the sins of SEGA Forever

[@2fernandoc1]

A funny trick I used to do playing Sonic CD on my tablet (like two or three years ago) was to have internet while the game booted up, and then once I got into the stage, just leave the house and the game would still play just fine, no ads or constant internet required, and thus I could play Sonic CD (and Sonic 2 as well if I'm remembering correctly) without internet. By the way, I don't think the trick works anymore :(

[@AccelerateHedge]

I know for a fact that trick still works on Sonic 1.

[@randomanims]

Yes, SCD and Sonic 2 now say “the game needs internet to run” if you try the trick :((

[@rennahmed]

@2fernandoc1 hey so wehn I would play sonic sega forever games I had my data on my sim emptied then before I entered I opened the data then no ads and it would work.

[@paadse]

What i do is that i start the game with data, i have VERY little data thats enough to recognice it has internet but TOO low to have ads

[@AccelerateHedge]

@@paadse Oh, neat.

[@LightningJosue]

That angry sonic jump was really funny and really well edited

[@InitialAA]

I have so many gripes about Sega Forever and so many other things related. I have written so much about them over the last 3 years. I'm tired. I stopped playing Sonic games regularly 4-5 months ago. I lost 17 kilos of weight

[@Tozito911]

what.

[@just_alijah22]

bro went through an entire arc after leaving sonic

[@NoNamex1412]

​@@just_alijah22that's honestly kinda impressive

[@thefastcommenter7774]

@@NoNamex1412how

[@thatitalianlameguy2235]

What

[@0MochiCoconut0]

I’m PISSED that they didn’t decide to add in a final boss with a really cool concept to the Sonic CD port because ‘We wanna stay faithful to the original game’. Yet they decide to add Continues with ads, Hidden Palace Zone, REMOVE THE SONIC 1 SPIKES, AND EVEN MORE DAMN ADS THAT RUIN THE EXPERIENCE

[@gengargamer5657]

Don’t forget an R2 substitute in Desert Dazzle

[@HEHEHE_I_AM_A_MASKED_WARRIA]

To be fair, CD was the first to be ported.

[@gengargamer5657]

@@HEHEHE_I_AM_A_MASKED_WARRIA True, but it still sucks that we never got them later on in the Mobile version or even as DLC in Origins

[@curtthegamer934]

If they were really worried about accuracy, they could have made the extra Sonic CD stuff be a toggle. You could toggle the extra features on or off.

[@DanielFerreira-ez8qd]

​@@curtthegamer934 They just wanted the game ported over in the first place, dude.

[@Legoluigi26]

It's great that you covered the history of this somewhat obscure part of Sega's legacy. Even when the servers and games themselves go down, this can serve as a memorial to the ups and downs of mobile gaming.

[@TheWax70]

Nice job on the video. 👍 When I saw the Crazy Taxi added to Sega Forever it made me wonder if other Dreamcast games like Sonic Adventure would be added. But then I remembered some sections of those games would be hard(or too annoying) to do on a touch pad.

[@SammySesame]

Well, I didn't expect you, TheWax.

[@dshaynietheawesome]

Thanks dude

[@carlosemilio5180]

My brother in christ not once do you need to push 2 buttons at once during SA1, not even in gamma's levels. (Proposed SA1 touchpad layout: Touch menus (duh) Main buttons: Joystick on the left and jump button on the right at all times (duh) B button action slightly to the left of jump button (with appropiate icons for each character's b button action I.E. tail spin and roll for tails (button changes with running speed) and hammer for amy at all times) Context sensitive Y button actions pop up slightly above jump button at the times they need to like the pop ups in SA2 (this would make grabbing no longer take the same button as B action) Swipe anywhere else to move camera and pinch to zoom (pinch to zoom HAS to be optional so as to not cause problems on android) Pause button in the usual spots they are in mobile games Miscellaneous buttons and actions Chao garden has all controls at once, possibly looking like a genesis 6 button controler because thats the only way they could comfortably fit Button layouts can be moved and resized in options like in sonic 1 and 2 Tap and hold anywhere to skip cutscenes Tap anywhere to advance adventure field dialogue with npcs (Casinopolis pinball) tap left side for left bumper and right side for right bumper Table tilt with either joystick or tilt controls (change in options) (Ice Cap/Tails sand level whose name I can't remember oops) Snowboard section has optional tilt controls (can be turned off) but the main button layout doesnt go away unlike pinball (Sky chase) Tornado has swipe controls, tilt controls, or joystick with shoot button on the right side and lock on button slightly left of shoot button Big's fishing has an optional skeumorph image of a reel that you reel when you want to catch the fish, removing the awkward controls of the original (you would have to set the controller down due to it being the optimal option to do this which would get annoying really fast) Controller support) (While we're on the topic, heres some things I would want for a general re-remaster: Remappable buttons X button doing Y actions instead of just copying B action More robust rumble and possibly hd rumble on switch and ps5 (also applies to mobile but wothout the hd part obviuosly) All features of dreamcast conversion with the option to use gc models with dc lighting and vice versa) Higher quality voices, sfx and remastered music from the soundtrack cd, along with a rerelease of the soundtrack cd with bonus songs if you preorder (the cd by itself sold separately if you didnt preorder) Implementing the cream model instead of a signpost (Its already in the game why did they do this in the first place) Bugfixes but NOT exploit fixes Higher quality textures for the UI and menus only Npc models that match the gc models (poor eggman) A 50 dollar burger king gift card)

