RomM iOS App

A native iOS companion app for RomM. Connect to your self-hosted RomM server to browse, play, and manage your retro game ROM collection directly from your iPhone or iPad.

Compatible with RomM 5.0.*

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Features

Emulation

• 🎮 Play ROMs directly on your iPhone or iPad
• 🕹️ Native Delta emulator cores for GBA, GBC, GB, NES, SNES, N64, and NDS
• 🖥️ Libretro-based emulation for Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, Master System, Game Gear, Saturn, Dreamcast, PlayStation, PSP, and Arcade
• ☁️ Cloud save sync — upload and download save states and save files to/from your RomM server
• 🎛️ Physical controller support
• ⏩ 2x fast-forward for native DeltaCore emulation from the in-game menu

Library

• 📱 Native SwiftUI design with dark mode support
• 🖼️ Game covers, screenshots, and full metadata from your RomM server
• 📊 Card and list view layouts
• 🔍 Search across your entire ROM library
• 📚 Browse by platform with ROM counts and platform logos
• 📁 Organize games in custom collections
• 📈 Server statistics and platform insights
• ⚙️ QR code scanner for quick server setup

Offline & Transfer

• 💾 Download ROMs for offline play
• 🔄 Transfer ROMs to remote devices via SFTP
• 🗂️ BIOS file management for emulator cores

Platform

• 📲 iPhone and iPad support

Getting Started

This repository uses git submodules for the emulator cores in Vendor/. Clone with submodules:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/ilyas-hallak/romm-ios-app.git

If you already cloned without submodules:

git submodule update --init --recursive

Then open romm/romm.xcodeproj in Xcode and build.

Building on a device

Building for the Simulator needs nothing extra. To run on a physical device you need your own Apple Developer team and a bundle identifier that is unique to you. The upstream de.ilyashallak.* identifiers are already registered to the maintainer and cannot be re-registered to your account.

The project reads those two values from a gitignored Signing.xcconfig, so you never have to edit project.pbxproj:

cp romm/Config/Signing.xcconfig.template romm/Config/Signing.xcconfig

Then edit romm/Config/Signing.xcconfig and set:

• DEVELOPMENT_TEAM, your 10-character Team ID (Xcode > Settings > Accounts, or the Apple Developer site under Membership details)
• ROMM_BUNDLE_ID_PREFIX, a reverse-DNS prefix only you use, e.g. com.yourname

Signing is automatic, so Xcode registers the App ID and provisioning profile the first time you build to a connected device.

The emulator core submodules

Signing.xcconfig only applies to this project's targets, not to the DeltaCore projects under Vendor/. Several of those pin their own DEVELOPMENT_TEAM, so a device build needs your team applied to them too:

• Xcode (UI): in each Vendor/*/…xcodeproj, select every target and set your team under Signing & Capabilities. These edits stay in the submodule working trees, don't commit them.

• Command line: pass DEVELOPMENT_TEAM on the xcodebuild invocation. It applies to every target in the graph, submodules included, so nothing under Vendor/ needs editing:

  xcodebuild -project romm/romm.xcodeproj -scheme romm \
    -destination 'generic/platform=iOS' \
    -allowProvisioningUpdates \
    DEVELOPMENT_TEAM=YOURTEAMID \
    build
  

  Signing.xcconfig is still required, it supplies the unique app bundle identifier (ROMM_BUNDLE_ID_PREFIX) that no command-line override can set per-target.

Credits

Standing on the shoulders of giants.

This app would not be possible without the outstanding open-source emulation work of:

• Delta / DeltaCore by Riley Testut — the emulation framework powering GB, GBC, GBA, NES, SNES, N64, and NDS
• PCSX ReARMed via Libretro — PlayStation emulation on ARM

Contributing

1. Follow the established Clean Architecture patterns (Domain / Data / UI layers)
2. Maintain one ViewModel per View — no sharing between views
3. Use Cases must not call other Use Cases — compose at the ViewModel level
4. Use the existing dependency injection system
5. Follow SwiftUI best practices
6. All user-facing strings must be in English

License

MIT — see LICENSE for details. This project is part of the RomM ecosystem.