Gold Rush! 2 vs BigPEmu
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gold Rush! 2
Embark on an adventure set during the 1849 Gold Rush to find a lost brother and uncover a conspiracy. Travel by train and outwit a corrupt politician to return home safely.
- Full HD prerendered images and animated scenes
- New story and quests from the 80s developer
- High quality voices and new recorded music
- Subtitles in English or German
- Optimized Point&Click control
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Jerrod Wilson left his home in Brooklyn, New York during the legendary Gold Rush of 1849 to find his brother Jake, who was forced to leave 11 years earlier. After a long adventure, Jake and Jerrod found the richest vein of gold in California’s Mother Lode! Now it’s 1869. 20 years of hard work has made their mine very successful. Most of their mining profits were sent home to Mr. Quail, a banker and family friend, who has been investing them wisely. The brothers are as wealthy as Wall Street tycoons, and if they ever return to NY, they will be very influential gentlemen. Mr. Quail sends news from home and it’s not always good. William Tweed, who Jake and Jerrod personally knew to be the leader of a gang of thieves and extortionists (the man who forced Jake to leave Brooklyn), has become very powerful. He is now in the State Legislature and members of his gang have key positions in Brooklyn. Tweed’s political corruption has allowed his gang’s crime to go unchecked since the police are also on his payroll. Jake and Jerrod decide to sell their mine and travel home on the newly constructed Transcontinental Railroad. The brothers have evidence that should send Tweed to prison for the rest of his life, but Tweed has heard they are coming and plans to stop them from ever returning to Brooklyn. A contest of wits has begun with “Boss” Tweed, a man with political power, wealth and a gang of criminals at his command. Features: • Far more than 80 prerendered images and animated scenes in full HD • Complete new story and quests from the developer from the 80s • High quality voices and new recorded music • Subtitles in English or German • Optimized Point&Click control • This game is optimized for devices from 7", because the small details are better visible and better to control. But it runs also on smaller devices.
BigPEmu
This application emulates the Atari Jaguar console, offering high accuracy and performance for its entire retail game library. It provides advanced features like saved states, movie recording, and customizable controller support, enhancing the classic gaming experience.
- Full retail library compatibility
- High performance emulation
- Accurate emulation
- Saved states and movie recording
- Jaguar CD support
- Customizable controller overlays
- Fast forward and rewind
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BigPEmu is the first Atari Jaguar emulator to feature compatibility with the entire retail library, along with excellent performance and a wide variety of unique features: • Fast. The emulator runs the entire Jaguar retail library (with default settings) at full speed on most devices. • Accurate. It's the most accurate Jaguar emulator to-date, although it's still being improved all the time. • Better than hardware. Although the emulator defaults to settings which are catered toward compatibility and accuracy, it's capable of far more. BigPEmu enables you to play lots of Jaguar games at a full 60 frames per second for the first time ever! • Saved states and movies. Everything is completely deterministic, just like real life. That's right, I went there. This means that all "randomness" is also controlled by a preserved seed. BigPEmu can record movies from nothing but controller inputs, and play them back with perfect accuracy. You can even interrupt a movie's playback and start playing yourself at any point. • Jaguar CD support. In addition to supporting the entire retail disc library (along with Memory Track), complete hardware emulation means that the Virtual Light Machine is fully functional. Also featured is a virtual disc system with an audio loopback option, allowing the VLM to be used as a native audio/music visualizer. • Excessive presentation detail. There's native support for the Jaguar Game Drive's MRQ format in the software browser (as well as box art sourced from PNG files), support for global and per-game backgrounds, and even support for controller overlays! Everything about the touch overlay for the iOS port is fully customizable, from appearance to collision boxes. • Extra device support. Featuring emulated device support for analog controllers (both via external bank switching and the ADC), driving controllers, rotary controllers, and Team Tap. For native input devices, the iOS port supports any MFi "Extended Gamepad" type device as well as keyboards through Apple's Game Controller API. • Glorious shaders. The emulator comes equipped with a powerful, fully customizable postprocessing system. The system supports any type of effect you can imagine, from applying smoothing filters to simulating CRT displays. • Per-game profiles. Mapping the Atari Jaguar controller to anything other than a telephone with wings can get a little complicated, so you might want to switch your controller mapping up for different games. You can do that! With per-game profiles, you can automatically load up a new input scheme (or any other emulator setting) each time you load a game. • Time travel. Native fast forwarding and rewinding capability means you can speed forward through time or go back in time whenever you please. • Flexible scripting. BigPEmu features a powerful scripting system. The emulator comes with a variety of scripts to enhance popular Jaguar games in amazing ways, from analog controller support to native-resolution and stereoscopic rendering! • The usual. Enjoy all of the emulator niceties you've come to expect in modern times. Automatic preservation of EEPROM, PAL support, custom boot ROM images, native support for multiple display aspect ratios, resolution scaling, custom display cropping, extremely customizable input, and a whole lot more. BigPEmu and Swinecrafters LLC are in no way affiliated with Atari. The name "Atari" and all associated game console names are the property of their respective owners.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: BigPEmu at 94% against Gold Rush! 2's 0%. BigPEmu also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.3) and update cadence (every 4 months vs every 54 months). Gold Rush! 2's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $9.99) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15). On ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Gold Rush! 2 costs $0.99 and BigPEmu $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BigPEmu holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 26 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Gold Rush! 2's written reviews are positive against 94% of BigPEmu's.
Gold Rush! 2 ships an update every 54 months, BigPEmu every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gold Rush! 2 | BigPEmu |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 3.3 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (26 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 94.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 26 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 54 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 784 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +9 |
| Developer | Marco Sowa-Israel | Swinecrafters LLC |
Customer experience
Gold Rush! 2
BigPEmu
In-app purchases
Gold Rush! 2
No in-app purchases
BigPEmu
No in-app purchases








