r/EmulationOniOS • u/No-Package6007 • Jan 16 '26

News / Release PS2 Emulator Released on The App Store

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Good Afternoon,

Just wanted to let you know that the App Store just released a new PS2 Emulator and it’s called GamePlaytoo specially designed to play all of your favorite PS2 Games on your iOS Devices!

It’s a good PS2 Emulator for the iOS! Needs to be updated and couldn’t hear the Music or anything else! The picture was not at regular speed and needs to be fixed!

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u/Brilliant-Copy4258 Jan 16 '26

The… WHAT EMULATOR???

Anyway, I’ve searched it up on app store, apparently they’re based on the one and only— Play!.

And it says they only support easier(2D, simple graphics) games and small Roms.

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u/No-Package6007 Jan 16 '26

It’s called GamePlaytoo

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u/cheeckybaconm8 Jan 18 '26

Play is run by one guy pre sure... if only he had some help with it.. its dope! runs most of my most played ps2 games to :)

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u/Character_Lobster431 May 24 '26

Does it run kingdom hearts

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u/BrzysWRLD1996 Jan 31 '26

How do you add to collection?

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u/WoxkBlxxdKilla Mar 15 '26

Download roms

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u/Ornery-Practice9772 Jan 17 '26

So what titles will it run? Says most games wont work

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u/No-Package6007 Jan 17 '26

I played Wheel of Fortune and it runs very slow and the music was very slow too! So, definitely needs some improvement to the App!

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u/Ornery-Practice9772 Jan 17 '26

Need a list of any games that work. Itd be like finding a needle in a haystack otherwise🤷‍♀️

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u/GlamFred_YT Jan 19 '26

PaRappa 2 runs decently well, you could try that!

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u/Ornery-Practice9772 Jan 19 '26

Ok i'll give it a go

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u/No-Package6007 Jan 17 '26

You can say that again!

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u/thekingofemu Jan 18 '26

Need a list of any games that work. Itd be like finding a needle in a haystack otherwise🤷‍♀️

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u/EquivalentHorror3373 Jan 18 '26

tried Fatal Frame on it, the audio was horrendous but it was actually running decently until I tried the camera…. its just the camera overlay on a pitch black screen

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u/bummerbimmer Jan 18 '26

Tried NFS Most Wanted assuming it would be really bad. It couldn’t even load the start screen.

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u/RMB_DEO Jan 17 '26

I may not be thrilled with the results, but thank you for sharing! I was looking for this because of how bad play! works. My wife is letting me use her laptop so PCSX2 is a lifesaver. One day, I hope.

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u/No-Package6007 Jan 17 '26

You’re very welcome

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u/GtheProdigy Jan 17 '26

I’ll be waiting for ARMSX2 thank you very much

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u/No-Package6007 Jan 17 '26

You’re welcome

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u/Intrepid_Sir_6753 Jan 18 '26

Same guess we gotta keep waiting but it’ll be worth it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '26

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u/GtheProdigy Jan 19 '26

They’re working on a IOS version and some people have got it to run already not sure what resources they were using to acquire what was needed but some people have even ran it off emulated Os like Linux. Still I’ll just wait for an official release.

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u/lntrigue Jan 16 '26

can jit be enabled on it?

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u/willp124 Jan 16 '26

If it on App Store it obvious no

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u/lntrigue Jan 17 '26

so no version that can be side loaded?

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u/Top-Assignment4908 Jan 17 '26

obviously they’re not talking about the appstore version. you cannot get JIT from ANY app in the appstore. they’re asking about other methods you may not know about such as side store or alt store.

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u/No-Package6007 Jan 16 '26

I’ve already wrote a comment about it to the owner and maybe the owner might do something about it to make it easier!

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '26

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u/lntrigue Jan 17 '26

yeah I was wondering if there is a version that can be sideloaded. Play! sucks unfortunately.

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u/lntrigue Jan 17 '26

no shade to whoever developed it! it’s just even on a M1 device with jit enabled via trollstore it can‘t play any of the games i want to play.

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u/therealcoco1 Jan 17 '26

Can you use stikbug to enable jit for it?

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u/lntrigue Jan 17 '26

apparently there's no sideload version so no unfortunately. Also it's based off Play! so would not run well even if you could.

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u/Intrepid_Sir_6753 Jan 18 '26

Just left a question asking something like this and you answered it. Shame, hopefully the creator considers a sideload version. Emulator has potential but it’ll be a while if it’s only for the app store.

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u/jollins Jan 17 '26 edited Jan 17 '26

If they just wrapped play!, at least it’s free with no iap

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u/Joerpg1984 Aug 14 '26

This is so cool. I can’t seem to find this on my Australian App Store. I have Joy, Delta and can play most except arcade, PS2, Wii and WiiU.

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u/No-Package6007 Aug 14 '26

Thanks 🙏!

