How to Change Console Skins in Delta Emulator

Here's how to change the console skins in Delta emulator to give them a unique look. Change skins for NES, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, and more.

How to Change Console Skins in Delta Emulator

If you look at the featured image of this article, you will notice that the Game Boy Advance emulation on my iPhone looks different than the default looks of the Delta emulator. It’s because the Delta emulator allows users to customize the console skins. Here’s how you can change skins in the Delta emulator. 

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Change skins in the Delta emulator

Delta emulator supports several consoles, including NES, SNES, Game Boy Color, Game Advance, Nintendo DS, and more. You can change the default skin of any of these consoles. We will change the skin of Game Boy Advance for this guide, but the steps will be the same for any console emulation in the Delta app. 

1. Launch Safari on your iPhone and visit the Skins4Delta website. Scroll down and tap on the console name for which you want to download the skins. 

Skins4Delta website homepage screenshot

2. You will find that two types of skins available for all consoles: Vertical and Horizontal. Since I mostly play games in portrait mode, I will choose one of the vertical skins. 

skins available on website

3. Tap the skin you want to download and confirm using the Download button. 

Downloading skins from website

4. Now, launch the Delta app and tap the Settings icon in the top-left corner. Tap the name of the controller for which you want to customize the skin. 

Opening delta app settings

5. Tap the skin you want to change (vertical or horizontal) and use the plus (+) button in the top-right corner. 

Adding skins to Delta app

6. Navigate to the Downloads folder, tap to select the skin, and use the Done button to add the skin. 

Navigating files to find the downloaded skin

7. Tap the newly uploaded skin to apply it as the default skin. You can get out of the Settings page now. 

applying the downloaded skin

That’s it. When you launch a game you will see the new skin, as shown in the screenshot below.

New skin applied to delta app

We hope you found this guide useful. If you plan on playing Nintendo DS games on your iPhone, click the link to find out how to solve the missing files error and play all the DS games.