Manic EMU - Game Emulator

This app is incredible for the amount of emulators it stores like RetroArch. For starters I’m using a IPhone 16 Pro. The games are absolutely gorgeous on the phone and are great to play. I mainly play with Bluetooth controllers and I’m here to tell you they’re VERY responsive! Touch controls I’m not a fan of because obviously taking up the view of the screen and not a clear view of the screen. Yes there’s settings for that but I prefer the controller. Although this app isn’t as complicated as RetroArch, it’s very user friendly, especially adding on games and changing settings. For the settings I wish you could do more besides changing your resolution or the screen display. Could be due to the mobile port being limited compared to its desktop counter part but that’s absolutely okay. This is the ONLY APP where Dreamcast is supported very well and RetroArch mobile doesn’t have that yet! You can use mods very easily too! Overall 5/5 experience and very happy! Thank you to the people of “Love Retro Games”!

I don’t usually write reviews at all, but I wanted to write one for this because overall it’s a really good emulator. The only issue is that the only games I want to play on an emulator right now are 3DS games and the 3DS function is still a work in progress right now. I’ve been playing Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon and it works flawlessly (just make sure to keep your device OFF of low power mode otherwise it’ll run soooooo sloooowww), but I tried playing pokemon X and at first it worked perfectly and then when I got to the first patch of grass (probably about 15 ish mins into the game), I started leveling up my Pokemon and then after a long time of doing that it suddenly exited back to the Home Screen. I tried going back in but it kept doing that. I tried deleting the game and redownloading it to the emulator, I tried turning my phone fully off and back on again, nothing has worked. It’s just not letting me play anymore, no matter what I do. I know the 3DS feature is still in beta but please take a look at it soon if you can, devs! ❤️

Alright so someone’s probably gonna see the detail and ask “why isn’t it 5 stars”…2 reasons. I’ve tried all 3 modes and no matter what mode I choose when I play yo Kai watch or Pokemon x (the roms I currently have installed) it works for the main menu and mostly for cutscenes…BUT in yo Kai watch you exit the house there are 2 very noticeable problems. Both the game and audio start to lag. In Pokemon x the same issue occurs during the moment you try to exit the first area tho not as bad as yo Kai watch…with a few minor tweaks to preformance and audio fixing. This app would definitely earn a 5 star from me. Because the lag and audio issues being fixed would be fantastic…now the reason the title says better than the rest is because with folium and provenance aka A literal paid app and a free one. The lag for either or both audio and gameplay is in cutscenes as well. This app also has the slight issue of when In compatibility mode the audio is displaced. But preformance mode fixes that. And quality mode just straight up crashes the app when you try to load a game…so yes it is better then the rest. But it still has problems that need to be fixed