Hi, so I searched up if you could get emulators like dolphin and other ones running on Apple TV third-generation and they said no but these are all a few years old, and now there’s this new homebrew call Black box that apparently lets you install apps and I wonder if it was compatible for emulators to be installed and run on it now
Apple TV 3rd Gen??
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12-19-2022, 03:48 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-20-2022, 03:20 AM by Nintendo Maniac 64.)
I have absolutely no experience with Apple products made after the year 2000 but, just to confirm - you already have this aforementioned Apple TV 3rd gen, correct?
Thing is, that's a model from 2013 - it doesn't matter if Apple's modern ARM CPUs can go toe-to-toe with AMD and Intel's's x86 CPUs when the ARM device in question is something that's nearly a decade old since 2013 ARM was, at best, more comparable to 2003 x86, and 2003 x86 vs 2013 x86 is quite the difference (I'd say around 3x to 4x the performance difference in Dolphin even if you go from AMD K8 to Intel Haswell, and even faster if starting from Intel Prescott). So, even if you can get it to run, don't expect performance to be all that great at all considering that it's a single-core design in the Apple TV that maxes out at a mere 1GHz. Even if it had Intel Haswell levels of performance-per-GHz, you'd quite likely have better performance running Dolphin on even a homebrew'd PS4 non-Pro of all things despite it also having weak CPU cores (comparable to AMD K8 in per-GHz performance), let alone something like the RetroArch core on an Xbox Series S (way faster CPU cores)... or, you know, an actual Wii or Wii U just straight-up running games without emulation (unless you count Nintendont as "emulation" - it's really more like a compatibility layer ala WINE/Proton on Linux).
Dolphin 5.0 CPU benchmark
CPU: Xeon E3-1246 v3 (4c/8t Haswell/Intel 4th gen) — core & cache @ 3.9GHz via multicore enhancement GPU: Intel integrated HD Graphics P4600 RAM: 4x8GB Corsair Vengence @ DDR3-1600 OS: Linux Mint of some variety + [VM] Win7 SP1 x64 12-19-2022, 10:58 PM
It depends on if you mean the Apple TV (3rd Gen) or the Apple TV 4K (3rd Gen). The Apple TV (3rd Gen) is too slow as stated by Nintendo Maniac 64, but the Apple TV 4K (3rd Gen) may be able to run some games if it's supported by Black Box.
You'd have to use the unofficial Dolphin for iOS (made by OatmealDome), which we unfortunately don't give support for on these forums |
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