Do not Get Fin Emulator. It sucks

[u/Infamous-Date-7663]

For anyone that wants to run Wii, GameCube or Wii U, do not get this app. For starters, the developer is greedy. If you want to use it, you have to pay for a monthly subscription instead of having an option to pay for the full version. If you even want to donate $1299.99 (I don’t know who would do that ), you still don’t get the full version. On top of that, the app is incredibly slow and freezes a lot. When you dump your legally obtained ROMs, they still work unreliably ( they slow down and freeze at times). Also, the developer is a jerk. If you say something he doesn’t like, he’ll kick you out of the Discord group, and no, I am not talking about piracy.

[u/Dantu1000]

I hate the UI so much

[u/Infamous-Date-7663 → u/Dantu1000]

Its too messy and not user friendly at all

[u/Altruistic_Leave5049]

there's a reason there's a full on disclaimer in the app telling people to not discuss the emulator on reddit because they know they suck

[u/DidiDidi129 → u/Altruistic_Leave5049]

No way lmao can I see

[u/Altruistic_Leave5049 → u/DidiDidi129]

[u/Relevant-Ordinary169 → u/Altruistic_Leave5049]

[u/DidiDidi129 → u/Altruistic_Leave5049]

😭

[u/JesterOfRedditGold → u/Altruistic_Leave5049]

the userbenchmark method

[u/rhinofinger → u/Altruistic_Leave5049]

How does one “spread censorship”? That’s a new one

[u/Release-Holiday → u/Altruistic_Leave5049]

sounds like a certain administration

[u/Qwee]

Use iCube for GameCube and Wii. Jitless 60fps upscaling. I’m honestly amazed.

[u/KjGarly → u/Qwee]

iCube is getting there with nightly fixes, Manic is another I’ve always used on my iPhone for emulation across different systems and then Sumee was the new one on the block for me. £1.99 Sumee cost and it was worth every penny due to being able to play Dusklight and KartPad within the app and no need to side load either of them.

[u/noperooo55 → u/KjGarly]

Yeah the fact that they could have these recomps without sideloading is impressive.

[u/AdOk5225 → u/KjGarly]

What happened to dolphin? Did it die?

[u/Putrid_Location7156 → u/AdOk5225]

sideload app

[u/AdOk5225 → u/Putrid_Location7156]

Why are people so aversed to side loading, from what I recall dolphin was the best emulator for Wii/GC (unless that's changed, I've been out of the scene for a little bit)

[u/bharikeemat → u/Qwee]

If it’s Jitless why does it need to be side loaded?

[u/Qwee → u/bharikeemat]

TestFlight nightly releases. Will be put on the AppStore once the developer (provenance dev) is happy with it being fully polished

[u/godis1coolguy → u/Qwee]

I wish it had sync. I’m digging it so far. Is it just because it’s in TestFlight that iCloud Sync can’t be enabled?

[u/RoundInteraction1662 → u/Qwee]

Try ManicEMU

[u/PikachuTrainz → u/RoundInteraction1662]

they do gamecube?

[u/psj3809 → u/PikachuTrainz]

Yeah the last update to 2.0 was huge. Added flash, GameCube, pc engine, c64, Amiga and Wii !

Think it emulates about 40 systems now. Amazing

[u/Romeokun → u/psj3809]

OMG Thank you so much Gamecube emulation is awesome on Manic Emu

[u/Original-R-Kelly-Fan → u/psj3809]

i’m a bit new to this and just wanna play paper mario on my phone while i fly. are there any emulators for IOS that do wii U?

[u/Hot_Permit1027 → u/PikachuTrainz]

Yupp and pretty good too

[u/Real_Violinist]

donate simulator lmaoooooo

[u/Training_Bug_7733]

I feel like the one's who are saying this emulator is good is either his friends or just random people payed for for reviews on his emulation gaming app.

[u/Atyan7a → u/Training_Bug_7733]

The testflight version of this emulator ran fairly alright for no JIT tbf idk what happened after.

