Games that should've gotten a Saturn Port

[Anonymous No.2459301]

I'll start.

[Anonymous No.2459327]

This and Shadow Dancer should've gotten Sega Ages ports.

[Anonymous No.2459330]

>>2459327
Forgot my pic.

[Anonymous No.2459331]

The AC Shadow Dancer is very different from the Genesis version for those who don't know

[Anonymous No.2459365]

Mischief Makers.

[Anonymous No.2459385]

>>2459301
Wonder why this and other Model 2 games didn't get ported, at least on Japan.
>>2459331
I don't think I've ever seen this one.
>>2459365
I can see this one working out actually.

[Anonymous No.2459401]

>>2459330
Oh shit this was what I had hoped to see instead of the duel. We were robbed.

[Anonymous No.2459403]

>>2459365

[Anonymous No.2459414]

While we're talking about Sega games that should have been ported, why the fuck doesn't Sega have more arcade games on Steam? The earlier ones could be ported by a 5 year old. The latest ones, I guess they're content to let die on PS3 and 360 even though the arcades use PC hardware. Sometimes I wish I could boot the head management out of Sega / Sammy and return them to their former glory with my pinky during breakfast. It's almost like they want to fail.

[Anonymous No.2459417]

Imagine how god tier it would have been if an earlier version was released on the Saturn.

[Anonymous No.2459418]

>>2459414
Sega is ran by rednecks. Everybody knows that.

[Anonymous No.2459423]

>>2459417
Fuck, that would've been awesome. Make it 3DPad compatible and we're golden.
>>2459414
Sega's too busy with their smartphones up their own ass.

[Anonymous No.2459425]

>>2459418
I wasn't aware Japan had rednecks.

[Anonymous No.2459462]

>>2459417
>>2459423
It would've looked like Burning Rangers, had 1/6 the content, ran like ass, and no multiplayer. You're wishing to turn a memorable game into a speed bump.

[Anonymous No.2459487]

>>2459462
If it ran on a Panzer Saga engine, it wouldn't have sucked. Sega Saturn is more than capable to run such a game, you're just being a negative Nancy.

[Anonymous No.2459503]

>>2459401
>Oh shit this was what I had hoped to see instead of the duel. We were robbed.
The Duel was easier to port, since it was on the ST-V.

[Anonymous No.2459664]

FUCK YOU, SEGA

[Anonymous No.2459678]

Virtua Fighter 3. Show us what the Saturn can really do. Then release a "perfect edition" for the Dreamcast a few years later.

>>2459664
That would have been incredible.

[Anonymous No.2459683]

>SCUD Race and Daytona 2 don't receive a home port
>18 Wheeler does

t-thanks SEGA...

[Anonymous No.2459728]

>>2459678
I think you're forgetting Aoi's stage among others. They already had to ditch 3d backgrounds in VF2 Saturn port. I would have been happy if AM2 had done a VF3 port on Dreamcast instead of Genki. I guess it was still pretty faithful, but you just know AM2 would have squeezed even more out of the system.

[Anonymous No.2459754]

>>2459683
Those may have been because of licensing issues.

[Anonymous No.2459762]

>>2459365
This negroid knows it

[Anonymous No.2459765]

>>2459462
>and no multiplayer

[Anonymous No.2459769]

What the fuck happened
Wasn't the rumor that the game was ready to go and they pulled the plug on the project?

[Anonymous No.2459778]

>>2459301
It would probably be embarrassing for SEGA to port over WaveRunner since they could never get it to look as good as Wave Racer and that would probably just give kids in the playground another reason to mock SEGA.
The console wars were real, they couldn't give kids the ammunition.

[Anonymous No.2459783]

>>2459769
Oh god. I made the mistake of looking for proofs. No wonder they shit canned it.

[Anonymous No.2459784]

>>2459783
That's just the Arcade VF3 corrupted in a shitty Sega Model 3 emulator.

[Anonymous No.2459785]

>>2459783
stuff like this is why I think that saturn shenmue thing was a hoax

[Anonymous No.2459787]

>>2459785
Nigga the Saturn Shenmue video was from the Shenmue 2 extras.
Only if you think Yu Suzuki was trying to hoax us.

[Anonymous No.2459890]

>>2459785
It's a shitty emulator screenshot, there are no videos or images of Saturn VF3 out there.

[Anonymous No.2460456]

>>2459769
Wasn't Fighters' Megamix based on the rejected Saturn port of VF3? Janet Marshall was even based on Aoi.

[Anonymous No.2460487]

>>2459787
it could have just been conceptual art or whatever

[Anonymous No.2460502]

>>2460487
It was a tech demo running on an actual Saturn hardware.

[Anonymous No.2460513]

>>2460502
I want to believe it too

[Anonymous No.2460515]

>>2460513
The fuckeroo
Why would they make a mock concept tech demo after the fact

[Anonymous No.2460519]

>>2460515
fucked if I know, could be one of those arcade hardware or dreamcast prototype whatever
it looks to good too be true

[Anonymous No.2460525]

>>2460519
It doesn't even look that good
The frame rate is abysmal
Granted the baseline frame rate at the time was at an all time low, but this is Yu Suzuki we're talking about here, this fucker wouldn't stand for mediocrity.

