Saturn thread

[Anonymous No.9668035]

Saturnchads reporting in

what are you guys playing? me its pic related, the cgi is surprisingly good and the graphics are pretty cool

other comfy rpgs I should play next?

[Anonymous No.9668212]

>>9668035
Greetings fellow saturnchad. Its been a few days since I played on mine but last time I was trying to up my game on sega rally and dead or alive, the latter has really impressive graphics for a game of that generation by the way. I will try to finish panzer dragoon 1 soon and deep fear. I am into fighting games too. There are many really good games, i dont know much about rpgs for saturn besides grandia and PD saga and I havent played any yet. Peace.

[Anonymous No.9668269]

>>9668212
>I was trying to up my game on sega rally
nice, whats ur records? maybe I can help you
>I am into fighting games too
I'm trying to get into some fighting games but I don't really know that much, like rpgs.
fighting games I've played so far are vf2 and fighting vipers (and tekken 2/3), maybe I'll try dead or alive

[Anonymous No.9668279]

>>9668035
Albert odyssey, then I really wanna beat bug too! I remember it’s like croc mixed with gex. Fun game

[Anonymous No.9668280]

Me and a friend played Dragon Force today. It's amusing watching someone try to figure the game out when they have virtually no experience playing games in the genre. We played Virtua Fighter Remix after.

REALISTIC 3-D FIGHTING ACTION! KING OF THE WORLD!

[Anonymous No.9668304]

Saturn kind of flew under my radar for years. But yesterday I watched a video of all the games for the platform, and man, it was the comfiest experience this weeb has had in a long time. It felt like going home.

[Anonymous No.9668653]

>>9668035
Currently playing Quake, it's damn ugly and runs terribly but impressive nonetheless.
Waiting for my Pseudo Saturn Kai cart to arrive, anyone got some 2d platformers to recommend? Keio 2 and Astal look fun

[Anonymous No.9668839]

>>9668304
Care to share the video my dude?

[Anonymous No.9668853]

>>9668035
Doing another run of Sakura Wars to get a different girl.

[Anonymous No.9668890]

Fighters Mega Mix, Mega Man 8 and Battle Garrega. The latter two through emulation.

[Anonymous No.9668898]

I'm not even playing my Saturn, got all the games for it and finished them back in the 00s, since then I've been letting the games gather dust and go up in value by an order of magnitude. If this continues, I'll be able to retire on my collection.

>>9668653
>anyone got some 2d platformers to recommend? Keio 2 and Astal look fun

Keio 2 is nice for the WTF value but it's really clunky and slow paced. Astal is largely the same, but has no WTF value - once the novelty of "omg huge sprites" wears off, it's just an average to poor 2d platformer.

Earthworm Jim 2 is a great 2d platformer but it's nothing more than you could get on the 16-bit systems, plus it was ported by morons who fucked up the background art. The up side is that it has CD Audio music and the music KICKS A METRIC FUCKTON OF ASS. That is, if you like italian tarantella and Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. If not, it only has ~2 good tracks (Tangerines and Lorenzo's Soil). Worth getting it as just an audio cd.

Super Tempo and Silhouette Mirage look impressive on paper, but it takes something like 1-2 hours to finish them, and they both have a different gameplay quirk per stage, which makes it really annoying because you have to figure out each level instead of just gunning it through. Great graphics though.

Metal Slug is half as impressive as on Neogeo, it has a fuckton of slowdown (on every single cart, not just the action replay, proof: I have the original disc and 1mb cart). It's also missing a lot of animation, but still has twice as much intact as the PSX port. Up side is the combat school and the art gallery having an extra high resolution gallery. Unfortunately the combat school has a bug that prevents you from reaching the max score and unlock the hidden super dragon mode.

unironically the best 2d platformer on the system is probably Castlevania SOTN, even though it looks like arse and slows down constantly when compared to the Playstation original.

[Anonymous No.9668959]

>>9668898
Thanks! It's a little disappointing to hear about the lack of standout 2d platformers for the Saturn considering it's proficiency at 2d graphics but I'll be sure to check most of these out

[Anonymous No.9668969]

>>9668959
the genre was dying by the time, and the saturn didnt sell well enough to change that. plus, the system isn't that good at 2d. it just has more memory. the playstation can do better 2d, it just lacks the ram to do so (check Skullmonkeys).

[Anonymous No.9668993]

working on my radiant silvergun 1cc

[Anonymous No.9669095]

Had a Saturn as a kid, but didnt really appreciate it as much as I probably should have back then. Always wanted to get back into it when i discovered more of its japanese library. Picked up some fun stuff last year that ive been finally going through, though usps is a bunch of fuck ups who delivered one game to the wrong house and refused to tell me which one and will do fuck-all to retrieve it. Fortunately I was only out 10 burgerbux. Im still not seeing the "2d powerhouse" I always heard it claimed to be, but it has enough unique stuff that its library is fun to explore with a bit more knowledge of whats out there.

Does anyone know if you can use an action replay to change the blood in house of the dead to red in the japanese version? For some reason I always thought the green blood was only in the US version.

