How to Play ANY Retro Game on iPhone! (Delta Emulator)

this feels surreal I never thought that

I would live to see the day where you

can play retro games on your iPhone

without the need of a jailbreak or side

loading I don't think a lot of people

realize that this is a Monumental moment

for the App Store since these emulator

applications were frowned upon for over

a decade by Apple and were never allowed

into the App Store until recently so in

this video I want to show you how to

play these old retro games on your

iPhone for free so this application is

called Delta and this is the best

emulator application ever for the iPhone

now this is not a brand new application

it's been around for a while but it was

only accessible through side loading or

jailbreaking in the past but now it has

officially launched on the App Store and

you can see that my rewind wallpaper

collection did a pretty good job of

emulating the Game Boy and all these

other retro devices which you can

download this wallpaper pack by clicking

on the link down in the description

below but anyways let's go and check out

the app so let's go into the App Store

and we're going to look for Delta so

here is the Delta application in the App

Store I will leave a direct link to this

application in the description below as

well if you do not want to search for it

but this is what it looks like and when

you download it and you go to open up

the application this is what you will

see so you're just going to see most

likely a blank screen unless you had you

know ROMs already downloaded previously

which you likely have not but this is

what you see so it's going to be

categorized by Game Boy Color game Game

Boy Advance and so on you can see up top

now the supported game systems as of now

are NES SNES nintendo64 Game Boy Color

Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS however

the developer has said that more game

systems are on the way okay so I'm going

to show you how to download games first

and then I'm going to go through some of

the important settings that you need to

know within the Delta application

afterwards so the first thing you need

to know is that you're going to be

downloading ROMs not games so ROMs are

the special files that contain the games

data so just you know kind of just keep

a mental note to always refer to these

as ROMs and not games so you're not

downloading you know larg size full

games most of these files are going to

be under 100 megabytes a lot of them are

going to be even below 10 megabytes and

there are many ways to get ROMs imported

into the Delta application the tool that

Delta recommends is GB operator which

lets you convert your cartridges to RW

to play on your computer or your iPhone

however that is a paid solution and

that's something that really only you

know enthusiasts are going to do so the

most common way and the way you're most

likely going to want to download and

import these ROMs is just through a

simple Safari search and download now

once you do download those ROMs or those

games they will save to your iCloud

drive now what I would recommend is

making a folder inside of your iCloud

drive just named ROMs that way you can

organize this you know a lot better and

keep track of all your ROMs a lot better

and if you don't know how to move files

it's very simple just go into the

downloads here which is where your games

or your ROMs are going to download too

just tap and hold and then go to move

and then just select the new folder that

you created called ROMs in the iCloud

Drive section and then once you've done

that just go back into Delta and go to

the top right and click on the plus icon

and you have two options here either

iTunes or files so we're going to import

our ROMs from the files application and

it's going to open up Delta by default

but you want to just tap again on browse

down here and then you want to go to

your locations iCloud drive and then

from here you should see your ROMs

folder or you can just go into downloads

and select it from there and then you

just want to select whatever

applications or ROMs that you have

downloaded just select the zip file you

do not need to unzip those files keep

them as zip files and then just tap on

open and it will Auto Import them and

auto categorize them by the game system

and some of these will come with the

artwork but some will not so you can see

down here we have Super Mario Bros

deluxe which did not come with any

artwork and it looks really bad down

there so to change that just simply tap

and hold on the game and you can go to

change artwork now from here you have

multiple different options but what I

would recommend is just to go to games

database and then from here you just

want to search whatever game it is so

Super Mario and if you ever forget what

the exact name of the game is you can

just swipe down here to see a preview of

it so this is for the Game Boy Color so

there we go it looks like it's right

here so simply tap on that and it will

autoload it in there and now you have

the artwork for that game and the same

goes with renaming as well sometimes you

will see some extra you know characters

added in there like for Golden Eye For

example you can just tap and hold and go

to rename and you can remove the EXs you

know U and the exclamation point there

or whatever may be included in the

download file so that is how you can

download and import your ROMs into the

Delta application so now I want to cover

some of the important settings that you

need to know within Delta and also how

to change your skins and all of that so

first off let's go to the settings so

the settings is going to be up here in

the top leftand corner and from here you

have multiple different settings so

first off you can choose what controller

you want to play as so for some reason

you want to play as controller you know

three or four player three or four you

can choose that by just going into here

and then selecting touchcreen it could

also connect game controllers as well so

there are many game controllers

supported so you can see all of the

