iPhone looks like Game Boy with wallpapers to download

Wallpapers, although they do not affect the functionality of the smartphone, are one of the most requested “features” by users, for some not a day goes by, or almost, without trying to give a new look to their phone: gaming and Nintendo enthusiasts they should try the Game Boy style wallpapers and backgrounds for iPhone.

Now that Apple has opened the App Store to emulators for retro gaming, albeit still with some doubts and perplexities, it seems almost natural to “equip” your iPhone with a Game Boy themed wallpaper.

The collection reported by 9to5Mac focuses on the expensive Game Boy Advance SP, the one that opens like a shell, just to clarify. Furthermore, the wallpapers are optimized for Dynamic Island, so as to adapt perfectly to Apple’s most recent iPhones.

The collection of new wallpapers is among the most interesting we have ever seen on the internet, because in fact they seem to transform the iPhone into a real GBA SP: It almost feels like you can fold the iPhone into a clamshell. The designer has included wallpapers with 13 different color shades, providing different styles inspired by the NES, Famicom and Tribal.

Not only that: there’s enough space on the top of the display to include the widgets offered by Apple, nestling them perfectly inside the fake GBA screen, so as to make it look like some game is running. It is possible to perfectly “embed” any widget, of any size.

How to download wallpapers

To download the collection of Game Boy wallpapers for iPhone just start from this link. It is possible to obtain the wallpapers for free, but in case you want to support the designer’s work there is also a page where you can make a donation.

The issue of emulators on iPhone

These days we do a a lot of talk about emulators retro gaming on the App Store, even if at the moment the situation does not seem very clear. In fact, just think that iGBA, an emulator for Game Boy Advance, has already been removed from the Apple store.

Among the emulators available there is Emu64 XL, Commodore 64 emulator for iPad and iPhoneusable – among other things – also on Macs with Apple Silicon chips (M1, M2, etc.).

However, Emu64 XL remains currently available, based on the multi-platform emulator VICE (VersatIle Commodore Emulator) which allows you to load .T64 and .D64 files (archives similar to floppy disks).

If you are looking for other wallpapers for your devices, the link to follow is this one.