/vr/ - Retro Games

For me it's Not Our Future by Stoleour Studios, a great great game.

I don't know...Sonic Jam, I guess. Street Fighter Alpha 3 as well, although that's not exclusive.

Original game: Powerslave

Port: Resident Evil

Original game: dragon force

Port: xmen cota

Probably Dragon Force.

>>7784807
Bulk Slash

>>7784807
Cotton 2 and boomerang i like shooters they are fun

Battle garegga

>>7784807
Mickey Mouse

>>7787357
better on ps4 now thanks to based m2

Guardian Heroes. I don't usually like Beat em Ups but this one really does it for me, highly recommended.

>>7788719
That's because you're a faggot casual who gets BTFO'd whenever he tries to play real belt scrollers. Trashure games are always the favourites for people like yourself.

>>7785163
RE runs like dogshit on shitturn

>>7788740
is die hard arcade ok? i like it

>>7784807
For me its Panzer Dragoon or Sega Rally.
>>7787180
>i like shooters they are fun
I use to also like them before I start posting here,

>>7784807
It only has 3 good games

Puyo puyo sun
Puyo puyo tsu
Christmas nights

>>7788740
based and fucktrashurepilled

Right now it's Sexy Parodius
also pebble beach golf links is a pretty good time

>>7791208
based

>>7784993
He is not ready for the SEGA SATURN

>consider myself a Sega fan (at least as a kid)
>have never played a Sega Saturn

>>7791258
same, except replace Saturn with Master System, never have come across one where I live.

>>7791265
>>7791258
Play them both, they are good

>>7791265
I had pic related and we also had a Game Gear so I have experience with SMS titles, although I can't say it was memorable compared to Genesis.
Yesterday I found out my cousin owned a Saturn in the 90s but I was unaware of this. I swear he never mentioned it when they came over for holidays. Explains why he loved playing our PlayStation so much

>>7791258
If you're from Europe it makes sense. It was non existent here. I literally didn't know the Saturn existed until like 2009.

I thought it went Mega Drive -> Dreamcast

Retard here, a game I'm playing is asking me if I want to save to system or cartridge, what does that mean and which one is better?

>>7792991
system is the battery inside the saturn
cartridge is the memory cartridge that you can insert into it

>>7791810
I had mates who went NES & Master System to PSX entirely skipping SNES and Mega Drive. I found it odd but they had a pretty big collection that made it better than SNES anyway.

I mainly saw Saturns in display cabinets with Bug and in magazines.

Arcade ports are why I regretted missing out on it.

Panzer Dragoon Zwei and Saga were also really gold.

Albert Odyssey
Alien Trilogy
Assault Suit Lenos 2
Astal
Astra Superstars
Asuka 120% LimitOver
Baku Baku Animal
Bug
Bug Too
Bulk Slash
Burning Rangers
Clockwork Knight 1
Clockwork Knight 2
Cotton 2
Cotton Boomerang
D
Dark Savior
Deep Fear
Die Hard Arcade
Dragon Force
Dragon Force 2
Elevator Action Returns
Enemy Zero
Fighters Megamix
Golden Axe the Duel
Groove on Fight
Gungriffon
Grandia
Guardian Heroes
Keio Flying Squadron 2
Last Bronx
Legend of Oasis
Linkle Liver Story
Lunacy
Lunar Silver Star Story
Lunar Eternal Blue
Magic Knight Rayearth
Mansion of Hidden Souls
Mr. Bones
Nights into Dreams
Panzer Dragoon
Panzer Dragoon Zwei
Panzer Dragoon Saga
Policenaughts
Powerslave
Princess Crown
Rabbit
Radiant Silvergun
Sakura Wars 1
Sakura Wars 2
Saturn Bomberman
Shining Force III
Shining in the Holy Ark
Shining Wisdom
Shinobi Legions
Shinrei Jusatsushi Taroumaru
Silhouette Mirage
Sonic R (It's great once you take the time to truly understand the controls)
Super Tempo
Three Dirty Dwarves
Thunder Force V
Vandal Hearts
Virtual On - Cyber Troopers
Willy Wombat
Zero Divide

Sega Saturn fucking rules.

Are any of the Arcade ports of games like Shmups and Fighters worth playing over the original version? Like some new modes, stages, unlockables, etc instead of just a straight port?

