Apple TV hardware storage limits will keep most emulators away

The developer behind iPhone emulator app Delta has revealed that one key limitation in Apple’s tvOS is why he isn’t making a version for Apple TV.

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Apple TV is not short of games, since it has Apple Arcade, but an online developer conversation has highlighted how every game and every app on tvOS has to deal with a storage limitation. Each has a maximum of 500KB in which to save anything they need, from scores to saved games, or in the case of emulators, even game ROMs.

Writing on Mastodon, Berlin-based developer and author of a book on Swift, Ole Begemann, explains that more than 500KB can be saved, but at a risk.

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