We knew that emulators were going to be a lot to talk about since Apple began accepting them in its App Store, but the last thing we could imagine was seeing them running on an Apple Watch. That's just what ArcEmu by Arcadia offers, a Game Boy and Game Boy Advance emulator for iOS that has a complementary version for the Apple Watch with which you can play Pokémon from your wrist.
Game Boy emulator for Apple Watch
We're not going to go into the details of whether it will be comfortable to play Pokémon on an Apple Watch, but the interesting thing here is that it is possible. ArcEmu By Arcadia It is available in the Apple Store (1,99 euros), and thanks to this application we can use .GB, .GBC and .GBA files to emulate games designed for Game Boy and Game Boy Advance.
The application is compatible with iPhone and iPad, being able to save games with an auto-save function and also being compatible with game controllers for iOS. But the most interesting thing is not the fact of having a Game Boy emulator for iOS, since that has existed for a long time, but rather that the application as such has its compatible version for the Apple Watch, being able to emulate these ROMs from the Apple watch.
Game and Watch is real
ArcEmu is a Game Boy / Color / Advance emulator for Apple Watch and it's available now for $1.99 on the App Store: https://t.co/mrjKkdwNIE pic.twitter.com/Jby345mkci
- Nintendeal (@Nintendeal) June 25, 2024
The watch screen will show direction control buttons and action buttons A and B, which are exactly the buttons needed to play on the Game Boy, so the operation is perfect. Unfortunately the small dimensions of the Apple Watch screen don't help much (especially if you open a Game Boy Advance ROM), but if your self from 30 years ago was amazed by the CASIO calculator watch, you will probably be amazed by this nice project that is available right now in the App Store. It's probably not very convenient to use, but the fact that the emulator runs on the Apple Watch is already something especially surprising.
How to download the Game Boy emulator for Apple Watch
ArcEmu by Arcadia is available in the App Store with a price of 1,99 euros, and you only need an Apple Watch Series 4 or higher for it to work. The supported ROMs are .gb, .gbc and .gba, and as always these files are not supported, since they must be personal backup files of your own console cartridges.
Source: App Store