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Best games for the saturn? I'm looking into picking one up and I've barely touched it other than a couple of shmups. Can either be exclusive or superior versions of PS1 games.

>> No.5588646

Panzer Dragoon Zwei is the best one.

>> No.5589214

>>5588564
>superior versions of PS1 games.
Unless you're into 2D fighting games, good luck.

>> No.5589216

>>5588564
>I’m looking into picking one up
>doesn’t know any games for it
So why are you even looking into getting one in the first place

>> No.5589219
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5589219

Feel the sunshine anon.

>> No.5589224

>>5588564
Legend of oasis
action rpg with a ton of unsolved mysteries.

>> No.5589264

>>5589214
Grandia, Dead or Alive, and Thunder Force V say hi.

>> No.5589289

>>5589264
dont they say bye cause they are jponry

>> No.5589318

>>5589224
>ton of unsolved mysteries.

like what

>> No.5589325

>>5589289
Playing imports is easy on the Saturn. You can install a region switch or use an Action Replay Cartridge. Going further you can also easilly install a Mod Chip or get a Pseudo Saturn to play burned games and then you can just patch the region code with easily available software.

Dead or Alive and Thunder Force V have little to no Japanese text in them, and Grandia has an English Patch in development:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdTKWxM9-Mc

>> No.5589327

>>5589318
supposed seventh companion teased in the manual,the little robot statue at the beginning of the game,the unsolved statue puzzle in the sky levels,pink rat ect.

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5589573

>>5588646
Panzer Dragoon Azel/Saga is also an obvious must.

Just don't buy the original copy. Pirate it.

>> No.5590331

>>5588564
i bought a saturn to complete a sega set from 80s onwards but the price of games is ridiculous so its a shelf filler ast the moment

>> No.5590367

>>5588564
>superior versions of PS1 games
Silhouette Mirage. Though it was a Saturn game first.

>> No.5590708

>>5589216
I do whatever youtube says is cool

>> No.5590774

Anarchy! In The Nippon
Bulk Slash
Nekketsu Oyako
Fighters Megamix
Virtual On
Die Hard Arcade/Dynamite Deka

>> No.5591679
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5591679

>ctrl+f powerslave / exhumed
>0 results

>> No.5591854

>>5591679
I get the feeling that this game pick up on popularity after DF retro made episode on it.

>> No.5592745

>>5591679
this and dragon force. play dragon force, OP

>> No.5593951

Magic Knight Rayearth is the best 2D Zelda.

>> No.5594213

Been looking at recommendations here. There's a metric fuckton of japanese only games, surely there are more that can be played without knowing jap, right?

>> No.5594234

Scorcher is a fun hidden gem on the Saturn

>> No.5594272
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5594272

few of my faves

>> No.5594319

Bulk Slash

>> No.5594353
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5594353

>>5588564
Death Crimson
FIST
Planet Joker

>> No.5594470

>>5594213
Mostly fightan, shmups and beat em ups/belt scrollers. If you’re a fan of RPGs or adventure games you’re outta luck.

>> No.5594474

>>5594353
What? Death Crimson is HORRIBLE. Death Crimson O.X. on the Dreamcast is serviceable, if you like hearing skeletons make glass shattering noises when they get shot.

>> No.5594535

>>5594474
Didn't get the joke you autist

>> No.5594579
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5594579

This is my top faves.

>> No.5594617
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5594617

a classic

>> No.5594620

>>5591854
If the youtube man says a good game is good then we all have to pretend it sucks, that's how it works around here.

>> No.5594627
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5594627

>>5594617

>> No.5594641

>>5591679
Fuck this looks fun, but I can't imagine playing it with the saturn gamepad.

>> No.5594656

>>5594617
>>5594627
Fuck you and your shit for ruining the thread you mega autist

>> No.5594658

>>5594641
It plays great with pad.

>> No.5594660

>>5594658
Yeah, I just checked the controls and it doesn't seem that confusing.

>> No.5594671
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5594671

>>5588564
true hidden gem, don't let the tourists tell you otherwise, im a real gamer

>> No.5594713

>>5594671
Like many kusoge, this has some obscure cult following in Japan

>> No.5594738

>>5591679
Shinobi Legions is all right.