[Anonymous No.2460652]

An actually well-handled one I mean.

[Anonymous No.2460654]

>>2459664
That sounds fucking awesome, why was this never ported?

[Don Rumata !!rYqzYYFAejo No.2460697]

>>2460654
Not to the Saturn, but Data East did a Mega Drive downgrade. The System 32 architecture's different from the Super Scalar one (latter's X68000-based, former's RISC), which means it's less familiar within the porting community.

[Anonymous No.2461139]

>>2460697
To be perfectly honest even though looks good it doesn't play that well. I'm happy they didn't call it Outrun 2 because it doesn't exactly portray the comfortable driving experience that the series is all about.
It's not a bad game though, I just don't think it deserves the outrun name.
Or maybe I'm just being autistic.
I didn't exactly like the music either, which is a big part of Outrun. I'm a big fan of Mitsuyoshi but I don't think it's his best moment.

But then again my whole point is moot since I only played it in MAME, and I don't think I even bothered assigning proper analogue controls, so I guess I'm just an idiot, I never actually got to play the proper cabinet experience.
Disregard what I said I suck cocks.

[Don Rumata !!rYqzYYFAejo No.2461143]

>>2461139
Much of the soundtrack's by Takayuki Nakamura, and his musical style's a bit different from SEGA's usual around that period.

[Anonymous No.2461153]

>>2459664

Some of the shit that game accomplished with scaled sprites still blows my mind.

[Anonymous No.2461163]

>>2460652
God damnit why did they screw the pooch on this one so hard. Saturn could have more than handled it and the extra content is mostly pretty good, too.

In The Hunt from what I remember was also a shitty port that should have run fine.

[Anonymous No.2461254]

>>2461143
I'm not so sure about that tripfriend

> Takayuki Nakamura (SEGA) *Track[01][03][04][08]~[11][13][14][24][33]
> Takenobu Mitsuyoshi (SEGA) *Track[02][12][15][16][18]~[20][22][23][25]~[27][29][30][34]

If anything they're tied with Mitsuyoshi having a slight lead. Either way I thought it was mostly just Mitsuyoshi so I was wrong in that regard.

[Don Rumata !!rYqzYYFAejo No.2461257]

>>2461254
I said much, not most.

[Anonymous No.2461259]

>>2461257
I will ignore your statement and continue on pretending I won this internet fevered dispute

[Anonymous No.2461513]

>>2460519
said this in another thread, but the framerate is the key
it's low as shit, and the scenes that run at 20+fps look like any other Saturn game
It's not even hard to believe this is running on real Saturn hardware.
AM2 managed to do crazy shit like VF2's Saturn port at 60fps in 480i (I think Fighting Vipers and Last Bronx look nicer, but they render 3D at 320x240 despite running in 480i, VF2 on Saturn renders 3D at a higher resolution than the arcade).

It looks so good because there's a lot of work put into the faces and the pre-baked lighting looks wonderful (there is zero dynamic lighting in that tech demo).

the character models are slightly more detailed than in Sega's 3D fighters for the machine
and the environments are as low poly as every other Saturn game (you can count the amount of polygons in some scenes on your hands, the framerate is usually pretty high during those parts of the video, too)

It's an impressive effort and very taxing on the machine, but it wasn't going to keep even a solid 15fps without some cuts.

>>2461139
Really? I think OutRunners' course design, look, and handling are ace as fuck. Wonderful game. Cool tunes, but not the best, so I'm with you there.

It desperately needed a port to SOMETHING OTHER THAN THE FUCKING GENESIS.

it's still one of the prettiest games ever, too
I can still impress people by showing them OutRunners and Galaxy Force II, Sega was on fucking point back then with Super Scaler-style graphics.

>>2459783
that's literally VF3 running in MAME, which has awful Model 3 support and doesn't emulate the protection properly

If they did VF3 for Saturn, it'd have to either a: have massively cut-down models or b: run at a lower framerate with somewhat heavily cut-down models (not happening)
and the DC was coming up, so it got bumped to it, like Shenmue

>>2459301
Sega was usually pretty good about Model 2 to Saturn ports, I'm surprised this didn't get one.

[Anonymous No.2461550]

>>2459664
>M2 will never do a port of this

[Anonymous No.2462959]

>>2459778
I think it looked pretty good for a Model 2 game, they might've had to tone down a bit some of the texture and water effects but otherwise it would've worked.

Closest thing we might've gotten was the water racing game on the dreamcast.

[Anonymous No.2462993]

>>2462959
I'm not saying it doesn't look good for a Model 2 game, were' talking about SM2 here, the first big hardware capable of 3D texture mapping. But I'm saying that visually it doesn't hold a candle compared to Wave Race 64. It's not a fair comparison obviously since Model 2 is literally the genesis of real 3D and the other had more time to mature, but that's just how it is.

