Play- VS UTM

I’m trying to enable JIT in Play! emulator using Azula to patch the .ipa with TrollStoreJitEnabler, but it gives an error: “couldn’t copy dylib to workspace”. Azula is a mobile clone of Azule that should work on jailed devices (but it doesn’t atm), can someone jailbroken or with a Mac please try to patch it with Azule instead?

You can read the progress report and see the commit history on GitHub

there's an interesting project called "Play! emulator" tho https://purei.org/ Using HLE emulation (no bios and mimicking hardware, much better) and even modern rendering with vulkan... but... it's not ready yet for the average user yet (As of today only 37.34% of the compatibility list is labeled as "Playable", so those game run with minor issues or smoothly)

Consider also starting usingPlay! , it's not on par with the compatibility as Aether but hey it's ad-free at least for now, I hope and will get proper updates.

The biggest problem of Play! is that it is impossible to Google it. The website's domain purei.org doesn't connect to Play! very well... Maybe the project needs a more unique name...

Try "Play!". https://purei.org/

Did some searching and apparently apple doesn't allow emulators on the app store. Now, for PS2 emulators, Play! is the only one I know of that is developing for iOS.

If you have TrollStore then install the HV version of UTM to try for yourself: https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/releases/latest/download/UTM.HV.ipa

Researching a little showed that this is basically what can be expected running x86 emulation and the systems will just be wonky and slow, although it was running flawlessly, just slow.

There seem to be ways to use Rosetta2 inside a VM [0] to then translate binaries but I found no official support or documentation (using UTM+QEMU that was), this would be such a cool feature, at least there are discussions about it [1,2]

- [0] https://mybyways.com/blog/using-rosetta-in-a-utm-linux-vm-wi...

- [1] https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/discussions/4939

- [2] https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/issues/5460

UTM is open source too though: https://github.com/utmapp/UTM#license

UTM makes it easy to set up and manage macOS and Windows virtual machines. This can be especially useful for developers such as Tauri contributors who need to test their applications across multiple platforms, or for those looking to experiment with different operating systems without affecting their primary system.

If you don't need high performance and want to use the OS only occasionally, check UTM.app, at https://mac.getutm.app/ (or https://github.com/utmapp/UTM ). Free, open source.