Want to see Sonic CD on the iPhone? So does the Taxman.

Programmer Christian Whitehead has been working on various iterations of his 'Retro Engine' -- a 2D engine he says currently supports PC, Mac and iPhone/iPod Touch -- for some time now, nearly always under the auspices of creating the perfect bit of Sonic the Hedgehog fan-kit, and now he wants to lend it to Sega.

In what he says was under a month, he's put together the above video showing a version of Sonic CD ported through his engine to the device, rather than Sega's internal emulator used for the original Sonic release, which was criticized for widespread performance issues.

Whitehead's video is an open plea for gamers to tell Sega (at this recent blog post) that they'd like to see Retro Engine used for a new version of the game, which -- though admittedly, from a corporate perspective, is as powerful any given internet petition -- seems to already be gathering some steam.

See more about Whitehead's work on the Sonic CD version above at his blog. [via TAF]