Riley Testut launches Delta game emulator on App Store for everyone, AltStore marketplace for EU - 9to5Mac
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The game emulation situation on iOS just got real. The oft rejected game emulator Delta has finally made its way...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14398634

Unfortunately I was proven to be right about Riley Testut. He’s yet another greedy person barely batter than Apple. After bitching to Apple to remove GBA4iOS from the App Store he’s now leveraging Delta to force people into his AltStore.

Delta has finally made its way to the App Store. Additionally, the Delta developer has also published their alternative marketplace, AltStore, in the EU today.

If you’re in the EU you’ll only be able to get Delta on the AltStore and that requires:

This is complete bullshit he could’ve just launched Delta on the App Store in Europe as well but he decided not to.

Thanks Riley Testut for being a dick to the people that actually forced Apple into allowing alternative app stores in the first place.

Github issue related to this dick move: https://github.com/rileytestut/Delta/issues/292

  • Tick Dracy@lemm.eeEnglish
    111·
    7 months ago

    As an European, I still prefer the freedom to have alternate App stores.

    Yet, I still don’t see a reason why they don’t provide the same app to all customers since it’s allowed by Apple, aside from greed or something like that.

    Either way, let these developers enjoy their small time of fame, because as soon as RetroArch becames available, a lot of these emulators will be left in the dust ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • TCB13@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      21·
      7 months ago

      RetroArch

      Do you have experience with it? Isn’t RetroArch a frontend to another solutions? How does that play in iOS? Does it come with the other code compiled and bundled? How does it get around the fact that in iOS it can’t just launch another executable for xyz?

      • Tick Dracy@lemm.eeEnglish
        8·
        7 months ago

        I only use RetroArch on PC, so I don’t know how it works on iOS, but I will assume will be identical to the console versions, which already have all the cores included on the emulator (on PC they are downloaded individually).

        I wouldn’t call it just a front end, it’s much more than that, and it has a great integration. Also the devs seem to focus a lot on the emulation accuracy.

        • TCB13@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          51·
          7 months ago

          According to this it as it currently stands you’ve to download all the core, compile than and bundle them with the App. This is very likely to pass the App Store checks depending on a few details.