[Anonymous No.9669195]

>>9668839
Sure thing fren
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUUsh_FxeIo

[Anonymous No.9669498]

>>9668653
try out the mega mans

[Anonymous No.9669651]

I'm trying to 1CC Radiant as well and I'm so close to giving up

[Anonymous No.9669779]

Playing Resident Evil again. Because it’s fun. Really fun.

[Anonymous No.9669803]

>>9668898
>Unfortunately the combat school has a bug that prevents you from reaching the max score and unlock the hidden super dragon mode.

Try this: https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/7139/

[Anonymous No.9671373]

>>9668280
>We played Virtua Fighter Remix after.
based

[Anonymous No.9671504]

bulk slash navigator routes
(also) shining the holy ark

[Anonymous No.9671523]

>>9668653
>impressive nonetheless.
speaking of tech demos, did you try the unreal (ireel) demo? that shit blew my mind

[Anonymous No.9671736]

>>9671504
thx

[Anonymous No.9671745]

>>9671504
>bulk slash
>RPG
lmao saturn fags will grasp at anything to cope with the fact they had no gaemz

[Anonymous No.9671751]

>>9669651
I spent a week or two getting skilled enough to reach level 5 every time (taking the easier route), and once I got there with 0 deaths I just put the game down
I never get why most shmups go insanely nuts near the end

[Anonymous No.9671752]

>>9671745
>no gaemz
back to ur n64 thread

[Anonymous No.9671757]

>>9671752
oh yeah? well go back to your saturn gam-, i mean uh, uhh...

[Anonymous No.9672185]

I’ll settle the n64 vs Saturn no games argument.
>both have more than ps5

[Anonymous No.9672335]

I'm about half way through Story of Thor 2 (Legend of Oasis). It's a visually nice game that's easy to come back to and figure out what you need to do.

Also playing Croc, previously I'd only played it on PS1 so visually it's a very pleasant surprise on Saturn.

I play Jewels of the Oracle for a couple of hours each week - just to chip away at a couple of puzzles. Some of them are really obscure but it's worth getting into for a relaxing game.

Finally, since I completed the brilliant Shutokou Battle 97, I've been playing the slightly less brilliant Touge King Spirits 2. Thankfully this one has 3D Pad support where then original Touge didn't. You can draw a lot of comparisons to Shutokou 97 with this game, but personally the handling model isn't anywhere near refined and all-round lacks some polish. It's still fun though.

[Anonymous No.9672462]

Resident Evil

[Anonymous No.9672740]

>>9672335
>Also playing Croc, previously I'd only played it on PS1 so visually it's a very pleasant surprise on Saturn.
I've also been playing it on saturn, after watching some compare videos, I prefer the textures in the saturn version but the controls are hard to get into

>but personally the handling model isn't anywhere near refined and all-round lacks some polish. It's still fun though.
true, touge king 2 isn't that good, the controls are way too sensible and the car feels weird. its the only racing game that I find unplayable. if ur into drifty arcadey games I recomend wangan dead heat + and choro q

[Anonymous No.9672771]

>>9671751
>I spent a week or two getting skilled enough to reach level 5 every time
I've been at it for months and I can barely finish the first 2 stages with a credit..

[Anonymous No.9673160]

>>9669779
>>9672462
is it good?

[Anonymous No.9673192]

>>9673160
Of course it's good, it's Resident Evil.
The Saturn port has an exclusive battle mode not in any other version or remake and a few other minor changes like different unlockable costumes

[Anonymous No.9673383]

>>9668035
>Saturncels
>chads
Thanks for the laugh. Go back to jacking off to your shitty tranime games and your pathetic failure of a system, loser.

[Anonymous No.9673398]

>>9673383
new floigan bros song when?

[Anonymous No.9673408]

>>9673383
Based.

>>9673398
Soon™

[Anonymous No.9673472]

I live in New Zealand and was thinking for a long time about getting a Saturn. One popped up online - a Japanese console modded to run on NZ AC without the need for a step-down converter and I decided to take the plunge. I'm glad I did. It's super cool to be able to collect some JP titles and have the console work with my tv without any extra finagling.

I've met a few people who grew up with a Dreamcast in NZ, but not a Saturn. It's unheard of. Online people always mentioned the controller and its dpad in high regard when it comes to fighting games. It was really novel getting one in hand. The face buttons, especially the top row, stick out quite a lot. They feel small in diameter compared to how notably they stick out and it was kind of a bizarre feeling at first. The dpad is indeed good for fighting games. The shoulder buttons feel like mouse buttons, which was a surprise. I didn't see anyone mention this curiousity.

I ended up picking up Street Fighter Zero 2, X-men VS Street Fighter, Puyo Puyo Sun and Outrun (aw yeah). Zero 2 and Outrun in particular are my favourites.

