RetroHandheld vs Bitfold

Retro Handheld turns your iPhone and iPad into a real retro gaming machine, and it plays the consoles most iPhone emulators leave out. Start for free with the classic lineup: Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, NES, and Super NES. Unlock Nintendo 64, PlayStation, GameGear, DreamCast and Sega Genesis with one purchase — no subscription and no ads, ever. PlayStation works the moment you import a game. OpenBIOS is bundled, so there is no BIOS file to hunt down and no setup to wade through. Every emulator core ships inside the app, ready to play. WHAT YOU GET Eight consoles in one app, from Game Boy to PlayStation Auto cover art box art downloads automatically when you add a game A native, uncluttered interface built for iPhone and iPad Xbox, PlayStation, Switch Pro, and MFi controller support with automatic per-console mapping Game Genie, GameShark, and Action Replay cheat code support Save states anywhere, auto-save on exit, and one-tap resume Fast-forward for speeding through slow sections Screenshot capture to save your best moments iCloud backup for save data across devices Retro TV shell on iPad, plus haptic feedback Play time tracking for every game Fully offline. No accounts, no internet, no tracking. BRING YOUR OWN GAMES Retro Handheld does not include any games. You must own the original cartridge or disc to legally use game files with the app. Import your library from the Files app and keep it on your own device. Built on proven open-source emulation cores, compiled and bundled so there is nothing extra to download before you play.

Bitfold is a retro game console app for iPhone and iPad, made for iPhone Duo. It turns the whole screen into a pocket console — a glossy plastic shell, a pixel-sharp screen, a clicky D-pad, A and B, Start and Select, a power LED and a speaker grille — and it comes with twelve original games. No ads, no accounts, no tracking. MADE FOR IPHONE DUO Closed, it's a classic pocket console on the outer display. Open it and it becomes a Bitfold Duo: the game on the top half, the console's hinge drawn exactly over the real fold, controls and a companion screen below. Fold it like a book and the console opens into two pages. Your game keeps running through every change. TWELVE BITFOLD ORIGINALS Every bundled game is an original made for Bitfold, with its own music and characters: a platformer, a falling-gem puzzle, a vertical shooter, a pseudo-3D racer, a snake game, a block breaker, picture-logic puzzles, a pinball table, a top-down adventure, mini golf, a daily puzzle with a new harbor every day and a virtual pet to hatch and raise. BRING YOUR OWN CARTRIDGES Play backups of the cartridges you own (.gb, .gbc, .sgb, .cgb or .zip) from Files, AirDrop or the Bitfold folder in the Files app. Bitfold doesn't include or download any commercial games. A SCREEN THAT FEELS REAL Sharp pixel scaling, an optional pixel grid, dot-matrix shadows, LCD motion blur, and twelve palettes for monochrome games — from pea-soup green to amber and backlit blue. TWELVE EDITIONS Classic grey, Bubblegum, see-through Atomic purple with a circuit board inside, Lagoon, Dandelion, Berry, Kiwi, Ocean, Midnight, Glacier, Ivory and Champagne, each with a matching Home Screen icon. PLAYS GREAT - Accurate emulation built on the open-source SameBoy core - Four save-state slots, automatic save and resume, battery saves - Hold to rewind, fast-forward up to 8× - Haptic buttons and cartridge rumble - Game controllers and keyboards - Classic cheat codes Bitfold is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by any console maker. All trademarks belong to their owners.