Apple removes approved Game Boy emulation app from the App Store

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Apple removes approved Game Boy emulation app from the App Store

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Surely many of you will remember that the legendary Nintendo Game Boy is one of the products most popular company. Well, Apple recently surprised us by announcing the decision to allow game emulators in the App Store, complying with the anti-steering guidelines of the European Commission. Thus, termone of the first Apple-approved Game Boy emulators, has hit the store.

However, he did not hesitate much: It has just been removed from the App Store due to copyright violations and spam. This has also been shared:

  • Riley Testutdeveloper of GBA4IOS, noted that iGBA appeared to be a clone of their emulator.
  • iGBA was removed for violating sections 4.3 and 5.2 of Apple’s App Review Guidelines, related to spam and intellectual property violations.
  • Although it is not clear if iGBA was removed specifically for copying the emulator of Testutthe iGBA developer apologized to him.
  • Apple allows retro game emulators worldwide, but emphasizes the importance of originality and does not allow apps that are copies of existing emulators.
  • Although some emulators such as Emu64XL for Commodore 64 are still available, iGBA was removed from the App Store.

Do you have any special memories related to this console? Share it with us in the comments! We read you!

Fuente.

  • Game Boy

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