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Deep Fear

>jrpg
not on saturn

Saturn Bomberman.

>>4922176
NiGHTS into dreams
Panzer Dragoon
Sega Rally
Daytona USA
Virtua Fighter 1-2
Virtual on

Mo' fookin' BAKU BAKU

>>4922176
huh
I'd think PSX is more appropriate for JRPGs.

>>4922358
The PlayStation eXtreme has a lot of RPGs, but sadly also lots of loading times.

>>4922361
>also lots of loading times.
Why Saturn is supposed to have less? They are both CD systems.

>>4922176
Street Fighter Zero 3
Bulk Slash
Radiant Silvergun

>>4922394
I wasn't actually talking about the Saturn, but now that you mention it, the Saturn's load times seem faster than the PS-x. Also more durable, PS-x's laser often fails.

>>4922415
Yeah, I have two dead PS1 laser units.

im not a weeb and i found some use for my saturn, ima just drop my whole collection for you to pick and choose from

resident evil/biohazard
deep fear
NHL ninetysomething
quake
iron storm
ultimate mortal kombat 3
myst
deadalus
virtua photostudio (teeeeeeeechnically a JRPG, in that you role play as a pornagrapher and take pictures of naked uncensored japanese women. a must have for the system)
solar eclipse
area 51
mobile suit gundam side story 1
gungriffon
strikers 1945
ultimate puzzle fighter 2 x (weeby)

closest things to a JRPG i have on Saturn is baroque and shining the holy ark.

Die Hard Arcade
Fighters Megamix
Terra Diver
Psychic Killer Tomato
Best home port of OutRun
Best version of SotN

>>4922468
>Psychic Killer Tomato
kek
Yeah that's a good game. You'll need to burn a CD-R for that one though, that game is not cheap.

>>4922468
>psychic killer tomato

Shut the front door!

https://m.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m4084.l1313&_nkw=shinrei+jusatsushi+taromaru+sega+saturn

>>4922468
>Best version of SotN
in no universe is this true

Cyber Troopers: Virtual On
Mechwarrior 2
Command and Conquer
Soviet Strike
Duke Nukem 3d
Sonic R (Yes, i'm serious)
Worms
Fighters Megamix

>>4922361
nice meme

>>4922496
> no gungriffon 2, but mechwarriors??

The only games on that list worth playing on saturn is fighters megamix and sonic r... ok and maybe virtual on (i have it on dc and saturn, they are both good, but dc is superior). All the others have better ports elsewhere.

>>4922492
>bigger map
>new items like running shoes and the spear from Bloodlines
>more boss fights
>funnest gameplay for Maria
>exclusive music tracks
>new Richter sprite
>third hand
But it is.

>>4922176
Kuttu kettu
Lupin the 3rd pyramid sage
All fighting games 2d and 3d (doa, street fighter, virtua fighter, king of fighters, fighters megamix etc...)
Ninpen manmaru
Gun griffon 2
Dark savior
Legend of oasis
Clockwork knight
Bug! 2
Mr. Bones
Panzer dragoon/zwei/saga
Drift king 97
Elevator action returns
Burning rangers

>>4922487
saturn piracy is dead easy and prices are too damn high not to burn games

>>4922176
Ports of the Street Fighter Alpha series, which are a mere smidgeon better than the ps1 versions

>>4922176
the house of the dead
panzer dragoon 1 and zwei
battle garega
radiant silvergun
Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge
is there a good saturn emulator?

>>4922176
Shmup arcade ports. Gradius/salamander/parodius, Do/Donpachi, Batsugun, Darius, Cotton, etc. I play literally zero exclusives for the system but I love it as an arcade console

>>4922415
>PS-x's laser often fails.

You mean all the time, since it's designed to fail. The plastic caddy gets deformed from the heat the unit produces; it's 100% certain that over time the unit ends up dead.

Saturn is a really bad system to have if you're a JRPG fan. Its library of JRPGs is mediocre and the games often have a very ugly digitized sprite look, in addition to being generally sluggish. This isn't to say that there are none, it isn't the N64, but it is not a system to bother with many RPGs on.

What you want are arcade ports. Shoot em Ups, Super Scaler games, the like.

>>4923581
This. Even if you are not able to burn your own, places like Esty have sellersthat sell pretty nice cased repros with the art for under 20 bucks.

>>4923634
>tfw modded power rails for efficiency and added heatsinks
>whole unit just gets lukewarm now instead of a furnace right under the sled

every exclusive on this console is mediocre and every non-exclusive has a better version available somewhere else. Honestly hipster fags need to stop eating the saturn up like it's some hidden gem chest and just accept that it's rubbish

>>4925330
normie leave

>>4922176
Bulk Slash!