Side note on Puyo Puyo Sun:

I was a little disappointed with Puyo Sun compared to the mega drive port of Puyo 2 that I had been playing on Wii VC (in regards to the single-player campaign). The flow of gameplay doesn't have as much breathing room to make large chains as did Puyo 2. So there's an emphasis on speed rather than combos which means well-played matches (by Puyo Sun's requisite, as far as I can tell) end in a paltry 40 seconds or so, and are deprived of the joy of creativity that comes with the chaining system. If you don't go for really quick 2-chains at the top of a match, then the opponent gets the upper hand and the AI really runs away on you such that it is really difficult to turn the match back around. I got the impression that Puyo 2's comeback potential on a losing match was more viable - and so the whole act of playing Puyo feels more excitingly unpredictable in that one.

[Anonymous No.9673506]

>>9673383
>bernie stolar died back in like June
kek, what a bitch

[Anonymous No.9673548]

>>9673383
!!!!BASED!!!!

op be like what you playing saturnchads, i'm playing the only good game on the system lol

[Anonymous No.9673556]

i'm playing bulk slash
it"s a little short, but the gameplay is so fucking fun. theres nothing else quite like it.

[Anonymous No.9673765]

My Saturn has recently started to have trouble reading discs. The guy at my local game store says he can fix it, if I can get a new laser. Is there anything I need to know before I buy it? Can I just buy any replacement Saturn laser online, or do I need one specific to my model? It died the day after I got my copy of Saturn Bomberman too, such a bummer.

[Anonymous No.9673769]

>>9668035
>that shadow
Holy shit that looks terrible. Literally ascii art

[Anonymous No.9673781]

>>9673769
its dithering

[Anonymous No.9673786]

>>9673769
Not noticeable on a CRT

[Anonymous No.9673790]

>>9673383
anime site you troon
>it's a failure because it didn't sell! LOL!
Pathetic pedo

[Anonymous No.9673804]

>>9673548
>that BASED with four !
Fellow Lobotomy Corp anon? What are you doing here on /vr/?

[Anonymous No.9673814]

>>9673781
>>9673786
>it's supposed to look like dogshit!
Ok

[Anonymous No.9673817]

>>9673814
It looks normal on a CRT, you schizo.
Bad shadows are much less of a deal than wobbly polygons fucking everywhere, anyway.

[Anonymous No.9673821]

>>9673817
>it's supposed to look like dogshit!

[Anonymous No.9673840]

>>9673821
What part of
>normal
you don't understand you retarded cunt?
It doesn't "look like dogshit" when you play the damn game on it's actual hardware

[Anonymous No.9673853]

>>9673769
Dithering techniques are common on the Saturn. The Saturn has issues with transparency so this classic "checkerboard" dithering technique was used frequently. On CRTs, the pixels "blend" together creating the illusion of translucent textures. The same technique was used in many 2D games of the '90s.

[Anonymous No.9673885]

>>9673840
>it's supposed to look like dogshit!
>OK?!!!?

[Anonymous No.9673895]

>>9673885
>goto

[Anonymous No.9673921]

>>9673383
>>9673383
thx for keeping the thread alive

[Anonymous No.9673928]

>>9673769
looks good on my crt /vr/gin

[Anonymous No.9673929]

>>9673192
What does the battle mode entail?

[Anonymous No.9673952]

>>9668035
Currently playing Baku Baku animal and nights into dreams. Both bangers. I also play a lot of sega rally but I've switched to the model 2 version now

[Anonymous No.9673967]

>>9673192
ok thx

[Anonymous No.9673971]

>>9673952
Based and Backupilled

[Anonymous No.9674000]

I played through the Saturn version of Megaman 8 last month mostly because the Saturn controller is way better than the DualShock.

[Anonymous No.9675019]

>>9673929
Similar to mercenaries from the later games. Just run through rooms blasting enemies for a highscore

[Anonymous No.9675037]

I'm waiting for the Saturn core to drop for Mister since I don't have a real console and my PC isn't good enough to emulate. Excited though, I'd like to play through the Panzer Dragoon games and Policenauts.

[Anonymous No.9675347]

>>9669779
nice brutal death

[Anonymous No.9675524]

>>9675019
I'll have to give that a go

[Anonymous No.9675628]

>>9668035
I've really been enjoying playing some Sega Rally and some of the sports games like Decathalete and Winter Heat.

[Anonymous No.9675663]

This game is hard.

[Anonymous No.9675673]

>>9668653
Are you Sega Lord X?

[Anonymous No.9675676]

>>9668035
Oh, the memories... I bought Panzer Dragoon Saga from a GameStop in the mall where everyone went and hung out. That mall was bulldozed over the past year. The house I grew up in was sold and strangers live there now. Reminds me of a time without responsibilities... Think I'll go visit my parents.

[Anonymous No.9675694]

>>9675673
No? Why?

[Anonymous No.9675704]

>>9675673
>I was playing this like Astaaaalll back in 1995

[Anonymous No.9675719]

>>9675694
>it's damn ugly and runs terribly but impressive nonetheless.

It sounds exactly like something he says. You could make a toxic drinking game for everyone he says 'damn' normally followed by 'but'...

>>9675704
Lol

[Anonymous No.9675734]

>>9675719
>It sounds exactly like something he says. You could make a toxic drinking game for everyone he says 'damn' normally followed by 'but'...
Oh right, I've seen a few of his Saturn recommendations videos looking for things to play. I think that's where I first saw Keio 2 and Astal

[Anonymous No.9675784]

For those who were around, what was your reaction when the Saturn was announced/released? Did you get one right away or did you wait?

