What should I get for Sega Saturn?

[aquacoma]

Most of the great ones have been named, but, there is still Mega Man 8 and Albert Odyssey.

The Saturn was amazing, sad it didn't do well here.

 

[N-Sef]

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, X-Men: Children of Atom, Radiant Silvergun, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Fighting Vipers 2, Batsagun, Guardian Heroes and Nights: Into Dream.

These are simply some of the best games on offer for the system.

 

[Cyclomega]

Buy a modchip. I doubt the developers would be miffed that you didn't pay a hundred+ dollars for panzer dragoon.

Are there still people out there who can mod a Saturn ? it was a real pain to do, and yet you have to buy the games anyway (even second hand some of them are way far from cheap).

As far as I can tell, an Action Replay could play import games right ? Plus some models could act as RAM packs for KoF and Marvel fighting games.

 

[The Wooster]

Radiant Silvergun
X-Men vs. Street Fighter
Vib Ribbon
Harmful Park
Mr. Bones
Herc's Adventures


Some of those are Japanese imports, though, just FYI.

You're not suggesting he try and buy Radiant Silvergun surely?

 

[Cyclomega]

But can he play RS on a Saturn without buying it ?

I doubt backups ever ran on this one...

 

[The Wooster]

But can he play RS on a Saturn without buying it ?

I doubt backups ever ran on this one...

Actually the saturn was notoriously easy to hack.

 

[Cyclomega]

Huh ? well if I'd known that... I only knew the swap trick, the modchip-with-switches, and the Action Replay methods...
How else can you hack it ? I'd like to know...

But anyway it's all dead and gone now that that god darn stupid ***** that was my so-called roommate (more like a parasite) stole my Saturn and sold it to buy himself junk food and a shitty hip-hop cap while I was at work... My Saturn is dead, long live my other consoles...

 

[The Wooster]

What a douchebag. Installing a chip in the saturn was very very easy, I didn't know you could swap trick it though. Oh and as I recall the region lock was literally a switch inside the console.

Sega just hasn't had much luck security wise. The dreamcast was atrociously easy to run copied games on.

 

[Cyclomega]

Yeah, but I doubt the Saturn could have run much backups, seeing how it couldn't read a simple music CD I burned...

Oh yeah I remember the Dreamcast, I had a DC-X, 40-something original games (including Ikaruga, KoF 2000 and 2001 and the Sakura Taisen Collection limited box), then I got some autoboot isos, and I burned a Utopia 1.3 for some non-autobootable backups I had. Man that was my favourite console, I liked it better than my PS2. Someday I'll fire it up back and play my old games again. I still have my 7 or 8 VMUs and my Nexus Memory Card... \o/
An old friend of mine had found a swap trick, and he was among the first people to play GGX on Dreamcast in France at the time.

Anyways I might have the swap trick videos on an older hard drive somewhere over the rainbow -nah just in my old laptop. Basically you need to trick the weight lock open to let the lid up, start your regular game, remove it when the SEGA logo is displayed, then put your desired game, then swap it for the regular again, then another swap, and it's all based on listening to the noise the CD player makes while spinning, it's precise and demanding, but apparently it works... Maybe you can find it by lurking on YouTube...

 

[Cyclomega]

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=30z2uOVD394

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=eK7-lsgIUxk

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=MYXzq4zW5iA

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=V_6a8wrku0o

Found. The swap trick is to let you play burned backups, but not bypass regions, yet region patches can be applied to backups.

 

[Ixus Illwrath]

A proper receptacle