[Anonymous No.2463004]

Super Hang-On. They ported Outrun, Space Harrier, Columns, Afterburner, frigging Quackshot got a port, but not Super Hang-On.

Cool Riders would have been interesting, but I doubt the hardware could take it.

>>2459728
>They already had to ditch 3d backgrounds in VF2 Saturn port.

VF2 was a pretty early Saturn game. 1995 xmas. There was definitely room for a lot of improvement.

I don't think they could've gotten the backgrounds to be uneven, but they could've made them very impressing regardless - check Last Bronx, and think of something that 1 ups that by a little.

Snow effect might have been possible in some way too.

[Anonymous No.2463005]

Super Locomotive

Mostly for the YMO music, but the game looks interesting enough. I'd buy a 3DS release by M2.

[Anonymous No.2463009]

>>2459487
Or even the Sonic R engine.

Saturn could do some very impressive special effects, more impressive than the Playstation, but only as long as you did not aim to do realism - it had a very low colour palette.

[Anonymous No.2463018]

>>2460456
Fighters Megamix was basically just the producer of Fighting Vipers and a couple of others in AM2 dicking around.

They added Rent-a-Hero, the car from Daytona, a prototype character from VF1, the original characters from Sonic Fighters, and even the AM2 palm tree logo as playable characters.

I imagine the VF3 moves got in because those were their most up to date assets.

Also apparently they wanted to do a Saturn rent-a-hero but it never took off, they only added him to Megamix as a nod to that (or probably reused a concept model).

[Anonymous No.2463027]

>>2461513
>the character models are slightly more detailed than in Sega's 3D fighters for the machine

I'd say they are about equal, they just have more dynamic parts (jackets, clothes, hair swooping around etc), and better animation (polygons stretching as skin without breaking contact points).

[Anonymous No.2463117]

>>2463004
Well they gave us Hang-On GP

: ^ )

[Anonymous No.2463151]

>>2459778
I think WaveRunner's a far more stylish game than Wave Race 64, which has impressive water effects and not much else in the looks department. By '96, Sega could have done a serviceable port of WaveRunner to Saturn.

>>2463004
every time I look at Last Bronx, I wish VF2 on Saturn had backgrounds that nice, fuck

[Anonymous No.2463174]

>>2463018
>They added Rent-a-Hero, the car from Daytona, a prototype character from VF1, the original characters from Sonic Fighters, and even the AM2 palm tree logo as playable characters.

And yet, no Pepsi-Man...

[Anonymous No.2463404]

Well, they were hellbent on more western style games, so a lot of them should be here.

[Anonymous No.2463427]

>>2463404
Isn't there a decent Saturn Quake port?

Also

>System Shock

I wonder how that one would've worked out.

[Anonymous No.2463442]

>>2463427
Tomb Raider also came out on the Saturn. In fact, the Saturn version was actually the original.

[Anonymous No.2463492]

>>2463004
>VF2 was an early saturn game
what

[Anonymous No.2463504]

Not really sure if this counts but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foZUcPQAMvg
Seems like they had pretty much all of Shenmue 1 and 2 on Saturn. That's pretty cool to me

[Anonymous No.2463551]

>>2463442
Really? Wow, how they abandoned it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cancelled_Sega_Saturn_games

[Anonymous No.2463561]

>>2463551
But the original Tomb Raider did came out on Saturn. You're thinking of the sequels, which were only on PlayStation and PC until IV. The list of canceled Saturn games you've just posted actually has Tomb Raider II (as in Number 2) listed.

[Anonymous No.2463595]

>>2459664
Yeah this the mega drive port is crappier than the outrun port

[Anonymous No.2463608]

>>2463561
Yes, I was referring to TR2.

It's like they decided to do the bare minimum carrying on the franchise after TR1.

[Anonymous No.2463625]

>>2463608
>It's like they decided to do the bare minimum carrying on the franchise after TR1.
What are you talking about? This was one of the biggest franchises on the Playstation with a massive advertising campaign. They weren't on the Saturn after the first game because of Sony's shekels.

[Anonymous No.2463743]

>>2463492
it kind of was
it's weird to think about, since other than the backgrounds being kind of lazy, it looks amazing

>>2463427
Quake on Saturn is a thing, yeah.
pretty decent port too, even better than Quake on the 64 in some aspects (noticeably more detailed level geometry, higher texture quality, some dynamic lighting, just more general polish) and worse in others (64 has better polygon rendering, colored lighting, higher framerate, smooth textures)

was always surprised that Quake 1 never had a PS1 port though

[Anonymous No.2463825]

>>2463743
quake isn't one of the games that supports netlink, right?

[Anonymous No.2463836]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qas3FT9AlS0

This was gonna be released, but was canceled for... reasons. I'm not too sure and I'm not really in the mood to research.

Fantastic game, though.