MasterGear - SMS/GG Emulator

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About this game

MasterGear emulates MasterSystem, GameGear, and other classic 8bit consoles made by Sega. It runs MasterSystem and GameGear games right on your Android phone or tablet. Save game progress at any time and share it with friends, or play games together on the network. MasterGear also runs Mark2, Mark3, SG1000, SC3000, and SF7000 games and other software.

* Specifically optimized for Android devices, using assembly language and hardware acceleration to run as fast as possible.
* Supports full screen landscape and portrait modes, with many special effect options.
* Save game play at any point and go back to that point once your character gets killed.
* Share your current position in a game with other users via State Exchange feature.
* Play with other users over local network or Internet via NetPlay feature.
* Play with your hardware keyboard, gamepad, touch screen, or accelerometer.
* Supports ARM-based GoogleTV devices, such as LG G2/G3.
* Supports Bluetooth gamepads, Xperia Play special buttons, iCade, Sixaxis, and Moga gamepads.
* Record soundtrack to MIDI files.

MasterGear package itself does not contain any games. You should place your own game files onto the SD card before running MasterGear.

Please, do not run any software you do not own with MasterGear. The author cannot and will not tell you where to find free MasterSystem or GameGear games.

Please, report any encountered problems here:

http://groups.google.com/group/emul8

Ratings and reviews

Total Garbage, STAY AWAY. Gameplay is mostly fine, but sound accuracy and quality is distorted and inaccurate no matter which settings you change. If you try using low latency sound, it is terribly choppy. Just use something like Retroarch, which is free and flawless by comparison. This was tested on an array of devices ranging up to even the snapdragon 845, 888, and 8 Gen 2. I bought this quite awhile ago, but tested it again after much time passing to find it was just as terrible. Shameful.

Netplay absolutely does not work locally under any circumstance. After connecting, it's just two different devices staring at player one. No multiplayer, sadly. I've successfully set up a server and a client and got the connection to happen... But all that happens is player two is watching player one play the game... The emulator does not recognize two separate players at the same time.

Crashes constantly: freeze in gameplay resulting in a still screen (with the quit menu still working) every few minutes, other crashes cause the app to close suddenly, most often without an error message. In between crashes, emulation is very poor: music is TERRIBLE ("sounds wrong"). I HAVE VIDEOTAPED EVIDENCE OF ALL THIS: the dev claims I'm lying (below) in his reply. Reported these problems to the developer: he refused a refund, lied about Google refund procedure, not interested in helping.

What's new

* If DropBox fails, click on it again to reauthorize.
* Fixed several transient DropBox failures.
* Switched to Android-35 SDK (Android 15).