Also, Panzer Dragoon series and arcade SHMUP ports.

>>4922525
Counterpoints
>Increased slowdown
>Running on stairs is fucked for some reason
>Extra areas are really boring and serve little purpose beyond further unbalancing a broken game by throwing tons of exp at you

But yeah, it's a preference thing, and if you really want to play Maria it's the best version. For playing as Alucard I'll opt for the smoother game rather than extra zones that are inconsequential at best.

>>4925330
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>>4923581
I know, i own a white saturn and 3 black, with like 6 extra controllers a 3d controller a fight stick a bunch of games.

But thanks. I really never looked that game up, and was surprised to say the least.

>>4923664
True the saturn is not the rpg machine like the playstation was, but it does have some nice ones. Have you heard of riglord saga? It has the lunars, albert odyssey, super robot wars f, blue breaker, samurai spirit, and shinning wisdom just to name a few. But you really need to speak mune runes.

>>4925376
ily man, thanks for the laugh

>>4922176
There are fuck all jrpg's on the Saturn.
>>4922468
>Best version of SotN
lmao good one :^)
>>4922394
Saturn has way more RAM.
>>4925330
>hipster fags need to stop eating the saturn up
Check out this toothless mountain dweller with no taste and no knowledge.

>>4922176
The best fuckin Capcom fighter ports if you ignore CotA and MSH

>tfw this win was off a trade
Fuck

I really want a saturn, any advice on a purchase? I like the white saturn the most... how hard is it to play different region'd games on one?

is it worth it to go through ebay?

desu id love to trade my turbografx collection for one

>>4926021
Just get an Action Replay and flash Pseudo Saturn Kai on it, and you'll be gucci. You'll be able to run games of all regions and formats (legit or burned) if you do that, and it doubles as a RAM cart.

Or you could Rhea/Phoebe it and just run games off SD cards.

>>4926030
>you could Rhea/Phoebe
Good luck dealing with the "Soup Nazi" of flash drives with that one, or paying scalpers who already went through that ordeal a fat premium for their time.

>>4926021
not difficult at all, you can get an action replay for it for a few bucks. pick up one with a game included (doesn't matter what), flash pseudosaturn to the action replay, and then you can run burned discs and region free stuff. it's worth going through ebay because finding them in the wild is inexplicably very difficult.

>>4926021
>I really want a saturn, any advice on a purchase? I like the white saturn the most... how hard is it to play different region'd games on one?
So do i. But i ended up getting a standard US black so i didn't have to mess with voltage differences. But more importantly its difficult (especially buying online) to find a white one that isnt discolored. Any sort of yellowing would bug the shit out of me, that and i realized i dont have a black console at all. Just got my action replay as well.
>is it worth it to go through ebay?
I buy shitloads through ebay. Just make sure the seller has a high rating. Ebay has a really good buyer return policy, read into it. Just picked up my model 1 saturn in really good shape.
>desu id love to trade my turbografx collection for one
Keep it. Turbografx/pc engine is cool. Always wanted one.

aside from daytona and duke nukem not much. It's not a mistery why a sega console with no decent sonic games failed so miserably

Hello

>>4927637
>daytone instead of sega rally
>douk instead of exhumed
>>4927698
how much did you pay for ear?

>>4927939
>how much did you pay for ear?
nothing, i was born with it

>>4927945
You're japanese?

Never fear OP, it has all the VNs you could ever want.

>>4927698
Hello

>>4928135

>>4925330
incorrect

>>4928135
Neat. Ive been wanting a rhea. But im not gonna loose sleep on it. Dudes ordering system is whack. Ill buy a chink one if they release. Picked up a gdemu for me and a buddy. That was a pain in the ass. Not sure why he doesnt just mass produce the shit.

Also keeping an eye on the Saturn Satiator or whatever its called. Hopefully he is making good progress.

>>4928135
I want one of those Saturn chips real bad but the guy's ordering system is fucking retarded and I'm not paying $1000 on eBay for one.

>>4928742
>>4929010
I'll sell you my spare for $1000.

>>4930628
Sent :)

I just bought Mr. Bones. What am I in for? I hear a lot of things about it, both good and bad.

Also, I want to sell Clockwork Knight. Anyone interested? I'll do what Japanon guy did if anyone wants to buy it.

>>4931030
it was a serious offer tho.