[@MatthewCobalt]

...really? I've played 3D games with an on-screen analog stick, emulators and ports alike. It has as much of the precision as an actual stick, but with no physical reference point to stop or return. But unless you slide very far on the regular, this becomes a non issue.

[@marcosandrey5059]

Insert phone on fire here

[@FilipSpr]

My secret is that my mom wouldn't let me buy no ads

[@Darkiscool420]

in that case, you can use an ad blocker which does actually work.

[@Sonictheoofhog4]

​@@Darkiscool420wait there's ad blockers?!

[@rory828]

@@Sonictheoofhog4yeah on the web

[@veronicabermudez4802]

Time to steal ya mums credit card

[@Chilliboy-the-hedgehog]

​@@Sonictheoofhog4u pay money

[@anthonygibsonjr.3818]

This is why I downloaded old versions of classic sonic games from some apk website except CD btw because when I opened app after it says download failed so it was hard from last year for me but I did got to work on happymods when It unlocked everything on game so I'm good to go without the ads.

[@nothydrossity]

also the sega forever discord server is literally broken, it has one of those reaction verification things but it doesn’t work

[@kokonbini]

The cool part about the android version is that restoring the purchase allows you to install the legacy versions instead of just removing ads from the SF versions. The aspect ration is weird on ultrawide displays but its still better than what we have now

[@InitialAA]

Just turn on data with your SIM not having any balance. No money wasted, no ads.

[@luthergaming5789]

My brother...

[@Terminal_Apotos]

Good to see someone else talk about how egregious the Ads on these mobile ports are. Their inconsistency when it comes to App icons is so bad.

[@marcoscabezolajr.8408]

It's so egregious that I don't have them anymore and just play origins

[@Byronic19134]

For the price of a cup of coffee you can just remove them tho. How you think they pay their developers to keep updating these games that are 30 years old?

[@SuperSky712]

you jumping into a ball at 11:17 really expresses the anger of the ads issue LMAO

[@valmid5069]

Very well done review--there are times when every franchise has its own ups and downs

[@MaxAbramson3]

Gamers' Bill of Rights: 1. Right to have all purchases restored 2. Right to buy a no-ad version of game 3. Terms cannot be changed after download to require purchases 4. Privacy protection: personal info not to be sold nor given away

[@Byronic19134]

5. Zero toleration for tears over glitches in a 30 year old game that has to be consistently updated across a million different smart phones and tablets all with different operating systems.

[@Byronic19134]

5. Zero toleration for tears over glitches in a 30 year old game that has to be consistently updated across a million different smart phones and tablets all with different operating systems.

[@MaxAbramson3]

@@Byronic19134 Double post?

[@robertanderson9447]

Thank you for talking about these things, I genuinely thought nobody cared. It's sad to see these apps continue to degrade in quality. CD has managed to avoid the worst of it, thankfully, but it's not totally unscathed. Sound effects that were definitely still there pre-Sega Forever have been missing for years, namely the rolling sound, the signpost sound and the register sound when the score tally ends. And Sonic 1's special stage editor, the poor thing. It relies on debug mode, so when the forced pausing began, that made it harder to use. Especially when an ad would play every single time. It seems the ad frequency has been reduced since then, but even so it's still annoying. Random side note, CD's description in the Play Store gets its trivia wrong. Sonic CD was not the first game to feature Sonic speaking, I believe that was 1991's Waku Waku Sonic Patrol Car. It also claims the infamous hidden message was meant to scare pirates. Someone correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't that disproven a long time ago?

