OpenEmu VS PlayCover

Tangentially related: if anybody is looking for a good way to organize a library of retro emulators and games on their MacOS laptops/desktop computers then I recommend OpenEmu. It is designed from the ground up to look and feel like a Mac app.

https://openemu.org/

Just follow the link i posted. Btw you can build OpenEmu in a couple of minutes yourself. Some controllers (PS5 for example) are natively supported, more shader options, and other small stuff..

Download Openemu 2.0.9.1 https://github.com/OpenEmu/OpenEmu/releases/tag/v2.0.9.1

As far as I know, devs have no plans to allow multiple bindings to the same inputs. It is apparently too complicated for them to implement. See: https://github.com/OpenEmu/OpenEmu/issues/4600

The Pocket is a great device, highly recommended, get the Dock if you want to buy one. While waiting, I recommend using https://openemu.org/ on your Mac to run "roms", which are files that represent old games. To get the ROMs, google for "tubrografx roms archive.org". Then for a controller on a Mac, you can use a PS4/PS5 or Xbox (One/Series), if you have one lying around. That said, I recommend buying an SN30 Pro.

Download and Install OpenEmu

Huh? Try http://openemu.org/ and download the experimental version (with arcade support)

Yeah should be pretty easy if you have the ISO or a disc copy, OpenEmu should do it without issue - https://openemu.org

Otherwise you can try OpenEmu: it's a very Mac friendly emulator of a lot of old systems that works by dragging/dropping the roms in it. The "Experimental" (direct link) build includes support of Mame, which means support of Neo Geo roms.

Install PlayCover, choose 1.0.1, do NOT use the latest version, it doesn't work with RLSS. https://github.com/iVoider/PlayCover/releases

You could install PlayCover and run the iOS version of the game. https://github.com/iVoider/PlayCover

There's a utility called PlayCover in development that aims to work around this, but not all iOS app work for some reason, hopefully that keeps improving.

https://github.com/iVoider/PlayCover if you use this you can play some ios games, 0.9.2-0.9.4 you will be able to play CoD mobile. It is actually pretty good when you keymap it

If your friends have M1 macs they can try playing through PlayCover. This will sideload IOS version and allow to map keyboard/mouse to touch controls (all though I recommend using ps4 controller).