I cannot pick one but dark savior or magic knights ray earth ill toss in ledgend of oasis too

>>7795771
Very nice list but im going have to add these to your already amazing list

Bomberman Wars and Bomberman Fight are superior to Saturn Bomberman. That is all. Thank you for reading my post.

>>7784807
Hands down Necronomicon.
Still the best digital representation of pinball, not counting outright emulation stuff like VPX. That fucking soundtrack too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF7oWJzrUPg

>>7791265
Really, didn’t have a game gear or mega drive adapter?
Or do you just mean on the actual console

>>7797156
Wait Mystaria is actually good? I took one look at the graphics and assumed it was absolute garbage. I do like games with a pre-rendered style usually but this one just looks terrible.

>>7791810
idk what kind of rock you lived under. i live in europe and it seemed just as famous as the ps1.

Anyone have any idea how to get past this screen in Virtual-On? I'm using retroarch with the kronos core and whenever I try to run Virtual-On I get stuck this screen asking for a second player input when I only have my one controller.

Any good JRPGs for this thing?

>>7798214
Kronos is fucking garbage. Don't waste your time with anything other than Mednafen or SSF.

>>7795771
god i wish that were me

>>7798587
grandia

>>7791258
Same here. Sonic was my main draw to the Genesis and when the Saturn released without a Sonic 3D Platformer I had no interest in owning one as a result. That was definitely Segas biggest fuckup with the Saturn, it should have been absolutely absurdly obvious to them that Sonic was their system seller, to not only release the console without him but give him no representation whatsoever outside of Genesis ports and a shitty Racing game is fucking peak retardation.

>>7784807
Sonic R

I recently hooked up my saturn I bought off my cousin about 6 years ago. where is a good site to get iso's

>>7799989
archive SS_Arquivista

I 100% unironically believe that the Saturn could have beaten the N64 in the USA if Sega hadn't gone full retard and refused to bring over all the phenomenal Japanese titles that were being made for the system. Once you open up to the Japanese games we never got over here the Saturn goes from "meh" to Top Tier.

>>7784807
Fucking loved this game

>>7800647
all these fabled jap exclusive Saturn games literally do not exist. 99% of the exclusive games were given American releases with the exception being a bunch of shumps no one played, and like 5-6 fighting games that required the ram carts. every "killer app" the Saturn supposedly had got an American release they were all just shit no one gave a fuck about. all the other jap only games were ps1 multiplats, that didn't get released here because the Saturn had no install base and it wasn't worth the money to bring over more than the ps1 version

>>7800671
This was literally the kind of game that I would dream about. A gorgeous 2D Beat em Up but with more complexity, Fighting game style special moves, magic, light RPG elements, Minion buddy, branching paths, choices, etc. Never thought something like that would be made since all having to add and balance all that stuff must be very costly and a pain in the ass, plus the main Beat em Up audience seems to prefer simplicity so there's no target audience or at there is at least only a small niche inside an already small niche that would buy it. Yet it exists and I couldn't be any happier.

>>7795771
>Sonic R (It's great once you take the time to truly understand the controls)
Based and sonicRpilled

And once you get over the meme about the music, it is actually really enjoyable to listen to. I think the music in Sonic R is fucking awesome

Strikers 1945

>try to play saturn gaems on retroarch
>games fail to load
maybe it wasn't meant to be

>>7801708
retroarch is shit, i had compatibility problems too when i tried.
use SSF, seriously.

>>7784807
I liked it so much I bought a real copy!

>>7797217
This is the one that has Petrucci playing on it, right?

>>7801758
can't, I'm on android

>>7798587
Albert Odyssey if you can deal with the WD localization (even if you can't it's a good game with great music.)

>>7799989
https://cdromance.com/
Hey look at that, they just posted the fan translations of the Shining Force 3 games.

>>7801708
don't forget ur bios files

>>7801708
Use Mednafen or SSF for Saturn emulation. You're only screwing yourself over by using anything else because it's all worthless garbage.

>>7784807
Panzer Dragoon Saga

>>7800980
Saturn beat the N64 in Japan for a reason.

>>7801882
>if you can deal with the WD localization

What's wrong with Working Design's localization? I enjoyed it.

