It's been a bit of a rough first year for SEGA Forever, the latest initiative from SEGA to bring their classic games to mobile gamers. The basic idea was a good one: plumb the depths of SEGA's invaluable gaming archives and make the treasures within available for anyone with a smartphone to play for free. Players could pay a relatively small one-time price to remove ads and take advantage of extra features. The bulk of the releases have been drawn from the Genesis console, SEGA's most popular hardware worldwide. Unfortunately, when the service launched, the emulator that SEGA was using for these releases was in pretty poor shape, and it feels like the whole line has been trying to recover ever since.
SEGA eventually got the Genesis emulator whipped into shape and even started adding some cool features like the ability to rewind gameplay or play multiplayer via local wi-fi. That's great for new releases in the line, but what of the previously-released titles" While it's unclear at this point if SEGA is going to update every released title so far, we can at least check a couple of the more popular releases off the list. To go with the release of Dynamite Headdy, SEGA has pushed updates for both Golden Axe [Free] and Altered Beast [Free].
Launch title Altered Beast has seen the most significant changes, as it was using a fairly old version of the emulator. Improved emulation, local wi-fi multiplayer support, the rewind feature, and a bunch of new display options make...