IrishNinja
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^no, as someone who's never played the game (and adores Lunar) i'd absolutely love a fan translation of the saturn version
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Sega Saturn Appreciation and Emulation Thread
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cj_iwakura
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No worse than the stuff that Sega did to Working Designs on the Saturn.
sixteen-bit
Member
Blue Seed Kushinadahirokuden
Any of you guys played this? Would love to see it fan translated someday. Looks like an awesome rpg.
Man, the Saturn had so many crazy good import games that never saw the light of day here
Oh dang, I remember seeing this anime late night on some cable channel
A Black Falcon
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IrishNinja
Member
a PS1 game that the PS3 (60 GB) can't play: Wu-Tang: Enter the Shaolin, shit freezes at the character select screen. tried several copies & systems.
Locks up randomly and often. Some graphical glitches during combat as well IIRC.
drtomoe123
Member
Got a pretty good deal on this locally. Now I officially have PDS, Fighters Megamix, and NiGHTS.
Really should have started picking Saturn games up when I thought about it a few years ago.
IrishNinja
Member
cant let you do that, fox
you post PDS, you gotta post a price
you post PDS, you gotta post a price
mine was about $230, most ive paid for a game to date but i worked it in with a bundle that paid far better (Snatcher, Shining Force CD & others)
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Nice! May I ask how much on the PDS?
drtomoe123
Member
$150
I got it from a guy who I've helped out a little bit in the past so he went a little lower than what he was originally looking for. In a perfect world, I always saw myself picking it up at a yard sale or Goodwill or something but I had a little extra cash and knew that I wouldn't find a better price from someone who knew what they had.
Since I've finished getting most of the big PS1 stuff I've thought about moving over to the Saturn because I've never really played anything on it before--the only game that I've ever played on the system is NiGHTS. I thought about jumping in back in '10 but even then I thought the prices were pretty prohibitive...and look where we are now!
It's just a matter of accepting that I'll be paying in the $80+ for a lot of the bigger RPGs, but I guess it balances out considering that there's not -that- much stuff for the system to begin with.
Uncle Rupee
Banned
Grandia 2 on the Dreamcast/PS2 is supposed to be pretty good, but I haven't gotten around to playing it. The other ones on the PS2 aren't supposed to be that great, but I did pick up Grandia 3 as it at least looks pretty. There was a Japan-only Gameboy Color sequel as well, but no DS game.
cj_iwakura
Member
Grandia 2 is amazing, I wasn't a big fan of the first.
PS2 version is terrible, go DC.
Yeah, I believe some Korean studio did the PC and PS2 conversions of Grandia II and completely screwed it up. Really awful port. The original Dreamcast version is the way to go.
I still think Grandia III is pretty good as well even with its faults.
cj_iwakura
Member
XTreme's a lot of fun, too.
Hmm, I'll have to keep this in mind.
IrishNinja
Member
heh, i remember thinking that when i started out on the saturn, too
and congrats on that awesome price man!
Well now I wouldnt say that...
sixteen-bit
Member
IrishNinja
Member
i love it, but i fondly recall playing the coin-op with friends at a local comic shop in the day. if you can get it on the cheap, it's worth it - i went with the JP version for the art & cause all my capcom fighters are JP anyway
just don't be a dick like my buddy & keep dropping snowballs as Iceman all day
just don't be a dick like my buddy & keep dropping snowballs as Iceman all day
The Broken Ska Record
Member
It's not bad. It feels a bit slower compared to the "newer" games, MvC1/2/3.
It's the only game I have the US and Japanese versions of.
BluePigGanon
Member
My memory could be bad, but I think it wasn't and lovingly ported as other Capcom fighters. The American, Acclaim-published one anyway.
Shadow Hog
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JLateralus
Member
I've posted in the BST thread a couple times with no bites yet.
I'm the market for a Saturn. Is eBay really the best bet these days?
I'm the market for a Saturn. Is eBay really the best bet these days?
try local comix shops, craigslist and ebay. look everywhere before buying just in case you find a good deal, but generally a saturn with cables and a controller is $50
JLateralus
Member
I have no idea, but the city I live in (which isn't small and has a pretty good college-age population) has no retro game stores and there is very little activity on CL. I visited a city about three hours away over the weekend and saw one in store for $40 there, but it looked pretty beat up. So, I kind of figured $40-$50 seemed to be the norm for a US console.
Is it the shipping that totally kills an import console? I plan to buy mostly imports to keep costs down, so buying a Japanese console isn't out of the question. It seems like the console itself would be cheaper considering how much popular it was in Japan.
Seven Force
Banned
Yeah. It's still a decent port (and the Saturn version is the best home version), though it's not arcade perfect. Still worth picking up, though. It's not too expensive CIB. (I got mine for about $25 shipped a few years back)
US saturn + action replay is cheaper than JP console
Same for me!!!
MSH is sooo goood
Seven Force
Banned
CoTA and MSH had some godlike level backgrounds. Sucked that they had to scale them back to account for the tag gameplay (At least for the CPS2 titles).
Magneto's stage in CoTA blew my mind back when I first played the game.
Magneto's stage in CoTA blew my mind back when I first played the game.
This game......this fucking game......
IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Holy shit this game is fucking AWESOME TO THE MAX!!!! Period. End of story. Put a sock in it!!!!! We're done!!!!!! YOU GUYS NEED TO PLAY Game Tengoku - The Game Paradise. Best shmup BY FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!!!! Radiant who???
sixteen-bit
Member
I like the Tuff Enuff SNES artwork in the background of that one stage.
Beans and Gadjet for best stage music. The mode select music is pretty cool too.
A transformer from jaycar, or a PAL Saturn and swap the power supplies over (but they have to be a matching model, not sure if there are different ones).