/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.5659420]

Redpill me on the Sega Saturn. What's its best games and are there any good Japanese exclusive games for it? I'm going to Yokohama in a couple months for 2 weeks and honestly just wanna spend an hour going through a Hard-Off to find some better deals on a Saturn/Saturn games. What are some underrated games on it too?

[Circuit Shitty No.5659437]

Literally the ultimate weeb machine as the majority of games you'll encounter will be either a Japanese exclusive or the Japanese version of something expensive in the US.

[Anonymous No.5659760]

My faves from Saturn.

[Anonymous No.5659906]

>>5659420
My personal top 10:
Panzer Dragoon II
Panzer Dragoon Saga / Azel
Guardian Heroes
Dragon Force
Princess Crown
DoDonPachi*
Guardian Heroes
NBA Jam*
Sega Rally*
Asuka 120% LimitOver
*best version outside of the arcade

[Anonymous No.5660007]

I have an NES, Genesis, PS1 and Dreamcast. I want to buy a fifth retro system. Should I get a Saturn or an SNES? I like platformers, fighting games, shmups and coop games of all kinds.

[Anonymous No.5660031]

[Anonymous No.5660037]

>>5659420
>Redpill me

Nah fuck off

[Anonymous No.5660042]

>>5660007
Saturn gets you more cred but Snes's hardware is more reliable.

[Anonymous No.5660089]

Die Hard Arcade
NiGHTS into Dreams
Panzer Dragoon Zwei
Clockwork Knight 2
Fighters Megamix
Daytona USA CE (J)
Thunder Force V
Saturn Bomberman
Silhouette Mirage
Astra Superstars

[Anonymous No.5660121]

>>5659420
Literally not worth considering a Saturn if you're an ESL tard who needs game recomendations

[Anonymous No.5660127]

Best version of SOTN.

[Anonymous No.5660129]

>>5660121
You realize that’s ESL stands for English as a Second Language right? As in primarily people who speak Chinese/Japanese and then learn English second?

[Anonymous No.5660138]

>>5659760
>>5659906
>>5660031
>>5660089
>No bulk slash
See me after class

[Anonymous No.5660150]

>>5660037
triggered libtard lmao

[Anonymous No.5660205]

>>5659420
If you have a CRT television, Virtua Cop 1 and 2 with the light gun are good fun. Other good games are:

- Nights
- Daytona USA
- Sega Rally Championship
- Vampire Hunter (Darkstalker's Revenge)

[Anonymous No.5660214]

>>5660037
T. tranny

>>5659420
HYPER DUEL
HYPER DUEL
HYPER DUEL

[Anonymous No.5660294]

i have a saturn that i pick up on a garage sale, how can i play copies on this thing? is it more difficult than a ps1?

[Anonymous No.5660296]

>>5660129
Meant EOP. How many Japanese people do you think speak English as a second language?

[Anonymous No.5660304]

>>5660294
Either buy an Action Replay Plus and flash it with Pseudo Saturn or buy a Phantom modchip if you’re fine with opening up your Saturn and you have a soldering iron around.

[Anonymous No.5660309]

>>5660294
>>5660304
Forgot to mention that the Phantom is stupidly simple to install. Just a couple of ribbon cables and the only soldering you need to do is a single wire for power.

[Anonymous No.5660328]

Sega is a music company.
When you play their games youre doing it wrong ,you should be listening to them.

[Anonymous No.5660346]

>>5660328
Sega rally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul3CWxblzOs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5otXNJpysc

Victory goal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p76HB1boGoU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2uLgp__ADY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpePDUeLrWE

Bulk slash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R5qjXsipPY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvZTfXTHlR4

Sihouette mirage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aGvvSgtQUA

MSR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOMy4AZTPLc (the same singer from sonic games)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GjKRNG5AFs

I would say sega was the nr.1 console maker under whom most of the best music was released to(genesis to saturn) the only other who comes close to them would be PCE/CD.