Well it has the best version of Grandia, on account of the PSX version being dogshit in pretty much every way, and the switch (was it on PC too?) port has an ugly as fuck bilinear filter that cannot be disabled
So I'll go with Grandia

>>7799989
Emuparadise with the workaround

>>7804076
It wasn't released in the west.

>>7804082
It's worth playing the Saturn version translation patch

>>7804072
I prefer more direct translations but the localization I guess has a certain charm to it.

>>7800980

>>7788909
>It only has 3 good games
Why didn’t you list any of them?

Sega Ages Columns Collection

>>7784807
Sakura Wars Columns

>>7805549
Based Columns purist.
>>7805580
Cringe waifufag that only plays for the tranime.

Final Fight.

>>7805779
I keep hearing about how this game is absolutely terrible, that it's the worst Fighting game on the Saturn but that's just not true. It's definitely not worthy of competitive play but the silliness bumps the enjoyment up a whole lot, it's the FG equivalent of a B-movie. There are far worse FGs on the system, Fist is a great example.

>>7806203
>I keep hearing about how this game is absolutely terrible,
We must move in different social circles. Apparently it's historically important for the Sega Saturn, thus extremely expensive.

Probably this. Tomb Raider. I like Tomb Raider a lot, it's really good.

Though I'd probably enjoy this.

It might even be better than Oblivion.

>>7806495
>>7806590
what is it?

>>7798214
Definitely use the beetle core which is mednafen

>>7807265
A meme

>>7806495
No man the game actually sucks. Earlier Hydlides have a good visual and dificulty to them, but are very crude.
>>7806590
>>7807265
>>7807272
It's a retarded meme. nu-males from /v/ wants you to play it because it looks old and goofy.

>>7807265
It's a video game for the Sega Saturn called Virtual Hydlide. It's a version of Elder Scrolls: Oblivion on the Sega Saturn almost 10 years before Elder Scrolls: Oblivion was released. From what I can make out, I don't own a copy.

>>7807282
>retarded meme. nu-males from /v/ wants you to play it because it looks old and go
I want to play it. You asked me about Sega Saturn games and this is one I'd like to play. Do you understand that?

Radiant Silvergun

>>7807272
>>7807282
>>7807284
>>7807296
I don't know what to believe.

>>7807324
Either way, Virtual Hydlife deserves further investigation. Especially for owners of a Sega Saturn.

>>7807329
Is it cheap to buy? I guess I'm collecting now.

>>7807447
It depends. First you need to find a copy available to buy that is compatible with your Sega Saturn. From what I can gather I wouldn't pay more than USD 40 for a copy (EUR 40 / GBP 40 / RON 250).

>>7807324
Just watch a youtube video to see for yourself how incredibly shitty it is.

>>7807791
While it doesn't interest me really, I think the performance is perfectly acceptable and that, at the time, it would have been pretty cool.

>>7784807
probably because im a shinobi nigger

>>7807791
There you see? It wasn't incredibly shitty and some people had a smashing time playing it.

Asuka 120 LimitOver is a really excellent Fighting game if you favor rushdown style. I think Nintendo may have been influenced by this game while developing Super Smash Bros judging by its dedicated special moves button, simplified attacks (two attacks), air control, dodge button, double jump and similar throw mechanics. Do attacks clash as well in Smash Bros? I can't remember. Either way this game was super ahead of its time.

>>7807847
it's a genuinely good game
>>7807447
>buying saturn games
bruh just get PSK at the very least

>>7808694
I have it.

I'm not really feeling Keio Flying Squadron 2. I feel like it's the triple whammy of obnoxiously bad voice acting, stuttering scrolling and unresponsive controls due to it being a PAL game running at 50hz. Should I give the Japanese version a try or is it just a shitty game only recommended because it has nice looking 2D graphics?

>>7809292
I don't know why you'd get the PAL version of anything unless it's exclusive.

>>7785113
Sonic Jam was the biggest slap in the fucking face. They were mocking us, teasing us. Oh hey look Sonic in 3D! It's exactly what you wanted right? lol too bad it's just a glorified game select, no 3D Sonic game for you faggot!

>>7801693
Fantastic game. Both of them.

