Shadow Hog
Member
I just use the white AR4-in-1 with a white Saturn. If there's a discoloration between the two, I haven't noticed it enough to care.
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Sega Saturn Appreciation and Emulation Thread
- Thread starter Seik
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I'd totally watch that video.
PepsimanVsJoe
Member
So Fighting Vipers arrived today.
For whatever reason I'm not getting any sound effects when playing on SSF. Music is fine but voices, hits, etc...nothing.
Oh well it's no big deal.
Also just snagged Fighters Megamix off ebay. Yeah they're not exactly popular but I'm surprised nobody from the Fighting Vipers cast made their way onto DoA5. Characters like Candy/Honey & Grace would have been in there no problem.
IrishNinja
Member
that's it, Seik...you're officially a member of that elite club, 90% of which likely posts on GAF, haha
i will never be allowed into the meetings so please grab me some wine & crackers on your way out if you could
Canadian Psycho
Banned
Very nice, did you pay the extra $100 for the spine card? (Crazy...)Aaaaaand got it.
It's in perfect shape, can't ask for more.
I'll join the club eventually, but I first need to know if I want to go for the spine cards or rationalize not to (it's a black or white thing, either I will go out of my way to get the spine cards or else I will sell back those I "accidentally" get with my purchases so my set of Jap Saturn games is uniform... OCD FTL).
I think it is pretty irrational. I do 100% spine cards on my Saturn titles mainly because it means the collector/seller has likely taken better care of the game. That really is not the case though, as a lot of the stuff that comes out of japan is already mint. Yeah, but once you open that can of worms there is no going back as you will always be hunting for a complete copy.
I am now officially "working on it"
papersleeves
Member
Nah, he's not part of "THAT" club like us, your supreme commanders though
Still, it's a pretty legit copy.
Canadian Psycho
Banned
I fear you are right. I slayed the demon regarding NES/SNES boxes years ago and have absolutely no regrets (bottom line: most of these old cardoard boxes are just gross now, people didn't really take care of them). OBI strips though are so cool looking, especially the Saturn ones...
Question: Do you tuck away your spine cards inside the jewel case? That's what I used to do when I imported Japanese CDs back in the day, but I have also seen people placing the spine card inside the case, but over the manual, so you can see it without having to open the case (hopefully you get what I mean).
LOLNah, he's not part of "THAT" club like us, your supreme commanders though
papersleeves
Member
I personally put them inside the manual to minimize any potential risk of damage on them.
Canadian Psycho
Banned
Yeah, thinking about it, that's what I would tend to do.
There is a really clean copy of Blast Wind (+ obi) on ebay right now: $220 BIN. Is it the ballpark for that game? Hopefully this, Hyper Duel and Radiant Silvergun are the only STGs commanding crazy money (i.e. $100+) on Saturn.
There is a really clean copy of Blast Wind (+ obi) on ebay right now: $220 BIN. Is it the ballpark for that game? Hopefully this, Hyper Duel and Radiant Silvergun are the only STGs commanding crazy money (i.e. $100+) on Saturn.
Yeah, I tuck them in in the middle of the book and never look at them again. Something I used to do when I bought import music CDs in the late eighties and nineties. Ironically, I don't give one fig about the actual jewel case. I make an effort to keep them nice but I don't put them in baggies or anything. It is mostly my shmup collection and I want them easy to pull off the shelf...they get wear and it does not faze me. I too slayed a lot of collecting dragons over the years. Here is my basic simple collecting policy and systems which serves me well:
NES/Famicom: Cart (if US, then black plastic slip case)
SMS: Plastic case and instruction
Genesis/MD: Plastic Case and instruction
SNES: Cart only
Super Famicom: Cart only
PCE/TG-16 Hu: Full Case and manual
PCE CD: Everything including Obi
TG-16 CD: Just Case and manual
Neo Geo AES: Shockbox and manual
Saturn Japanese: Everything including Obi
N64: cart only
PS1 Japan: Everything including Obi
PS1 US: Just black label
DC Japan: Case and manual. If it is a shmup then 100%
GB/GBC/GBA: cart only.
Systems: system only. If it comes with a box I might keep it for packing an moving, though.
That is waaayyyy too high for that game. Should be $100-130-ish.
Genesis Knight
Member
Blast Wind is soooooooo fucking not worth it even at $150, much less that.
Canadian Psycho
Banned
Wow, and I thought I was spending a lot on retro gaming: the idea of PC Engine and (especially) Neo Geo collecting has me trembling with fear! lol
Great, coherent way to go about it. I do the same thing you do regarding the above. I assume you make sure to have the case/instructions for cardboard boxed Genesis games?
I would add the following "rules" for portable game collecting:
Game Boy: clear plastic case
Game Boy Color: box, manual (mainly because I was lucky to find mint copies of the few games I wanted)
Game Boy Advance: box, manual
DS/3DS: case, manual
PSP: case, manual
Edit:
Blast Wind: yeah, one with spine card sold for $220 or something this week. It's too bad that the soundtrack is too muted compared to the sound effects; I would have probably bought it at even that price, but that issue keeps me from going all in with that game.
Thanks for the comments guys but where, other than ebay, did you guys get those Saturn shooters?
IrishNinja
Member
yeah, cardboard boxes suck for migrant life - universal game cases solved so much of this for me, and look good with printed covers to boot
saturn/DC i just do in DVD cases these days, come at me bros!
saturn/DC i just do in DVD cases these days, come at me bros!
