touchHLE is a high-level

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for iPhone's

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applications, targeting early versions of the system, running them on desktop PCs and Android. Currently it supports a handful of games. The project is

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and created by a developer on the nickname hikari_no_yume. touchHLE had its first release in February 2023 supporting the game

Super Monkey Ball ''Super Monkey Ball'' is a series of Platformer, platform video games initially developed by Amusement Vision (now Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio) and published by Sega. The series debuted in 2001 with the arcade game ''Monkey Ball'', which was ported to ...

, an iPhone app store launch title from 2008 which was considered

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because it didn't run on supported platforms. Latest release supports other lost media games such as Doom II RPG. The compatibility layer was only able to run one software,

as of version 0.1.0. As of version 0.1.2, support for the Lite version of Super Monkey Ball, as well as Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D and ''Touch & Go'' has been added. She says that fans will have to "be patient" for anything else to emulate. It uses code translation along with CPU emulation when necessary, and specifically stated that she does not want to be compatible with 64 bit software. Later a pull request to add support for Android was issued, which allowed Android devices to run Super Monkey Ball for iOS.

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