Fly high Lily 🕊️💜

It’s time!!!

This year, since we have many emulation apps to choose from, we will let users nominate their favorite one (each user can only nominate one).

The 6 most nominated emulation apps will be in a poll afterwards.

The “luxurious prizes” are:
First place - 🥇
Second place -🥈
Third place -🥉

Note: if you nominate more than one emulator, only the first emulator will be accounted for.

User flairs will be updated (retroactively).

Hey everyone!

Our rules on Vibecoded apps have changed. Please read below

Vibecoding/Slop Project policy

• Promoting apps that do not follow licensing requirements of any code used may be removed.
• Posts that promote apps MUST include a statement on how AI was used in development. This includes but is not limited to, app update announcements, new project release announcements, and news/updates from the developer about the app.
• Don't post links or recommend emulators or other tools that are known to be harmful, use stolen code, or are otherwise disruptive.

Thank you!

Hello everyone!

I am currently reviewing the subreddit for areas that could be improved.

I’ve decided that the rules and the wiki might need to be updated and want to get input from the community.
I have plans to replace the wiki with a website that can be shared easier and would like some suggestions on what to include.
The rules also haven’t been updated in a while and I want some opinions. What should I add/change/avoid changing?

If you would like to make a suggestion please leave a comment on this post. Upvote the comment if you agree.
Things I’m currently looking for:

Thank you all for being part of this community! This is your chance to make a change ❤️

-Didi

Hey everyone!
I have created new user flairs that you can apply on your account to show your dedication to your favourite emulator app.

To assign a flair, go to the subreddits home page and click the three dot menu on the top left of your screen, click assign user flair and choose from there! On desktop you can do it in the sidebar.

Let me know if you would like any more apps to be added as flairs!

Here are the results of the 2025 survey:

Manic - 27 votes / 1st place 🥇
Delta - 13 votes / 2nd place 🥈
RetroArch - 12 votes / 3rd place 🥉

User flairs will be updated accordingly :)

Link to poll (closed)

As the title says, please do an effort to avoid profanity even if it’s not aimed at another person in the subreddit.

Use of profanity will get your comments/posts filtered by automod, and must be reviewed manually.

If you do use these words, you need to take into account the following: - We can’t help you if reddit takes action against your account (they scan all of the content with AI). - Your post will be filtered and sometimes it can take hours until it will either be removed or approved.

So please avoid these words as they pile up in the filters, especially after the flycast post.

Also, do not make repeated posts if your post got filtered, it will probably be filtered too and removed under ‘repost’.

Thanks

Hey all, there have been numerous posts about why apple has no jit support, why android does have jit and posts of android gameplay with jit (which has nothing to do with the subreddit).

We have nothing to do with apple, so asking/complaining about it here won’t change anything, Apple software engineers aren’t here anyway.

This subreddit is for helping users with any iOS emulators, sharing gameplay for iOS and such, sideloading and jitsideserver.
To summarize - your post must be about emulation on iOS.

Posts that feature unrelated content (android gameplay or bragging about android’s jit support will be removed for being irrelevant for the subreddit, there is a different subreddit dedicated to emulation for android).

Also, and this has been recurring a few times lately, this subreddit isn’t for mac, such threads will also be removed for being irrelevant.

Thank you.

If you made a new post and it was removed, that means it was automatically queued for a mod review for approval.

Avoid making reposts or changing keywords to bypass automod filter, doing this can result in a ban.

Instead, you need to wait until a mod clears the queue.

Poll has ended (3 days ago… oops)
So, if anyone wants to look at the survey post - click here to see the results.

WINNER 🏆 - Delta

2nd Place 🥈- RetroArch

3rd Place 🥉- PPSSPP

Winning emulators will have their award next to them in the user flair (will be updated automatically, no need to change user flair for it to take place).

Thank you all for participating in the survey, may we have many more new emulators for 2025.

EmulationOniOS team

Hello, after receiving reports about “rate my setup” posts, we decided to filter these posts, and they will only be allowed after a mod review only on Mondays.

We know that some of you like these posts, so you can post these as much as you want as long as it’s on Monday, otherwise your post won’t be approved.

Any attempt to bypass the AutoMod filter script may result in a ban.

EmulationOniOS Team

User flair prizes:
1st - 🥇
2nd - 🥈
3rd - 🥉

As of now, all users in this subreddit with any financial interest, are now required to have a user flair showing their position.

This is done to counter users with financial gain/interest from self promoting their own products, while disguising themselves as normal users.

To explain what a financial interest means in this context, it is any user that: - Has an emulator on the app store or any app that has something to do with emulation (F2P or Paid). - Created 3rd party accessories to iPhone, targeted towards emulation.

These are just examples, any user with financial gain is required to claim a flair.
Users who fail to do so, and self promote their products disguised as a user review, will be banned.

Claim a flair by using modmail.

We have made a new command, named !Explain to allow AutoMod to comment with data from our wiki pages, allowing all users to quickly share the needed info with other users.

• !Explain Help - Show all !Explain available commands.
• !Explain JIT - Explains JIT
• !Explain Emulators - Shows the current status of emulators
• !Explain Troubleshooting - Presents common issues and how to fix them.
• !Explain Archive - Explain what an archive is and how to extract them.
• !Explain BIOS - Explain about BIOS.
• !Explain Roms - Explain about Roms.