No spine card for me, but I can easily deal with it, my Radiant Silvergun and many other of my games don't have it, I just consider it as a plus, like 'eh...cool, why not' when I have it included.
Got it for 200$ ;_;
Got it for 200$ ;_;
Chiaroscuro
Member
Tales from the mobile ebayer... I was watching some US Saturn games from a UK seller (complete). A Family launch at the restaurant was a bit late and I decided to stealth bid using my cell phone. One of the games was Clockwork Knight, I wanted to bid GBP 12.04. MY cellphone configuration of dot and comma was a Little bit mixed up and it auto corrected to GBP 12,040.00. I could not correct the bid in time using my phone. The auction ended at GBP 20 (around US$ 32). Did I overpay for it?
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
Well, what I can tell you is that it is not worth 12,040 GBP.
Canadian Psycho
Banned
Clockwork Night 2 on the other hand...
lol
lol
Chiaroscuro
Member
lol. I am glad that there was no other crazy eBay shoper or anyone making the same mistake as mine. That auction could have ended far worse.
PepsimanVsJoe
Member
That is nuts.
I remember buying Blast Wind for $20 several years ago. I traded it for Twinkle Star Sprites not too long after(mainly because I thought BW was mediocre).
So of course Blast Wind balloons in price and TSS doesn't even budge in value.
Psycho Echidna
Member
2 Factors for Blastwind high price :
- Very few copies were shipped in Japan when it came out. It was rare to buy it even back then.
- From Technosoft and with a Technosoft soundtrack ( Justice ray part 1 to name just one).
- Very few copies were shipped in Japan when it came out. It was rare to buy it even back then.
- From Technosoft and with a Technosoft soundtrack ( Justice ray part 1 to name just one).
Yeah I paid $130 for it, regret nothing since I love Technosoft.
A Black Falcon
Member
Yeah, both of those are important factors. And I at least think that it's also a lot of fun to play. I wish I owned Blast Wind, I want it more than Hyper Duel.
Yeah, I think I paid about $125 last summer.. No regrets here. Not like I was not going to put it in my collection...it is a Technosoft game. I think I paid about $200 for Hyper Duel. I still need Thunder Force Gold Pack 2 to complete the Technosoft shooters.
I bought this, but what do you do about the lack of red+white inputs for sound, does that not matter?
EDIT: double post
UltraGunner
Banned
Hi saturnGAF I have an emulation question. I'm using SSF right now and using Virtual Clone Drive to mount the games to play, but for some reason the emulator doesn't want to play the game and I'm stuck with a black screen. I double checked to make sure the cd drive box in options has the VCD as the drive, but still nothing. The only game I can get to work is die hard arcade. Any help would be appreciated.
sixteen-bit
Member
Honestly, it was better than I expected.
I appreciated the decision to finally decouple the shuriken and sword attacks to separate buttons instead of making them context sensitive like the previous games. For a digitized graphics game, it controls smooth and the hit detection is good. It's still ugly as sin and can't hold a candle to the Genesis Shinobi games, but I went in with low expectations and got a decent game.
That plug into the TV?
sixteen-bit
Member
Or AV receiver
You're using this?
Thats what I use. Best way to go about it if you can.
Thank you very much.
sixteen-bit
Member
I'd hesitate to call it the best; it certainly complicates things if you're using an XRGB for example.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
It's actually not that bad, but yeah, definitely don't go in expecting something on the level of Revenge of Shinobi or Shinobi III. It ain't that. The game feels a bit too clunky, and the level design is downright bad at times. A lot of cheap deaths. I finished the game, but only because I was rip-roaringly drunk and making fun of the game with some friends.
IrishNinja
Member
sir we have a strict new thread for new news policy round here
Well guys the good news is I found a Saturn RPG from Atlus in very good condition at a thrift store today. It was complete and the case didn't have a single crack on it. The price was more than I wanted to pay, but after checking ebay for complete copies, this was clearly the lower price. The bad news is.....
Well I'm not proud of EVERY purchase I make, it at least pads my tiny Saturn collection a little more.
Well I'm not proud of EVERY purchase I make, it at least pads my tiny Saturn collection a little more.
Canadian Psycho
Banned
Watched a gameplay video of this on YouTube a while back... it was so bad I couldn't stop watching. The devil in the game is amazingly cool. It's cool to have a few lolworthy games in the collection, like Ring King for NES.
P.S. Any firsthand impressions of the game?
P.S. Any firsthand impressions of the game?
theSlacker
Member
Honestly after watching a youtube video on it, it doesn't look all that bad. I mean other then the unbearable framrate.
sixteen-bit
Member
Well guys the good news is I found a Saturn RPG from Atlus in very good condition at a thrift store today. It was complete and the case didn't have a single crack on it. The price was more than I wanted to pay, but after checking ebay for complete copies, this was clearly the lower price. The bad news is.....
Well I'm not proud of EVERY purchase I make, it at least pads my tiny Saturn collection a little more.
I remember jokingly linking footage to this game claiming it was footage of pre-patch PC Dark Souls lol
IrishNinja
Member
oh man, jay is gonna have words with you guys
ResidentDante
Member
Breaking news!
When can I buy it?! And why does it look like a white Saturn from Japan?!
A Black Falcon
Member
Probably because that's what the model 2 Saturn looked like in Japan. Remember that the Japanese model 1 system is grey.