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5594969

>>5588564
If you don't mind lesser known games, check out Zero Divide The Final Conflict

>> No.5595012

>>5594969
Kinda looks like it was built around Virtua Fighter's game system

>> No.5595723

>>5595012
Every game wanted to be VF in mid 90s.

>> No.5596279

>>5594535
>HURR I TROLL U TO PLAY SHIT GAME
Fuck, good one bro.

>> No.5596361

Shining force 3

>> No.5596538

>>5596279
Assmad(You)

>> No.5596648

>>5594579
Dynamite Deka ( Diehard arcade ) fun in the arcades :D

>> No.5596742

I'm not too much into tactical RPGs but I heard Shining Force 3 with all scenarios and premium disk is the best thing on the saturn.

Is it required to play the previous 2?

>> No.5597680

>>5588646

lol no

>> No.5597790

>>5597680
Get good.

>> No.5597942

>>5588564
check out the rpgs and 2D fighting games. MAke sure you got the ram cart though.

>> No.5598047

>>5588564
Aside from arcade ports?

Saturn Bomberman
Panzer Dragoon
Panzer Dragoon II Zwei
Fire Pro Wrestling S
Guardian Heroes

>> No.5598058
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5598058

>Saturn
>good games
choose 1 lad

>> No.5598267

>>5598058
cringe bernieposter

>> No.5598314

what's stopping sega from making a saturn mini?

>> No.5598318

>>5598314
Good emulation.

>> No.5598439

>>5598058
burger nintoddler detected

>> No.5598442

NBA JAM

>> No.5598445

>>5598439
it's a joke you mongoloid.

>> No.5598950

>>5598445
it's a joke you mongoloid.

>> No.5599061

>>5588564
Here's some interesting stuff, even if not all is actually great:

The Panzer Dragoon series is ace, definitely pick them up. Top fucking quality.
NiGHTS is fun and has nice graphics for the machine. Bit short, but it's entirely built around score-attack play.
Bulk Slash is a fantastic transforming mech game with cute navigator girls you can discover in each stage (or if you don't care, just pick up the one on the first level). It's JP only, but you don't need to understand jack shit to play.
Most of the Model 2 ports range from okay to fantastic. Virtual On, Virtua Fighter 2, Sega Rally, that sort of thing.
Sonic R kinda blows due to its short length and awkward controls, but it's got nice graphics and cool music.
Psychic Assassin Taromaru is super rare and expensive... but you can just burn a copy these days and it's a neat 2D with polygons sidescroller. Great fun, lots of style.
Ninpen Manmaru is obnoxious as fuck, but it's an original 3D platformer on the machine. Starts off really easy, eventually becomes full of obnoxious perfect jumps in 3D.
Wipeout on Saturn runs at 20fps instead of 30 and has an altered soundtrack, but it also has more forgiving collisions and might be worth playing for that.
Die Hard Arcade is one of my favorite beat-em-ups, but I haven't actually played it on Saturn in some time. Should be arcade perfect, other than loading. I've mostly just played the PS2 release these days.
Sonic Jam has the cool 3D Sonic World. Shame about the heavy, random slowdown in Sonic 2 (it's present but not really an issue in S1 or S3&K) and shitty sound effects. It's got time attack and other cool shit, and easy mode if you're really bad at Sonic.

>>5589264
dunno if it's my Saturn, Pseudo Saturn Kai, or what, but TFV has obnoxious framerate issues vs on PS1 for me
like, anything in TFV with any substantial 3D geometry on screen makes it drop frames like mad

>>5594353
rude

>> No.5599068

NHL '98.

>> No.5599380

>>5599061
>anything in TFV with any substantial 3D geometry on screen makes it drop frames like mad

Must be your Saturn, for me it only drops frames in maybe 1 area that really matters (the Guardian Mother bossfight). It drops frames in some other cutscenes, like the forest boss blowing up, when you enter the water on stage 1, or when the final final boss changes forms, but that do not affect the gameplay.