I installed Ignited via SideStore. No Jailbreaking necessary. Not computer tether. SideStore can renew the side loaded emulator every 7 days when on WiFi. The iPhone is perfect for DS emulation with a stylus.
(Ignited is a fork of Delta with more options, and SideStore is a fork of AltStore, with no computer tether needed)
As for stylus, I’m using this. It’s a capacitive stylus (works on iPhone, unlike apple’s pencil) but it’s battery powered to keep a thin point and high precision vs the rubbery knob stylus.
I’m just at the beginning but I love the fresh gameplay and look and still get memories of Pokemon gold. I also recommend the Zelda on DS (Phantom Hourglass was awesome!!!)
That’s awesome. Does it perform well? Last time I tried heart gold emulation it was so laggy and I couldn’t fix it and gave up. This looks really cool tho in tempted to try
I’m on iPhone 14 Pro and it works flawlessly! Even has fast forward (I think 125% without JIT). The emulator even has microphone and lid closing functions for the games that use it.
Edit: it was also working on my iPhone X with no issues.
I play Pokemon via PokeMMo and I urge you to check it out! It’s available for desktop, mac, Android and iOS. You just need the roms of the games you want to play and then you create your character and choose your starting region.
Sure! It’s an app/game you download which uses the Roms of the different games to enable you to play Pokemon online with other players, but you don’t have to engage with them. You can also choose to just play each game as if you were offline and then transition into a new region after the top four, while having access to your pokemon from the old region. It’s a lot of fun, but the devs rebalanced the games a bit, which makes it a bit harder, but still fair :)
Here’s the link where you can find more information:
https://pokemmo.com/en/
Never heard of the sidestore, but it seems so cool! This gets me closer to switching to iPhones than any of Apple’s events do. If the sidestore has a real file manager and local music player, and possibly even Firefox+uBlock origin, I would seriously consider switching to iPhone.
iOS has a native file manager app that works quite well. SideStore is great. The one caveat is that it’s limited to sideloading 3 apps if you don’t pay for an Apple developer account $99/year I think.
Also EU has passed a law forcing Apple to open his store but nothing has happened yet. We’re all crossing fingers.
The native file manager kinda sucks. It’s clunky and doesn’t have many features. On the other hand, FX on Android is super fast and feature rich. So much better than the stock Android file manager.
If the EU does that and Apple follows through in America (doubtful), Apple will most likely have my money. I’d love to have the good parts of iPhones but I can’t stand how locked down it currently is.
it’s been a few years since I’ve used an iPhone, mainly because of the third party apps thing. Don’t these usually get shut down for violating Apple’s enterprise license agreement or something?
I switched from Delta/AltStore about 2 weeks ago. Ignited and SideStore are based on them but unlock more options. The no need to pair with your computer every 7 days has been amazing. Join their Discord for more info.
I play on my Android phone and I honestly love being able to just install the APK once, or even just install the emulator from like the Play store.
Pokemon is like the perfect game to play on phones though, HG/SS is my fav Pokemon game in the series and it has a bunch of cool custom ROM versions too. Pokemon games just play so well on phones.
The DS Zelda are also amazing. They don’t require any buttons to be played (except for L trigger to activate your tool faster) I created a full screen skin with no buttons just dual screens. Save load and home buttons at the bottom and it plays wonderfully.
The emulation itself is melonDS packaged into an iOS app. It also does GameBoy, GBA, NES, SNES, and N64 (which works astonishingly well, going through PaperMario64 too)
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HeartGold is retro? Fuck Im old
DS is retro.
inb4 3DS is retro.
As for stylus, I’m using this. It’s a capacitive stylus (works on iPhone, unlike apple’s pencil) but it’s battery powered to keep a thin point and high precision vs the rubbery knob stylus.
I’m just at the beginning but I love the fresh gameplay and look and still get memories of Pokemon gold. I also recommend the Zelda on DS (Phantom Hourglass was awesome!!!)
That’s awesome. Does it perform well? Last time I tried heart gold emulation it was so laggy and I couldn’t fix it and gave up. This looks really cool tho in tempted to try
I’m on iPhone 14 Pro and it works flawlessly! Even has fast forward (I think 125% without JIT). The emulator even has microphone and lid closing functions for the games that use it.
Edit: it was also working on my iPhone X with no issues.
I’d rather play it on the 3DS, but it’s cool that you enjoy it your way :)
If I had a 3DS. Also I have my phone with me at all time.
I play Pokemon via PokeMMo and I urge you to check it out! It’s available for desktop, mac, Android and iOS. You just need the roms of the games you want to play and then you create your character and choose your starting region.
TL:DC
Paid or you have to use a PC
Can you explain more what it is? Unfortunately, I’m already using all 3 free apps so I can’t add it for now.
Sure! It’s an app/game you download which uses the Roms of the different games to enable you to play Pokemon online with other players, but you don’t have to engage with them. You can also choose to just play each game as if you were offline and then transition into a new region after the top four, while having access to your pokemon from the old region. It’s a lot of fun, but the devs rebalanced the games a bit, which makes it a bit harder, but still fair :) Here’s the link where you can find more information: https://pokemmo.com/en/
Never heard of the sidestore, but it seems so cool! This gets me closer to switching to iPhones than any of Apple’s events do. If the sidestore has a real file manager and local music player, and possibly even Firefox+uBlock origin, I would seriously consider switching to iPhone.
iOS has a native file manager app that works quite well. SideStore is great. The one caveat is that it’s limited to sideloading 3 apps if you don’t pay for an Apple developer account $99/year I think. Also EU has passed a law forcing Apple to open his store but nothing has happened yet. We’re all crossing fingers.
The native file manager kinda sucks. It’s clunky and doesn’t have many features. On the other hand, FX on Android is super fast and feature rich. So much better than the stock Android file manager.
If the EU does that and Apple follows through in America (doubtful), Apple will most likely have my money. I’d love to have the good parts of iPhones but I can’t stand how locked down it currently is.
it’s been a few years since I’ve used an iPhone, mainly because of the third party apps thing. Don’t these usually get shut down for violating Apple’s enterprise license agreement or something?
This uses the legal 3 testing app you can load via Xcode which is an Apple app. SideStore simply facilitates that process.
Been using Delta via AltStore for a couple years now, never heard of these options! You consider these better than those?
I switched from Delta/AltStore about 2 weeks ago. Ignited and SideStore are based on them but unlock more options. The no need to pair with your computer every 7 days has been amazing. Join their Discord for more info.
Holy fuck this gave me a nostalgia hit as strong as a freight train
I play on my Android phone and I honestly love being able to just install the APK once, or even just install the emulator from like the Play store.
Pokemon is like the perfect game to play on phones though, HG/SS is my fav Pokemon game in the series and it has a bunch of cool custom ROM versions too. Pokemon games just play so well on phones.
What’s the best android emulator out there atm?
DraStic is currently the best but MelonDS is very good too.
The DS Zelda are also amazing. They don’t require any buttons to be played (except for L trigger to activate your tool faster) I created a full screen skin with no buttons just dual screens. Save load and home buttons at the bottom and it plays wonderfully.
that’s a really beautiful emulated skin, I wish ignited worked on android lol
The emulation itself is melonDS packaged into an iOS app. It also does GameBoy, GBA, NES, SNES, and N64 (which works astonishingly well, going through PaperMario64 too)
can melonDS actually look like that on android? I’ll have to go check it out asap