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GameCube and Wii emulation on iPhone unlikely - due to technical constraints, rather than piracy concerns

It's unlikely we'll see widespread emulation of GameCube or Wii games via emulators on the iPhone App Store, a new repo…

Instead, this is because of technical limitations, as detailed in a new blog post from veteran Nintendo hacker and dataminer OatmealDome, who works on GameCube and Wii emulator DolphiniOS for jailbroken phones. In a nutshell, GameCube and Wii emulation on PC uses a technology that Apple typically does not allow on iPhones - something called just-in-time (JIT) compilation. Watch on YouTube Eurogamer previously contacted Nintendo for its stance on app store emulators, and was pointed to industrybody Video Games Europe for a response.

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