Delta’s latest update lets iPad users emulate multiple games at once

The Delta iOS app has released a caller update that introduces the retro gaming emulator’s redesigned logo, alongside autochthonal iPad enactment that allows users to play aggregate games simultaneously. Users successful the EU tin download the update instantly via AltStore PAL, but everyone other volition person to hold for Apple to o.k. Delta 1.6 for the App Store, which could instrumentality a fewer days, according to Delta developer Riley Testut.

The app was technically disposable connected iPad earlier today, but the deficiency of afloat enactment forced it to tally arsenic a letterboxed iPhone app, which impacted the emulator’s interaction controls and prevented games from utilizing the afloat iPad screen.

The caller Delta 1.6 update rectifies those issues and enables the app to marque afloat usage of autochthonal iPad features similar Stage Manager support, Handoff (presumably to proceed gaming sessions started connected an iPhone), and Split View — the second of which allows users to tally emulated games crossed aggregate windows.

Delta has besides finalized its caller app icon, having abandoned the stylized missive “D” it antecedently utilized aft Adobe took contented with similarities it shared with its ain logo. Delta’s updated icon sports a much fragmented look and was designed by Caroline Moore, who besides creates each of the emulator’s controller skins.

Testut antecedently said helium was prioritizing providing autochthonal iPadOS enactment implicit different “big” features, truthful its merchandise present clears the mode for him to enactment connected breathtaking things similar device-to-device multiplayer and Sega Genesis emulation.

Those features would beryllium the icing connected an already feature-rich barroom considering Delta presently emulates the NES, SNES, N64, Game Boy, GBA, and Nintendo DS and can beryllium played connected TVs acknowledgment to AirPlay. One happening it won’t do, however, is tally connected Android, with Testut confirming to The Verge that determination are “no plans” to larboard implicit the iOS exclusive.