controllers that are recorded on the

screen now now you can also change the

skins and this is my favorite part so

you saw that I had the red Game Boy

Advanced Skin at the beginning that's

because it shows up right here so you

can have a different skin for the

portrait and the landscape version of

every specific console that you have in

here now there's a easy way to do this

you just need to go to skins for

delta.com so if you go into our safari

here is skins for delta.com so if I

wanted to have a different layout for

Game Boy Advance for example for maybe

the landscape version we'll we just go

to this top one up here and we're going

to go into this and just simply click on

download let's make sure that downloaded

so there we go it's downloaded so I'm

going to go to this right here and I'm

just going to move this into my uh

folder for ROMs that way everything is

organized I will make a subfolder in

there eventually but anyways let's go

into Delta again and now if I want to

change from the default landscape skin I

can just simply tap right there tap on

the Plus in the top right corner we're

going to go into our ROMs folder right

here and spice was the name of it so

we're going to do that and we're going

to tap on open and you can see it shows

up right here so we're going to tap

again and now we have that skin when we

go to landscape mode with the Game Boy

Advance emulator and you can just do

that for all of these different consoles

and then below the controller skins we

have the controller opacity so if you

want to change the opacity you can you

have game audio so if you want it to

respect your silent mode so if you're in

silent mode you're not going to hear any

game audio but if you're out of silent

mode you will you can change that right

there you have haptic feedback for the

control sticks and also the buttons and

then right here is an important one so

we have Delta sync this is going to

allow you to sync your games save data

save states and cheats between devices

if you get a new device or if you want

to maybe play on your iPad and then on

your iPhone and go back and forth you

can do that with syncing so you do need

to have this hooked up to your Google

drive or Dropbox but you can do that

right here and you will just need to

sign in and then we also have home

screen shortcuts right here so this

allows you to quickly and easily play

games by tapping and holding on the app

icon and you can see the four games

right there so you can have that set to

recently played or you can manually

select it if you want to okay so now I'm

going to actually play a game and show

you kind of how this works and some of

the other additional features in here so

you can see I do have the skin here for

the Game Boy Advance SP which is awesome

you can see all the buttons here

including the turbo button down there

now if we go to menu you will notice

that we have a few options here so we

have Save State so there are save states

in this so you can save your game and

also load your game at a future date and

then we also have cheat codes so if you

are into cheat codes you can add those

there by clicking on the plus up in the

top right and you can use Action Replay

code breaker and also game shark codes

and then if we go back we have fast

forward which is a must if you play

Pokemon so what this does is it just

runs the game at a faster pace so it's

much much better to play Pokémon cuz you

don't have to sit there and tap a for 10

minutes on the long dialogue scenes so

fast forward is a great feature and then

we also have hold buttons and you can

see when you press that it says select

buttons to hold down so what this does

is it basically allows you to keep

specific buttons held down so that you

can have your fingers free to press on

additional buttons like for example if

you're playing a racing game or Mario

Kart you can hold down on a you can

press a to hold down that way it's

always going to be pressing on the gas

and you're always going to be able to go

forward and you could use your other

fingers to do other things and of course

anytime you want to get back to the main

menu menu you can just press on menu and

then the red main menu button right

there and it will take you back right

here where you can go through and see

all your different games that you want

to play so here is what the landscape

version of The Game Boy Advance emulator

looks like and you can see I do have

that custom skin on here now Pokemon

like I mentioned earlier is going to be

very very slow so you definitely want to

have where's the menu on here okay so

some of these skins you'll notice have a

different icon for the menu so it might

get confusing but we're going to go

ahead to fast forward just so this game

goes a little bit faster I guess back in

the day we had a much stronger a much

longer attention span than what we do

now we're going to go with Squirtle this

time just because I never used to do

that back in the day so we got Squirtle

as our first Pokemon and we're going to

nickname him a I guess we're just going

to do it really quickly so now we're

going to have our first battle this

takes me back I mean this game takes me

back I remember as right when we leave

yep this is core childhood memories here

at least for me there we go we just won

our first Pokemon battle and you can see

I'm going to be on this all night I can

already tell Apple Vision what I'm

playing Delta all night but anyways guys

there you have it that is Delta that is

the new emulator application available

now on the App Store it is awesome check

it out I will leave a link down in the

description below oh and if you're

wondering if this works on iPad it does

work on iPad but it's not going to be

the full screen so you can see you have

it like this by default but you can tap

to zoom right there and you can also

play it in portrait mode I think it's

better in landscape mode though so not

bad it actually looks good resolution

wise for being a nonnative iPad

application anyways hope you you guys

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