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Release Tech, Mod Tech. It's a story as old as time itself. And the latest tool to be immediately repurposed for alternative use is Apple's iPhone Duo, which launched to much fanfare checks watch about 20 hours ago and has already been adapted as an emulator for the handheld console, Nintendo DS.
Images are already popping up online of Apple's brand new foldable baby (not literally, that would be hideous) operating as Nintendo's phenomenally-selling handheld, which first hit the market in 2005. The emulator used appears to be Delta iOS, which recently received a major 2.0 update in anticipation of the iPhone Duo's launch.
Delta 2.0 includes new features such as Game Boy screen filters, RetroAchievements support, liquid glass design, and new controller skins. But the centrepiece is certainly support for the iPhone Duo. The UI is redefinable, so users can fine-tune various elements, including screen size and positioning as well as controller layout, to their own personal liking.
I mean, it's hardly surprising, right? Given the iPhone Duo's main gimmick, its foldable screen, the new phone was essentially custom-designed for tinkerers to turn into a dual-screen console.
Spinning Dr. Ian Malcolm's idiom on its head, I guess it's not a question of whether they should, but if they could, because it takes a curious eye to pick up a $2,000 phone and immediately turn it into a 20-year-old console (one that is typically available pre-owned for around 50 bucks.
But as I'm sure you all know, it's never really about the cost, or even the purpose. Modders, tinkerers, and hackers do this to do this. And if they have the dollar to drop and the desire to do so. Well, keep on rocking in the free world.