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After more than a year in development, I’m thrilled to announce Delta 1.3 is now available and brings support for playing Nintendo DS games to everyone 🥳

One year ago, I launched AltStore as a brand new way to sideload apps not allowed in the App Store, including my Nintendo emulator Delta. Since then, the conversation regarding sideloading and Apple’s control over the App Store has grown...

One year ago, I was preparing for the upcoming launch of AltStore — my attempt at building an alternative App Store for non-jailbroken devices (maybe you’ve heard of it). I originally built AltStore as a way to distribute Delta, but soon...

I honestly can’t believe I’m finally writing about all of this. Everything in this blog post is something I’ve been working on in some form or another for the past several years. In order to make sure I didn’t shoot myself in the foot by...

I am very confident that Delta will be released this summer. Trust me, I’m ready to get Delta out there and begin working on my next projects, so I’m going to do everything in my power to meet that release timeframe.

For the past few weeks, I’ve been working on a brand new project I’m happy to share with you all: Delta Lite. Delta Lite is a Swift Playground that allows you to play any NES game in the Swift Playgrounds app on your iPad. Despite being a...

Naturally, 2 weeks after I wrote my last blog post promising updates every 2 weeks, I realized I was on Spring Break in Europe, and would be unable to write and publish one. “Not a big deal,” I thought, “I’ll just write one when I get...

Just like GBA4iOS, Delta will support syncing data between all your devices, so you will be able to resume any progress made on another device completely seamlessly.

4 years ago on February 19, 2014, GBA4iOS 2.0 was released. I was a senior in high school at the time, and had spent my entire senior year up until that point working on GBA4iOS every day after school until it was ready for release. I’ve...

When playing games in Delta, there will be three primary ways to control the games:

As many of you are aware, there haven’t been many updates on Delta for the past few months. This prolonged silence has understandably caused some to question whether Delta has been cancelled or not. Well, today that’s changing. First of...

When I selected beta testers for GBA4iOS, I wrote about how difficult it was to choose from several hundred applicants. While that was certainly true, it pales in comparison to this time. For this beta test, we expected another several...