The
Delta
emulator
is
officially
available
on
the
Apple
App
Store
—
for
free.
You
should
be
able
to
find
in
Apple’s
official
store
in
many
countries
outside
of
the
European
Union.
If
you
live
in
the
EU,
it
should
be
available
in
the
new
third-party
AltStore
PAL
app
marketplace
that
just
went
live.
The
app
marks
the
first
significant
and
officially
sanctioned
game
emulator
for
the
iPhone
since
Apple
began
allowing
them,
with
wide-ranging
console
emulation
from
the
original
Nintendo
Entertainment
System
to
the
Nintendo
64
(and
even
the
Sega
Genesis,
for
when
you
want
to
play
those
games
that
Nintendon’t).
Delta
developer
Riley
Testut
told
The
Verge
via
email
that
the
app
is
identical
to
the
version
debuting
with
AltStore
PAL.
The
app
features
on-screen
buttons
that
change
their
layout
and
appearance
to
match
whatever
system
you’re
emulating.
Delta
can
turn
your
iPhone
into
a
pseudo
Nintendo
DS
or
GBA.Image:
Riley
Testut
It
supports
Bluetooth
controllers
like
Xbox
One
Series
S
or
PS5
controllers,
too,
and
the
app
lets
you
customize
their
layout
or
set
extra
buttons
for
things
like
quick
save
states
(essentially
letting
you
pause
a
game
whenever
you
want
and
load
it
up
from
that
point
later)
or
fast-forward
through
an
old-school
game’s
all-too-often
unskippable
cutscenes
or
endless
stream
of
startup
logos.
Delta
even
works
with
some
of
the
quirkier
Nintendo
input
methods,
like
the
gyroscope
in
WarioWare:
Twisted!
or
the
microphone
controls
in
Nintendo
DS
games
like
Phoenix
Wright:
Ace
Attorney
(“OBJECTION!”).
Delta
has
other
touches,
too,
such
as
automatically
grabbing
the
box
art
for
your
games
and
the
ability
to
customize
that
art
using
its
built-in
database
or
your
own
custom
images,
and
users
can
import
controller
skins
or
make
their
own.
It
also
supports
multiplayer
for
the
NES,
SNES,
and
N64
(up
to
four
players)
as
well
as
AirPlay
streaming.
A
small
number
of
other
emulators
beat
Delta
to
the
punch,
including
one
called
iGBA
that
directly
ripped
off
Testut’s
GBA4iOS
code
and
an
NES
emulator
called
Bimmy.
Both
were
short-lived,
though,
with
Apple
taking
down
iGBA
over
spam
and
copyright
App
Store
rule
violations
and
Bimmy’s
developer
getting
cold
feet
in
light
of
Nintendo’s
recent
crackdown
on
emulators.
Notably,
Testut’s
app
isn’t
new.
He
released
the
1.0
version
of
Delta
in
2019
alongside
his
original
AltStore
alternative
to
jailbreaking.
That
means
the
app
has
already
been
through
five
years
of
feature
and
bug-fixing
iterations,
so
it
will
likely
be
one
of
the
most
polished
emulation
experiences
on
the
iPhone
for
a
while.
Update
April
17th,
2024,
12:45PM
ET:
Updated
to
reflect
that
Delta
is
now
live
on
the
App
Store.
Original author: Wes Davis
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