/vr/ - Retro Games

>have owned a Saturn since 2000

>got a Based 64 and a ShovelwareStation instead

>>4194367
It's a love hate relationship. Importing shit was fucking hard in the 90s.

The fact that it was such a clusterfuck system but still had quality games is a testament to Sega's tenacity. It could've easily been as bad as n64.

>>4194369
/vr/'s tolerable limit is 1999. Too late, jonee.

>>4194490
>/vr/'s tolerable limit is 1999
not for long anymore

>>4194519
Sup Hiro, are you going to make /v2k/?

>>4194519
kek, why do you keep doing this to yourself?

>>4194519
why don't you sixth gen kiddies just make a ps2/cube/gba/xbox thread on eightchin's /v/

>>4194367
>owning a Saturn

I never owned a saturn.

I feel so bad about it.

>>4194848
You didn't miss much, anon.

Grew up with Nintendo 64, bust got a Saturn. The only game it came with was this piece of shit (pic related). It's like some weird space game with music controls.

Grew up with Nintendo 64, but just got a Saturn recently. The only game it came with was this piece of shit (pic related). It's like some weird space game with music controls.

>>4194414
>Based 64

>>4194874
I said got a ShovelwareStation too. It was okay.

>>4194880
You got a Shovelware 64 too.

>>4194367
I always wondered could the card slot be used to play games from it?
Like makes cartridges games for saturn or is just a memory slot?

>>4194872
Cmon man
This shit again
You tried that last week

>>4194890
None of you assholes helped me.

>>4194889
It's an expansion port.

>>4194907
So like the N64 one
I see, thank you for the info

>there's actually, factually people here who didn't bought a Saturn back when it was new

> tfw you find out that despite Sega'a tradition and its design it will not be
backward compatible at all

>>4194483
>tfw you still pick one up from somebody desperate to get a 64 because of all the imports hitting $5 or even pennying out on your shift despite there having been guys like you out there willing to pay retail for them that just couldn't get to a Babbage's

I've only met 1 kid throughout my whole childhood who had one, everyone else was PS1 and N64. Did manage to get one in 2006 and my appreciation of it grew a lot, love those cheap Japanese Imports.

>there's people who didn't get this console back in release date
Embarrassing.

>>4194483
>It could've easily been as bad as n64.
By "easily been as bad as N64", you mean it could have sold 3x as many units, had actual good games and been one of the top 3 most influential consoles of all time?

>>4195056
>falling for the console war bait

>>4194931
>he bought no-games: 90s edition

>>4195065
But I didn't buy a Jag.

>>4195065
But I didn't buy an N64.

>>4195080
>using Segata to console war shitpost

>>4195080
>"bought games"
>bought a saturn
Does not compute.

>>4195080
B T F O
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>>4195110
>implying Saturn wasn't Sega's best system if you lived in glorious Japan

Sucks to have been a westy, but them's the brakes.

>he didn't own all three PS, N64 and SS at release

>Can't do transparent graphics

Check mate, Sega fanboys

>>4195162
Burning Rangers

>>4195080
Odd, I could've sworn I was playing GOAT N64 with my friends and not "Schoolgirl Feet Smothering Simulator" on the Sega Weeb-box.

>Bought a Dreamcast
>Still wasn't unique enough
>Bought a Saturn

>Bought a R-Zone

I didn't get a saturn in the 90's, had genesis, ps1 and later an n64. I just got a saturn a few months ago though and enjoying it a lot. That and the dreamcast are my go to consoles right now

>>4195162
Panzer Dragoon, a launch title in the US, has true alpha blending.

Although it's fighting mechanics are somewhat flawed, Elan Doree is a great import.

>>4195162

>>4195151
Saturn and ShovelwareStation at least had games.

N64 was too little, too late. By the time it came out people were already talking about PS2 and the Saturn successor. And only Nintendo fanboys really bought into the thing, as evidenced by it only selling well in America, land of the shit taste.

>>4194904
Is it already flashed? Or is it still an Action Replay? If it's flashed, just burn a game and have fun. If not, find a PC with a serial port (lol) and turn it into a PseudoSaturn.

>>4194872
It's so you can play region locked games.

>>4195162
>>4195219

>>4195223
N64 = GOAT platformers and party games
PS1 = A few okay games, weebshit and shovelware
SS = Pure weebshit, no Sanic

This is undeniable fact.

>>4195162
>>4195235

>>4195235
The radar isn't transparent but is in the Windows version.

>>4195236
t. Nintenyearold

>>4195254
Also forgot, PS1 was the black people system.

>>4195243
>>4195162

>>4195260
>Ninteniggers
>White

>>4195276
Nice shadow underneath him.

>>4195278
Maybe the occasional Anime Nigga would have had a Saturn, but maybe ShovelwareStation could fulfill his desires.

>>4195291
Was Bug Too! good?

>>4195301
SSM called it more of the same. Not bad, just nothing there to make it good either.

>>4195308
Although I have to say that I absolutely loved the music of it. It had this Danny Elfman vibe to it, but more like his Oingo Boingo days instead of his movie scores. Actually, between both I'd say.

>>4194367
Your situation is understandable. They were expensive in the 90's. And you were born in 2001 so there's that.

>>4195085
Ironically, Segata's glorious return was on a NINTENDO console and he was played as a joke character.

>>4195223
>people were already talking about PS2 in 1996

really?
Also, I think all 3 consoles have games. Sure, PS got the most, but Saturn has a lot of great games (often better ports than on PS) and N64 has quite a bunch of exclusives that still don't emulate well.

>>4195508
PSX2 rumours first started coming out in 1998 around the time of the Dreamcast announcement. I remember this was the first mockup for it.

They also erroneously used the Sega Pluto pictures for some other machines prototype, not sure if it was Black Belt or Katana or perhaps even called a PSX2 concept. Of course, back then we didn't knew of the Pluto.

>>4195236
Japanese things cannot be wannabe Japanese. How many decades is it going to take until this sinks in?

>>4194519
I actually think the tolerable limit should be pushed back a few years, not extended.

95 or 96 seem like better markers for the retro/non retro divide.

>>4194889
It can be used for memory but some games (mostly one-on-one fighters) used it from RAM giving more space for sprite animation.

>>4195162
That's where you're wrong, kid. Let this Chinese autist explain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_OchOV_WDg

>>4195248
there is no windows version of zwei

>>4194519
Seriously time to include ps2 and gamecube imo.

>>4198167
we need /v2k/, I grew up with Wii and PS3, but I understand they are too modern for /vr/'s standards, but too old for /v/.

>>4198351
>Grew up with the ps3 and wii

holy fuck, are you underage, or am I just old as fuck

Also I agree, Although I just wish they would allow the ps2 here, I mean ffs, it was released in 2000

>>4199157
kids who were 8 when the 360 was released are 19 now.

>>4199159
damn

I apologies

>>4199157
If /v2k/ is made, it'd make sense all system released in 2000 on wards go there.

Still waiting for /v2k/ please.

>>4194367
Im a 90s kid and I remember this!

Sonic was so cool too bad he isnt good anymore. If he was I would have heard about him by now

>>4195162
all background layers (including the sprite layer) support transparent blending
sprites support 50% and shadow transparency between each other (unfortunately, this doesn't affect backgrounds because they aren't drawn to the framebuffer)
burning rangers renders the screen twice and adds the transparent bits on top as a background layer, which is a neat trick, if fairly high overhead and still somewhat limited