[Anonymous No.5660409]

>>5659420
Saw someone recommending Baroque in a thread a few months back. Finally got around to playing it this week and so far it's been quite the interesting trip. I'd recommend getting it if you see it.

[Anonymous No.5660564]

Barring performance and resolution, Saturn has possibly the best version of SOTN.

[Anonymous No.5660621]

>>5660037
Dilate
>>/resetera/

[Anonymous No.5661456]

>>5660296
I’ve met several, that’s typically what’s ESL refers to at schools. Almost all ESL schools also offer Chinese or Japanese immersion because of this.

[Anonymous No.5661662]

>>5659420
It's a "Clueless tourist wants to purchase RARE HIDDEN GEMS at a price gouging tourist shop" episode.
>>5660564
No. It's shitty.

[Anonymous No.5661728]

>>5660564
>It's shitty.
Jelly of my exclusive areas, items bosses, and music, Sonyfag?

SEGA ALWAYS WINS, BAYBEEEEEEE YEAH

[Anonymous No.5662078]

>>5661662
>price gouging tourist shop
You clearly dont know what a hard off is. Only idiots go shopping for good prices in Tokyo/Akihabara when it comes to video games.

[Anonymous No.5662213]

>>5662078
Project much? Hard off became just another tourist trap as far as meme games go years ago.

[Anonymous No.5662218]

>>5660127
Nope.

[Anonymous No.5662227]

I like the Super Scaler games a lot ive personally got
Outrun only works on some models of the saturn, people say it only works on model 1s but it works on my NA model 2 and doesnt work on my japanese model 2
Power Drift
Afterburner 2
Space Harrier
and Galaxy Force 2

Konami has lots of shooters on the system
Twinbee deluxe pack
Gradius Deluxe pack
Salamander Deluxe Pack
and a couple parodius games,
might be helpful to track down salamander cause its the priciest one usually

Capcom fighters that are cheap or affordable for the most part make sure you get the 4mb ram cart
Street Fighter Zero
Street Fighter Zero 2
Vampire Hunter
Vampire Saviour
Xmen vs Street Fighter

SNK fighters cheap as well
KOF96
KOF97
Real Bout Fatal Fury
Real Bout FF Special
Samurai Spirits 3
Samurai Spirits 4

For expensive shit that I know I personally will probably never own but you might be able to find in Japan for a better price.
Battle Garegga
X Multiply/Image Fight
Shinrei Jusatsushi Taromaru
Batsugun (this one hurts im a huge toaplan fan but not spending 200+ on one game)

Also you gotta get you 2 virtua guns and
House of the Dead
Virtua Cop
Virtua Cop 2
Henry Explorers
and Area 51
all of those games are fun as hell.

and if you see it Mobile Suit Gundam the game is cheap as hell probably 400 yen but its actually really fun side scroller mech shooter that has some strategy elements to it.

[Anonymous No.5662232]

>>5662227
>Outrun only works on some models of the saturn, people say it only works on model 1s but it works on my NA model 2 and doesnt work on my japanese model 2
Depends on the revision of OutRun. Some play on model 2 Saturns.

[Anonymous No.5662254]

>>5662232
yeah mine is the first revision which is most copies that are out there unfortunately. It locks up at the sega logo on my japanese model 2 and plays perfectly on my north american one which according to some sites it shouldnt. I know for sure though cause I checked the number on the inner ring of the disc before too

[Anonymous No.5662330]

Why would you still play OutRun on a console when Cannonball exists?

[Anonymous No.5662346]

>>5662330
cause saturn can do 60fps as well and has a choice of an arranged soundtrack

[Anonymous No.5662387]

>>5662346
Does Saturn have widescreen mode, a course editor, and enhanced sprites?

[Anonymous No.5662398]

>>5662387
no it has the game intact in its original yu suzki glory not your bastard widescreen spritehack version

[Anonymous No.5662404]

>>5662398
lmao cope harder

[Anonymous No.5662407]

>>5662387
Don't forget Cannonball's time trial mode, or the continuous mode where you go through every course in a single run instead of having to pick a left/right path.

