Apple Tv Emulator

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MAME emulator shown running on new Apple TV. The new Apple TV was a huge upgrade for the set-top box, even including a new operating system that the company dubbed tvOS. Apple included a lot more functionality with the new system, too, including not only support for Siri and search, but also an App Store and even more applications.

  • I'm having the same problem. Creating a new project for tvOS shows the Apple TV simulator as a run destination, but when I try to set up an existing project to use the tvOS SDK the Apple TV simulator doesn't show up as an option.
  • But if you want Apple’s ecosystem and Apple’s App Store, Provenance is a reasonably good emulator that integrates well with the platform, and the Apple TV itself is capable enough to support.

Here you’ll be able to download the Apple TV 4 ipa files for some of your favorite Cydia apps, emulators, & more. These apps are not signed, so it’ll be up to you to sign them yourself. You can sign them by either using Xcode with an Apple developer account, Apple public developer account, Cydia Impactor, iOS App Signer, or by utilizing a third party service. To download the ipa just tap on the app icon of your choice & you’ll be redirect to the download page.

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After a long period of stagnation, the Apple TV finally received a major upgrade this year, including a fancy new Siri remote and the ability to color-correct using your iPhone. It turns out the new Apple TV 4K is also great for one more thing: emulating the GameCube at full speed.

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This discovery has been brought to our attention by Riley Testut, the creator of alternative iOS app store Alt Store. Testut tweeted a video this weekend of his Apple TV booting up Dolphin Emulator, a popular GameCube emulation app, and playing a game of Mario Kart: Double Dash!! with absolutely no lag whatsoever. It might even be smoother than running the game on an actual GameCube.

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To the inexperienced eye, this might not seem all that exciting — Double Dash!! was released nearly two decades ago, after all, so why should we be impressed that top-notch 2021 hardware can run such a game? But GameCube emulation is notoriously difficult, especially on Apple’s hardware, which is, well, pretty horrible at rendering any games at all, never mind resource-heavy ones.

Thanks, Apple — The replies to Testut’s tweet are filled with people asking how he did it. The answer to that is still a mystery; Testut has yet to create a guide or answer these questions.

Let’s put the how aside for a moment and just marvel at how well the GameCube runs on an Apple TV 4K. Previous versions of the Apple TV probably could’ve run some emulated games, too, but the new Apple TV 4K has gotten a pretty serious hardware upgrade, making the experience smoother than ever. The latest TV has an A12 Bionic chip — a significant upgrade from the prior model’s A10X Fusion chip. The new chip, along with the rest of the TV’s innards, keeps emulation smoother than we ever could’ve hoped.

But should you try it at home? — Probably not. There are much less expensive ways to emulate GameCube games, and with much less stress involved, too. The Dolphin emulator can be installed on just about any computing device, and there’s plenty of dedicated third-party GameCube hardware out there if you want a prime emulation experience. (Also, you’d probably have to use the Apple TV’s remote for gameplay, which doesn’t sound like the greatest experience.)

Plus, we’re really not sure how we would even tell you to go about installing Dolphin on your new Apple TV 4K. There’s a reason so many people are asking Testut how he managed it. Apple makes it notoriously difficult to sideload apps onto any of its devices.

If you’re looking for a fun project with lower overhead, might we suggest modding a PlayStation Classic instead?