In order to play the game with the controller, the MOGA Pivot app must be installed, running in the background with the controller synced. Certain units also came bundled with a redemption code for Sonic CD.
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The MOGA Game Controller for Android 2.3+ featured Sonic CD as one of several compatible titles. US PlayStation Blog (starting December 2011) Months on the PlayStation Store (original run / cumulative total)
Monthly PlayStation Store chart appearances and rankings History PlayStation Store chart performance Platform 1.1 PlayStation Store chart performance.Other changes include reduced loading times, better scaling for the UFOs in the Special Stages, a number of bugfixes and a constant framerate of 60FPS. It is otherwise faithful to the original game. When the game is beaten once, Tails is unlocked. It was re-built from scratch, allowing for a number of enhancements such as widescreen support, online features (such as leaderboards), filters to change the way the game is displayed and a Sonic the Hedgehog 2-styled spindash option. Unlike other attempts at bringing classic Sonic games to new platforms in the late 2000s (usually handled by Backbone Entertainment), this Sonic CD is neither a port of the original game nor an emulated version. His efforts were picked up by Sega who published it for Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, iOS and Android devices and PC in late 2011 and early 2012. It was developed by The Taxman using a proprietary game engine named the " Retro Engine", an updated version of the engine used in Retro Sonic Nexus.
The 2011 release of Sonic the Hedgehog CD is an enhanced downloadable remaster of the 1993 Sega Mega-CD game Sonic the Hedgehog CD.