Ultimate Game Guide User Reviews

Ultimate Game Guide
Ultimate Game Guide
Embraceware Software Inc

Top reviews

New update for the win!

Really loving the new update!
The bug fixes and added extras are fantastic!

Response from developer

Thanks Cecil!

Apple needs to remove this app from the store

This app is completely broken and in-usable. Do not spend your money on purchasing this app. You will spend hours imputing information about your collection only to close the app and not have it saved.

I’ve had this app for years, it was broken with the update about a year ago, and no in has made any efforts to fix it.

Please apple remove this app from your store so no more of your users are scammed into spending time and money on this garbage.
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Response from developer

Thank you for your feedback! Version 3 is now available and features a full redesign, new features and greatly improved performance. If you have any questions or feedback, please contact us: help@embraceware.com.

Broken App on iPhone X and later

This was originally an amazing companion app to Pat’s published book. However multiple updates have crippled it on any full screen iPhone with Face ID (iPhone X and later), making it unusable. The app has not been updated to support any higher resolution full screen and all content is jumbled up and not usable.

Fix the app and it’ll return to a 5 star rating!
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Last update killed it

I loved this app. It was great. All the info you’d need about the NES in 1 place. The last update not only wiped out my logged games, but also broke functionality of the entire app. Only 1 page isn’t glitched or broken. The accessories page. Everything is overlapped and unreadable.

Emailed developer on 6/2/21 and they are awaiting approval for next version that should fix broken layout. I’ll gladly change my review should it improve with an update.
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Response from developer

Thank you for your feedback! Version 3 is now available and features a full redesign, new features and greatly improved performance. If you have any questions or feedback, please contact us: help@embraceware.com.

Unusable. Don’t buy!!!

This app and the reviews were great...until they broke it. It’s unusable in its current state. Wiped out my entire collection. Glitchy overlay of text and box art. No scrolling when trying to move through games. Just a cluster of broken functionality. Hope they fix it and I can give it the 4 or 5 stars the old version deserves.
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Not synching

This app is very frustrating. I’ve been adding games for the last couple days and it’s not saving to the server. And there’s no way to save it locally to your phone. Not impressed for an app that costs this much.

Response from developer

Thank you for your feedback! Version 3 is now available and features a full redesign, new features and greatly improved performance. If you have any questions or feedback, please contact us: help@embraceware.com.

Not working well very buggy

Very slow scrolling, app crashes a lot and needs to show 2 different pictures for example is you own both copies of Metroid, this should be implemented in a future update. The bugs need fixing and have priority over everything else

Was great, now broken

How is this still broken? It was a terrific, 5-star app until about a year ago and, despite many complaints, it remains totally unusable. It appears to have been abandoned by Pat and whomever else was responsible for it, so I unfortunately can not recommend it.

It’s a real shame as it was one of my favorite apps before they broke it. Hopefully they’ll undo the damage at some point in the future, but given it’s been a year it’s not looking good.
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Used to be great

I bought this several years ago and it was great. Then they changed it to a cloud based storage system, which erased your library and you had to add everything again. Now it’s just one giant glitchy mess where you can’t even accurately sort by the ratings. It needs a lot of work before it achieves the top tier status it once had.
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App is broken & no longer works

Used to enjoy this app but as of late it’s a garbled mess. Text and pictures are all jumbled up. Same problem happens on both my iPhone SE (2020) running iOS 13.4.1 and on my iPad Air (2013) running iOS 12.4.6, so something changed in iOS to cause it to break. Pat needs to contact his tech support ASAP.
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Response from developer

Thank you for your feedback! Version 3 is now available and features a full redesign, new features and greatly improved performance. If you have any questions or feedback, please contact us: help@embraceware.com.

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