blast processed
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I like the USB solution, better than installing a hard drive.
Sega Saturn Appreciation and Emulation Thread
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PumpkinSpice
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There were very few components on it as well so hopefully it'll come out to a decent price.
Can't wait for this to be available to the public!!!
Beer Monkey
Member
Thanks for your effort. Apparently my 4MB cart has failed, very recently in fact. So I can only use the AR. However, I've witnessed this on more than one Saturn and with both carts. Since two of my three Saturns have failed drives, I can't test on the other right now.
Krikzz, please.
IrishNinja
Member
happy belated, NiGHTS!
'79, close enough!
My guess is that most of the people visiting the retro threads are born in the 80s
'79, close enough!
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Well I was born in 89 so tail end there. xP
I'm older than you.=O
sixteen-bit
Member
I love how everyone in that video says "Seega"
UltraGunner
Banned
Oh hell yeah, I can't wait till they make those EverDrives for the Saturn.
D.Lo
Member
Official pronunciation by Sega in Australia since the SC3000 in 1983, so really it's the first official English language pronunciation.
The American 'Say gah' is a later version, I assume based on an American accent interpretation of the official Japanese 'Seeeh-gah' jingle. The other USA pronunciation, Segga, I also assume is an alternate interpretation of Seh-gah.
IrishNinja
Member
say-gah is the only right way tho
Ha, that's how I say it, lol.
blast processed
Member
Any other way is just strange to me.
cj_iwakura
Member
I loved the different random ways of saying it, like Comix Zone's 'Se-gaaaaaaa'.
D.Lo
Member
Seh-gah is correct. Slightly prolonged version of the short e sound.
The rest are just accent-based interpretations.
See-gah and Segga are pretty logical interpretations of Sega, using the two differrent possible e sounds.
Say-gah makes sense as an American accent version of a prolonged version (like in the jingle) of 'Seeeeh-gah'.
The rest are just accent-based interpretations.
See-gah and Segga are pretty logical interpretations of Sega, using the two differrent possible e sounds.
Say-gah makes sense as an American accent version of a prolonged version (like in the jingle) of 'Seeeeh-gah'.
IrishNinja
Member
yeah, i mostly take it from that's what the system would say before Sonic 1
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
This might be one of those Mary, Merry and Marry things, but I don't see a difference between Say-guh and Seh-guh.
Or maybe it's that I've never heard anyone say "say-guh" at all. Rather, I think it's just people saying Seh-guh with whatever accent.
Ever since I was a kid it was Seh-guh, which is how you'd say it in Japanese anyway.
my two cents lol.
Or maybe it's that I've never heard anyone say "say-guh" at all. Rather, I think it's just people saying Seh-guh with whatever accent.
Ever since I was a kid it was Seh-guh, which is how you'd say it in Japanese anyway.
my two cents lol.
D.Lo
Member
I think it is - all three of those words have clearly distinct pronunciations in English and Australian and NZ accents, but are the same or very similar in an American accent.
I'm glad USA media/internet hegemony isn't killing off regional ways of saying things.
Australia and New Zealand had Sega first though
NZ even got the console version of the SG1000, one day I dream I'll find one at a garage sale...Sega is also a very popular dance in Mauritius. I was very confused when the parents of a Mauritian friend asked if I ever danced the Sega.
I pronounce SEGA as séga
I pronounce SEGA as séga
Moor-Angol
Banned
Doesn't Sega actually mean masturbation in a one language?
yes, in italian
but in some parts of the country the word is also used as "going somewhere (and have fun) instead of going to school" (it should be "skive" in english) and generally it's also used as "wanker"
/end of italian lesson
yes, in italian
but in some parts of the country the word is also used as "going somewhere (and have fun) instead of going to school" (it should be "skive" in english) and generally it's also used as "wanker"
/end of italian lesson
Interesting! I wonder how their merch sales in Italy compare elsewhere
Saturn Memories
Neo Member
Sega was founded as an American corporation. It was going by "Sega" as early as 1960.
Hehe, I still say Seega mostly. That's just how it was here!
