Alternatives

Products that do what Delta does

The first Gameboy emulator approved in the App Store

1. 1
   Delta Emulator▲68

   Best Emulator for playing retro games on iOS

   2022

2. 2
   GBA4iOS▲76

   Game Boy Advance, meet iOS. Again.

   2014

3. 3
   Sutāto▲84

   Play NES and Gameboy games on IOS

   2024

4. 4
   Analogue Pocket ▲182

   A modern hand-held for playing old GameBoy gamees

   2019

5. 5LA
   LuaGB – A Gameboy emulator written in pure Lua▲136

   2017 · github.com

6. 6GJ
   GBA.js, a Game Boy Advance emulator written in JavaScript▲76

   2012 · jpfau.github.com

7. 7
   GB Studio▲159

   A free and easy to use game creator for the GameBoy

   2019

8. 8SG
   Simple Gameboy Emulator▲82

   2017 · github.com

9. 9
   Super Mario Run▲327

   Mario jumps into a new adventure on iPhone and iPad

   2016

10. 10
    GameBoy vibes▲150

    a Candycat themed GameBoy Emulator in the browser

    2025

11. 11
    Internet Archive: Handheld History▲118

    Old school handheld game consoles, fully emulated

    2018

12. 12
    The Game Wallet▲153

    Turn any GameBoy into a secure offline cold wallet

    2023

13. 13
    Mega Man▲133

    The original Mega Man for NES now on iOS and Android

    2017

14. 14
    Xogot▲131

    Godot-powered game dev for iPad

    2025

15. 15
    Chromatic, by ModRetro▲203

    Palmer Luckey's new startup, a modern Game Boy console

    2024

16. 16
    Final Fantasy 7 iOS▲112

    Classic JRPG now available for iOS!

    2015

17. 17
    GPD WIN3▲74

    The world’s 1st handheld AAA game console

    2021

18. 18PS
    Play SNES, gba, in your terminal, even in tmux▲6

    rom is a ~5k-line C libretro frontend that plays games in the terminal. It renders native pixels with the kitty graphics protocol in Ghostty or kitty, inline! even in tmux! Nine platforms: SNES, NES, GB/GBC, GBA, Genesis, PC Engine, N64, Doom/Heretic/Hexen, Wolfenstein. macOS and Linux, MIT. https://github.com/jhickner/rom

    Jul 2026 · github.com

19. 19
    Super Mario Bros. Game & Watch▲181

    Nintendo brings back their original handheld system

    2020

20. 20OG
    Online Game Emulation Platform – Afterplay.io▲19

    Hello HN users, I made a web app that allows you to upload any SNES or GameBoy ROM file and play right within the web browser. It’s called Afterplay.io. It got a lot of upvotes on Reddit, and I noticed users signing up and coming back to play games every day, which feels great and has motivated me to keep on developing this thing :). Demo Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K9iYbJ-1lQ Site : https://afterplay.io Problem: I couldn't play emulated games across my devices easily with saves. The Apple App Store does not allow emulator apps. Solution: Use…

    2021

21. 21IM
    I'm building a game for the Nintendo GameBoy▲260

    2014 · bonsaiden.github.io

22. 22
    Arduboy▲156

    A mini open-source game system you can program yourself 👾

    2016

23. 23
    Infinite Runner Engine▲90

    The best 2D+3D endless runner engine

    2016

24. 24RT
    RosettaBoy – the same Gameboy emulator in Rust, Python, and C++▲24

    2021 · github.com

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