KotRetro8
Tomohiro Hara Games iPhoneiPadiPod touch
KotRetro8 is a free Games app for iPhone and iPad by Tomohiro Hara. Rated 5.0/5 from 1 ratings. Requires iOS 16.0. Updated October 21, 2026.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 1 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 5 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 21
- 2026 · v1.0
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About KotRetro8
KotRetro8 is a fast and accurate classic 8-bit game console emulator with support for save states, rewind, cheats, gamepads, and a wide range of cartridge and disk-based formats. FEATURES • Wide game compatibility — Supports many mapper types and hardware configurations • Disk support — Play supported disk images with disk-side switching and dedicated sound support • Expansion audio — Faithful audio emulation for a variety of supported sound hardware • Save states — 20 slots per game with screenshot thumbnails, plus auto-resume that picks up right where you left off • Quick save/load — Instant save and restore mapped to your gamepad • Playback controls — Pause and resume from the on-screen HUD. While paused, advance one frame at a time with +1. Hold TURBO for fast-forward • Rewind — Automatic snapshots every 5 seconds let you jump back up to 60 seconds. Undo mistakes with an on-screen button, a gamepad shortcut, or the thumbnail timeline • Movie recording — Record your play as an FM2 movie from power-on or from the current position. Replay it later and rerecord from a save state • Cheats — Enter supported cheat codes or raw address:value cheats, saved per game • Controller support — Connect Bluetooth or USB gamepads with full button remapping, including two-player play • On-screen controls — Customizable touch gamepad with turbo A/B buttons • Speed control — Slow down or fast-forward from 0.25x to 4x • Arcade support — Supported arcade titles with coin, service, and DIP switch settings • Display options — Overscan cropping and pixel-perfect scaling • Convenient library — Recent games list with thumbnails, ZIP file support, and one-tap resume of your last game • Available in English, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Indonesian, and Korean REQUIREMENTS • You must provide your own legally obtained game files. KotRetro8 does not include any games or BIOS files. • BIOS files required by supported formats must be provided by the user. • KotRetro8 does not provide copyrighted game content. KotRetro8 focuses on accurate emulation, broad hardware compatibility, and a clean interface for managing your own legally obtained game files.
App privacy
The developer, Tomohiro Hara, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Usage Data: Other Usage Data
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Other Diagnostic Data
Used for: Analytics
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