Sonic Mania Android port when?

[NicoNeco]

I want my sonic on the go.

[Spark☆]

Originally posted by Daveigh:

Originally posted by The Sparkstar Scope:

That said I heard that a 3DS version was in the works, but the company who proposed the port went bankrupt last year.

That's ashame, I would have loved it on the 3ds, even though I have it on the Switch, but my partner is always on the Switch so a 3ds port would have been amazing.
I am one of those people who does enjoy the 3d feature too, special stages in 3d would be pretty cool.

https://www.sonicstadium.org/2016/07/mutant-mudds-developer-wants-to-bring-sonic-mania-to-3ds/

Quoted from Wikipedia: "On 29 August 2016, it was announced that Renegade Kid has closed, to be replaced by two new studios: Atooi (who owns all of Renegade Kid's 2D IPs, such as Mutant Mudds) and Infitizmo (which owns all of Renegade Kid's 3D IPs, such as Dementium)."

[dHeX ⛤]

Originally posted by The Sparkstar Scope:

Originally posted by Daveigh:

That's ashame, I would have loved it on the 3ds, even though I have it on the Switch, but my partner is always on the Switch so a 3ds port would have been amazing.
I am one of those people who does enjoy the 3d feature too, special stages in 3d would be pretty cool.

https://www.sonicstadium.org/2016/07/mutant-mudds-developer-wants-to-bring-sonic-mania-to-3ds/

Quoted from Wikipedia: "On 29 August 2016, it was announced that Renegade Kid has closed, to be replaced by two new studios: Atooi (who owns all of Renegade Kid's 2D IPs, such as Mutant Mudds) and Infitizmo (which owns all of Renegade Kid's 3D IPs, such as Dementium)."

A real shame, Mutant Mudds on the 3ds is really cool, great game, was a nice studio :(

[FreeWilly]

You sit with your controller and play games on your phone's small screen like it's a console? That sounds horrible.

[Spark☆]

Originally posted by FreeWilly:

You sit with your controller and play games on your phone's small screen like it's a console? That sounds horrible.

Ever had a Game Boy? I do imagine it being similar.

[FreeWilly]

Originally posted by The Sparkstar Scope:

Originally posted by FreeWilly:

You sit with your controller and play games on your phone's small screen like it's a console? That sounds horrible.

Ever had a Game Boy? I do imagine it being similar.

A Gameboy is normally held close to your face so it's playable. OP made it sound like he props his phone up and sits 3 feet away. Either that or he sits hunched over a table. Both sound pretty bad compared to a handheld console.

[Infinite Fury]

Would rather be asking for a Vita port.

[Dax]

Originally posted by FreeWilly:

Originally posted by The Sparkstar Scope:

Ever had a Game Boy? I do imagine it being similar.

A Gameboy is normally held close to your face so it's playable. OP made it sound like he props his phone up and sits 3 feet away. Either that or he sits hunched over a table. Both sound pretty bad compared to a handheld console.

Most controllers designed for phones have a physical holder for the phone. You hold the controller, and the controller holds the phone. And even if you want to use your PS3 controller, you buy plastic accessoires, that connect both.

[Dax]

Originally posted by Shifty Mario:

Originally posted by NicoNeko:

Thats what bluetooth controlers are for

You really want to eat up a phone's battery?

The extra power consumption from a Bluetooth signal for the controller is probably minuscule compared to the extra power consumption from playing games, as both tend to use the CPU and GPU a lot.

[wrz]

I'm sure years down the road there will be an unofficial and open source alternate client for the Retro Engine based Sonic games and remakes. Ones like there are for Doom I and II. So someone makes an unofficial client for 3DS, Xbox 360, Android, iOS, etc, and you just need to supply the RSDK file yourself and put it in a designated subfolder.

There are examples of this already. ScummVM loads all sorts of point and click adventure games like Myst -- all you need are the original game assets. This allows Myst to be played on platforms it wasn't intended to be played on.

I'm sure given its popularity, someone will create one for Retro SDK / Retro Engine games.

So you have RetroLoader\ and RetroLoader\Assets\Sonic2Android.rsdk , SonicMania.rsdk , SonicCD.rsdk and when you launch it, it shows a menu and has you choose which game to load if you have multiple RSDK files. And in theory there will be full blown fangames using Retro Engine by then too.

And save data will be kept separate for each game.

[NicoNeco]

Originally posted by Shifty Mario:

Originally posted by NicoNeko:

Thats what bluetooth controlers are for

You really want to eat up a phone's battery?

Since when did wireless controllers have the ability to drain your phone's (Seperate) battery?

[Pyro Penguin]

Originally posted by drm_free:

Originally posted by Heavy Shinobi:

That's what the Switch version is for.

I'd rather play on something that actually lets me back up my save data. You know, that thing that I've been able to do for 20 years on non-Nintendo systems.

that's funny, i've been able to do that since n64

[KaZudra]

Originally posted by leo03:

GPD Win

Pretty Much the only thing I play on it lately

[Shifty Mario]

Originally posted by NicoNeko:

Since when did wireless controllers have the ability to drain your phone's (Seperate) battery?

Phones in general don't really have long life when under load and it being a phone means you want to have some power in case you need to communicate.

[molul]

I played all Sonic remasters on Android on my Nvidia Shield K1 with 8bitdo bluetooth controllers. I really hope I can play Mania as well, although I'd understand a one year delay, or more.

[cookybitz]

Originally posted by NicoNeko:

I want my sonic on the go.

Me too, but I think it's not happening because of how it's easier to download Android games via pirate stores. Let's see how this is going to end.