>>7804082
It has a translation patch

>>7788742
it's perfectly fine on the saturn unlike the wipEout games on the saturn

Bomberman Wars shiro

>>7795771
most of these are good but i gave willy wombat a spin and this shit sucks. unbearable 3d platforming

>>7784807
None of them because no one has ever played one or own one. I refuse to believe they exist. It's some kind of weird long term psyop.
t. N64 fan

>>7784807
Panzer Dragoon Saga hands down

Least favorite was Tokyo Bus Driver

>>7807447
It got memed by a certain nerd and the price of the Western release went crazy.

>>7807265
A game that everyone hates on because it was behind the times when it was released, has pretty bad graphics, but I actually enjoy playing it. Think the original Zelda on a "3D" plane with 2D sprites for the main character and background elements. The map changes every time you play (and its pretty big). Its challenging and actually really interesting once you get into it, but you have to be able to look past its appearance. I have no idea where the Elders Scrolls references are coming from. Its nothing like those games.

>>7813302
>Hudson bee
>3D platformer
>filtered this loser
Oh shit imma have to give it a try

>>7813727
It's a Japanese exclusive but everything is in English basically. So strange how they didn't release it in USA or Europe.

>>7801870
yes

>>7807265
Virtual Hydlide. According to someone involved in the production the team blew the budget making FMV cutscenes and the game itself was slapped together at the eleventh hour.

>>7798587
>traditional JRPGs
Albert Odyssey
Panzer Dragoon Saga
Lunar 1 has a translation patch
Grandia has a translation patch
>DRPGs
Shining the Holy Ark
Wizardry 1-3 collection was Japan exclusive, but you can switch the text to English in the settings
>ARPGs
Shining Wisdom
Magic Knight Rayearth
Legend of Oasis
Guardian Heroes (actually more just a beat-em-up with RPG stats)
Linkle Liver Story has a translation patch
>SRPGs
Shining Force 3 (only part 1 was localized, but parts 2&3, and the bonus disc, have translation patches)
Dragon Force
Mystaria (aka Blazing Heroes. They literally just rereleased it under a different name for some reason)
Dragon Force 2 has a translation patch
Vandal Hearts 1 has a translation patch
Valhollian has a translation patch
Sakura Wars 1 has a translation patch (actually more of a VN with the occasional SRPG combat sequence)
Shadows of the Tusk is Japan exclusive, and the story stuff is in Japanese, but all the menus are in English. It's like a SRPG/card-based RPG hybrid.
>not available in English
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers (ported in English on the 3DS)
Shin Megami Tensei: Ronde (SRPG. Actually not even worth mentioning. This is kusoge, The worst SMT game ever)
Wachenroder (SRPG. Looks cool as fuck)
Black/Matrix (SRPG, by the guys that make Summon Night. Looks cool as fuck)
Sakura Wars 2
Princess Crown (beat-em-up with RPG stats. Made by Vanillaware, the guys that did Odin Sphere, Dragon's Crown, and Muramasa)
Lunar 2
Magic School Lunar (enhanced remake of Lunar: Walking School on the Game Gear, which does have an English patch)
Suikoden (not sure what's different from the PS1 version)
Langrisser 4
Langrisser 5
FEDA: The Emblem of Justice (enhanced port. The original on SNES does have a translation patch)
Arcana Strikes (literally never heard of this until now. card-based RPG, basically like Yu-Gi-Oh in RPG form)
Solo Crisis (SRPG. Made by Quintet)
Blue Seed (card-based RPG)

>>7804067
According to Wikipedia:
N64: 393 games
Saturn: 1047 games

Holy shit.

>>7814230
Ran out of space due to character limit.

Bomberman Wars (Bomberman SRPG. PS1 version has a translation patch)
Riglord Saga 2 (sequel to Mystaria/Blazing Heroes)
Linda Cube
Waku Waku Puyo Puyo Dungeon (roguelike/Mystery Dungeon spinoff of the Madou Monogatari/Puyo Puyo games)
Far East of Eden: The 4th Apocalypse (spinoff of the Far East of Eden/Tengai Makyo games. Instead of taking place in a wacky parody anachronistic version of feudal Japan, it takes place in a wacky parody anachronistic version of gilded age America)
Slayers Royal 1&2 (pair of SRPGs based on Slayers)
Soldnerschild (SRPG)
Farland Story & Farland Saga (SRPG series)
Langrisser 3
Baroque (kinda like a first-person DRPG/roguelike hybrid, with real-time combat. Remade in English on PS2/Wii, but with a third-person view instead of a first-person view)
Sword & Sorcery (localized for the 3DO of all places under the name Lucienne's Quest)

There's plenty more that what I've mentioned, but I'm sleepy and don't feel like looking up more games right now. I forgot to mention earlier that Langrisser 4 does have a translation patch for the PS1 version. And Shadows of the Tusk has Xband online multiplayer (that remarkably still works to this day, since it's peer-to-peer)

>>7807284
Looks so busted in motion.

