Yeah, I know.  My "You're kidding" was rhetorical - I was just expressing surprise.  I meant no offense.  Sorry if I did.

Sorry for my response.. I'm just in a really bad mood right now...

Aw... it's ok, man.  No harm done.

Dang. Shut him down...

I watched my brother play it before. It's odd. I don't really have an opinion on it.

I don't have enough skill to emulate. Plus, how would you even go about it with an iPad? It would be touch based as well so the controls would suck...

Dude, it doesn't take any skill to emulate.  It's just a matter of finding the emulator for the system you want.

And no, it wouldn't be integrated into your touch controls; the emulators I've used let you bind your controls to keyboard or gamepad or whatever device you want.  That's the point of emulation - it may not be compatible with iOS, but it doesn't really care what hardware or peripherals you use.  Does your iPad have USB ports?  If so, just get yourself a generic gamepad with a USB plug.  That's what I use for emulated Mega Drive games on my PC.

And since I don't want to get into trouble, I should state for the record that yes... I still own my Mega Drive and games.  They're all stuffed into a cabinet, but I own them.  Emulation is just more convenient for me.

The iPad doesn't have USB ports. I really like the iPad because it's convenient and easy to use. It's good for simple browsing and smaller mobile games. Besides that, it's useless. it's no laptop.

I might buy a PC though eventually. Just like I might buy an N64. I just need money and, well, that's it I guess.

Yeah, I've been doing some digging and I found that out actually.  Sorry about that.  I admit to being fairly ignorant of tablets, phones, etc.

The good news, though, is that there appear to be gamepads specifically made for the iPad.  So, the lack of a USB isn't a deal-killer.

From what I've been reading, it's also more locked-down than I initially thought.  There are still ways to do it, of course, but it sounds like some of them require jailbreaking the device, and I have no idea how complicated that is.

Fair enough.  Sorry I couldn't come up with a solution.  I didn't realize it would be quite that difficult.

I am speaking from the dark side.

Get yourself a Windows tablet ;)