We have some more good news to share on the iPhone app store emulation front.
The free game emulator Delta has just arrived on the App Store in many countries, bringing NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, Game Boy/Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, and even Nintendo DS support to the popular brand of smartphones (as reported by The Verge). As expected, though, you'll have to provide your own files.
Delta, in case you're unfamiliar with it, is the work of the developer Riley Testut and is a successor to GBA4iOS — an emulator that Testut built along with a graphic designer named Paul Thorson while in high school.
It is the first significant release of an officially sanctioned emulator on the App Store, following the removal of the NES emulator Bimmy and the GBA4iOS "knock-off" iGBA.
The emulator includes a bunch of great options and features, such as save states, support for various Bluetooth controllers (like the Nintendo Switch Pro & Online controllers), cheat support (for GameShark, GameGenie, etc), the option to fast-forward through games, and even Microphone support for DS games/Gyroscope support for WarioWare: Twisted!
If you want to give it a try, it is available now on the official App Store in a bunch of different countries, with those in the EU being able to access it from the newly launched third-party AltStore PAL app marketplace.
[source theverge.com]
Comments 4
It doesn’t work with Genesis games atm tho???? That headline is innacurate
Also @helbertpina It helps to play it with a Bluetooth controller or connectable iPhone controller. I used to use it irregularly as well but after getting a razer controller it became one of my most used apps lol
Just download it, it's so convenient to have all those retro games on phone that you can take anywhere. I've been playing it all day to see what games work and what didn't with touchscreen control, slow games like ghost trick nds works really well, while some racing games like ridge racer n64 didn't, mario kart titles still okay though.
I really like the ui for nintendo ds, I wish nintendo make ipod touch like portable with good screen and the ability to buy nintendo ds titles, and make it in pocketable size like iphone rather than switch size.
I'm using it to play my favourite one button DS game, MaBoShi, and the whole screen is a button so the lack of physical controls isn't an issue. I made a custom skin with custom layout.
https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2024/04/18/per-game-skins-in-the-delta-classic-video-game-emulator-for-ios/
I have been using this in my iPad with a 8bitdo lite controller. The emulator seems to run very well.
It’s an iPhone app only, but iPadOS scales the size and that gives a very suitable view.
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