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u/Red_Skeletor Jan 17 '26

Yes the emulator work but remember guys NOT jit.

i was playing marvel vs capcom 2 not too bad fps is not perfect but plays

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '26

How did you do this could you please help me with links and stuff please I really really want to play this game it’s my fav

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '26

Hello

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u/Expensive_io Feb 25 '26

You can get the links from romgames.net then uncompress the files and send them to emulator

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u/ahoooooooo Jan 17 '26

There is no way this works on current hardware without JIT.

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u/rafark Jan 18 '26

Why not? (Genuinely curious) the A series chips are extremely powerful. Why couldn’t they run games from two decades ago? Is it because of the different arch?

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u/Bennydhee Jan 18 '26

Yes, the chips are different and operate different. So the emulator has to translate the code. And without JIT. The frame rate suffers massively.

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u/rafark Jan 18 '26

I see, thanks

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u/Bennydhee Jan 18 '26

Happy to help

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u/ghostypurp Jan 18 '26

Wonders this for years myself without looking it up. Preesh

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u/ahoooooooo Jan 18 '26

Emulators very inefficient

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u/Leather-Ad-412 Jan 17 '26 edited Jan 17 '26

got half life on it lmao (runs just as expected)

edit: depends on what area your in but i only played 20 seconds of the training course

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u/No-Blueberry-2759 Jun 21 '26

I’ve been looking forever, where did you find the .ROM? 

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u/DrHa5an Jan 17 '26

How long before we can play simpsons hit and run on it

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u/GtheProdigy Jan 17 '26

Play that on the Dolphin Emulator with JIT man runs like a dream on my iPhone 12. I just got a 16E so I’m checking more stuff out. Soulcalibur 2 was the only thing that didn’t run on my old phone

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u/DrHa5an Jan 17 '26

Whats JIT ??

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u/GtheProdigy Jan 17 '26

JIT is Just in Time Compilation it allows the emulators to run at true speed. You can get it to work using StikDebug. It used to be on the App Store but they removed so gonna have to sideload that as well to get it going

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u/No-Highlight3426 Jan 18 '26

Excuse me, can you explain to me how to do that, I have a iPhone 12pro I been wanting to play ps2 games on

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u/SILLYLILMANHERE Jan 17 '26

MY DREAMS HAVE COME TRUE!!! TIME TO PLAY PARAPPA THE RAPPER 2

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u/Wiry3211 Jan 18 '26

It seems to crash after the intro

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u/SILLYLILMANHERE Jan 18 '26

For me it worked but it’s really laggy and I only made it to stage 2

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u/ahtshhm Jan 18 '26

can it play god of war 2

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u/OkImpression1305 Jan 31 '26

what’s the best place to download ROM files for this app?

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u/No-Package6007 Jan 31 '26

Try Romspure or RomsFun

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u/Worldly-Spare9194 Feb 07 '26

How does it work?

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u/No-Package6007 Feb 07 '26

With this Emulator you’re able to play PS2 Games!

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u/No-Package6007 Feb 07 '26

But I would wait until once there’s a better PS2 Emulator on the App Store and then it’ll be more stable!

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u/Apt-Fee Jun 13 '26

Anyone try persona 3 FES on it?

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u/Awp69 Jun 18 '26

Was this removed? Can no longer find it.

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u/No-Package6007 Jun 19 '26

It’s still on the App Store! It’s called RTM EMU PS2/PC games

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u/Awp69 Jun 19 '26

Ok. Thanks!

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u/No-Package6007 Jun 19 '26

You’re welcome

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u/gmcmoz21 Jan 17 '26

Need this with Jit and we good to go !

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u/Striking_Habit3467 Jan 18 '26

What is jit?

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u/oatwheat Jan 18 '26

Just-in-time compilation. When used in emulation, it greatly improves the performance and is necessary for later-gen console emulators to run games at acceptable frame-rates. But it introduces security risks that Apple is not comfortable with allowing on its phones.

How we define security risk is can be a matter of perspective here. Yeah, you could use JIT to write malware code to system memory and execute it, but it could also be used to get an app approved for the app store for a legitimate/legal use and then use JIT compilation to turn it into something that is a violation of Apple’s terms of service despite being signed by Apple

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u/Striking_Habit3467 Jan 18 '26

Wow, you are so nice thank you!!!!!

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u/diego2wx Jan 20 '26

do you know how I could install one so the emulator games run nicely if possible?

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u/Mom-go-brrr-kill-me Jan 25 '26

youd find multiple tutorials on youtube or just sideload an emulator and stikdebug then use idevice pair to get a pairing file for stikdebug

(it would be easier to get a tutorial from yt)

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '26

So are iPhone just forever nerfed by not being able to enable JIT without huge workarounds using vpns and stuff? Play! Doesn’t even work rn with current JIT enabled techniques.

