It’s been an extended and winding highway for some of the infamously widespread recreation emulator apps on the iPhone. Nevertheless, now that Apple’s relaxed guidelines have allowed Riley Testut’s Delta emulator to lastly grace the pages of the App Retailer, the developer is transferring on to a different whimsical venture for Sport Boy followers.
For many who are sadly unaware, Testut has been engaged on a Sport Boy emulator for iPhones since 2013. His first venture, GBA4iOS, was shut down by Apple’s App Retailer guidelines and Nintendo, which took umbrage on the notion of permitting its mental property to be performed on something aside from its personal {hardware}.
Testut shelved GBA4iOS and commenced engaged on Delta in 2016, however with Apple’s refusal to permit emulators of any variety, he was pressured to distribute it by a grassroots App Retailer till Apple lastly opened the doorways to “retro recreation console emulator apps” a 12 months in the past.
With Delta now firmly established on each the App Retailer and Testut’s European AltStore PAL, he’s simply introduced his subsequent venture, a type of companion app within the Delta household that can flip your iPhone right into a Sport Boy Digicam.
Introducing our new app — Delta Digicam ?A stand-alone app devoted to taking Sport Boy Digicam images with options you’d anticipate from a contemporary digicam app? Guide publicity/zoom? Digicam Management supportComing later this 12 months, however obtainable NOW in beta for all Patrons patreon.com/posts/introd…— AltStore (@altstore.io) 2025-06-26T14:22:59.652Z
Delta Digicam is a stand-alone digicam app that’s made particularly for emulating Sport Boy Digicam. We’ve been eager to make this app for a short time as we’ve seen much more folks taking images utilizing their favourite retro {hardware}, like DSi, PSP, Nokia Telephones, and many others. Nevertheless, one in all our favorites issues we’ve seen from this pattern are the brand new Sport Boy Digicam carts with inbuilt lenses — a good way to mess around with each fashionable and retro {hardware}. So we wished to play off that idea and actually make the most of the iPhone’s digicam capabilities together with the playful, retro really feel of utilizing Sport Boy Digicam.
Delta Digicam combines the retro really feel of a Sport Boy Digicam accent with the options of a contemporary digicam app. The standard is in step with the 1998 Sport Boy Digicam cartridge, which featured a 128 x 128 sensor, however contains the power to regulate settings akin to brightness, distinction, and handbook publicity choices.
It’s not the primary time we’ve seen one thing like this. In December, we shared information about an app known as My Basic-Retro Console that gives a Sport Boy pores and skin for enjoying music and podcasts, and likewise features a Sport Boy digicam characteristic. It will also be converted to an iPod traditional interface, and regardless of that, it’s surprisingly nonetheless obtainable on the App Retailer and has acquired current updates that added a fifth-generation iPod nano-style video recording characteristic.
However, the options we’ve seen in different apps stay extraordinarily primary. Testut goes for one thing that’s not solely extra full-featured and eccentric, but in addition true to its origins. As with the usual Delta emulator, you’ll must seize the Sport Boy Digicam ROM from elsewhere, as Delta Digicam is kind of actually utilizing Nintendo’s unique code right here.
I’ve put the beta by its paces, and it’s fairly enjoyable. You possibly can flip between the back and front cameras and even shoot with the Digicam Management button on an iPhone 16. As with the unique Sport Boy Digicam, you’ll be able to solely seize 30 images. They continue to be there till you export them to your fundamental iPhone Images app, after which you’ll clear them out from Delta Digicam and begin recent.
Delta Digicam is at present obtainable in beta for early entry subscribers to Testut’s Patreon, which prices $3 per thirty days. Supporters within the European Union will have the ability to entry the beta through AltStore PAL, whereas these exterior the European Union can use a TestFlight hyperlink. The beta may even should be linked to an energetic Patreon account, and as I discussed earlier, you’ll must seize the suitable ROM from one other supply to make it work. The crew says it hopes to launch a public 1.0 model later this 12 months.