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As a caveman who only knows Delta Air Lines, Delta Electronics, and Delta Faucet for prominent entities named "Delta", who or what is "Delta" in the context of

As a caveman who only knows Delta Air Lines, Delta Electronics, and Delta Faucet for prominent entities named "Delta", who or what is "Delta" in the context of a Delta emulator?

titaniumtown 3y ago
It's an emulator for a lot of classic Nintendo games (from the NES to N64 and GB to DS) on iOS. Since the App Store now permits (non-JIT) emulation, Delta was published on the App Store. This app has been in development for the better half of a decade as something you could install after jailbreaking your device, but with the recent policy changes, it's now there for everyone to use.
- vundercind 3y ago
  It’s especially brilliant for Nintendo DS, since that works best with a touchscreen and the vertical layout of the screens fits great on an iPhone. Getting it instantly increased my time gaming on my phone from ~0 minutes per week to four or five hours per week. And the games I’m playing are a ton better. I’d buy more iPhone games but 1) there’s a very limited set of good ones and 2) they vanish too often, I’m not paying $20 to rent a game for 2 years when I might not even get to it until after that (life happens). More advantages over App Store games: it’s easier on battery life than most native games(!), fits dozens of games in the space of one native game (and that’s the DS, not the smallest-cart system it emulates), and provides a common and IME very-reliable suspend-resume interface across all games. I can be back where I was in some fairly-complex game faster than I can get back to where I was in Angry Birds, say, which matters a lot on mobile, I don’t hesitate to close it at a moment’s notice. … and that’s all aside from the, ah, price advantage (though to be fair I do own some of the carts I’m playing on it)
- Dalewyn 3y ago
  Many thanks, that context was sorely needed. "Delta" by itself was hardly descriptive, let alone if the subject matter describes what isn't about this so-called Delta.
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As a caveman who only knows Delta Air Lines, Delta Electronics, and Delta Faucet for prominent entities named "Delta", who or what is "Delta" in the context of a Delta emulator?

titaniumtown 3y ago

It's an emulator for a lot of classic Nintendo games (from the NES to N64 and GB to DS) on iOS. Since the App Store now permits (non-JIT) emulation, Delta was published on the App Store. This app has been in development for the better half of a decade as something you could install after jailbreaking your device, but with the recent policy changes, it's now there for everyone to use.

vundercind 3y ago
It’s especially brilliant for Nintendo DS, since that works best with a touchscreen and the vertical layout of the screens fits great on an iPhone. Getting it instantly increased my time gaming on my phone from ~0 minutes per week to four or five hours per week. And the games I’m playing are a ton better. I’d buy more iPhone games but 1) there’s a very limited set of good ones and 2) they vanish too often, I’m not paying $20 to rent a game for 2 years when I might not even get to it until after that (life happens). More advantages over App Store games: it’s easier on battery life than most native games(!), fits dozens of games in the space of one native game (and that’s the DS, not the smallest-cart system it emulates), and provides a common and IME very-reliable suspend-resume interface across all games. I can be back where I was in some fairly-complex game faster than I can get back to where I was in Angry Birds, say, which matters a lot on mobile, I don’t hesitate to close it at a moment’s notice. … and that’s all aside from the, ah, price advantage (though to be fair I do own some of the carts I’m playing on it)
Dalewyn 3y ago
Many thanks, that context was sorely needed. "Delta" by itself was hardly descriptive, let alone if the subject matter describes what isn't about this so-called Delta.

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