“So I want to bring what I know people want to everyone. I also know that so many people have iPhones. I know people want to relive those games. But on iOS, I know that people want this. “It’s more fun working on it for iOS because, yeah, on Android, I could just release a tiny.
It’s the kind of app Apple would never allow, but it’s also the kind of software iPhone users have been dreaming about for years. Testut is also working on Nintendo DS emulation and other related projects for future updates. It lets anyone run corresponding game files for NES, SNES, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, and even Nintendo 64 consoles. The really interesting part is that none of it requires you to jailbreak your iPhone, so it’s available to anyone who’s willing to download it, for free.ĭelta is a powerful app with the kind of polish you’d expect from a major software maker. The store’s very first app: Delta, a GBA4iOS successor Testut has been building since well before he entered the University of Southern California a half-decade ago. He calls it AltStore, and it’s an alternative mobile app distribution platform that lets anyone download software that’s not available on the official App Store. Now, Testut, a 22-year-old freelance software developer living in Los Angeles, may have figured out a way for his software to live on Apple’s iOS platform for good. (GBA4iOS lived on for some time, thanks to a clever loophole, but it is no longer available.) It made headlines in 2014 when both Apple and Nintendo moved to shut his project down.
His initial emulation work, spanning the last two years of high school, resulted in a Game Boy emulator known as GBA4iOS. Because it’s a lot to work on these apps, knowing that they’re not going to be in the App Store ever.” I probably don’t know if I would have picked it really if I had thought through everything. “I just found myself in this whole emulation scene.
“As a kid, I played all these games, and so I just came across some code that I thought I could turn into an app to play Game Boy games, and that just started a whole thing,” Testut says. AltStore is a way to distribute iPhone apps that are not allowed on the official App Store