Creating a Port Forward in Your Router for Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection

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September 19, 2018 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 2 minutes

Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection is Sega's Compilation game released in 2009.

Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection is a compilation of games. Compilation games are a great way to get a bunch of games for a lower price. Lately game publishers have been compiling older arcade style games in a compilation and selling them as a single package.

Port Forward Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection

When you are playing Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection you might need to forward some ports in your router. Forwarding ports is a useful trick in gaming because it can really help to make your network connection most stable and intermittently even faster. Routers were not designed to allow incoming network requests and some games can play tremendously better if an incoming connection is forwarded through the router to the game.

Before You Forward a Port

Before you can forward a port you need to know the following things:

How to locate your router's IP Address

The easiest way to locate your router's IP address is to run our free Router Detector utility. It's a part of the Network Utilities suite of tools and it's completely free to use.

How To Forward Ports

Our Network Utilities software makes port forwarding a breeze. You can be done in just a few minutes.

The usual process for forwarding a port is:

Ports Required for Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection

The incoming connection ports for Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection are as follows:

Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection - Xbox 360

  • TCP: 3074
  • UDP: 88, 3074

Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection - Playstation 3

  • TCP: 3478-3480, 5223, 8080
  • UDP: 3074, 3478-3479, 3658

We have guides that are custom tailored for Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection that will show you the required ports that need to be forwarded.

That's all it takes to forward your ports. Have more games that need a boost? Check out our growing list of games and applications.

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