Robert at Zeboyd Games
Banned
I dream of walking into a thrift store & finding a pile of Working Designs games in a bin at a $1 each.
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Sega Saturn Appreciation and Emulation Thread
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I dream of walking into a thrift store & finding a pile of Working Designs games in a bin at a $1 each.
sixteen-bit
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after vic told that one story I imagine some dumpster diver hitting the jackpot outside of the WD HQ
IrishNinja
Member
see i remember asking vic if he called any friends with trucks to come through, but i could've sworn he said something about the majority of it having to be actually destroyed =/
There is also
Shining Wisdom - I didn't like this much to be honest, the constant having to mash the button in order to keep running was annoying me.
Mystaria: The Realms of Lore, aka Blazing Heroes/Riglord Saga - a very early turn based strategy game with a little inspiration taken from Lord of the Rings
Legend of Oasis aka story of thor 2. Pretty decent action RPG by Ancient
Dark Saviour - it's ok. Very short but has multiple different replaying paths.
If you don't mind importing;
Grandia Digital Museum
Grandia
Lunar 2 Eternal Blue
Lunar Silver star story complete MPEG (this requires an MPEG card to get the almost full screen FMV)
Tengai Makyou IV - the apocalypse
There are lots more jrpgs to import but the language barrier might be a problem..
Tsk tsk.
cj_iwakura
Member
That's a little unfair to D. It's more like Myst. And still very creepy.
Oh yes I very much enjoyed this game when I played it. The idea of having two hours to finish it and being unable to pause makes it much more akin to the evening film on tv: you sit in front of it, play to the end and get one ending, all in two hours or less. It did age poorly visually though. It's still creepy but some 3D models show their age I think.
I would recommend it, as it's something interesting to experience that was never really done again in modern media. If you can get over the visuals and put yourself in the mood, it's still a good game in its own genre.
I would recommend it, as it's something interesting to experience that was never really done again in modern media. If you can get over the visuals and put yourself in the mood, it's still a good game in its own genre.
IrishNinja
Member
speaking of, my intent was to play it through once or twice at my own pace, and then try again with the action replay or whatever that shuts down the clock, just to see how it's supposed to be. thoughts?
Awesome, thanks to you both. Thanks for the tip IrishNinja.
So do I, then I wake up staring at a web browser with ebay up. *sigh*
I'd do it once or twice at your own pace, then once more with a non-spoilery walkthrough to experience it completely.
cj_iwakura
Member
Shining The Holy Ark continues to impress, especially with how expressive the NPC models are. Camelot were some wizards.
I paid $9.99 for my copies of Shining Force 3 and Burning Rangers out of a bargain bin. Nobody cared about Saturn games in the last years of its life.
Stories about finding Saturn games in bargain bins piss me off. My personal experience was that a Music store in the mall I went to in the late 90's had Saturn games, and me being a dumb kid, I thought they were sega CD games with different labels(Pre-internet in my household). They were also 20-30 dollars on average so I passed them up. The worst part is I'm pretty sure Panzer Dragoon Saga was sitting on the shelf there.
sixteen-bit
Member
u gotta share that custom art with us fam
ohhhh it didn't occur to me to enlist her on this project
I think I'll tell her it's a game about space firefighters and see what happens
Moor-Angol
Banned
I finally decided to go analog
sixteen-bit
Member
I love my analog controller. It's so comfortable.
If you ask me, the DC controller was a downgrade.
If you ask me, the DC controller was a downgrade.
Moor-Angol
Banned
I like it, I just feel strange holding it in the first times, but the more I use the more I get a good feeling with it
I already had an analog controller, but I didn't bring it with me when I moved to Japan
Dragon Force you're going to get the most value for, considering the multiple characters you can play as. It's basically New Game +++. However, its more SRPG, than the typical JRPG.
There is also Magic Knight Rayearth, which plays kind of like Secret of Mana. If you're going to go after the high-priced Saturn RPGs, those are the two I would recommend.
As coveted as PDS is, it's really a short RPG, despite the amount of discs. It is also hard to go back to, after beating it.
Shining Force ends on a hugh cliffhanger, because it's a 3 part game, and only the first one was translated. The other 2 are Japanese only.
It's been so long since playing Shining the Holy Ark, that... yeah I got nothing.