[@TheCreativeType]

Thanks for telling me about Sonic 3 Air on iOS, I can now play all of the classic Sonic games on my phone! I even went and copied over all of the settings I have set in my computer.

[@retroreina400]

I’ve been waiting for someone to document this for years. In addition to the things you mentioned, sometimes the screen locks incorrectly on wider displays, such as in the Quartz Quadrant boss fight, resulting in ridiculously small room for movement (and the spike trap being a non issue due to being off screen.) the save files for Sonic 1 and 2 don’t work when starting a new file. They default to a completed save file the next time you open them, regardless of your in game progress.

[@justsomesimplenuclearbirbs4313]

It seems whoever's in charge of SEGA's mobile division isn't aware of how to handle their mobile games. For example, as a way to promote the new season of Sonic Prime, SEGA Hardlight quite literally ported over Sonic Dash+ (the iOS version of Sonic Dash that doesn't have *any* microtransactions or ads on top of a few improvements compared to the original), removed the plus and slapped a poorly made fancy new logo on it and made a few characters from Sonic Prime that were already available in the original game default characters (aka, characters you get immediately after clearing the tutorial). As a result, the original Sonic Dash is now much less enjoyable thanks to a new update that forces you to collect cards, just like in Sonic Forces: Speed Battle except much, *much,* *_much_* worse. And I do mean "just like in Sonic Forces: Speed Battle" as now if you want to upgrade a specific character you now need a specific number of cards on top of having the necessary amount of Rings. Which sucks for OG players who may have characters from crossover events as now if they didn't max out a specific crossover character they straight up *can't* and are forever stuck with those characters at specific stats. The kicker is SEGA Hardlight promoted the update by saying it would make collecting characters "faster" when in reality it's slower, by a *wide* margin. Normally events allowing you to get specific characters would require 250, 500 or even 1,000 Character Tokens or collecting the four items scattered throughout your runs depending on the event. With characters that have a nice balance between their "Dash" gauge and how long magnets last it's possible to get the necessary Character Tokens *way* before the event's even close to halfway done. They also flat out said the best part of Sonic Dash was the character collecting which kinda confuses me considering Sonic Dash is literally just a high score simulator without any purpose. Once you get that one character that you either were really hyped for or has some incredible stats you really like, every other character just feels like unnecessary fluff and you're only collecting them for the sake of collecting. There's no passive bonus for collecting characters or some kind of meta dictating which characters are the most OP on the nonexistent leaderboards. Hell, there isn't even a standard multiplayer race to see how far you can travel compared to your rival(s) or compete to see who can get the the highest score in a single run. We're just lucky the most SEGA Forever did in terms of money making was make you pay for no ads, can you imagine having to actively pay for lives, rings or even to try the special stages? That thought absolutely *terrifies* me.

[@Ai_Patrick-cg3cw]

I am NOT reading allat❌🤣

[@fotinistylianomanolaki1172]

THEY'VE GIVEN SONIC DASH THE SPEED BATTLE CARD SYSTEM?! Sonic dash was my first ever sonic game (no joke) and this is KILLING me. The reason i EVER got excited unlocking a new character was cause "oh cool sonic character" their stats are premade, sure, BUT YOU CAN LITERALLY CHANGE THEIR WHOLE STATS SO WHATS THE POINT OF MAKING THEM HARDER TO UNLOCK?! Heck in speed battle and dash 2 you couldn't change the stats, only upgrade them but even then, this whole card thing would be unecessary. As you said: "They also said the best part about dash is getting the characters which confuses me considering sonic dash is literally just a high score simulator without any purpose".

[@fotinistylianomanolaki1172]

And what i meant by you not being able to change their stats, i meant how u can upgrade em so much to a poiht where you practically changed them. Example: 1 shield 5 dash Etc. U can change these attributes when in 2 and speed battle theres only a set attribute(s) and you just uptrade them.

[@jojoojoratti123]

@@Ai_Patrick-cg3cw comprehensive reading is a thing y'know.

[@2fernandoc1]

This is literally the reason why the only Mobile Sonic games I play are Sonic Runners Revival and Sonic Boom Dash

[@SunkyMan]

I bought sonic 2 on Google play back in 2013, and wanted the Sega forever version on my phone, and when I tried to restore my purchase to get no ads, the app just took me to Google play to redownload sonic 2 2013.

