Gamma, a PS1 emulator, is available for iPhone and iPad

Range it’s a PS1 emulator launched in recent days on the app store and compatible with iPads and iPhones. The author is ZodTTD, aka Benjamin Stark, who has been launching emulators of different systems for iOS since Apple opened its ecosystem to these software. In reality, it has been developing them for years, considering that it has always been very active on Android, a more open and free ecosystem than that of the Cupertino company.

His range seems to work really well. It supports Bluetooth controllers and keyboards compatible with Apple devices, but also offers touch controls (as always in these cases, it is better to use a controller). It uses Google Drive and Dropbox to sync game and save files, and like the Delta emulator, automatically downloads covers for detected games.

Also note that Gamma does not require downloads PS1 BIOS to play, which is a great convenience, also considering that these files cannot be obtained legally.

Emulators galore

With the launch of new emulator on the App StoreStark wanted to explain to The Verge that the first iOS emulator by Riley Testut, the author of the well-known Delta, called GBA4iOS, used code from his own emulator called gpSPhone. Stark then added that that application also had third-party code and was based on gpSP, an Android emulator created by a developer called Exophase, who had given permission to use his code.

As said several times and according to various court rulings, emulators are software completely legal. Apple has banned them on its app store for years due to its specific policy, but in recent times it has opened up the possibility of publishing some of them, in compliance with current laws.

However, emulator authors must take some precautions, as those of Yuzu do not do, such as not including files protected by copyright in their software and not earning from the sale of games.

That said, in theory it is possible to emulate all the back up copies of the games you own. Therefore, it is perfectly legal to emulate games that you have in original copies.