PS1 and Sega Genesis games could be next

Just days after Apple finally opened up the App Store to retro iPhone game emulation for the first time, the Delta emulator has taken the world by storm. The free app can play many of Nintendo’s original games from a variety of consoles, and quickly shot to the top of the App Store charts, where it remains as of Friday afternoon. For now, Delta it’s the only emulator on the App Store worth downloading, but that may change in the near future.

friday, iMore Notice that the developers who built various emulator frontend Efficiency now they are looking to bring their app to the App Store as well.

Joseph Mattiello, Provenance project leader, told iMore that he and his team are “working on the release” but there is some work to be done. “I need to examine these new rules before submitting to the App Store, and improve some quality of life issues,” he explained. “Also, I need to change some things to comply with App Store rules, like naming beta.”

Mattiello wasn’t ready to commit to a release date, so we may have to wait a while.

Provenance is similar to Riley Testut’s Delta, but it supports a wide variety of consoles. Here’s a quick comparison between the two:

• Delta: NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, and Nintendo DS
• Efficiency: Atari 2600, 5200, 7800, Jaguar, Lynx; Bandai WonderSwan, Color WonderSwan; PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16, PC Engine Super CD-ROM² System / TurboGrafx-CD, PC Engine SuperGrafx, PC-FX; NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Virtual Boy, Pokémon mini; Sega SG-1000, Master System, Mega Drive / Genesis, Game Gear, Mega-CD / CD, 32X, Saturn; SNK Neo Geo Pocket, Neo Geo Pocket Color; Sony PlayStation

Delta’s App Store listing notes that support for more platforms is coming, but as you can tell, there’s no comparison between the two at the moment. Plus, the Provenance team says that support for Sega Dreamcast and PlayStation 2 games is in the works as well.