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Touch Arcade isn't impressed so far :/ http://toucharcade.com/2017/06/23/musgravian-musings-sega-fo...

> Somehow, someway, SEGA is using an emulator that is worse than the one they were using in the 2009 iOS releases. That emulator wasn't very good to begin with either.

Ouch. Releasing an emulator that runs slower on modern hardware than their old emulator did on old hardware? Sounds like they used whatever the iOS equivalent of Electron is called.

Stealthily sledging Javascript in unrelated threads seems to be becoming a sport in these parts

Eurogamer hates it too: "Unity ports run much worse than older emulation, even on high-end devices"

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-06-21-sega-releases-c...

It's a shame that did such a lousy job with the emulation. It's one thing to be inaccurate and fast or accurate and slow, but making a slow and inaccurate emulator for the Genesis in 2017 is super lame.

Its not their first offense in this domain, I remember buying a DS collection of Sonic games and their was slowdowns, while in the meantime free emulators can do the job without problems.

Monetizing 20 years old games is already easy money, they could at least do it as well as people doing it on their free time...

Actually I will say one thing, maybe not on their iOS releases but for their recent 2D sonic remakes on consoles they actually hired from the Sonic fangame community (Christian Whitehead IIRC) to rewrite the engines and they run ridiculous good.

So yeah for once the paid version was as good as a passion driven fan version.

That's a bit different. The DS had a 67 MHz ARM9 and an ARM7 running at half that and even the best homebrew emulator. Even the best emulator on DS is not great. Meanwhile the iPhone 5S (chosen since it's the oldest supported by the upcoming iOS 11) has a dual-core ARM CPU running at 1.3Ghz with way higher IPC than an old ARM9.

The Sonic games are quite good, as they are native ports. But the other games should be avoided, with or without ads.

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