[@Byronic19134]

Because they have 2 different digital bar codes meaning they are technically not the same product. Like trying to play an Xbox game in a PlayStation.

[@hyperstarman6848]

I don't know why they keep fucking with the Whitehead versions of these games, that were already perfect, adding "improvements" when they're only adding problems that make them worse than the originals and introducing more bugs in the process.

[@TheCreativeType]

6:26 Oh, I feel that. It’s very annoying, and I believe it’s been in the game for a long time now and still hasn’t been fixed. Also, speaking of bugs, when playing as Tails (In Sonic 2, maybe also in Sonic 1 but I’m not sure) and going very fast (faster than normal running speed), it doesn’t play the right animation where his tails sorta make a circle, instead just doing the normal sunning speed animation, but very fast. I don’t know when this bug became a thing, but I know it wasn’t there before.

[@thesmilingman7576]

11:54 you get used to it after awhile (but now that I got a taste with the decomp when I go back to the version with ads I start to go stir crazy when they pop up)

[@thatonecountryballanimator]

My solution to the ads: use a crappy hotspot, as it only detects if you’re connected, but not how good it is. No ads baby!!!!!

[@kattnip500]

I still remember when what I assume to be Sega Forever just absolutely broke Sonic 1 somehow, I'm talking random stuff from Sonic 2 just showing up, messing with the time trials menu (GHZ act 3 was treated as the start of a new zone, would keep offsetting until a bunch of later levels were just inaccessible), and you just flat out could not complete Spring Yard Zone Act 3 (You just DIED as sonic walked offscreen), the save select menu showed 7 emeralds (6 were still required by default as far as I'm aware). It was years ago at this point but like HOW did they mess up copy-pasting code that badly??? I'm still glad I have the Spring Yard death glitch that made the game UNCOMPLETEABLE archived via KZbin because like Why?

[@ENDfilms44]

Love how you placed the youtube ad spot right at the "load ads" line.

[@robotx9285]

I understand the iusses, tho this video felt kinda directionless. It vaguely advances forward.l, with a vague end goal.

[@I-like-Sonic-91]

On the Amazon Appstore versions of the classic Sonic games, they thankfully haven't been updated to have the "Sega Forever" branding yet.

[@SoundFantasy]

Just reminder this Sega Forever and the account that runs Sega Forever KZbin and Twitter are different. Sega Forever Twitter/KZbin are genuinely amazing for sharing high quality pieces of Sega artwork and assets. Awesome account.

[@dshaynietheawesome]

I agree

[@just_alijah22]

i don’t want no more beat battle and royal match ads in my sonic games 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥

[@Spongebob77Official]

Yea ik, probably the worst ads are the royal match ones lol.

[@Embyreal]

I am SO glad you brought up this topic given I have my own personal gripes with Sega Forever, and how they seem to not know how to operate their apps properly. I remember when I redownloaded Sonic 1 after having not played it in over 5 years (I last played it in 2016) and saw that they added ads to it of which, I recall being disappointed and eventually annoyed with the EXCESSIVE amount of them. There are different types of issues with their thing besides the Sonic games such as Comix Zone’s controls being unresponsive and difficult for the game to unplayable for many including myself; logging in and saving for games such as Shining Force can take one or multiple attempts for it to work properly, etc.

[@JmanTheGamerFNF]

Good video!! But that cliffhanger was something

[@beatziegraham6928]

I remember them saying that Dreamcast games would also be on mobile but the only one that got that, jet set radio, got removed.

[@dshaynietheawesome]

Oh man I forgot about that now i wish I brought it up in the video

[@Deridiya]

Crazy Taxi still exist, but again its still part of the Sega Forever.

[@bananabike279]

Cool concept, poor exacution. I remember this being announced and even downloaded some of these like Ristar and Sonic 1, but was almost inmediately turned off by the constant barrage of ads :/

[@Chokun-Gaming]

I bought the original Sonic 1 and 2 mobile ports before sega forever became a thing on my Android phone (where the sega forever versions replaced the orignals rather than being updates) and redownloaded them every time I got a new one. Somehow, despite using the most up to date version of the OS the games still work as intended with the only even remotely broken-ish thing being certain things that were meant to be off screen being at the edge of the screen due to the modern screen size

[@DaltonLunday2103]

For as bad as sonic origins is,it’s the only way I can play the classic games without ads since I don’t own a pc. I grew up with the 2013 release of sonic 2 so it breaks my heart to see it in its current state.