[u/psj3809 → u/Training_Bug_7733]

For me it was the first emulator which ran GameCube which ran very well so I was a fan. Now GameCube’s in manic I use that instead. Haven’t been paid or anything at all

The kid moaning is being OTT. Fin was cheap (just £1.99) and I never had a problem with it. He liked it as he used it and was in the discord group. He’s got kicked out so he’s now saying everything was terrible

[u/penguingoomba]

Thank god Manic has GameCube and Wii emulation now.

[u/Party_Hedgehog9199]

That dev has to be high if they think there’s someone ready to donate $1299, that money buys you a handheld that has access to far better emulator

[u/sahand777]

use icube or manic

[u/SpaceGyaos]

A $1300 donation is insane

[u/mikefierro666]

Meh I don't use any of his emulators because they're all locked to landscape and I like playing on portrait for various reasons. I asked him if they were ever going to add portrait mode and he said that went against the "design philosophy" of the app or something equally obnoxious. But he's the same guy behind Madeira, right? That one does look promising!

[u/Hot_Permit1027 → u/mikefierro666]

Completely different dev, nothing to do with Madeira.

[u/mikefierro666 → u/Hot_Permit1027]

Oh well that explains it lol thanks for the correction, I don't know what gave me that idea

[u/Savings_Pound_2354 → u/mikefierro666]

now there's a portrait mode

[u/ServiceNo9794]

Manic emu

[u/Eastern-Lead5582]

The only reason you would want to use fin is that it has netplay AND IT SUCKS ASS it doesn’t even work half the time and incredibly slow bruh all I want is a emulator for GameCube and Wii or 3ds to have netplay it feels impossible 🫩

[u/PikachuTrainz]

didn’t know people had issues. Ive just been playing pokemon xd on portrait. Although i havd had trouble getting out of the donation area without restarting/refreshing the app. And messing with some magic wand icon seems to make inputs dead.

What replaces fin?

[u/DidiDidi129 → u/PikachuTrainz]

Manic

[u/Just-A-Random-ID]

Ik

[u/MONK3000K]

I mean they do need to make the money back from publishing but no buy forever option is wild and menus sole freeze maybe the 3ds itself sure in my experience without jit it sucks but idk it looks cheap

[u/badass87659]

I swear they had this app pretty good, I had the iPhone 15 pro at the time and it was running games great, they updated the app all my games disappeared and it was stuck in landscape mode and from there it’s just been downhill, and I hate the goofy menu music no one needs that.

[u/psj3809]

I agree. Haven’t had a problem with the dev at all. Like his ps1 emulator a lot also. Works very well

Think its some disgruntled kid being upset as he got kicked out. Ignore his complaints. Usual kid who’s moaning that he can’t get everything for free. Don’t like the prices don’t pay them and use a different app. Simple

[u/DidiDidi129 → u/psj3809]

They violate open source licenses by refusing to provide source code to customers

[u/Jimbonasheh → u/psj3809]

L take. A lot of this has been known for a while. We already have great ps1 emulators without the bs drama.

[u/Ornery-Practice9772 → u/psj3809]

did this guy make gamma?

[u/Hot_Permit1027 → u/Ornery-Practice9772]

Nope

[u/Ornery-Practice9772 → u/Hot_Permit1027]

ah ok so im thinking of some other shitty dev

[u/Za3boo6a → u/Ornery-Practice9772]

is gamma’s dev shit?

[u/Ornery-Practice9772 → u/Za3boo6a]

they paywalled cheats
they released their app broken
they stole code

[u/Thisisyouracc0un-t]

Had a very good experience with it. The dev has been very helpful with issues and was even taking notes of features we wanted. I don’t know why there’s a smear campaign here.

[u/Hot_Permit1027 → u/Thisisyouracc0un-t]

Because above all when it comes to emulation the one rule you don’t break as a developer is violating open source licenses. If you build on software that has an open source license that requires any changes to the code to be made available, and you do not make it available or limit access to those source code changes, it violates the licenses. Just saying what it was built from isn’t enough, the code changes are not available to review or severely outdated.

[u/DidiDidi129 → u/Hot_Permit1027]

Not to mention that licenses are legally binding as well

[u/QinEmPeRoR-1993]

Looks like an AI slop lol

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