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Cult of Mac reports that GBA4iOS, the GBA emulator for iOS devices that used some trickery with enterprise ad hoc distribution to make one of the finest handheld gaming systems available to all, is no longer available - due to a DMCA request by Nintendo.

But wait, you may ask "How can Nintendo request the removal of an emulator if emulators are legal?" Aye, there's the rub: GBA4iOS distributed the GBA BIOS with it, which is copyrighted software and illegal to distribute. Thus was the downfall of this clever circumvention for now. Creator Riley Testut says "the site will remian offline until further notice," so it could return without the BIOS, but as a student he may not want to risk angering Nintendo's lawyers again.

Oh well, there's always jailbreaking or Android, right?