I like to think that initiatives like Sega Forever can help boosting “normal” or “traditional” gaming on mobile, especially Android.

Switch has shown how a portable device can also be used at home, and while there are so much casual games with touch controls on Android, I think it’s a great platform for games made for Bluetooth controllers. Google should eventually invest on this.

The Sonic remasters and Sega Forever games might lead to more games like those. I hope they do 🙂

It is quite tough having to press jump and then quickly press grab via the touch screen. Especially for boss battles! It’s manageable, but I’d say a blue tooth controller would work far better.

I agree Luis! It’s definitely an underrated gem! Nice visuals/animations for the 16-bit era as well!

I hope this game sells a lot on mobile and Sega thinks of making a remaster or a sequel, and I want to pay to remove the ads (the same goes to Shinobi and Comix Zone) to show my support, but they have to fix emulation.

Performance is really poor (fortunately not my problem because it works fine on my Nvidia Shield K1, which is a beast), not all external controllers are supported, and they should add some “standard” options to the emulator, like scanlines effect, optional linear filtering (it’s on by default and I want to turn it off), etc.

Once this is fixed, and Sega has promised they will fix it (they better do, because they’re losing money), I’m paying for any Sega game I love, even though I could play them free through emulators.

I tried with my 8bitdo controllers and they didn’t work. AFAIK, the Mega Drive emulated games published under Sega Forever (that is, all current Sega Forever games that are not Sonic 1 Remastered and Virtua Tennis) are compatible with X-Input, and not with D-Input (8bitdo is D-Input). Maybe it’s not the real reason but that’s what I understood.

They’re fixing that late August/early September, though.