[Anonymous No.9675786]

>>9675784
>I want one but its too expensive

[Anonymous No.9675790]

>>9675719
he always speaks so emphatically even about minor things lol

[Anonymous No.9675805]

>>9675037
why don't you buy a real saturn?

[Anonymous No.9675810]

>>9675673
whats ur thoughts on sega lord x btw? I think hes a massive faggot whos always bitching about the smallest thing, almost sounds like a zoomer from /v/

[Anonymous No.9675826]

>>9675784
I was excited. Bought one I think in June, didn't know about the surprise release until I walked into electronics boutique and saw all the Saturn boxes. Was 14 and had a summer job steaming crabs so I went to the bank with my account passport, for our 600 bucks and bought the Saturn, panzer dragoon and Daytona. Thought the PlayStation was gonna fail, figured they didn't know what they were doing. Oops. Ended up with a 20 or 30 game collection. It's the best memories I had of gaming. Ended up with all 3 systems and it was definitely Saturn, N64 and psx from best to worst. Sega was fun, so was N64. What sucked it's I knew the psx was winning around when tomb raider came, but I held out hope till when burning rangers came out realizing things were drying up.

>>9675790
Haha, your right! He has good videos, and always watch stuff when it looks new. His voice and vocabulary are interesting, but it doesn't bother me

[Anonymous No.9675835]

>>9675810
I think he's at the point now that since Saturn's library is limited, his content has come down in quality. But I'm not into streamers or YouTubers, just casually forever at YouTube once a week. I'm 40, wife and kid and running my own carpentry business so he's just fun to watch every once in a while. He reminds me of someone who would have a good time playing some co op games with.

[Anonymous No.9675839]

>>9669195
thanks homie

[Anonymous No.9675846]

>>9675037
I haven't really played any Saturn games so I'd prefer to see if I like them first before getting a real console, good cables, a flashcart etc.

[Anonymous No.9675865]

>>9675826
A stack of Saturn boxes entirely localized to your electronics boutique at that time of year? Steamed crabs?

[Anonymous No.9675871]

>>9675826
Man those we're the days, working little jobs during the summer break to buy video games. I was too young to work in retail or fastfood so I would deliver newspapers and flyers on my bike, mow lawns and walk my neighbours dogs, although for me it was to be able to afford the Dreamcast.

[Anonymous No.9675905]

As fun as the Saturn is, one thing that activates my autism is all of the recommendations to buy an ode for new users. I know they're cool, but I feel like this has nothing to do with playing games for cheap on a system that had no games

[Anonymous No.9675913]

>>9675905
No idea what point you're trying to make but I'd always recommend one of those 4in1 pseudo saturn Chink carts over an ODE to a new Saturn owner

[Anonymous No.9676021]

>>9675913
Cheapest option is to use the swap trick and cdrs

[Anonymous No.9676038]

which saturn should i get ?
the silver jap or the western black color ?

[Anonymous No.9676058]

Got my Saturn around last month. Have mostly been playing arcade games that are easy to pick up and play. Played Metal Slug and Elevator Action yesterday, but I suck at those games. My autism also prevents me from playing on normal difficulty and using credits.

I want to play some RPGs, but my current setup isn't ideal for long sessions, need to find a better place for my CRT.

[Anonymous No.9676076]

>>9668035
Are Satiators good?

[Anonymous No.9676120]

What is the best emulator? I've tried some, but all of them have some good and bad points.

[Anonymous No.9676129]

>>9669803
You can't run that with the original disc.

[Anonymous No.9676136]

>>9673472
Puyo Sun got the sun system specifically to lower the barrier of entry and make the game more viable for less expert players. Puyo 2 requires you to build super tall towers really fast, and even if the other player counters, you can build another tower by the time his chain finishes. Then it's a race to whoever builds the biggest tower while the other players chain is playing out.
Puyo Sun favors smaller chains which (when doing a counter) will trigger sun puyos that can give you huge combo bonus. this allows you to counter even without building full screen chains. And when you have two expert players, it can bring the match to a conclusion faster. Personally I think it is more balanced, but it's less impressive in that it does not require you to be an expert chain builder.

[Anonymous No.9676164]

>>9675865
I live in Maryland, streamed blue crabs are a thing and in the mid 90s be it was comfy. Turned out that EB only had boxes for displays, they were sold out (only received like 5 units) so I went to toys r us and they had plenty.

>>9675871
Yeah man, I remember buying a geo metro at 16 for 2k or so. Even though it was a shitty car it raised my popularity a little bit. I was no gigachad but i had fun

[Anonymous No.9676227]

Any recommendations of Japanese visual novels for the Saturn for someone learning Japanese? Preferably something simple and light-hearted.

[Anonymous No.9676624]

>>9676038
THE MOTHERFUCKIN' HITACHI

[Anonymous No.9676643]

>>9676227
NGE Iron Maiden.
It's censored but still good

[Anonymous No.9676683]

>>9675628
I like olympic and winter olympic games but never got round to trying the saturn ones. If you had to rate them both out of 10 what would you give them?

