Sonic 3 remastered free#

In July of 2009, long-time Sonic fanatic and coder Christian Whitehead released a video of a proof-of-concept iPhone version of Sonic CD which he had built using his own custom engine, called the Retro Engine. Sega had thrown together a very basic Genesis emulator for iOS which basically just ran the original gameвЂ™s ROM with some barely-usable virtual buttons slapped on top.

As mentioned, Sonic 1 & 2 had been available on iOS prior to all the remastering business, but those ports were far from stellar.

Sonic 3 remastered free#

If youвЂ™ve heard this before, feel free to skip to the section below, but for me this is a story that I never get tired of hearing. WeвЂ™ve recounted the story of the Sonic iOS remakes many times before, but IвЂ™m going to briefly do it again here for maximum context. Each Sonic remake on iOS is a masterpiece, and they all seemed to be quite successful, which meant that a similar remake of the final game in the original Sonic trilogy, Sonic 3 & Knuckles, seemed inevitable. Even better, the remastered versions of Sonic 1 & 2 came as free updates to the bare-bones emulated versions of each game which Sega had been selling on iOS for several years. These games were lovingly recreated from the ground up for mobile platforms, and all contained new features and enhancements that werenвЂ™t present in the decades-old originals. Sonic CD (Free) in December 2011, Sonic The Hedgehog (Free) in May of 2013, and Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (Free) in December of that same year. Since at least late 2011, Sega has been teamingВ up with developers Christian вЂњTaxman' Whitehead and Simon вЂњStealth' Thomley to bring three classic Sonic The Hedgehog games to the mobile platform.