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Catherine Lewis

The first Nintendo emulator to land on the App Store and stick following an Apple rule change plays DS, GBA, N64 games for free

Super Mario 64.

A free retro Nintendo game emulator is now live on the Apple App Store, and because of recent changes made to Apple's app review guidelines, it's actually permitted to be on there. Whether Nintendo will take kindly to it is another matter, given its stance that "supporting emulation also supports the illegal piracy of our products."

In case you missed it, earlier this week, Apple made a tweak to its guidelines surrounding "mini apps, mini-games, streaming games, chatbots, plug-ins, and game emulators," which can be found under point 4.7 of its guidelines. From now on, "retro game console emulator apps can offer to download games," although developers "are responsible for all such software offered in your app, including ensuring that such software complies with these Guidelines and all applicable laws."

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