[Anonymous No.9676698]

>>9676120
I've had most success by far with the beetle saturn core on retroarch, no upscaling options but I can't think of a game I've played in the last year that it had any problems with

[Anonymous No.9676943]

>>9668035
For me, I am playing Fighters Megamix currently. I love playing it on my newly bought 4KTV with the HDMI converter cable.

[Anonymous No.9677037]

>>9676943
how does it look?

[Anonymous No.9677085]

It is worth it to buy a Saturn if I just want to play some exclusives or emulation is fine?

[Anonymous No.9677381]

>>9676624
The screen is included with that version?

[Anonymous No.9677738]

>>9676227
Sentimental Grafitti
Martian Successor Nadesico

Sakura Taisen 1 or 2 are also options, pretty light overall.

[Anonymous No.9677743]

>>9676120
Medafen/Beetle Saturn has the best compatibility. From what I've played, it will run anything you throw at it.

[Anonymous No.9677821]

>>9676120
Mednafen for sure. It doesnt have GUI so you have to get one if you want, I recomenr MedGuiR.

[Anonymous No.9677826]

>>9677085
Just emulate. If you become a massive fan of some game sure go ahead and spend the money later, don't do it blindly

[Anonymous No.9677830]

>>9668035
Shmup arcade ports are literally all I use my Saturn for. Maybe the occasional Die Hard Arcade playthrough. The one console thats always hooked to my CRT

[Anonymous No.9678405]

Still waiting for my Pseudo Saturn cart to arrive but in the meantime are these CD-Rs good enough for burned Saturn games? I've got a stack of them laying around and might aswell use them if they're okay

[Anonymous No.9678427]

I'm gonna hijack this thread. Here is my current Saturn library: got too lazy to take them all out, going to write the titles of the rest of the games:
>vandal hearts
>resident evil
>joshikousei
>bulk slash
>albert odyssey
>policenauts (best version of this game)
>rayearth
>akumajou dracula x
>vampire savior
>magical drop III
>cotton 2
>sakura wars
>grandia (best version of this game)
>tokimeki taisen
>shining force 3
>burning rangers
>zoku gussun oyoyo
>princess crown
>shining the holy christ in heaven
>napple tale isn't a saturn idk why it's with them
Let me know if you know of any games that I should enjoy.

[Anonymous No.9678429]

>>9678405
That's actually the best brand of blank cds to use. In my experience. The discs aren't bad for the laser, and they run identically to the real things.

[Anonymous No.9678445]

>>9678429
Great thanks, that's good to hear

[Anonymous No.9679049]

>>9677037
Great.

[Anonymous No.9679052]

>>9678405
They're fine. Burn at AWS

[Anonymous No.9679069]

>>9678427
>shining the holy christ in heaven
kek I almost thought this was real

[Anonymous No.9679687]

>>9668269
>nice, whats ur records? maybe I can help you
Actually I didnt even unlock the last stage but I was getting close to it, I only played the game for a few hours, it was my first time ever playing sega rally, amazing game, one of the best racers Ive played. I havent got much time to play lately but today Im gonna finish that
>I'm trying to get into some fighting games but I don't really know that much
I would suggest Dead or Alive for 3D fighter and Real Bout Fatal Fury for 2D you cant go wrong with those

[Anonymous No.9679841]

>>9676129
>not owning a Satiator and playing a ton of rom hacks

[Anonymous No.9680368]

>>9675784
By that point I'd already decided on a Saturn over PC-FX and PS, but I recall getting it maybe a month after the U.S. launch, not immediately.
First game I got was Magic Knight Rayearth, together with a region-free cart, from NCS. (Somehow those guys are still around, ncsx.com)
A couple months later I'd grown annoyed at swapping between my region-free cart and memory cart so I sold my U.S. Saturn and bought a Japanese model.

[Anonymous No.9680390]

>>9676227
>learning Japanese
you can switch back and forth between Japanese and English in EMIT

[Anonymous No.9680419]

>>9678427
>Devil Summoner games
my roommate bought these
I haven't played them myself but he seemed to like them
I remember he later got the PS1 version of one of them where they let you save some character who dies in Saturn version
>Blue Seed
kind of simple but I liked it
I vaguely remember something about collecting panties or panty shots or panty photographs
never watched the anime
>Dragon Force
This is alright but I played it not long after Kichikuou Rance so Dragonforce felt shallow by comparison
>Super Robot Wars F
I lent the second part to an acquaintance and then he moved away, so I only played the first half/game. I recall doing a lot of reloading trying to trigger special story events
>Sentimental Graffiti
Man this was so heavily promoted and played up in Japanese Saturn magazines at the time
But it turned out to be boring and I dropped it before even clearing a single girl
Maybe I'll give it another chance some day
>Angelique
Tried this out when I was trying out all sorts of genres I'd never played before but it turns out I am in fact straight
>Yumimi Remix
Bought this and then never got around to playing it; I promise I'll try it some day
>albert odyssey
Nothing remarkable but nothing wrong with it either, I'd call it "pleasant"
>rayearth
Pretty cool, the 2D graphics parts are pretty, kind of on the easy side
Unlike Blue Seeid, for this one I'd seen the anime (well, the first season) before playing the game
>sakura wars
High budget, everyone splooged over this, but the characters were too silly for me; well I've never been a Akahori Satoru fan
>grandia
I'm more into 2D games but this was still pretty cool
>shining force 3
I played part 1 of this but barely remember it
>princess crown
Never had it on Saturn but picked it up for PSP a few years ago, will play some time