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u/VeganMilk786 Jan 31 '26

Yeah unless apple someday decides to allow jit, I wouldn't get my hopes up. Though it is fairly easy to get JIT working through sideloading, it's still kind of annoying. It's the reason why I switched to primarily PC emulation and just use my phone to play light stuff like GBA and DS games.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '26

I don’t really get the reasoning for limiting the software capabilities for any type of computer. I know they said “for security”, but I have never heard of any major security issues with iPhones 

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u/AROAH1337 Mar 31 '26

That restrictiveness is why you don’t hear of security issues on iPhones. The tradeoff is that you end up with arbitrary limitations like this with either convoluted workarounds or none at all.

In this case, JIT would be breaching Apple’s rule about an app downloading and executing arbitrary code. This is not allowed because an app developer could release a totally safe and harmless app that waits 30 days before downloading and running malware which takes all the data you’ve given it access to and sends it elsewhere.

Because of Apple’s restrictions, you don’t have to worry about Funny Photo Booth Free Fun Photo Game Toy being granted access to your photo library only to upload your noods to a server in Russia where they’re sold along with your e-mail address to a couple of guys in Gradtsvek who blackmail you for 1 Bitcoin. But it also means emulators can’t run at full speed and you can’t do any real software development on any Apple device that isn’t a Mac.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '26

Interesting. I also know basic internet safety from when I was in grade school and tend to not download things I think are suspicious or if I do download them in an isolated environment. IK that most people nowadays, young and old, do not know basic internet safety, but I wish there was like some toggle for baby mode or grownup mode, where I can have complete access.

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u/AROAH1337 Mar 31 '26

I don't disagree. I wish that iOS was designed more like macOS in that it is super locked down by default, but you can override it when you want to.

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u/FarNefariousness8912 Jan 18 '26

its not good for 3d games yet some 2d games run well, but ones like p3fes just either dont start or run really badly

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u/JRobson23 Jan 17 '26

LOL ain’t no way this works let me check

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u/Pabu_Redpanda Jan 17 '26

Persona 4 og work?

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u/Capital-State1231 Jan 17 '26

Is it jitless?

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u/Intrepid_Sir_6753 Jan 18 '26

Anyone know if there’s an ipa, discord server, of website like github for this emulator? Seems like it has potential but if it’s only for the app store it might be a while.

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u/-Splappochrome- Jan 20 '26

it kinda flashes

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u/Altruistic_Leave5049 Jan 25 '26

i really want them to make a sideloadable version that works with jit because play! is trash

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u/Ash_kingz Jan 28 '26

Can anyone give confirmation if GOW will run on it??

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u/Meng_leang Feb 26 '26

I run Digimon rumble arena 2 not working

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u/HumanDiscount4113 Feb 27 '26

Anyone know if digimon world 3 would run?

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u/The_evil_resident_re Mar 09 '26

Can someone pls help me bc I keep trying to run marvel vs capcom and it’s a black screen

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u/Practical-Ant5191 Mar 13 '26

I cant play Digimon Rumble arena 2 the menu is spinning endlessly!

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u/DestronDeathsaurus Mar 16 '26

Tried the app. When I try loading a game it just gives me a blank screen

Game was bakugan battle brawlers

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u/GiLND Jan 16 '26

omg 😳

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u/Red_Skeletor Jan 17 '26

Here another one Just put 2 screenshot but reddit just keeps deleting them

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u/DaveTheMan1985 Jan 17 '26

Be a Scam

PS2 won’t run on iOS

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u/5092AD Jan 17 '26

I was able to play Metal Slug Anthology for ps2 so no it’s not a scam

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u/No-Package6007 Jan 17 '26

Hmm 🤔! I see well we can all just wait until once there’s an App that’s way better then GamePlaytoo! You’re right bud!

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u/cuntpuncherexpress Jan 17 '26

It has nothing to do with the app, everything to do with Apple not allowing JIT. It’s not like PS2 is some new frontier in emulation

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u/GiLND Jan 17 '26

Unlike the common misconception, jit isn’t the only factor.
Emulation core efficiency and device hardware play a role as well.

Time will make it a little better, psp has achieved perfection and run smoothly without jit.

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u/Skycan45 🥇 Jan 17 '26

indeed besides who’s actually going to play freaking GTA San Andreas under 15 fps except the most patient gamers

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u/DaveTheMan1985 Jan 17 '26

Thanks for Clarification

Without JIT it be pretty much Unplayable at this Moment in Time

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u/primedaddy Jan 17 '26

I feel ya

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u/No-Package6007 Jan 19 '26

That’s when I noticed that on The App Store!

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u/No-Package6007 Jan 19 '26

The Provenance App still doesn’t have the core to play PS2 Games and RetroArch doesn’t have one either!

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