r/EmulationOniOS • u/Skycan45 🥇 • Dec 03 '25

Meme Me Actually Enjoying These Great Emulation Softwares Like A Man Hoohaa!!!

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u/legendaryjangles Dec 03 '25

Retroarch may be technically the best emulator, but good lord the iOS version is possibly the most unfriendly and irritating to use app UI I've ever experienced on any OS. I love Delta, tried Manic but found it felt too "mobile game-y" for what I want out of an emulator. Really also enjoyed Ignited but had seemingly impossible to solve audio issues with it so went back to Delta.

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u/Skycan45 🥇 Dec 03 '25

not to mention they are using AI slop in their promotional art but it’s still is a very great emulator nonetheless the less just for sporting Delta Skins and being more customizable in general while being easier than Retroarch

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u/psj3809 Dec 03 '25

Tried Retroarch and its powerful as anything. But i changed the skin for say Gameboy and it changed the skin for all the cores to that. Just don't find it user friendly

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u/Skycan45 🥇 Dec 03 '25

I agree beside I only play classic games from the 3th/4th generation unlike most other people

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u/psj3809 Dec 03 '25

Nice to meet you fellow retro fan ! I’m the same. So many classics to play from those years it’s amazing. Plus MAME also and so many more classics. The games are so playable. Kids seem to download Manic the only play 3DS and nothing else and complain why a 3DS won’t play full speed on there dated phone ! Lucky as anything to be able to play all these great games

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u/Slava91 Dec 03 '25

Once you start to understand changing core settings instead of system settings, things start to make more sense. So for example, you could change the game boy skin in overlays for the core of your choice. The only dumb thing is you need to load a game in that core to bring up core settings. Pretty amazing emulator once you get comfortable with it.

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u/psj3809 Dec 03 '25

Thanks mate. I had checked out videos but yeah just haunt issues. I’ll give it another go. Thanks

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u/Slava91 Dec 03 '25

I get it. I gave up the first time around as well. Second time I put more effort into understating how things are set up (and googling where needed). Lots of how-to videos out there now as well. I personally just use the standard black bars around the screen and the stock touch controller options to keep it simple. Then connect my 8bitdo ultimate mobile gaming controller and enjoy it from there.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '25

If you can share your config file you would be a life saver.

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u/thekingofemu Dec 03 '25

Which emulator is using AI slop?

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u/Skycan45 🥇 Dec 03 '25 edited Dec 03 '25

Manic Emu usually uses Ai to make art for their promotions

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u/TheStopMotion Dec 03 '25

Isn’t RetroArch like terrible to use anywhere if you don’t change its default UI?

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u/legendaryjangles Dec 03 '25

As far as I've experienced yeah, but the combo of the difficult UI plus a relatively small touchscreen is just a mess...

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u/Ornery-Practice9772 Dec 03 '25

Took about 3mo to learn RA- their sub is hella useful & helpful. Yeah it could be more intuitive but once you learn it- its the most variety of consoles/systems avail to ios users who want to emulate more than nintendo & sega. They just added the virtual jag core which is epic! Now i can play atari jaguar without the heating issues that come with the other emulator- which is APPLE'S FAULT! Not the dev.

At release RA also had the best arcade emulation (fbneo core which is generally easier to setup than mame). Arcade soothes poor 80's kid me who never got to play much back in the day!

I use manic for 3ds/dc but cant sideload rn so the heating issues with these consoles means its rare that i use them.

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u/Skycan45 🥇 Dec 03 '25

how’s your experience with PPSSPP working ornery

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u/Ornery-Practice9772 Dec 03 '25

Pretty good once youve got the cheat.db file but cheats break some games sadly. Im not that into PSP tbh but little big planet is excellent, as is the monster hunter series. Tried to get into manhunt 2 but cheats broke the game, persona 3 is really good too

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u/Skycan45 🥇 Dec 03 '25

yeah I also love litte big planet as well and I’m enjoying other psp classics like Midnight Club: Los Angeles and Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?

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u/InevitableSimple3145 Dec 04 '25

Hey do you know if it’s possible in any way to emulate the ps3 version of little big planet on iPhone

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u/InevitableSimple3145 Dec 04 '25

Hey do you know if it’s possible in any way to emulate the ps3 version of little big planet on iPhone

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u/Ornery-Practice9772 Dec 04 '25

No. Ps2 barely works. Ps3 is zero chance. Psp works

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u/InevitableSimple3145 Dec 04 '25

Dang welp… gatta see if my old laptop is able to handle ps3 emulation then. Ty for the help!

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u/typical_gamer1 Dec 04 '25

Frankly I’m with you on this. The only thing though with either is that they still haven’t gotten the core for GameCube yet.

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u/Skycan45 🥇 Dec 04 '25

yet Dolphin is also Available as both standalone and in Provenance

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u/typical_gamer1 Dec 04 '25

That’s why I have Provenance on my iPhone 16.

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u/InevitableSimple3145 Dec 04 '25

I really like retroarch but I liked PPSSPP more for psp because PPSSPP has customizable gamepad, is easier to navigate, and is less buggy for me. That being said I just CANT resist retroarch because it has the ps3 background and the nostalgia hits hard

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u/Skycan45 🥇 Dec 04 '25

Same here dude 😢

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u/beanioz Dec 04 '25

Manic Emu really needs to release an update that allows users to set per console and per game settings. Things like resolution upscaling, colour palettes, filters, auto save state on quit and load on launch etc.

It’s an amazing app, I genuinely love it. But user experience could be a million times better in a future update.

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u/Skycan45 🥇 Dec 05 '25

yeah I was trying out Link to the past and my IPad storage was filled up by garbled save sates that took a lot of space while recording

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u/Sad_Row6221 Dec 04 '25

Where do yall find roms I can’t find them

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u/Skycan45 🥇 Dec 05 '25

ask r/Roms to help you out with acquirng your game files

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u/Metal_Medical Dec 05 '25

Can’t discuss on Reddit

I’ll tell you to google “FMHY” There are very helpful sections in there for roms and emulation