[9680419 No.9680423]

>>9678427
>tokimeki taisen
oh yeah I got this too because I'd enjoyed Tokimeki Memorial but found this game frustrating and only played it once
I didn't expect a character spin-off game to be that hard

[Anonymous No.9680587]

>>9668304
Saturn, at times, feels like a more organic extension of 4th gen, and more authentically retro than PS1/N64 by virtue of not fully adopting 3D sensibilities.

[Anonymous No.9680739]

>>9680587
And that's largely the reason why it was such a massive failure, beside being overly tedious to develop for. 2D sprite shit was not our future.

[Anonymous No.9682060]

>>9680739
>2D sprite shit was not our future.
Big mistake. As always, treating new concepts like they're a direct upgrade from old ones leads to retardation. We had to deal with every game being a hamfisted 3D gimmick for two generations before Cave Story upended the tea table.

[Anonymous No.9682249]

i just started play panzer dragoon saga and it's fucking sick. heal is absurdly cheap so i don't think i'll ever die which is kinda lame but it's a joy to play. lots of dialogue to find, good presentation, fun combat gimmick. my only problem is that random encounters can be a bit too random but engagements are so quick that it doesn't ruin my experience at all

[Anonymous No.9682573]

>>9679687
>it was my first time ever playing sega rally
if you want some tips, play in mt and in the first stage always accelerate and in the second don't brake just downshift
>I would suggest Dead or Alive for 3D fighter and Real Bout Fatal Fury for 2D you cant go wrong with those
thx

[Anonymous No.9682672]

>>9678427
how about playing the games yourself instead of wanting complete strangers advices you fucking poser?

[Anonymous No.9682938]

>>9668035
Playing Monster Slider at the moment

>>9675784
Absolutely excited. Got my first Saturn september 1995. Once the grey ntsc-j console became affordable. Import scalping was unbearable back then. Much worse than anything today. Because everyone had a massive boner for 32bit. Daytona was a bit of a disappointment. But the incredible cps2 ports made up for that. Great times.

[Anonymous No.9682949]

>>9675826
>it was definitely Saturn, N64 and psx from best to worst.
You restore my faith in mankind anon.

[Anonymous No.9683857]

Please Saturn fans, be honest with me here:
Is the Shining Force III trilogy really that good? I consider Panzer Dragoon Saga a masterpiece so i am open minded about the Saturn having amazing hidden gems.

[Anonymous No.9683863]

where my Dark Savior bros at?

[Anonymous No.9684330]

>>9682949
Haha thanks buddy, only thing I really enjoyed on PS1 was rollcage and ridge racer 4, N64 way generally good, loved blast corps, beetle adventure racing and rush.

>>9683857
For a guy who couldn't get into vandal hearts on PS1, I really love shining force 3, but only played part 1. I'm not big on strategic RPGs, but this one worked for me. Was always amazed by the fight scenes and how seamless they were.

[Anonymous No.9684349]

>>9672740
I'm finding it hard to get along with Wangan Dead Heat because it predates the 3D Pad as far as I can tell.
I've started playing Code R and the drifty controls are quite enjoyable. But the Story mode is very text heavy so unplayable for non JP speaker. There is a versus mode though that is good.
My only criticism is the rotating background/skybox is vomit inducing in first person mode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4GNnXRw7gU

[Anonymous No.9684419]

>>9675913
I heard those can run ISOs, how's the compatibility?

[Anonymous No.9684489]

>>9683863
I remember loving that forever-tiling effect in this game. I wish there was a way to describe it. It always makes me feel limitless, eternal. Even in Dark Savior, which is kind of a bleak game story-wise and in mood.

[Anonymous No.9684595]

Dark Savior sucks

[Anonymous No.9684628]

games i had for the sega sadturd:
>mr bones
kino ludosoge
>bug!
shit
>alien trilogy
barely remember it. shit? whatever its a mindless fps
>road rash
great, probably my most played game
>nights
shit
>virtua cop
fun but i didnt have a light gun so it was kinda cringe
>virtua fighter 2
barely remember it, no reason to play this when tekken 3 exists
>daytona usa
decent for a realistic racing sim which isnt my thing

i only got the sadturd when it was heavily discounted and came with 4 games. still wasnt worth it but whatever

[Anonymous No.9684629]

[Anonymous No.9684636]

>>9684628
Tell me your age.

