/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7064128
Just picked up a MODE for my Saturn, I fucking love it. Replaying Tomb Raider and realizing how much I still suck at Sega Rally.

One thing I will say about ODEs, is only throw the games onto it that you actually want to play. Don't be some sort of hyperautist who has to have an entire redump set filled with shit you'll never touch, it'll just increase choice paralysis and make it take longer to scroll through your game list.

The Saturn is limited in how fast it can pull info from the bus itself, so an ODE doesn't reduce loadtimes as much as it could (although it does reduce them by virtue of having 0 seektimes). For the Dreamcast I'd recommend a GDEMU over a MODE solely because while MODE loads games slower to maintain compatibility and stability the GDEMU loads games as quickly as it can. The increased data transfer speed is only an issue in a couple of games so it's worth the reduced loadtimes for the rest of the library.