>>7814230
>>7814636
These kind of games were absurdly popular during 5th gen thanks to FFVII, what the fuck was Sega of America thinking in refusing to bring these over to the USA? They would have made a killing and sold millions of Saturns. How the hell could they look at the success of FFVII and not realize the goldmine they were sitting on? None of the decisions Sega made after the Genesis make any goddamn sense.

>>7813314
It's real, join us.

>>7813323
Many such cases!

>>7814079
interesting

>>7807847
Is this the only good game to use digitized actors? It's usually an extremely good indicator that the game is going to suck.

>>7816121
>It's usually an extremely good indicator that the game is going to suck.
Lol. It wasn't that bad. Double jumping was a lot harder than it had to be.

>>7784807
muh shining force

>>7815071
Catering to... well, I was gonna say "dudebros that only play sports shit", but honestly, I don't even know who Sega of America was trying to cater to, or who their target audience was. It's like they forsook their weeb fanbase (at the fucking commercial peak of JRPGs as a genre) without planning another fanbase demographic to focus on.

TO-SHIN-MOTHERFUCKIN-DEN
URETHRAL RESISTANCE FACTOR

>>7806217
no games are expensive because they're rare.
i never heard about that game in the saturn days but i played it in emulation and it's pretty fun. it's a rare occasion to play with el gado, eddy or the first final fight boss

>>7791249
I miss 90s advertising so fucking much you have no idea.
https://youtu.be/7XvY-ilMoTw?t=15

>>7818403
I never saw one of these :(

Is it worth it to pick up Virtua Fighter 2 and Fighting Vipers if I already have Fighters Megamix?

>>7816778
part 2 and 3 just got english patches

>>7818881
Virtua Fighter 2 looks three times as good and plays twice as smooth, and actually has some more moves which are missing from Megamix (all stand-up attacks are missing from Megamix). Plus it also keeps a steady 60fps while Megamix slows down often on stages with walls.

Vipers... eh, only if you really, REALLY like the Vipers characters in Megamix. Also, get the japanese version at least, it has Pepsiman.

What are the most gorgeous looking 2D games for the Saturn? The ones that really show off what a powerhouse the console was for these kinds of games.

>>7784807
Death Crimson

>>7820171
Grandia looks good.
https://youtu.be/3swey31qdvc?t=161

Should I buy a Satiator? I have a Saturn someone got me but I literally have no games for it.

>>7820386
Considering what I'm spending to buy certain discs, absolutely. The Satiator is cool because it doesn't remove the disc drive.

>>7820396
That's what I was thinking. I never had a Saturn as a kid or anything, so I won't have any sentimental value for collecting for it. Is it pretty straightforward?

>>7820401
I think so.
>I never had a Saturn as a kid or anything
Me either, but I had an N64, so it's like playing something from an alternate reality where the 5th gen went in a totally different direction. It also has a criminally underrated and untranslated library.

SEGA WORLDWIDE SOCCER 98

This was the first console game I can ever remember playing. I think I was about 7.

Has anyone burned discs with a ROM and tried it out on a saturn running a replay cart? Any luck?

>>7820274
Honestly I think that game is 100% worth a playthrough to see firsthand just how absolutely, unapologetically fucking horrible it is. At the very least you should get some great laughs out of it.

>>7788740
Sup, Auster?

>>7822146
is your replay cart flashed with pseudo saturn?

Astal is basically a prettier Ristar but with worse gameplay. All I could think about while playing it was how I would much rather be playing Ristar instead.

>>7823282
>Ristar but with worse gameplay
I doubt that is even possible.

>>7820386
>Should I buy a Satiator?
I have one. Its absolutely awesome. Just too fucking expensive.