[Anonymous No.9684647]

>>9684636
37

[Anonymous No.9684681]

>>9684628
>decent for a realistic racing sim which isnt my thing
you are retarded and ur opinion is shit, back to /v/ retard

[Anonymous No.9685139]

PAL pleb thinking of importing an NTSC-J console. Is there any major difference between the Grey and White models? Also will my PAL controllers and Virtua gun work with an NTSC system?

[Anonymous No.9685148]

>>9668035
>>9673853
Best retroarch shader to blend dithering like this?

[Anonymous No.9685248]

>>9685139
>Also will my PAL controllers and Virtua gun work with an NTSC system?
yes, but you need a tv that supports 60hz or else ur gonna have some image issues.
some 50hz tvs can work at 60hz but you need to be lucky. I use pic related and a sony trinitron kv-m1450b both are 50hz but work fine with 60hz and for lightguns I use a big curved philips 50/60hz

[Anonymous No.9685252]

>>9685139
abother thing is the compatibility wtih pal games, heres a list
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://randomisedgaming.tumblr.com/post/146372446412/the-complete-european-sega-saturn-60hz-guide-to&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwicgfaf36n9AhX9hv0HHZ5jD5gQFnoECAoQAg&usg=AOvVaw1CreSutbyMv47Iio_ZQrcF

[Anonymous No.9685568]

>>9684595
Why do you think so?

[Anonymous No.9685908]

>>9684489
It adds to the bleakness in a way.
>a limitless wasteland as far as the eye can see

[Anonymous No.9685956]

>>9668035
Which emulator did you use?

[Anonymous No.9685964]

>>9684489
The technical term is infinite plane, which I think works well.

[Anonymous No.9686246]

>>9668035
>Naked dithering
Bruh you gotta filter that

[Anonymous No.9686256]

>>9686246
yeah, that's kinda floig'd up 2bh

[Anonymous No.9686337]

Newcomer Saturngod here, but I havent played any games because I am scared my save file will be deleted by ticking bomb.

[Anonymous No.9686493]

>>9686337
Don't worry too much about it. Just frequently back-up your important saves to Action Replay/ Memory carts. You could even give your console a fresh battery before you start investing some significant time into it.

[Anonymous No.9687461]

The older I get the more appreciation I gain for this game.

[Anonymous No.9687471]

>>9687461
superman 64 gameplay

[Anonymous No.9687761]

>>9687471
>superman 64 gameplay
>t. never played night
epic

[Anonymous No.9687768]

Australia-kun never got to own a Saturn and his poorfag mentally ill ass can't handle it

[Anonymous No.9687769]

>>9685956
>>9686246
I'm not using any emulator, thats a random pic i found on the webs
I'm playing on my saturn with cdrs

[Anonymous No.9687781]

>>9686337
don't worry, the battery can last for 10years, but if you want to play it safe, replace it every 2 years and handle the battery like a disc, don't touch the inside.
or you can just buy a save cartridge or action replay (save+region unlock+1m 4m+cheat codes)

[Anonymous No.9687823]

>>9685248
Literally nearly every pal crt made after the 80s can do 60hz. Ur a gaslighter

[Anonymous No.9687834]

>>9687823
>Literally nearly every pal crt made after the 80s can do 60hz. Ur a gaslighter
no you dumb tard, I have 3 other crts and they can't handle 60hz, and they are all from the 90s\2000s

[Anonymous No.9687845]

>>9687834
You're probably using broken trash, even poor quality vhs combos I've used support both pal 60hz and ntsc. You should post whatever crts these are. Either your cables are fucked or your tvs are

[Anonymous No.9688267]

which one is that game you play as a plane in a war it was for saturn I palyed that in a kiosk like in 1996/1997

[Anonymous No.9688327]

>>9685148
Hyllian's checkboard-dedither shader was made with Saturn dithering in mind, works really well on stuff like the radar in Panzer Dragoon games

[Anonymous No.9688352]

We really need a Saturn emulator that supports downsampling, Panzer Dragoon could look so good at native res with just a little AA.

[Anonymous No.9688391]

>>9688352
We also need a Saturn emulator that properly replicates a game's slowdowns and doesn't have input latency out the ass.

[Anonymous No.9688407]

>>9687761
Night is actually slept on by so many zoomies. I heard of this game when I was a kid; My buddy owned a saturn, but, he had clockwork knight which is a pretty decent platformer for the saturn, but, I never knew about night until the remake came around.

[Anonymous No.9690007]

Nights Into Dreams sucked when it came out and still sucks today

[Anonymous No.9690118]

>>9690007
Agreed. Too experimental and scoreplay is worthless since there's a bug with the trick system. Should've been Sonic 4 instead.

[Anonymous No.9690223]

>>9680368
>First game I got was Magic Knight Rayearth, together with a region-free cart, from NCS. (Somehow those guys are still around, ncsx.com)

A sad shadow of their former glory, but at least still in existence. With the import scene all but dead, their raison d'etre went, with the Xbox 360 shmup import boom a minor revival. All their updates are figures and otaku trinkets, with a sorta OK inventory of videogame stuff leftover.

Still pretty neat.

[Anonymous No.9690234]

>>9687471
How so? I've played both recently and don't find a lot of similarities. I've always defended NiGHTS here for being exactly what it is....a shallow but fun and not too serious pick up and play game.

