The Delta emulator’s new update makes it easier to join its Patreon

The Delta emulator’s latest iOS update takes vantage of caller changes to Apple’s App Store policies. | Image: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@rileytestut/114467929471303098">Mastodon</a>

Following companies similar Amazon and Spotify, the Delta emulator is the latest iOS app to instrumentality vantage of last month’s ruling by Epic Games v. Apple justice Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. Although it has appealed the decision, Apple has complied with the ruling that it tin nary longer restrict developers from directing users to alternate outgo options oregon cod a 27 percent committee connected purchases made extracurricular of apps. As a result, the Delta emulator — which tin play games from retro consoles similar the N64, NES, Game Boy, and Sega Genesis done emulation — has been updated to make it easier to articulation its Patreon. This lets users unlock further features from close wrong the app without Apple’s intimidating scare screens oregon inflated pricing.

“Delta’s latest update with our revised Patreon sign-up travel has been approved! We tin present freely notation our Patreon without giving Apple 27% of donations,” Delta developer Riley Testut announced connected Mastodon yesterday. When opening the app’s settings, users are present prompted to join the developers’ Patreon to “Unlock exclusive app icons and person aboriginal entree to caller features by donating.” Pressing a articulation fastener opens a web leafage wrong the app wherever users tin prime antithetic rank tiers which see features similar entree to beta versions of the app, oregon the developers’ backstage Discord.

A previous Delta update released past December allowed users to motion up for Patreon-exclusive rank perks straight done its iOS app pursuing updates to Apple’s App Store policies successful aboriginal 2024. But arsenic a effect of Apple’s determination to instrumentality a 27 percent chopped from developers directing users to an extracurricular outgo platform, Delta’s $3, $5, and $10 Patreon memberships alternatively outgo $10, $15, and $30, respectively, done its iOS app.

That acquisition enactment – with the accrued prices – is inactive disposable successful Delta, according to TechCrunch, but is made little evident done an Alternate Payment Methods paper successful the app’s settings.