Copy Pasta from r*ddit: /u/ harakari:
ArcadeMania is a port of MAME for iOS, emulates over 5000 arcade machines, but also much more, from video game consoles to computer systems to Game & Watches. As anyone familiar with MAME knows, It’s a community driven effort over the past few decades with many contributors and is available for free on the App Store:
ArcadeMania
It supports MAME 0.276 (the current latest) and will continue to be updated to keep up with the MAME releases.
Some interesting tidbits about getting this into the App Store:
The app was constantly rejected for over a span of about a year.
The app was rejected as "spam" for much of that year, and was overturned after 2 appeals to App Store Review. They called me on the phone out of the blue to say they considered the appeal and deemed it as "not spam".
The app was then in a "we need more time to review" state for over 2 months.
I "vibe-coded" an NES ROM from scratch and included it in the app, just to have a demo that the App Store Review team can use without having them download a ROM. It was also in response to a review comment that said that the app can only run ROMs created by me. It was my first time developing for the NES/Famicom and it was a lot of fun!
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