In early April of this year, Apple made a landmark decision regarding its App Store. From that moment on, the company Game emulators allowed in the App Store, Since then, many emulators have followed each other, and a few days ago one of them arrived in Spain and the rest of the world: one of nintendo 3ds, The popular Nintendo console is now discontinued.
This is volume, the first Nintendo 3DS emulator app that can be downloaded now from the App Store. Of course, it’s not a free app; In Spain it costs 5.99 euros and does not have any other access model. Basically, Folium is an app to emulate Nintendo 3DS games and play them via split screen on the iPhone.
Although Folium has infiltrated the App Store thanks to new regulations imposed on the store by Apple, whether or not it is advisable to purchase it is a relative matter. Not only because of the legal limbo these emulators are in, but also because of Nintendo’s own doubts about these initiatives, which ended with Yuzu, a Nintendo Switch emulator that is no longer available.
3DS emulator for iPhone
Folium follows the same system as the vast majority of downloadable emulators for Windows and Android: the emulator does not offer games at any given time, but it is the user himself who has to add them to the system. On many occasions, users resort to piracy websites for downloading Built-in Of the games mentioned.
It can be used on devices running iOS 15 or higher and tablets running iPadOS 15 or higher. It supports a variety of controls including PlayStation and Xbox controllers and also allows you to emulate standard Game Boy and Nintendo DS games. Again, Folium doesn’t have any subscription model or anything similar. It even allows you to use Nintendo controllers, such as the JoyCon of the Switch.
Screenshots from the emulator.
It should be noted that it does not have compatibility With JIT (just in time) compilation, Therefore it is possible that emulation performance may be affected on older Apple devices, so the developer recommends using, e.g. iPhone 13 or higher Or at least a 10th generation iPad. In addition, it is a completely English app.
The fact that you can buy Folium has some drawbacks. Basically, it starts with the idea It is illegal to download content obtained from piracy. On the other hand, there are precedents of simulators that were subjected to legal action by Nintendo, in order to preserve their intellectual property. The most notable case was once again that of Yuzu.
This leaves Folium in limbo, as it is unknown if Nintendo will take legal action or any kind of action against Jarrod Norwell, the current developer of Folium. To all this we should add that there are already other emulators such as RetroArch, which could add support for emulating Nintendo 3DS games in the future, which makes Folium less recommended.
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