[@blur7491]

7:04 Actually, the Sega Forever version broke the hand models for Sonic, where the finger joints just...didn't work However, they had the new ones active at the same time as the old ones in special stages, causing Sonic to have 4 hands. This got fixed later, but it was really amusing seeing Sonic with 10 fingers on 1 hand catching the emerald.

[@The_Prizessin_der_Verurteilung]

I still play the android ports that I purchased years ago. The ones that were counterparts to the free"no wifi, no saves" version. It sucks they don't update the premium ones, but the "with ads" version is still supported...

[@mb8w27]

There’s a ad when you’re trying to sleep. There’s a ad when your going outside.

[@epicstar86]

As a person who first played all the mobile ports of these classic games back in 2012, I feel your pain

[@Bacons4Lyfe]

Sonic cd mobile / Console/pc Remaster Released in 2011 But Sonic 1 and 2 Released in 2013

[@epicstar86]

@@Bacons4Lyfe yea ik

[@Voxdenable]

Thank you Sega, for giving me more reason to stick to the Sonic Mega and Sonic Gems collections, and having backups of both just in case.

[@woshee_real]

Or stick to the amazon appstore versions of sonic 1, 2, and cd if on android as those if I remember are basically the same as the old versions.

[@sackydzNG]

Or just play Sonic 1 Forever, Sonic 2 Absolute, Sonic CD Restored, and Sonic 3 A.I.R.

[@Leonard_Wolf_2056]

​@@sackydzNGyeah, they are far better. It's hard to beat something which is free.

[@alexanderbecauseidk]

11:18 bro was so surprised and angry he did sonic’s up smash.

[@AguywithanH]

This is why i play the decompilation version of these games

[@Useott]

5:49 The unused space was for ads

[@spsaofficalchannel]

10:05 if piracy is your only option when companies decide to be anti consumer... i see no issue doing it...

[@TeGoddalWeb]

I still have sonic 1 2 and cd 2017 versions never updated with old icons! (Also paid)

[@elmaionesosexo]

12:00 very simple, I used my School's WiFi. That WiFi couldn't connect to my phone and would end up in a state of "connected without internet" which let me play the games with no ads. That's how I beated Sonic 2 400%

[@RustyLeguito]

Wow.

[@Bacons4Lyfe]

Now 400% Sonic CD And 1 and 100% Sonic 4 Episode 2

[@elmaionesosexo]

@@Bacons4Lyfe Hell no, CD was mid and very annoying, and 4 never happened.

[@Obvisley]

Oh and fun fact sonic 1,2, and cd where ported on the Apple TV with no ads it’s kinda great.

[@dshaynietheawesome]

Oh ive always wanted to try that but don’t have a modern apple tv

[@Obvisley]

Well you can buy one I mean it’s compatible with a higher version but it won’t work for the 2007 Apple TV you need like the 2016 or higher Apple TV in odder to play it but it’s better that sega forever never update the Apple TV version and for s2 the Apple TV version still has Porto palace but unfortunately I don’t know how to access level select in sonic 1 and 2 on Apple TV but hey the Apple TV has some fun stuff to!

[@P5dfsf64g36]

11:54 i could live with the ads just fine except for sonic 2 where the ad could potentially softlock the game

[@Birb64]

no one ever mentions this, but there is also an ad when you go into debug mode. THIS HAS RUINED DEBUG MODE. So I just decided to buy it, then install an older apk for android to make it work again. Screw you sega forever.

[@aimbot4arrowz982]

Im not far into the video, but: Did you know, that if you actually restored your purchase for the Sega Forever emulated game, it would straight up take you to the emulated version, and not restore the ads-free play for your purchase?

[@eiadithecoder620]

my secret is that i used rsdk decompilation which fixes most bugs, and has a port on pc, and easly modable, and most importantly, no ads or internet connection

[@squidward577]

This is the one and only time Sonic Origins will be better than something

[@gengargamer5657]

Not the only time, but ok

[@NoNamex1412]

11:16 that was terrifying

[@Silskanaalsilschannel1234]

Request: Return of Sonic Origins (Plus Review)

[@limpid_runaway1879]

It's fixed. Now whenever you pause in Sonic 2 and I think 1 too, you don't get an ad when you unpause

[@PML5isthe1]

I love that when he says “and they have ads” an ad pops up

[@KiwiTheRetroGal]

FUUUCK YEEEAAAAAAHHHH! These ads have been the bane of little me's existence back in (checks list) 2016!