[Anonymous No.9690241]

>>9690234
all you do is fly through rings

[Anonymous No.9690286]

>>9690223
And looking through their update archives is sad to see the glory that once was. Their update page has broken links, so here's an archive.org of it so you can browse the glory days of saturn imports and shit: https://web.archive.org/web/20080220225106/http://www.ncsx.com/newcllct.htm

Lots of interesting info.

They didn't even bother archiving updates after 2011, as imports dwindled down to nothing. Sad!

[Anonymous No.9690309]

>>9690007
then why it got ported to xbox360 and others?

[Anonymous No.9690338]

Sega were releasing a lot of their old games on the Xbox live arcade around that time. Nights wasn't getting special treatment

[Anonymous No.9690340]

>>9690338
Meant for >>9690309

[Anonymous No.9690467]

>>9690007
>I don't like this kind of game so it sucks
I don't like rpgs, and guess what, I don't play them

[Anonymous No.9690489]

Miyamoto loves Nights into Dreams, I imagine he loves all of Naka's games because Naka seems to have some of the best understanding of game feel out there. Play his later stuff if you get a chance, it's great. Rodea especially.

[Anonymous No.9690568]

>>9668035
Recently picked up a HOTD + Virtua Gun set for a decent price. It's got a reputation as a shoddy port but I'm having fun with it. Any other light gun games I should try? Besides Virtua Cop 1+2 of course

[Anonymous No.9691616]

>>9690489
he said his kids enjoyed playing sega games more than nintendo games

[Anonymous No.9691642]

>>9690489
What does he think about Balan Wonderworld?

[Anonymous No.9691657]

I'm thinking its finally time for me to buy a ode and a lightgun for this. I'm also thinking about upgrading to svideo or some better display option. I have an hdcrt that works with lightguns so I'd like to get the best display option possible for it. The tv isn't great for below 480p but I have an n64 with svideo that looks great in my opinion.
Last I checked, the satiator seemed the least intrusive way to play roms on a saturn. Is that still the case?

[Anonymous No.9691689]

>>9691657
>Satiator: $259.99
Jesus, just buy a $40 Psuedo Saturn cart off Ali Express and play burned CDs

[Anonymous No.9691698]

>>9691689
I'd like to preserve the laser, I have a ps2 and that one's has already burned out

[Anonymous No.9691709]

>>9691698
the ps2 has nothing to do with the saturn, it was made with the ass, I've owned 8 ps2s and all of them died, and my saturn is still running

[Anonymous No.9692895]

>>9690568
policenauts english patched, mighty hits, thunder storm/roadblaster pack

[Anonymous No.9692952]

>>9690568
>>9692895
Do you (or anyone else) know if there is a difference other than visual between the virtua gun hss-0122 and hss-0152?

[Anonymous No.9693073]

Saturn didn't got any star wars games?

[Anonymous No.9693098]

>>9693073
No.
There's this unreleased prototype "Spike" that was supposedly pitched as a potential Star Wars game but I don't think it's ever been confirmed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVeFo4hsRLA

[Anonymous No.9693163]

>>9693098
damn, looks like the 32x wins another round

[Anonymous No.9693217]

>>9693163
stellar assault ss was better than both reddit movie games

[Anonymous No.9693230]

>>9692952
I think they are the same

[Anonymous No.9693784]

Do any of you guys know the game Machi?

I have it on my Saturn but depressingly it has no voice acting, it's a sound novel despite being disc based which is a bummer. But maybe I'll play it anyways

[Anonymous No.9693892]

>>9690007
>>9687471
>filtered
Nights has always been a great litmus test for casuals. They are simply incapable of understanding the game.

[Anonymous No.9694612]

>>9693892
Nah it sucks

[Anonymous No.9695556]

>>9693098
oh thanks didn't know about this one

[Anonymous No.9696042]

can anyone recommend me a good steering wheel for the saturn?

[Anonymous No.9696798]

>>9694612
no you

[Anonymous No.9696871]

>>9694612
>another casual filtered by Puffy

[Anonymous No.9696892]

>>9696042
The official Sega one is very good

[Anonymous No.9696992]

>>9696892
but theres no pedals

[Anonymous No.9699176]

thoughts on code r?

[Anonymous No.9699653]

Been playing Dragonforce lately. Finally took the time to get into it and understand things. Pretty rare for me with an rpg.

[Anonymous No.9700543]

>>9693784
Update: I've played a bit of Machi

The game is not bad. Basically a fun VN with a tone that varies wildly based on who you're playing as. The Yakuza guy and gamer detective are both very whimsical, while the TV script-writer guy's scenario is a pure existential horror nightmare. What I don't understand is how the selling point of the game is the 'Zapping' feature that lets you leap from one scenario to another. The idea is that events in one timeline will influence others, so you need to make certain decisions in one and zap over to another timeline to see the end of the route. You can't see the end of a route if you never zap I think.

Pretty cool concept. It's the predecessor to 428 Shibuya Scramble if you guys know about it

[Anonymous No.9701850]

>>9700543
interesting gameplay