IrishNinja
Member
a saturn 'everdrive" sounds neat, but dont we already have SD replacement kits? isnt that pretty much it?
again, modchipping mine years back did it for me, and with this workaround....really not sure what's holding anyone back at this point
again, modchipping mine years back did it for me, and with this workaround....really not sure what's holding anyone back at this point
The sd replacement kit (rhea) is proprietary, complicated, ludicrously expensive and made by one man in a cave at a snail's pace.
By contrast, the new method will be cheap, simple in terms of parts and construction and easy to be mass produced. And you won't need to disassemble the console to use it either.
I'm all for this.
blast processed
Member
Ditto, I'm in.
IrishNinja
Member
what is "this" exactly, though? ya'll are talking about the recent workaround, yeah? not sure how that equates an "everdrive" exactly
yes, in italian
but in some parts of the country the word is also used as "going somewhere (and have fun) instead of going to school" (it should be "skive" in english) and generally it's also used as "wanker"
/end of italian lesson
Masturbating Master System.
Moor-Angol
Banned
Interesting! I wonder how their merch sales in Italy compare elsewhere
Megadrive was very popular at the time (as it was in all Europe), then Playstation and backups became very popular and when Dreamcast arrived everyone was waiting for PS2
Don't have so many memories about Master System, but in the middle 80's most of people were playing with C64/Speccy/Amiga
This is a commercial spot : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylXAblov5Hw
few notes :
1 - SEGA is spelled as an american word and not how it's written (in italian "e" is spelled similar to "a" in english), in this way it can't be related to the word used for masturbation
2- some football fans maybe will recognize Roberto Mancini, who won a PL with Manchester City some years ago
3- SEGA products in Italy were sold by a company "Giochi Preziosi" and not directly by them, this was a hit point during MS/MD time, but during SS they didn't support it so much and people almost didn't know Saturn was available
Very cool. Nice find with the ad. It's interesting how different parts of the world remember Sega (and other companies). I've met a few people who knew who/what Sonic was yet had idea what Sega was. Go figure.
MasturSystem...
D.Lo
Member
So you're suggesting it should be pronounced 'Ser-gay' since it means Service and Games?
It's not "Say-ga-ta Sanshiro".
Exactly. cTrix is actually a pretty decent chiptune creator too, had no idea he was so cluey about circuits and CPUs and such. Hopefully the guy who did this CD hacking will also knock out some pretty cool music with the audio chip, too.
IrishNinja
Member
...it's not?
You know I was thinking, given UK is leaving the European market, imagine if we retroactively counted UK as a separate group to Europe for retro consoles.
Certainly does remove the bulk of Sega's Europe success, lol.
StevieWhite
Member
Saturn pals -
Are you aware of any other Saturn games which allowed you to rotate the screen display (a la Galactic Attack) to maintain arcade proportions? Thinking of doing a video on that.
Are you aware of any other Saturn games which allowed you to rotate the screen display (a la Galactic Attack) to maintain arcade proportions? Thinking of doing a video on that.
Not really, the Mega Drive and Master System was popular all over Europe.
Beer Monkey
Member
Google "Saturn tate shooters".
StevieWhite
Member
Thank you, good sir!
They were but I'm not really sure if its to the extent of their UK success. They won quite easily there.
Same in NZ though. I never even saw a NES until I was a teenager.
D.Lo
Member
My general understanding was that Ninendo beat them in France and Germany for those eras, but it was close.
Pretty crazy to think that the UK Saturn magazine lasted until the end of 1998 given how poorly the system performed outside of Asia.
Looked it up, yeah SNES did win Germany according to Sega Europe's president during that era.
Looked it up, yeah SNES did win Germany according to Sega Europe's president during that era.
Saturn-gaffers, any of you ever bought and opened a brand new Japanese copy of Guardian Heroes? I'd like to know if the picture on Satakore is accurate.
At least here in Norway, the Master System was really popular as a budget system, and the Mega Drive was also very popular, even though the Snes was more popular. And i feel its the same in most other smaller-languages countries, since Nintendo didnt care to commit much there.