have bought some pretty sweet gc titles because of this release. I've ordered Sonic Gems (want Sonic R)
I too use Devolution for Sonic Gems Collection, this game has issues with DM(L) especially if you wanna play Sonic R, Sonic CD or Sonic The Fighters, in order to do so you'll need a disc in the drive anyway or else you'll be stuck with a black screen, older versions of DM(L) allowed for a cheat way to get Sonic The Fighters and Sonic R to work without a disc if you run the inside-the-disc dol files instead but Sonic CD never worked in DM(L) without a disc in the drive!
In case you decide to stick with Devolution I think it's "for the most part" more powerful than DM(L), it's faster (much faster) and has better compatibility (not that the compatibility in DM(L) is bad) but the problems with Devolution are:
-You need a clean 1:1 rip of the game, i.e. you cannot compress small games like Luigi's Mansion to save space
-You need the original game disc for verification
-You cannot use cheat codes with it
-Lack of Padhook
-You can easily remove the disc check by accident of a game, wither by updating Devo or by deleting the apps folder from your USB, meaning you will need to re-configure the game discs all over again.
On the plus side the benefits of Devolution that DM(L) doesn't have are:
-Audio Streaming
-Better compatibility for games and NMM
-MUCH faster loading times
-Loading games from either SD and USB
-Frame patch for games that suffer from bad frame rate
Yet to be done:
-Soon to be added an option to support the Wii remote and classic controller (DM will never do this)
-Better chance of carrying over to the Wii U