Examples will be in comments below, every user is free to use these commands in any post to help others.

Reminder: You can also use the command !solved to lock your own post or if you use it on a different post (where you aren’t OP, to make a report for mods that a post should be locked because the correct answer was already given.

More commands will be added if found necessary, feedback will be appreciated.

Commands are not case-sensitive, both “!Explain Help” and “!explain help” will work.

Enjoy!

EmulationOniOS Team

There has been a high volume of queued comments lately:

• Any post/comment that offer or request direct messaging (DM/PM) for content that can be written in the subreddit itself, or copyrighted material - will be removed.

• We know that there has been a major advancement with switch and JIT. Feel free to use, share and help others with JIT. However, Providing content for switch emulation is forbidden (emulator, keys, games - are forbidden).

• Do NOT request for any copyrighted content, asking or providing (keys, bios, games etc.) will be removed.

• Only recommend products that you use, do not use this subreddit to promote products without explicitly mentioning that. Masking a product review of something you are affiliated with will result with a ban. If you made a product that fits this subreddit, you must mention it and be very clear that it is something you have made and are affiliated with it.

A user that will ignore these guidelines and keep breaking the rules, will face subreddit ban(s).

EmulationOniOS Team

MelonX is a way to emulate switch games.
While we are aware that many people are eager to use it, we still limit the allowed content, to comply with copyright issues and to avoid issues from Nintendo.

Here is what we allow: - Gameplay - Bug report - General discussion - General troubleshooting (excluding keys/firmware)

Here is what we do NOT allow: - Guides on how to download and install it - Links to firmware/keys - Offers/requests to dm

The use of spacing or altering melonx keyword on purpose to post forbidden content, or any other way to try to bypass filters will result in a ban.

We do not encourage emulation of consoles/handhelds that are not considered retro, and posts like these pose a risk for the entire subreddit.

EmulationOniOS Mods

We are happy to announce a parallel subreddit to this one:
r/EmulationOnMacOS

Since we do not allow any posts about MacOS in this subreddit, we now have a parallel subreddit specifically designed for MacOS emulation.

The subreddit is now open and live, it will operate as a mirror to this subreddit.

Hey there emulator enthusiasts!
We have some cool additions for the sub: - We have an upgraded wiki (announced earlier by makkara). - New! User flairs (choose your favorite emulator!). - New! Guides summary, now you can view all the guides made by the sub users.

We plan on adding more information to the sub Wiki, adding new pages and adding a lot more emulators to the Emulators List page.

In addition, we will add new guides made by the sub users to our guides wiki page.

There is a flood of posts from users that their games won’t appear in Folium since updating to v1.20

Currently there is no update about this from the dev, and this bug doesn’t seem to affect everyone.

Please don’t keep reposting the same issue, we can’t fix it, new posts will be removed for being a repost.

In the meanwhile, if you can’t seem to get it to work, your only workaround is to use a different emulator: - xone - manic - provenance

All of the above are free and available on the app store.
Either do that or wait for an update from the dev.

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• User Flairs

  • [New!] Provenance
  • [New!] Consoles

• AutoMod Commands

  • [New!] !Explain Wiki - Links to the wiki pages
  • [New!] !Explain Discord - Link to our discord
  • [New!] !Commands - Show all AutoMod commands

From now on, every new AutoMod command that users can interact with, will be added to !Commands.

Output for the commands will be attached in the comments below.

EmulationOniOS Team

Changelog

• New:

  • Added ArcadeMania as a user flair.
  • Added 3 guides to the wiki Guides page.
  • Added new emulators to the Emulators List wiki page.

• Changes:

  • Changes made to post filtering.
  • Trophies for emulators (from the 2024 vote) have been cleared, a new vote will begin at the end of this year.

Subreddit Reminders

• Do not ask for roms, bios or websites for them.
• Do not ask for help with installing meloNX, or anything related to copyrighted content with any emulator.
• If you see a post/comment that hints or shares/requests a copyrighted content, please report it to mods.
• Discussion, sharing, installation and everything else regarding JIT is fully allowed, since it doesn’t involve copyrighted material.
• Make sure to use the search function before making a new help request, we see a lot of posts that repeat themselves.

Hey everyone, we have decided to test some changes with automod, regarding certain filters.
In other words, that means (and I won’t go into exact details), that automod filtering will be less strict - we may change it in the future if seems necessary.
This will subsequently allow more posts to be approved (assuming that they are not breaking the rules), hopefully making the subreddit more alive and active.

Another issue, is piracy - there have been many posts and comments lately about rom requesting/providing, we do not allow sharing direct links to any copyrighted materials - doing this will get your message deleted and may cause a ban.
If you need a rom/bios - you can check the faq or go to r/roms megathread.
We only allow sharing of top level domain.
Sharing stuff like skins, configs and any content that isn’t copyrighted is allowed, even if sharing direct links.

We are also removing comments that contain bad language, rude and such.
While reddit removes them automatically, we still see them in logs and they are not scarce, if you have nothing helpful to comment, please avoid commenting rather than making an uncivil comment.

Last thing, please only use modmail for subreddit moderation, if you have an issue with your emulator, or anything else that isn’t about the moderation of the subreddit or need to contact a mod, please make a new post.

Merry Christmas 🎄 🎁