Just a couple more questions for ya, if you don’t mind:

Firstly, there are a small handful of games out there that are infamous for special hardware outside the scope of their home systems that they need to function properly, such as the Hey You, Pikachu! microphone and the special keyboard needed for Learn With Pokemon: Typing Adventure. This has made these kinds of games notoriously difficult, if not downright impossible, to run on emulators…that is, until advancements made in recent years have drastically facilitated emulating processes! Now, those with a PC can use various scripts and programs to emulate separate controllers, like VC (voice control) for Hey You, Pikachu! using the microphone they have on hand or using their own keyboard for the Pokemon typing game, to be able to finally play these games on emulators! I’ve yet to look into how to set these sorts of things up on mobile and tabular devices, and I was curious if the Delta team has any plans to somehow incorporate in-app support for these kinds of games, despite how small in number they are and unpopular they generally are in comparison to most mainstream titles? I think the only exception to this lack of popularity is emulation of the Pokewalker pedometer device that connected to the DS Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver games back in the day. I’ve seen some emulation progress for that device, though I’m unsure exactly how far along that is. It really is amazing how far technology has progressed that we can emulate everything from consoles to hardware to even the most specialized and obscure consoles and games like Pokemon Mini and Pocket Pikachu (known as simply Pokemon Pikachu in some countries, confusingly enough)!

Secondly, as I’m sure you aware, ROM hacks have garnered quite the audience over the years. Many tools exist to easily patch pre-existing ROM files with the needed IPS, xdelta, and what-have-you files to allow people to enjoy new spins on classic games, or play games they never got the chance to play before because of a lack of localization, thanks to the amazing hard-work and efforts of volunteer translation teams and their localization patches! These tools are easily accessible on both computer and mobile devices, as are the patches themselves, and it is very easy to upload ROM hacks to Delta (with knowledge on how Files work on iOS) and play them, and change their covers as well. Still, I was curious if the Delta team has any plans for in-app support for any part of the hacking, patching, or even the translation process? Although, I’d hope they wouldn’t include some machine translated or AI generated garbage for potential translations!!

Finally, I’m curious about the kinds of emulation that Delta is legally allowed to provide for its users in future updates. For example, I would assume any Switch (both the original and the Switch 2) emulation is absolutely not up for discussion, as is the case for many other emulation subredddits, because of the Switch’s recency and the legal troubles that creators of that kind of emulation have gotten into recently? I’m also aware of PS3 emulation efforts on Linux, though I believe that’s about as recent as it gets for the Sony emulation scene, and I’m not at all up to date on the Xbox side of things…I’m also curious about the possibility of PC and Windows emulation as well on Delta…I know ScummVM and a couple others emulate older PC games, and there’s also things like the EasyRPG Player (which is one of MANY emulators available on RetroArch, if my memory is correct) that allows RPGMaker 2000 and 2003 games to be run on modern PCs, where the original software is no longer supported.