The big picture: After years of restrictive policies that locked out game emulators, Apple has finally flung open the doors to classic gaming goodness on iOS – and we're already seeing a flow of ... Emulators are banned on the iOS App Store, but on a few rare occasions, emulators and other banned apps sneak past Apple’s reviewers and onto the store. That has happened again, this time with a SNES ...

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Gizmodo: Pick Up This Sneaky SNES Emulator for iOS Before It Disappears BGR: Alternative iOS App Store Brings Emulators And More To iPhone Without A Jailbreak Alternative iOS App Store Brings Emulators And More To iPhone Without A Jailbreak Since Apple offered tacit approval for new emulators on the App Store, iPhone users should now have access to old-school Nintendo consoles, with more to come. Reading time 7 minutes This page was ... It looks like yet another app that lets you emulate classic gaming hardware has slipped through the iOS ban on such activity. Floppy Cloud is described on the App Store as a way to juggle files easily ...

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Brendan is a freelance writer and content creator from Portland, OR. He covers tech and gaming for Lifehacker, and has also written for Digital Trends, EGM, Business Insider, IGN, and more. As someone ...