The creator of the Delta emulator made a Game Boy Camera-style app for your iPhone

Delta Camera recreates the low-res aesthetic of the Game Boy Camera. | Image: Riley Testut

Riley Testut, the developer down the robust Delta emulator app for iOS, announced a caller iPhone app designed to replicate the Game Boy Camera accessory but with “features you’d expect from a modern camera app.” The Delta Camera app’s afloat diagnostic database hasn’t been revealed yet, but it’s presently disposable for beta investigating to those who subscribe to Testut’s Patreon, which starts astatine $3/month, oregon $30.24/year, up of a afloat merchandise aboriginal this year.

The app volition replicate the debased solution and monochromatic aesthetic of the Game Boy Camera cartridge that debuted successful 1998 with a 128 x 128-pixel CMOS sensor that could seizure 0.001434MP images successful conscionable 4 shades of gray. The Delta Camera volition let the brightness and opposition of images to beryllium adjusted and tin seizure multi-shot panoramas, but besides adds manual vulnerability and zoom options, the enactment to usage the iPhone’s beforehand oregon backmost cameras, and afloat enactment for the Camera Control fastener introduced connected the iPhone 16 lineup.

It could beryllium a amusive solution for those missing the Game Boy Camera experience. The accessory is inactive compatible with modern handhelds featuring a cartridge slot similar the Analogue Pocket, but an app mentation connected iOS volition marque it overmuch easier to stock images and station them to societal media.