/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6382308
Nobody cares about the shitstain that is Sega of Jewmerica

>>6382310
Americans only care about SoA and completely ignore anything Sega besides the Genesis.

>>6382320
Fax, and I'm American agreeing to this.

>>6382308
Meanwhile the Saturn lasted until the year 2000 while the Dreamcast was already 2 years old in the states

>>6382338
>he says on a board dedicated to discussing the same 20+ year old things again and again forever

>>6382338
You got 49 more threads to post this on, see ya tomorrow!

>>6382308
Because the Sega Saturn deserved better.

>>6382459
It couldn't have gotten much more, it was already at the end of its rope. Prematurely cutting off the Saturn market in Japan was stupid but I don't even think that was Stolar's decision.

>>6382308
He didn't allow the localization of cringey pedo-anime games like Grandia so weeaboo Segafags are eternally seething over him.

>>6382463
SoA was ignoring the jap-core audience and Sony capitalised on that, and import shops became more common as a result. The Saturn was at the end of its rope because SoA seemed opposed to localizing popular Japanese series, including first party titles like Sakura Taisen. Stolar gets the appropriate level of hatred for his inconsiderate direction of the company.

>>6382463
The Sega Saturn was about to get Resident Evil 2. Plus there are a lot of great Japanese exclusives I would have loved to see localized here in the U.S.

>>6382478
>Pedo-anime
Lolwut, that game has nothing to do with chasing lolita. I guess fans of a series wanting a specific version on their preferred system is the end of civilized society to you

>>6382478
thing is JRPGs were huge at the time so it was just a pea-brained business decision NOT to localize the biggest console's biggest game in that genre.

>>6382507
>>6382519

Them Saturn haters gone learn. Bernie robbed us from a lot of good things that was suppose to happen for the Saturn making that damn statement. That "Saturn is not the future" quote came from a guy who was former president of Sony of America. Sega fucked up hiring him from the start. Communication between SOA and SOJ was sour by then.
Sega of Japan: "let's put out the Saturn now in 1994!"
Sega of America: "but we're trying to push out Genesis add-on #2 (Sega 32X)".

I would've been happy to see those 34 32X games on the Saturn instead.

>>6382308
Lil' Bernie wasn't very good with people and with economics. He just wanted to play golf and work on his handicap.

>>6382519
>The Sega Saturn was about to get Resident Evil 2
It's on PSX and N64 and PC...

>>6382581
I think what he was meaning to say is that resident evil at the beginning of time was suppose to be a Saturn exclusive till they seen how Sega of America was treating the Saturn. There's apparently a prototype disc of RE2 out there in the world somewhere

>>6382613
Wow RE2 + vcd card we have a winrar

>>6382626
If only! Ugh, damnit Sega. We didn't get to see the Saturn for what it should have been.

>>6382478
>business man ignores a core part of his consumer demographic because donald trump fanboy 25 years later in hindsight says japanese games are for pedos
I'm sure only you could have killed the Saturn faster.

>>6382542
Final Fantasy was huge at the time, there aren't any JRPGs on the Playstation that sold over one million copies in North America that don't have the Square name on them.

Fuck the bernieposter, long live to the Sega Saturn

>>6382626
The Video CD Card can actually produce some quality stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih4QdZmCpcQ

>>6382581
Wow who cares

>>6382901
Proper encoding on the Saturn surpassed what the Playstation could do.

>>6382926
Yes and no. It's more that some source material suited itself better to the Saturn's software codecs than the PS1's MJPEG. And as always the amount of effort the developer put into encoding the videos and how much space is allotted for them on the disc seriously matters.

Cinepak get's a really bad reputation but with the right effort you can get decent results:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8_zfXYrzJY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcAInbGkzcM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLWwE9l7fT8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syJHSHgm8K0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfiJ5a9CphM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B5xdkzEHb4

Still though, the MPEG card is definitely the winner in what it's capable of delivering.

>>6382926
Yes.

>>6382548
I agree. I absolutely love my Sega Saturn. Fuck Bernie Stolar.

>>6382581
I'm aware, but at the time I was a Sega Saturn owner and I was looking forward to Resident Evil 2 being released on it. Then Bernie fucked it up for us Saturn owners. Which forced me to buy a PS1 to play RE2. Either way from what I've seen, RE2 had better textures and higher resolution on the Sega Saturn.

>>6382938
>Either way from what I've seen
There is NO footage of the Saturn version, what you saw was pre-release PSX footage. But nice job revealing your Saturn bias.

>>6382952
>revealing your Saturn bias.
You say that like it's a bad thing.

>>6382681
Even so EVERYBODY was trying to make their own FF7 killer just like all the doom clones that came out years before it. N64 similarly had a big demand for more RPGs and when it ended up getting was the oh-so shitty quest 64

>>6382938
>Either way from what I've seen, RE2 had better textures and higher resolution on the Sega Saturn.
The Saturn port was only planned for what is now RE 1.5 and there aren't even any screenshots of it. Given the state of the RE1 port I'm gonna have to guess it wouldn't've turned out like that.

>>6383003
There's really no reason why the Saturn shouldn't have been able to handle a 1:1 port of the Resident Evil games. Drawing Polygons over 2D Backgrounds is pretty much what it's made to do with the VDP1 + VDP2 set up. VDP2 can even set priorities for certain parts of a background layer so 1 layer can at the same time be drawn over top of and underneath of VDP1 objects. Deep Fear actually does this last I checked.

it did good only in Japan.

>>6384263
it didn't do that good there either, barely broke 10m units, and very few AAA system sellers.

>>6384318
it got a lot of games, even got a lot of good capcom games.

>>6382308
Listen, Stolar. I've fucking had it with you. I told you last time you came around here shitting on the Saturn that next time it happened would be the last mistake you would ever make. You just couldn't help yourself could you?

Fuck sega of america. I get diarrhea when i see a black saturn.

>>6382887