MasterGear - SMS/GG Emulator

4.4
644 reviews
10K+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this game

MasterGear emulates MasterSystem, GameGear, and other classic 8bit consoles made by Sega. It runs MasterSystem and GameGear games right on your Android phone or tablet. Save game progress at any time and share it with friends, or play games together on the network. MasterGear also runs Mark2, Mark3, SG1000, SC3000, and SF7000 games and other software.

* Specifically optimized for Android devices, using assembly language and hardware acceleration to run as fast as possible.
* Supports full screen landscape and portrait modes, with many special effect options.
* Save game play at any point and go back to that point once your character gets killed.
* Share your current position in a game with other users via State Exchange feature.
* Play with other users over local network or Internet via NetPlay feature.
* Play with your hardware keyboard, gamepad, touch screen, or accelerometer.
* Supports ARM-based GoogleTV devices, such as LG G2/G3.
* Supports Bluetooth gamepads, Xperia Play special buttons, iCade, Sixaxis, and Moga gamepads.
* Record soundtrack to MIDI files.

MasterGear package itself does not contain any games. You should place your own game files onto the SD card before running MasterGear.

Please, do not run any software you do not own with MasterGear. The author cannot and will not tell you where to find free MasterSystem or GameGear games.

Please, report any encountered problems here:

http://groups.google.com/group/emul8
Updated on
Aug 22, 2023

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
App info and performance and Device or other IDs
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.4
557 reviews
Pack Rats (HQ)
March 6, 2024
Total Garbage, STAY AWAY. Gameplay is mostly fine, but sound accuracy and quality is distorted and inaccurate no matter which settings you change. If you try using low latency sound, it is terribly choppy. Just use something like Retroarch, which is free and flawless by comparison. This was tested on an array of devices ranging up to even the snapdragon 845, 888, and 8 Gen 2. I bought this quite awhile ago, but tested it again after much time passing to find it was just as terrible. Shameful.
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Garage Research Emulators
March 6, 2024
Thank you for your interest in the MasterGear app.
Kiyoshi Matsutsuyu
March 17, 2024
Netplay absolutely does not work locally under any circumstance. After connecting, it's just two different devices staring at player one. No multiplayer, sadly. I've successfully set up a server and a client and got the connection to happen... But all that happens is player two is watching player one play the game... The emulator does not recognize two separate players at the same time.
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Garage Research Emulators
March 17, 2024
Wait, if player two does get to see player one's game, then the connection DOES happen. Your controls become player two, so unless there is something for player two to do in the game, you end up watching it. I think you might be missing the requirement that a game must actually support two players (as in, two separate gamepads).
Eisel Mazard
November 30, 2022
Crashes constantly: freeze in gameplay resulting in a still screen (with the quit menu still working) every few minutes, other crashes cause the app to close suddenly, most often without an error message. In between crashes, emulation is very poor: music is TERRIBLE ("sounds wrong"). I HAVE VIDEOTAPED EVIDENCE OF ALL THIS: the dev claims I'm lying (below) in his reply. Reported these problems to the developer: he refused a refund, lied about Google refund procedure, not interested in helping.
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Garage Research Emulators
November 25, 2022
If you believe you are entitled to a refund, please, request it from Google Play. As to "random crashing", you may want to check http://fms.komkon.org/EmuAndroid/#LicenseCheck for a cure. The rest of your reported problems are most likely made up in order to force a refund.

What's new

* Switched to Android-33 SDK (Android 13).
* Switched to Google Mobile Services 4.3.14.
* Now using bundle distribution (required by Google).