[@Cloud67TR]

0:27 it's soo relatable

[@JayDOVA]

when I play, I open the game normally and then switch over to an expired sim card and basically get 0 ads

[@Ciuno45]

The finger was matching the music 5:27

[@bluey-next777]

1:09 THAT SONG SLAPS!

[@koolaid33]

The first person I've ever seen whose angry about them not being able to play Sonic 4.

[@kevinm.5951]

I remember years ago I had an app that acted as a vpn to block websites I remember getting so fed up with ads playing sonic cd on rhe school pr9vided ipads ro pass the tine I blacklisted all the sites that distributed mobile ads like vungle or google ads and it actually worked. The fame would attempt to load an ad but nothing would show up. Good times But now i barely have money so i'm above all that. I don't miss it

[@segahatty]

Uhhh, so something I wanna bring up is that Sega Forever is discontinued. (That's a shame I wanna see Fantasy Zone.)

[@matteus14]

woah and how did discontinued?

[@segahatty]

@@matteus14 Not making money.

[@YaroKasear]

This just makes me glad that: 1. I don't play mobile games. If I think I'll be gaming on the go, I'll play my switch where those sorts of shenanigans with ads just won't play. 2. If I want to play classic Sonic, I'm pretty much never going with official Sega releases since Sega can't even EMULATE their games properly, let alone do remasters that don't suck. Bonus: You don't actually need the Steam version of S3K to play Sonic 3 AIR. Pretty much any .bin of it that isn't patched will do. The S3 AIR website even points this out and most ROMs of it you find, provided they're not in a cooked ROM format (Hence why I said .bin.) will match the checksum of the ROM you'd get from the Steam version. S3AIR blows everything even Sonic Origins has done out of the water.

[@morrowlterraslove]

0:22 well we got emulators on iOS officially but I know it’s been on Android so we got actual video games along side

[@BT_Amongus_not_Funny]

Funny fact In 2:37 played a real ad for me

[@ItsCenrryTH]

Remember kids, always use the decomps if you play on android!

[@bluestaggo]

I use the decomps which do not have ads or any of the extra Sega Forever stuff. They take a bit to set up, but it is worth it.

[@gengargamer5657]

Now I’m even more glad I stuck w/ Origins Plus

[@yean4573]

this is the first video of yours I've watched and it made me really happy and smiley. this was a great video!

[@TheCreativeType]

I’ve known the Sonic 2 Emerald, Debug and extra continues codes for years, but haven’t heard of the proto palace code until now. Gonna go try that. (Yes, I play the mobile version, I know about hidden palace and the backstory behind it)

[@TheCreativeType]

Turns out the code you provided is barely wrong, you forgot the 04 at the end, and you apparently need to activate debug mode too.

[@TheCreativeType]

Strange, I’m playing it as Sonic + Tails, but there was a 1-up monitor with Tails on it.

[@TheCreativeType]

Interesting how they warp you back to the level select when you get to where the level “ends”. I wonder if I can bypass it with debug mode…

[@TheCreativeType]

I can, but there’s not much to see. It’s basically just a carbon copy of the prototype version of Hidden palace from what I can tell.

[@robertanderson9447]

​@@TheCreativeTypeI think the Tails monitor is also a reference to the prototype Hidden Palace, which had the same thing.

[@CharbelElkhoury-im8zm]

bro when you said and to load ads i got an ad

[@flordelizhawk358]

I am glad the decomps exist and now we have the versions purified from the ads.

[@lemonadesnake]

2:51 this was added rather recently

[@superthanasis4727]

Yo there is a definitive way to play Sonic 1 on mobile (and Sonic 2 in the future tho)... Ok, so Team Forever have created a fan-port of the retro engine Sonic 1 & 2 on PC with lots of quality of life improvements (like drop dash, new modes, Amy as a playable new character etc.) which are called Sonic 1 Forever and Sonic 2 Absolute. And a couple of months ago they released Sonic 1 Forever on mobile and guess what, there absolutely no ads!! You should check it out

[@gengargamer5657]

I wouldn’t say those are definitive considering they’re only on PC and Mobile. Also, don’t forget about Origins

[@realsmg5]

