TL;DR
- Pizza Boy SC Professional is a brand new emulator for 8- and 16-bit Sega consoles.
- It’s nonetheless in beta, however it contains a new core constructed from the bottom up.
- The emulator contains a 15-second rewind system and RetroAchievements help.
Look out, Sonic followers, as a result of there’s a brand new traditional Sega emulator on Android referred to as Pizza Boy SC Professional. It’s a model new core from storied emulator developer Pizza Boy, and it simply launched in beta.
This preliminary public launch covers the 8-bit and 16-bit generations, together with the Sega Genesis, Grasp System, and Recreation Gear. Assist for CD and 32-bit expansions is listed as coming quickly. Different notable options embody rewind (as much as 15 seconds) and RetroAchievements help.
I attempted the emulator with a couple of Genesis and Grasp System video games, and every thing labored properly. There’s nonetheless loads of room for optimizations, however for an preliminary launch, it’s very spectacular. Neither console is especially demanding, however this core was constructed from the bottom up for effectivity, so it ought to provide nice efficiency on nearly any Android gadget as soon as the kinks have been ironed out.
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Whereas it’s listed as incomplete, the present model on the Play Retailer is a premium app with out advertisements. If it follows the identical sample as earlier Pizza Boy emulators, we might even see a free model launched as soon as the venture is extra mature.
That stated, that is the primary new emulator from Pizza Boy in years. Their earlier work-in-progress, a Nintendo DS emulator, was canceled within the wake of Nintendo’s lawsuit in opposition to Yuzu developer Tropic Haze earlier this yr. In truth, he briefly pulled all of his emulators from the Play Retailer in March. After some authorized council, he introduced them again lower than two months later.
