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Apple now allows retro game emulators on its App Store—but with big caveats

RETRO GAMES — It's probably not the Wild West of game emulation you're hoping for. Here's why. Enlarge / The classic Sega Genesis game Sonic the Hedgehog running on an iPhone—in this case, as a standalone app.Samuel Axon When Apple posted its latest update to the App Store's app review and submission policies for developers, it included language that appears to explicitly allow a new kind of app for emulating retro console games. Apple has long forbidden apps that run code from an external so...

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