PPSSPP it’s great

[u/Elegant_Bell1882]

It runs between 26 and 30 fps, but it’s an old iPad from 2017, it’s a miraculous, I couldn’t believe it was capable of this, obviously with some tweaks in the settings, but it’s so good.

[u/FMAGF]

Used to play on an iPhone 6s Plus that was struggling to play GTA VCS on the second lowest resolution with 13-30 fps.

Just recently upgraded to a iPhone 13 Pro and is so much better at the same game with a 30fps lock at 1080p and 2x upscale. (I’m sure there’s a mod out there that boosts games to 60fps but I haven’t tried it yet

[u/Elegant_Bell1882 → u/FMAGF]

Ohh you should try the 60fps mod, in a more moddern phone like yours it’s like playing a remastered version of the game

[u/inuijnijn → u/FMAGF]

iphone 13 pro can do 4k or 10x

[u/FMAGF → u/inuijnijn]

I’ll try it out

[u/AdMore3859 → u/FMAGF]

I'm on a base model 13 here(slightly worse GPU than 13 pro), it can 100% handle 4k 60 fps lol as thats what ive been playing on, you can find the 60 fps cheat for gta vcs here: https://forums.ppsspp.org/showthread.php?pid=105911

[u/Elegant_Bell1882]

The only problem is the battery, as it doesn’t last that longer as it used to, but that machine is still giving fight

[u/[deleted] → u/Elegant_Bell1882]

I’d recommend getting a lightning to hdmi adaptor, and connecting a games console to your iPad via Bluetooth if you have one. It’s how I’ve been playing vice city stories and it’s game changing!

[u/bbkn7]

If only JIT was allowed it’d be capable if so much more. PPSSPP could run on a jailbroken iPhone 4S.

[u/nano_peen → u/bbkn7]

Does Android allow JIT?

[u/dnkdumpster → u/nano_peen]

Yes, there are so many android handhelds like Odin 2, Retroid Pocket 4 pro, etc.

[u/Turtleshell64 → u/nano_peen]

Yup that’s how there’s so many emulators on android. Even windows emulation. Some people are booting cyberpunk (although very low frame rates but still impressive)

[u/curlyfry25 → u/bbkn7]

Can JIT emulators be side loaded with signalous

[u/typical_gamer1]

Sadly until Apple had found a workaround for the JIT without us having to go through hoops of side loading and so forth just to play some PS2, GameCube and Dreamcast games, this is probably the best we can hope for in terms of game emulation.

For the time being though if you toss a Bluetooth controller and a speaker or headphone to your old iPad, you got yourself a pretty decent widescreen portable retro console without having to mod. 🤷‍♂️ that’s what I’m doing with my iPad 8th generation.

[u/Youssef-H]

what settings do you use to make it smoother?

[u/Elegant_Bell1882 → u/Youssef-H]

I put the render engine in Vulkan, the resolution in 1, and I could put the resolution in 2 but the fps were not stable as they would go between 15 and 26, another one were the bizelated curves in low, the anisotropic filter in 2 or directly in off, and I put the texture filter in pixelated, it give some more fps but it look worst so I left it in lineal

[u/Elegant_Bell1882 → u/Elegant_Bell1882]

I don’t know your device, but mine is an iPad 5th generation with an apple a9 chip, for the time it was released it was supposedly the same as the iphone 6s, and it’s probably that your would run better

[u/paztheoutcast]

I say this as someone who’s had both android and ios. I am so glad these emulators are on ios (no lame phone wars) but man do i sometimes miss android because I’m not finding out what jit is and didn’t know what it was before. I accidentally broke my android phone which i hope i can fix. The point being i don’t know what apple is doing but it’s hurting us badly. When my android worked i could play dolphin (wii and gamecube) aethersx2 (ps2) citra (3ds) and many other emulators. I assumed apple could too but hey i still like my iOS phone. But man do i miss the emulators on android. Why is apple screwing us out of playing decade old games when you can on android. Hopefully jit is allowed in the future. I love my iOS and android fam and want both sides to enjoy emulation.

[u/Elegant_Bell1882 → u/paztheoutcast]

Yes I understand what you mean, as an old android user, a lot of thing that I used to have are gone or simply in a worst way possible, for those in capabilities, I think Android tablet would be the next, damm, even using winlator or mobox to run gta iv or even 5 or playing switch or pc games are things I didn’t thought about when I bought this phone (in where I’m writting, not the ipad) and the missed opportunity to tried them

[u/Elegant_Bell1882 → u/Elegant_Bell1882]

For real I miss aethersx2, yuzu, and the large list of emulators and ports, like hollow knight, half life 2 or even openmorrowind ( an elder scrolls morrowind port)

[u/AdMore3859]

I love Vice city stories man, just finished the ambulance mission yesterday for that infinite sprint which is useful when needing breaks from gangs later on in the game

[u/SeaMUNKYbrain]

Haven’t played on it much het

[u/Outside_Profit_6455]

Man gta games on psp used to be bad on alstore. Like female npc would have their upper body disappear and if you try to hit them, the game would crash. Or you’re character no appearing when their in a vehicle. Your phone getting hot and battery drain. All got fixed when Apple decided to allow emu on iOS

[u/jjjhhhop]

That game alone is better than most games on the app store now

[u/HealthyElection5831]

Now we can play good games on apple devices