I was expecting something as long as Landstalker the treasure of king nole... so the shortness of the game itself here disappointed me
IrishNinja
Member
CJ please continue your Shining Ark impressions as you go man
...this is gonna be amazing, I can feel it
...this is gonna be amazing, I can feel it
Moor-Angol
Banned
I'm planning to use the analog stick with some racing games, it should work better or not ?
I've heard that's recommended for games like Manx TT and Sega Touring Car, especially the latter.
I guess only you can answer that. I tried using Analogue and the Arcade Racer Joystick with Sega Rally and Daytona USA, but I really can't do shit with them. But it's not a failure of the controllers, more like years of playing with the digital controller. I also tried Sega Touring Car, but with this one I'm terrible whatever controller I'm using.
Moor-Angol
Banned
ok, I should have here with me all the games mentioned (maybe not Manx TT) , so if I can find the time I will make a comparison between digital and analog
If I ever buy a copy of Sonic Jam, I guarantee the cover art will not be as good as yours.
Don't try to use it with Daytona USA, it's close to impossible to get decent times with the controller.
Sir_Crocodile
Member
Worth pointing out that SF3 scenarios 2 & 3 are pretty cheap in Japan, and they have been fan translated, so they can be bought, ripped, patched and played on an emulator. There's also a patch for us/uk scenario 1 to rewrite the cliffhanger since the ending was changed in the west as sega already knew they would never bring out s2 & s3.
http://sf3trans.shiningforcecentral.com/
Sir_Crocodile
Member
Yep. From memory (been a while), in the amended english release
Medion convinces Domaric to leave for now.
In the original Japanese version:
Domaric ain't going ANYWHERE.
If you contact legalize freedom at the link I gave above he'd be able to fill you in more accurately.
Robert at Zeboyd Games
Banned
I wasn't too impressed with Magic Knight Rayearth. It's one of the most expensive Saturn games out there and unless you're a big fan of the anime or manga, it's just another decent Action/RPG. It's a lot like Albert Odyssey in that it would be a good purchase if it was up on a modern digital download service for $10 but it's a really hard sale for the going prices.
Panzer Dragoon Saga is relatively short for an RPG and it doesn't have great replay value, but it's also very high quality and very unique. Well worth playing once if you can afford it.
In theory, Dragon Force is incredibly long. In actual practice, I felt I was done with it long before playing through everybody's scenarios since the actual moment-to-moment gameplay doesn't change that much. It's a great game though.
Shining the Holy Ark is just a good solid dungeon crawler with set characters at a price that isn't incredibly high.
Exr
Member
Just found a game I forgot I even had for Saturn while looking at my shelf. Anybody here hear of a wrestling game with cameos from VF characters? The cover had Jeffrey and Wolf on it and it says something about New Japan Pro Wrestling. I like me some old wrestling games but I'm assuming this one is garbo.
sixteen-bit
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RoryDropkick
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The case is a normal case. The discs come in black paper sleeves that stack inside the case.
sixteen-bit
Member
Paper sleeves are so tacky, lol. I remember for the NA release of Lost Odyssey the 4th disc was packaged in a paper sleeve under the manual clamp lmao.
Sir_Crocodile
Member
The later cases when they changed the clasp mechanism were hard as hell to open though
Bar81
Member
No, PAL still sucked with cardboard boxes.
7DollarHagane
Banned
There's a decent size retro game convention near me early April. There's at least two import game vendors I want to take advantage of to start up my Sega Saturn collection.
I want to get the standards like
Sega rally
Virtua cop 1 and 2
Virtua fighter
Panzer dragoon 1 and 2
Xmen vs sf
Any other Japanese game recommendations? Stuff that isn't too text heavy and is cheaper than the us versions?
I want to get the standards like
Sega rally
Virtua cop 1 and 2
Virtua fighter
Panzer dragoon 1 and 2
Xmen vs sf
Any other Japanese game recommendations? Stuff that isn't too text heavy and is cheaper than the us versions?
pass on VF and get VF2 instead.
I think everyone should own galactic attack and darius gaiden.
SpikedGunner
Member
...I had forgotten all about Daytona USA: CCE Netlink Edition being the rarest and most expensive Saturn game in the US.