How to install Nintendo and Sega games on Apple TV 4

Emulators are the solution found by those who want to enjoy the classic games of always on their computer or smartphone. But now the experience can be much better thanks to Apple TV 4. The new Apple multimedia device has the possibility of installing applications from its App Store, but also in an "unofficial" way, which allows you to install Provenance, a Nintendo and SEGA emulator. If you want to enjoy Super Mario Bros on your Apple TV 4, here are all the steps you must take to achieve it, and also explained on video to make it even clearer.

Requirements

• Apple developer account (free ones work) that you can get here.
• Computer with OS X El Capitan and Xcode installed
• 4th generation Apple TV
• USB-A to USB-C cable

Procedure

The first step is to get the Provenance app. You can find it on GitHub, by clicking on this link. You must copy the link of the application, clicking where it is indicated in the image to copy it to the clipboard.

Connect your Apple TV to your computer via the USB cable and turn it on. After that open Xcode. If you don't have your developer account added yet, go to "Preferences> Accounts" and add your developer account so there are no problems during the app creation process. Done that at the top open the menu "Source Control> Check Out" and in the window that opens paste the address that you copied earlier in GitHub. Click Next. After that click on Next again to download the application. If it failed you (it has failed me several times) go back and try again, or change the "Type" field from "Git" to "Subversion", which helped me to make it work correctly. Then select the first option that appears (Main or Trunk, it depends on which option you chose before). Click on «Next» and then choose the location where the application will be downloaded.

When the download finishes a new Xcode window opens. Click on "Provenance" at the top left and select "ProvenanceTV-Release> Apple TV" so that the application begins to be created. This process is very long (more than half an hour has taken me) so take it with patience. Once finished, click on the «Play» in the upper left (black triangle), which will start the installation on the Apple TV. Once the installation is complete, the label "Running Provenance on Apple TV" will appear on the top bar, which means that the process is complete. We can now disconnect the Apple TV from our computer and turn on our television.

On your Apple TV find the Provenance app and open it. Select "Import Roms" and write down the address that appears on the screen. This is the address you have to type in your computer's web browser to add the Roms to your Apple TV. Download the Roms from any page (a simple Google search will give you dozens of results) and the ZIP files are the ones you have to upload to that address.

Specifically, you must do it in the Roms folder that is right at the end of the list. Open it and click on the blue button «Upload Files», select the ZIP files you downloaded and they will already be on your Apple TV ready to play. We show you the entire procedure in this video in which you can also see Mario in action on Apple TV.

The emulator is very well made and works really well. What is not very adapted is the Siri Remote this type of games, so the best thing is that you use an MFi control remote that surely improves the experience of playing with these classics a lot. Enjoy them.