10 years in the making, retro game emulator Delta is now #1 on the iOS charts

May 3, 2024 mpsingh No Comments Technology Emulator, Game, iOS, Making, Retro, Years

Video game emulator Delta’s decade-long struggle against the iOS app store began with a school-issued TI-84 calculator. When Riley Testut was a sophomore in high school, he showed his friends how to load illicit software onto their bulky graphing calculators. Such behavior was generally discouraged at school, but he wasn’t plotting to cheat on a [...]read more10 years in the making, retro game emulator Delta is now #1 on the iOS charts

Nintendo Hits 8,535 Switch Emulator Backups With Mass Takedown

May 3, 2024 mpsingh No Comments Gaming Emulator, hits, Mass, Nintendo, Switch

Image: Nintendo Months after it shutdown the popular Switch emulator Yuzu over copyright infringement and piracy concerns, Nintendo has initiated a mass takedown of related backups and apparent clones on the Microsoft-owned platform Github. Over 8,000 repositories were removed as the Zelda publisher seemingly tries to stomp out forks of [...]read moreNintendo Hits 8,535 Switch Emulator Backups With Mass Takedown

The Delta emulator will soon turn your iPad into a giant Nintendo DS

April 28, 2024 mpsingh No Comments Technology Emulator, giant, iPad, Nintendo, turn

The Delta emulator made a huge splash when it hit the Apple App Store earlier this month, quickly rocketing to the top spot in Apple’s free apps, where it remains today. Now, developer Riley Testut says an iPad-specific version is “near completion,” and will be released with Delta version 1.6. Testut says the app is [...]read moreThe Delta emulator will soon turn your iPad into a giant Nintendo DS

Why DolphiniOS’s Wii and GameCube emulator isn’t coming to the App Store

April 23, 2024 mpsingh No Comments Technology Coming, Emulator, isnt, store

DolphiniOS, a fork of the popular Dolphin emulator for Nintendo Wii and GameCube games, has confirmed that it’s not coming to the Apple App Store even though emulators are now supported. In a post on Friday, the developer behind the emulator says it’s because Apple doesn’t allow DolphiniOS to use its underlying performance-boosting tech. As [...]read moreWhy DolphiniOS’s Wii and GameCube emulator isn’t coming to the App Store

Delta is the game emulator your iPhone has been missing

April 21, 2024 mpsingh No Comments Technology Emulator, Game, iPhone, Missing

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 35, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, get ready to open some tabs, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been rewatching Killing Eve now that it’s on Netflix, reading [...]read moreDelta is the game emulator your iPhone has been missing

‘Delta – Game Emulator’ – TouchArcade

April 20, 2024 mpsingh No Comments Gaming Emulator, Game, TouchArcade

Is this cheating? Riley Testut’s Delta emulator has been in active development for half a decade, and its roots go back even more than a decade if you count the GBA4iOS emulator that preceded it, so it’s not exactly new. And it’s not exactly a game either; it’s more a means to play games, thousands [...]read more‘Delta – Game Emulator’ – TouchArcade

Apple’s New Rules Mean There’s A Game Emulator On The App Store Now

April 18, 2024 mpsingh No Comments Gaming Emulator, Game, rules, store

Earlier this month, Apple relaxed its famously strict App Store guidelines to comply with the EU’s new Digital Markets Act. In one major change, game emulators will now be allowed on the App Store, and one developer has immediately taken advantage of the change to publish Delta–a self-described “all-in-one Nintendo emulator.” Delta’s App Store page [...]read moreApple’s New Rules Mean There’s A Game Emulator On The App Store Now

‘Delta – Game Emulator’, ‘Hamster Inn’, ‘Pilgrims’, ‘Word Dungeons’, ‘The Bear’, ‘Packed?!’, ‘Mystery of Woolley Mountain’ and More – TouchArcade

April 18, 2024 mpsingh No Comments Gaming Emulator, Game, TouchArcade

Each and every day new mobile games are hitting the App Store, and so each week we put together a big old list of all the best new releases of the past seven days. Back in the day the App Store would showcase the same games for a week, and then refresh those features each [...]read more‘Delta – Game Emulator’, ‘Hamster Inn’, ‘Pilgrims’, ‘Word Dungeons’, ‘The Bear’, ‘Packed?!’, ‘Mystery of Woolley Mountain’ and More – TouchArcade

Official Version of ‘Delta’ Emulator, the Successor to ‘GBA4iOS’, is Now Available in the App Store – TouchArcade

April 18, 2024 mpsingh No Comments Gaming Emulator, Official, store, Successor, TouchArcade, Version

It’s been an interesting couple of weeks since Apple updated its guidelines to explicitly allow emulator apps into the App Store. After spending enormous energy to chase such things away every chance they got over the past decade and a half, this announcement was like a nonchalant “nah it’s fine now” and I don’t think [...]read moreOfficial Version of ‘Delta’ Emulator, the Successor to ‘GBA4iOS’, is Now Available in the App Store – TouchArcade

A new NES emulator was briefly available on the Apple App Store

April 17, 2024 mpsingh No Comments Technology Emulator, store

Now, clicking on a link to Bimmy shows “This app is currently not available in your country or region.” This time, it wasn’t Apple that removed it but the developer. Over on MacRumors’ forums, the developer said it pulled the app “out of fear.” “No one pressured me to, but I got more nervous about [...]read moreA new NES emulator was briefly available on the Apple App Store