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[STEAM][PRESS]The Apple TV is coming for the Raspberry Pi’s retro emulation box crown


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/ The RetroArch app installed in tvOS. (credit: Andrew Cunningham)

[/url] Apple’s initial pitch for the tvOS and the Apple TV as it currently exists
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. No longer a mere streaming box, the Apple TV would also be a destination for general-purpose software and games, piggybacking off of the iPhone's vibrant app and game library.

That never really panned out, and the Apple TV is still mostly a box for streaming TV shows and movies. But the same App Store rule change that recently allowed
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, and other retro console emulators onto the iPhone and iPad could also make the Apple TV appeal to people who want a small, efficient, no-fuss console emulator for their TVs.

So far, few of the emulators that have made it to the iPhone have been ported to the Apple TV. But earlier this week, the streaming box got an official port of RetroArch, the sprawling collection of emulators that
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from the PlayStation Portable to the Raspberry Pi. RetroArch could be sideloaded onto iOS and tvOS before this, but only using
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that took a lot more work and know-how than downloading an app from the App Store.

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