Riley says that he didn’t give anyone permission be able to publish this emulator in the App Store, which managed to climb to the top of the download charts despite “saturated with advertising and tracking”.
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By the way, delta developer guarantees who he’s really with wickedagain, this is with Manzanasince the American company has been coordinating the availability of emulators in its application store for a long time and now allows you to publish an application which is not only unauthorized copy your code, but that’s how it is not allowing also the appearance of the AltStore application store.
As we said, if you haven’t downloaded the iGBA emulator on your iPhone a few days ago, You won’t have the opportunity to do this again.. We don’t yet know whether the person who removed the app was Apple or whether its developer realized his mistake and removed it from the App Store to avoid a greater evil.