Yes I Would Check It out And Played the Original Version Of Sonic 2

[@themachinistreal9976]

the thing about this old ipad 2 I have, is with sonic cd the ads just don’t work. very nice 10/10

[@Youknowjoe187]

it's a good month when you upload a sonic video

[@xofi.]

so like every other video

[@KizuxTheo]

I bought all 3 Shining Force game ad free IAP, but my Shining Force 2 has a weird issue where the save is corrupt? And I think it was even uploaded to the cloud corrupted, when I leave the app the save reverts back a corrupted one and unless they wipe my save on the cloud, there's no much I can do, I even messaged support and basically said they can't do a thing about it. It's specially weird when the other two Shining Force games work normally. And I hate that there's no local save file when you buy the ad free version.

[@moreedcola6837]

10:08 Actually, it’ll work with any S3&K ROM, you just have to find a ROM (they’re everywhere, shouldn’t be THAT hard to find) and rename the title of the file to that of the Steam version. Yes, I do know that it is in fact technically piracy.

[@mediamuncher69]

10:12 I don't have two icons for 1 and 2! How did you get them. I really don't like the soild color it sticks outike sore thumb lol. Btw good editing 11:17

[@MorphinaeMorpho]

Me living the life playing the sonic mobile remasters with no ads for free because the device I was using doesn’t support ads because it’s too old (iPhone 4) And they all work with no WiFi as they are older versions

[@BedBuggy]

Tbf you'd have to be crazy to willingly want to play Sonic 4 Episode 1

[@meggee9]

i would only really play sonic 1, 2 and cd in class and the school wifi would get rid of ads so that was just awesome

[@keytester2xp339]

theres an ad that replaces continues in sonic! .... tbh thats kinda dope tho cuz all i gotta do is watch an ad to start again

[@dshaynietheawesome]

I prefer earning my continues by being good at the game

[@bowser-z8z]

When it said “and 2: to load ads” KZbin gave me a perfectly timed ad.

[@IDWSonic]

“And to record ad-“ An ad: “Allow us to introduce ourselves.”

[@sabihabagum8122]

Fun fact: the mobile version of sonic 4 episode 1 is just the beta version of the game.

[@keebendo69]

For some reason, Sonic 1 now has static image ads, which you can X out of immediately (at least for me), so basically Sonic 1 Mobile is ad-free… kind-of

[@JustLuhke_211]

Thankfully the decomps exist so no one has to suffer with the sega forever stuff xd

[@gengargamer5657]

And Origins as well

[@AonelEchi]

(0:26) when you can’t skip an ad: (11:17) “WAT!1!1!1!”

[@SonicsGamingHub_YT]

fun fact, if you have poor internet connection or is using school wifi, the ads dont play either way, this happens to me in the road so i use that time wisely

[@dshaynietheawesome]

You shouldn’t even need an internet connection to play

[@SonicsGamingHub_YT]

@@dshaynietheawesome exactly

[@DeathGamer-8200]

Ok, about watching an ad to continue. That is the best type of ad available, ones that let you get something in return for doing so. Heck, its how Sagan Hawkes(did i get his name right) makes money from his game: stick with it(which is on mobile(how its making money) and pc) Edit: i got the wrong guy, but i fixed it

[@4504595]

I feel 1000% the same way you do about ads. I straight up refuse to play a game that even has a hint of ads.

[@ssq24studios]

As soon as you said about the Wi-Fi ads, an ad popped up

[@TomaxY9YT]

1:50 here in Colombia is $ 2.57

[@melo-7904]

the sega forever versions of sonic 1 and 2 are part of the reason i have a android along with my main iphone if you know you know since i own more copys of sonic 1 then you can sake a stick at and even the paid versions of the mobile versions and i still cant restore them

[@some_dude_in_the_internet]

bro the joke about the tiny close ad button 💀

[@dshaynietheawesome]

It’s not even a joke that’s just what happened while i was gathering footage and it kinda speaks for itself

[@some_dude_in_the_internet]

@@dshaynietheawesome lol i thought it was part of the video

[@dshaynietheawesome]

it is now it works so well that it gives context to the video@@some_dude_in_the_internet

[@CheatFreak47]

Haha, yeah I just don't *do* games on phones because of this kind of shit. I'd literally rather entertain myself by looking at clouds than put up with these headaches.

[@Mitchell_2011]

Pro-tip: Turning on your mobile data lets you play without ads or internet. It works even if you don't have any credit to your mobile data