/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9163341
>I plan on getting a pseudo saturn kai with it so I can play Japanese and burned games
Check if your Saturn can actually read discs. No use in going the Pseudo route if the laser is dead in your system. It should be fine enough to pop a music CD in there and let it play the full album without hiccups or rampant seeking noise, but if you can get a real Saturn game then grab the cheapest one that's a good, not fucked disc, and see if the Saturn plays through enough of the game fine enough.
You need to be especially careful because Saturn games all have a proprietary layer on the outer rim of the disc that acts as both a copyright protection and helps the Saturn determine what data to load next in-game. My copy of Sega Rally Championship runs fine, but my Virtua Fighter 2 has a lot of scratches (and a tiny hairline surface crack) on the outside. It'll boot up and I can play it fine, but Arcade is unplayable after the first stage, it'll try to load stage 2 only to be stuck and effectively crash.
After that though you're good to go. I have to warn you though, that buying from china/hong kong right now is really fucked due to covid and the war stuff going on, your order for a cart may even get cancelled. You may have to settle for a US seller if that's the case, but even though it'll cost a bit more I'd still say it pays for itself, especially given the prices of real copies from any region.