Replay Nintendo Classics on iPhone / App of the Day 109

This new iOS emulator speaks fluent Nintendo, covering six entire systems in a single download:
NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS.
Drag ROMs you legally dumped into iCloud, Google Drive or Dropbox and, seconds later, they pop up inside a gorgeous shelf that feels like Apple TV. Correct box art is pulled automatically, but you can replace any cover with your own image or pick from a bundled gallery of high-resolution artwork. Each game tile shows total play-time, last save stamp and a live thumbnail of where you left off, so you know at a glance which boss or dungeon is waiting.



A UI built for fingers and nostalgia
Open a game and crisp touchscreen skins slide into place. Buttons can be resized, repositioned or made ghost-transparent until they fit your thumbs perfectly. Prefer real buttons? Pair virtually anything:
- PS5 DualSense, Xbox Series or 8BitDo pads
- Any MFi controller
- Bluetooth or wired keyboards, plus the Apple Smart Keyboard
Every console keeps its own mapping profile, so Z-trigger on N64 never interferes with A/B on Game Boy. Spare triggers can be assigned to Quick Save, Quick Load or Fast Forward, and each mapping lives in Delta Sync, so it follows you from phone to tablet automatically.
Dual screens done right
Nintendo DS titles let you juggle layouts on the fly – stacked, side-by-side or picture-in-picture – and you can rotate the whole canvas without reopening a menu. It makes stylus-heavy puzzles feel natural on a single-screen device.
Save, sync, repeat
Delta Sync pushes your library, native saves, save states, cheats, controller skins and button maps to Google Drive or Dropbox. Accidentally overwrite a save? A full version history lets you roll back in two taps. Automatic backups guard progress, while locked save states make sure you never nuke a golden run by mistake.
Quality-of-life extras
- Hold Button – keep Y pressed for endless Mario sprints while your thumbs handle jumps.
- Fast Forward – breeze past intro logos, text-heavy cut scenes or slow RPG grinding. Switch it off and action returns to normal speed instantly.
- Cheat Manager – paste Game Shark or Action Replay codes, toggle them per game, and they sync with the cloud.
- 3D / Haptic Touch – peek at save states or cheats, launch recent games from the Home Screen, or use widget-style shortcuts.
- Audio and video filters – from razor-sharp pixels to subtle CRT scanlines. You can even save a custom shader per game, so Pokémon stays crisp while Super Metroid goes full 90s CRT glow.
Metal-powered performance
Rendering runs through Apple’s Metal API, keeping frame rates locked and battery drain impressively low. A 30-minute Mario 64 session on an A17 iPhone barely dents the battery gauge, and the emulator pauses cleanly whenever a call or notification arrives.

Importing games the right way
The app ships empty on purpose. You provide ROMs dumped from cartridges you own, or grab open-source homebrew titles. Stick to that rule and you are good – the emulator never points to shady downloads or torrents. A built-in file browser lets you pull archives straight from the Files app and unzips them automatically.
Built by tinkerers, friendly to everyone
If you love personalisation, you can design controller skins in Photoshop, zip them up and share a link – friends can install in seconds. Power users will enjoy per-game override files that remember unique button layouts, shader picks and audio tweaks. Casual fans can ignore all that, tap the game art and start hopping Goombas within ten seconds of install.
Why this matters
Mobile emulation has been around for years, but it often felt like a half-finished hobby project – clunky menus, random save paths, weird controller lag. This release flips that script. It treats retro games like first-class citizens on iOS: cloud-aware, controller-literate and slick enough to sit next to Apple Arcade without embarrassment.
Whether you are speed-running Super Metroid, revisiting a childhood Pokémon team, or finally seeing the credits of the DS epic you abandoned in school, this tiny download turns spare moments into pure, streamlined nostalgia. No extra hardware, no fiddly configs – just your iPhone and decades of Nintendo history ready whenever the mood hits.
