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

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.

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.

Have you heard about scoped storage on android 11 ? Well, my Samsung s21 ultra has android 11, and your app's explorer sees folders but no roms in the folders. This is a HUGE BUG for a paid app. Fix this please. Edit 1 after dev's answer : I have an Samsung Galaxy s21 ultra 5g. I am not doing anaything wrong. As mentioned initially : the explorer bit of your app sees folders, but doesn't see ANY game rom files in the folder. That's a classic bug in the transition to with target SdkVersion=30.

What’s new

-- Fixed file selector running underneath system UI.
-- Fixed changelist dialog running underneath system UI.
-- Fixed other activities to avoid system UI.