I found a Dendy and Sega emulator for iPhone or iPad, which you don’t even need to store. I’m talking about the Eclipse

We all tolerate the fact that in order to emulate any set-top box, you need a program on your device. But what to do if you don’t have a portable console at hand or an emulator installed on your phone?

Besides, if you want to remember a classic, something similar to Mario the Plumber, on the iPhone, this is quite problematic. iOS is a closed system, and installing emulators on it quickly and without using developer rights or jailbreaking from AltStore is quite a chore.

And here Eclipse comes to the rescue. A very unusual and interesting way to play Dendy, Sega and other games without problems with installing software, dancing with tambourines and any hacks.

What is an eclipse

Eclipse is an online service. This means you can play games on any modern device with a web browser.

The service supports launching games for consoles:

● Gameboy
●Game Boy Color
● Game Boy Advance.
● Nintendo Entertainment System.
● Super Nintendo
● Sega Master System
● Sega gaming equipment.

The developers promise progress in the list, but even that gentleman’s set enough to spend a couple of hours in captivity of nostalgia.

How to use Eclipse

First you need the games themselves. Download the required roms (links to resources with a collection of roms for any game consoles and set-top boxes are provided upon the first request in Google), throw them into your Google Drive.

After that, follow the link and click the “Play Now” button.

Next you need to feed the games to the service. Click on the plus sign in the upper right corner and select Google Drive as the image source.

Eclipse itself will automatically upload a list of all your games, and if they have the correct name (in most sources it will be exactly like this), then when you add a game to the site, Eclipse automatically suggests assigning a different cover to each one. Pictures are loaded automatically from special sources; you don’t need to do anything manually.

Before you start the game, I highly recommend going to the settings. There you can choose a skin for the interface and virtual game, and also easily configure the emulator itself.

For everyone, I recommend turning on the “Save State” option – this will allow you to save anywhere in any game. It would be a good idea to activate cheats to make it more interesting.

And that is all! The game you need and play directly in the browser of your electronic device. Eclipse supports both portrait and landscape screen orientations and easily adapts the virtual gamepad to your needs.

For the best image quality, it is recommended that you do not touch the Ignore Aspect Ratio option to ensure that the original aspect ratio is maintained and the image is not stretched.

Personal impressions

For the test we took 4 games on different platforms: Super Mario Bros 3 (NES), Chrono Trigger (SNES), Pokemon Yellow (Gameboy) and Shaman King Master of Spirits (Gameboy Advance). Two step-by-step and two active procedures for the purity of the experiment.

What can I say: turn-based Pokemon and Chrono’s adventures certainly play a little nicer due to the reduced dynamics of what is happening. But active platformers also work quite well, although the first five minutes of the pandemic take you to get used to the controls, but it’s individual.

There were no problems with the emulation itself, whether via a mobile network or via Wi-Fi, I did not experience any problems with the sound, or with the quality and speed of the picture. Games run smoothly, without stutters, crashes or crashes.

As for me, Eclipse is an interesting service and even Unique. It makes it possible to play good old games with 8- and 16-bit game consoles on any iPhone, iPad, MacBook or other devices completely free of charge and without unnecessary settings. You only need a browser to download images (roms) of games, which are easy to find on the Internet.

The developers promise to expand the list of platforms in the future, so it is recommended to follow the project.