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Sega Saturn Appreciation and Emulation Thread
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Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
I'd agree with that, plus Warriors of Fate's Saturn release is a lot better, relatively speaking, than D&D... D&D had some serious sound issues.
Best version of those games is the standalone PS3 release.
Grab the physical Japanese copy of D&D Collection for PS3. The port was handled by the original Capcom team, not Iron Galaxy, I believe.
Not to doubt your words, but is this confirmed? I remember reading so in the news, but then - by the time the actual game got released - I lost interest and never checked it out.
Bar81
Member
Yes this is accurate. The JP version is different and better.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
More specifically, the visuals were sharper (Iron Galaxy ports were always kinda blurry), and it added features like New Game+ and Color Edit mode. It was pretty cool.
Saturn version was rad at the time, because it was the only realistic way to play the games, but there's really not much reason to care today due to the porting issues.
I have the Saturn version as well as the Iron Galaxy Wii U and PS3 ports (got them each for free somehow) and I still come back to the Saturn version, however I wish I had the Japanese Capcom PS3-port, as it seems to check all of the right boxes.
Specifically, the gaudy borders on the Iron Galaxy ports drive me nuts, and provoke fears of image retention on my plasma. (Not sure if you can turn them off or not, I haven't invested enough time to check it out.)
sixteen-bit
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Moor-Angol
Banned
A port was also planned for the 32X.
Ban Puncher
Member
Had to choose between a new graphics card or a copy of Hyper Duel today.
This 780ti will have to last a bit longer.
This 780ti will have to last a bit longer.
You made the right choice. Graphics cards will always get better/cheaper over time.
sixteen-bit
Member
while old games are seemingly on the opposite trajectory, lol
sixteen-bit
Member
too late, lol
blast processed
Member
This seems to have been everyone's thought process for the last couple of years. Which is why inventory is low and prices are high. They all need to dump their collections and move on to gen six consoles.
sixteen-bit
Member
I remember this coming up on some podcast or another. The mentality is "well, this is more than I'd like to spend, but it'll never be this cheap again. Better buy now" lol
Burning Rangers is the only expensive US game that i'm missing (Herc's adventure to, but i got the ps1 version so) i should i bought it when it was around 120$... i thought it would have lower or stay stable a little because i heard the game is not THAT good. I'm still mad at me lol I can't imagine starting collecting good exclusive Japaneses game right now.
IrishNinja
Member
my local arcade just added that one this week, finally got to beat it with a friend! man, id kill for that...still one of my all-time favorite beat-em-ups
time to get out there & make some ca-razy money, punchers
A lot of the Japanese games are still cheap at the moment:
Fighters Megamix
Panzer Dragoon 1 and 2
Nights into Dreams
Daytona CE
Sega Rally
Virtua Cop
House of the Dead
Virtua Fighter 2
Last Bronx
Virtual On
Dead or Alive
Street Fighter Alpha 2
Vampire Hunter
Die Hard Arcade
General prices don't seem too bad ATM. There's a few outliers that are insanely priced, but there's still a lot of things I want for a fair price.
Anyway, I start work next week. In the games department, Saturn will be top priority.
For me it's Panzer Dragoon Saga.
Man, it was like $40 not even that long ago. I remember when IrishNinja got it right before it blew up. I should've jumped on some of the $50 eBay BINs =[
Would it be feasible for Sega to reprint Saturn games? And if they did/could, do you think the reprints wouls be indistinguishable from the original run? Would the current prices were seeing be impacted at all from a glut of new stock on the market?
These are the things I think about.
Wouldn't it be amazing if Sonic Mania actually did come out on Saturn?
Finally, the 2D Sonic the Saturn deserves.
sixteen-bit
Member
I doubt it but that hasn't stopped folks from making Saturn box art for it
My regret was Keio 2 JP version and Liquid Kids. Liquid Kids alone goes for the same price as a PS4 Call of Duty edition. The only game I have an eye on now is US PowerSlave.
Sega had PLENTY of chances to rerelease PDS alone but they couldn't cause Japan was horrible in archiving the source codes. Heck I don't think they have the MKR source code that Working Designs reconstructed.
The price of the originals wouldn't budge, they'd be still rare in the collector's eye. The reprints would make the games much more accessible to the rest of us though.
The copy protection ring would be the technical hurdle. The machines that originally pressed Saturn discs probably don't exist any more, and making new disc pressers specifically for that purpose would cost a lot.
Bar81
Member
Why would Sega do that? The amount of money they would make from that wouldn't be worth the effort.
Game Quest Direct reprints like Persona 2 were indistinguishable from the originals and absolutely made the price plummet across the board. It was fantastic and should happen more often.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
I finally got to play Batsugun, after it being one of my most wanted games in the 8 years since I got into Saturn.
It's really fucking good. It's bullet hell that feels more like classic shmups than something Cave would make. Kinda cool that I'm not even a little disappointed after all that anticipation.
It's really fucking good. It's bullet hell that feels more like classic shmups than something Cave would make. Kinda cool that I'm not even a little disappointed after all that anticipation.
Wasn't Saga actually a big flop in Japan though?
IrishNinja
Member
+1
also this, Battle Garegga is a lotta fun as well for the stupid-high price...then again SHMUPs all over kinda went up, i think
Sold more in Japan than the West. But then again in the US Sega made enough to cover preorders so that's not saying much.
Saturn Memories
Neo Member
Some very good things are currently happening. Saturn GAF shall have much to discuss soon. 
If you're building a list you might be better off buying multiple at a time off YAJ, big savings to be had
If you're building a list you might be better off buying multiple at a time off YAJ, big savings to be had
Yep, I see some more reasonable prices there. I figured ordering multiples from the same person/business was the way to go.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
How easy is it to buy games on YAJ when you're in the US?
You use a forwarding/bidding service, like shoppingmalljapan or celga. To keep prices down, buy multiple games at a time, where possible from the same seller so you save on bank fees and shipping costs within Japan. Pile up a good handful of games and ship them all across at the same time. Can easily save you hundreds, and rare games will be a lot more common and much more reasonable prices.
Besides Saturn, you can buy literally anything off of YAJ, I finished up my laserdisc collection in one big sweep, prices were amazing.
Some very good things are currently happening. Saturn GAF shall have much to discuss soon.
Good to hear! Interested what it is.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
Hmm... yeah, I guess I could do that. I'm used to using forwarding services for stuff from Amazon Japan. But like, is it easy to get an account set up and everything? Not sure if you can switch the language to English or if I just have to tough it and pretend to know Japanese.
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