>>4928135
How have u been my walking thru installing my rhea pal?

>>4931161
I tried checking how you managed to break off the ribbon connectors holder, and ended up breaking it off of my own one too. I could replace it with a connector from a dead modchip though.

Have you tried fixing your unit since, or are you still holding the ribbon in place with a piece of paper?

>>4931171
Piece of paper and it still works great.
Everytime I boot up a game I think of you. Thanks again

>>4931191
Glad to hear it still works! That whole episode was surreal.

>>4931124
That doesn't sound like a good offer. Ill just wait until the chinks are ready the manufacture them.

>>4931454
Good luck waiting forever!

>>4931534
Gdemus didn't take long.

>>4931642
GDEmus took 5 years to be copied and they are for a way more popular console.
Rhea is a newer product with heavier protection, that relies much more heavily on proper timing, and is made for a far less popular console.

Don't get your hopes up.

>>4931803
You sound like one of those gdemu white knights that post in his blog mad af about the chink ripoffs and defend his way of selling. No point in paying that much when an action replay and a pile of blank cds get you the same thing.

>>4932019
>an action replay and a pile of blank cds get you the same thing.

They'll also destroy the cart slot and wear down the laser.

>>4932287
It'll only "destroy" the cart slot if you're constantly pulling it in and out. No reason to ever do that desu.
And by the time the lasers fully wear out there'll be enough GDEmu clones at competitive pricing so all you shills can stay mad

>>4927953
Is the YU-NO version on this any good?

>>4932571
>No reason to ever do that desu.

Yeah, there is, if you want save games onto your backup cart. Pseudosaturn doesn't let you save.

>>4923664
>very ugly digitized sprite look

I find that shit charming as fuck and I wish I could read jpn because i wanna play wachenroder

>>4931803

>Heavier protection

Lol, give me one of these for a week and I'll be ready to manufacture them. I'll even send back a free sample or two back to a person who will provide me with one. This shit takes literally 2-3 bucks and half an hour to make a board and solder it together. It's not magic or nuclerar science.

>>4932641
action replay has a backup fuction, you just can't use it in game but in the system menu you just back it all up there. Unless you are playing on a drained battery (which you can get those self charging ones that last a few years if you don't want to pay the 5.00ish a year to replace the old battery) you will keep all your saves. Least that's how I have been doing it for 5 years now.

>>4931376
Yeah when you told me it was a connection error because the menu wouldn’t load my head nearly exploded

>>4932851
>action replay has a backup fuction,

If you flash it to run backups, it won't be able to save anything. And there are some games with saves so big they don't fit on the internal memory. Plus it's a fucking chore to copy those things over every game - it's way simpler to keep a backup cart in permanently and never worry about saves in any game ever.

>>4925990
Saturn doesn't really have much more RAM.
in fact, the one place it really shines is video RAM, which is sadly split on the Saturn (three 512kB chunks -- 512k for sprites/textures, 512k for backgrounds, and then 512k for the main framebuffer) rather than the 1MB unified block like on the Playstation (loaded textures and the framebuffer and the lot are just jammed in the same area, letting you do some wild framebuffer fuckery with extremely little penalty)

both machines have 2MB of main work RAM, and then there's a handful of other caches and shit on each machine
Saturn has better load times due to the more advanced loading process driven by a whole dedicated SH-1 CPU (which is sadly non-programmable for devs, it only executes the CD drive program).

>>4933161
Saturn has better load times because it has 512k cd memory, psx only has 128k. The cd memory can also be used to store data in general, so the Saturn definitely has an edge there.

Also the extra 512k video ram is hooked up to tilemap processor, so it can do way more advanced backdrops than what the PSX could do if it had 512k more ram for textures.

The texture memory definitely sucks, but the whole VDP1 in general was shit, not just its memory setup.

>>4932997
Yeah, that surprised me too, I was about to clear my next day to run around town getting SD cards, copying games, testing them, and mailing it.
Then it turns out its just the connection being faulty.

>>4922176
Burning Rangers

Astal is a good platformer

>>4923584

Fuck off. THe playstation Alpha games are plagued by all kinds of retarded shit. They aren't even 2D games. It's all running in 3D engines, hence the slowdown when you jump.
How comes the playstation never gets shit for not being able to run 2D engines.

>>4938534
>They aren't even 2D games. It's all running in 3D engines

That concept does not exist on neither the Saturn and the Playstation hardware. Stop regurgitating youtube bullshit.

>>4926004
>if you ignore CotA and MSH
have they not aged well?