Popular Delta Retro Game Emulator Coming to iPad

[MacRumors]

Game emulator Delta has made a splash on iPhone following Apple's recently announced App Store support for retro game emulators, and now the developer Riley Testut has confirmed that Delta is almost ready for its iPad debut.

In a post shared on Threads over the weekend, Testut said the iPad version is "near completion," with just controller skins to finish and some bug fixes to iron out.

Testut explained that Delta for iPad had not originally been a development priority because the plan was to limit the emulator's launch to the EU via alternative app marketplace AltStore PAL, which doesn't support iPad.

However, in a reversal of a years-old policy, Apple earlier this month announced that it would allow retro game emulators on the ‌App Store‌. Delta was therefore made available on the App Store as a [url="http://

Article Link: Popular Delta Retro Game Emulator Coming to iPad

 

[truthsteve]

cool, now that 90% of all iOS pro-sideloading people can now do the one thing they wanted to sideload for (playing illegal roms), we can drop this sideloading issue in USA.

 

[skottichan]

Been enjoying this and fell back into Final Fantasy Tactics Advance on my iPad, I'm hoping the iPad specific version will have a full screen mode for those of us wanting to use a controller.

 

[colmaclean]

An Apple TV version would be super, sweet and awesome.

I know you can currently use Airplay, but native support would always be better.

 

[Xavier]

It's been fun playing some old retro games. Apple TV would be the ultimate though!

 

[acctman]

Developers: Apple is taking to much money it’s unfair.

Apple: Fine take payment yourself and we’ll allow side loading

Developers: People are stealing our apps and side loading for free

Apple: What did you think would happen, enjoy


I’m using Delta and sadly I’ve installed a bunch of rom for games I’ve never owned.

 

[votdfak]

cool, now that 90% of all iOS pro-sideloading people can now do the one thing they wanted to sideload for (playing illegal roms), we can drop this sideloading issue in USA.

You could do that sh*t long before.

 

[madeirabhoy]

so will EU ipad users get it?

 

[colmaclean]

Saying as Altstore PAL is currently iPhone-only (at the second of writing), will Delta for iPad be available in the normal AppStore in the EU?

 

[jb310]

I wonder if using an emulator on a phone or iPad is a better user experience than just buying a dirt-cheap hardware emulator from Amazon that already has a bunch of games pre-loaded? 🤔

 

[WiiDSmoker]

How many people whom scolded the EU here are going to download this?

 

[acctman]

You could do that sh*t long before.

Apple use to take down any Emulators, a lot of the old ones were disguised as other apps. Delta is a full blown emulator no disguise for anyone to use and fine

 

[votdfak]

AltStore is a thing from 2019.

 

[6749974]

cool, now that 90% of all iOS pro-sideloading people can now do the one thing they wanted to sideload for (playing illegal roms), we can drop this sideloading issue in USA.

True—but maybe its more like 50%—the other half is being able to buy Kindle books inside the Amazon/Kindle app.

In the US, Apple has 61% market control of smartphones. Imagine if Microsoft didn't allow PCs to install applications they didn't get 30% of, how totalitarian that would be. If Apple truly cared about digital safety, they would allow app devs to sell in-app media without taking a 30% cut. Maybe bring it down to 5% and its a win-win for everybody—Apple, the app developer, and the iOS user. A 30% share is just absolutely stupid for some business models.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

I wonder if using an emulator on a phone or iPad is a better user experience than just buying a dirt-cheap hardware emulator from Amazon that already has a bunch of games pre-loaded? 🤔

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No, it’s not better than hardware because the developers behind Delta could always decide NOT to do this and you’re left with a dead app which may or may not work on new hardware. Plus, buttons on a screen (or on a separate controller) will never beat buttons on device.

 

[Populus]

Riley, if you’re reading this, please release an iPad version on the European Apple App Store.

I don’t want to be forced to install a third party App Store in order to get this app.

 

[satchmo]

I wonder if using an emulator on a phone or iPad is a better user experience than just buying a dirt-cheap hardware emulator from Amazon that already has a bunch of games pre-loaded? 🤔

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I think we know the answer is handheld hardware emulators.

But for casual gamers, who play once in a blue moon, this free software emulation fits the bill.

 

[Blackstick]

How many people whom scolded the EU here are going to download this?

Most. Humans are pretty much creatures of "what I said last year doesn't matter now."

It's nothing we didn't already know about human nature.

 

[purplerainpurplerain]

I wonder if using an emulator on a phone or iPad is a better user experience than just buying a dirt-cheap hardware emulator from Amazon that already has a bunch of games pre-loaded? 🤔

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Those pirate console things selling from China are loaded with malware and buggy software. You will see hundreds of preloaded weird games called Mario Pants, Mario Unicorn, Mario Great, etc.

If you buy that crap you have to do a clean Android install and then find your own Roms.

Never use your personal email accounts on them. Use a burner account.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

Imagine if Microsoft didn't allow PCs to install applications they didn't get 30% of, how totalitarian that would be.

Imagine if Microsoft didn’t allow Xboxes to install applications they didn’t get 30% of, how… umm. How like reality that would be.

 

[Madmic23]

Any chance we can get an Apple TV version next?

 

[Unregistered 4U]

Developers: Apple is taking to much money it’s unfair.

Apple: Fine take payment yourself and we’ll allow side loading

Developers: People are stealing our apps and side loading for free

Apple: What did you think would happen, enjoy


I’m using Delta and sadly I’ve installed a bunch of rom for games I’ve never owned.

There are folks in the EU sideloading Delta because they don’t want to pay the AltStore fee.

 

[xmarcuswildx]

INJECT THIS INTO MY IPAD MINI VEINS.

 

[purplerainpurplerain]

True—but maybe its more like 50%—the other half is being able to buy Kindle books inside the Amazon/Kindle app.

In the US, Apple has 61% market control of smartphones. Imagine if Microsoft didn't allow PCs to install applications they didn't get 30% of, how totalitarian that would be. If Apple truly cared about digital safety, they would allow app devs to sell in-app media without taking a 30% cut. Maybe bring it down to 5% and its a win-win for everybody—Apple, the app developer, and the iOS user. A 30% share is just absolutely stupid for some business models.

All you typed was codswallop. You don’t know anything about business.

Consoles are the most closed systems that exist and they have a big duopoly. Lawmakers didn’t try to open those up to side loading because there’s no benefit. They want to crack open your phones to get that juicy data and scam you.

 

[bradman83]

It would be great if they added keyboard support to the iPad version for those who have attached keyboard cases or Bluetooth keyboards. On screen controls are rarely as good as physical buttons (and I've gotten so used to playing platformer games with a keyboard that using an actual controller seems weird to me).