Only cucks still play non-Cannonball OutRun.

[Anonymous No.5662459]

>>5662407

[Anonymous No.5662463]

Sakura Taisen 1/2

[Anonymous No.5662472]

DO IT

[Anonymous No.5662520]

>>5662459
Literally the only time this macro has ever made me laugh.

[Anonymous No.5662887]

I got Japanese model 2 and have been really enjoying it. Some of my favorites are Sakura Wars, X-Men vs Street Fighter, Fighters Megamix, the Darkstalkers games, Last Bronx, Cyberbots, Virtual On and Saturn Bomberman. Anyone know of any places to get cheap Saturn imports aside from eBay?

[Anonymous No.5662904]

>>5662213
It's not a projection because you literally said they gouged prices at hard offs. So yes, you dont know what you're talking about. Price gouging is literally the antithesis of those stores, even in tourist ridden areas like Tokyo. I was literally only asking for fun games to play. I dont care about expensive rarities, just cheaper prices than importing from the states. I'm going near Sawara for a day trip away from most international tourists anyway. So the prices will naturally be better.

[Anonymous No.5662913]

>>5659760
>>5659906
>>5660031
>>5660089
>>5660138
>>5660205
>>5660346
>>5660409
>>5662227
>>5662887
Very nice recommendations, anons. Thank you. And thanks for the recs from the other anons too.

[Anonymous No.5663083]

>>5662459
I've got to save that, cheeres

[Anonymous No.5663206]

>>5662904
Top kek kid. So you haven't been to a hard off recently and you're too young to have been to one before prices skyrocketed so you've never been. So you don't actually know "what a hard off is." You've heard the name and heard you can get games there but you don't actually know. So projecting.

[Anonymous No.5663340]

>>5663206
Have you even contributed anything to this thread? Lmao why are you here

[Anonymous No.5663362]

>Ctrl+F Powerslave / Exhumed
>0 results
Every fucking time...

[Anonymous No.5663474]

>>5663340
Anyone who points out a bullshitter contributes to the thread by letting everyone know who's advice to ignore>

[Anonymous No.5663980]

>>5659420
I just got my fuckin' Saturn in from Japan today!
Thanks anon who told me not to get a PC-Engine!

I'm stoked bitches time to burn some games!

[Anonymous No.5663983]

The only redpill you need to know is that it has the chaddest falling blocks puzzle game of all time, Baku Baku.

[Anonymous No.5663991]

>>5661662
>2019
>buying retro games instead of pirating them

kek

[Anonymous No.5664546]

>>5663362
>shooting spiders for 6 levels is fun

[Anonymous No.5664550]

>>5662227
link to Power Drift? I've been looking for an iso but I can't seem to find one

[Anonymous No.5665450]

>>5664550
uhhh I have the disc, but if you still cant find it maybe I could make one for you. Its an awesome game and id love more people to enjoy it.

[Anonymous No.5666371]

>>5659420
One of my favorite consoles, and still among those I play the most of.
I was gonna post this >>5660031 webm but he beat me to it, lots of great games in there.

[Anonymous No.5666501]

>>5664550
Yeah, same. I found a copy somewhere ages ago, but most of the music was missing.
Like, it was a really small disc image.

[Anonymous No.5667319]

>>5664550
>>5666501
https://mega.nz/#F!jvgBHSCZ!DEr8cAyL57KjXanXKKtLTg

[Anonymous No.5667436]

>>5659420
I would recommend Blast Wind, I was actually just playing it today. It's a vertical shooter by the same guys behind the Thunder Force series, it's kind of short and simplistic but that's what it makes it pretty good for just picking up and playing. Oh and it's pretty fun trying to get a high score on. Original copies are pretty rare and expensive so it's one you're gonna want to emulate or burn onto a cdr.

[Anonymous No.5667709]

>>5660037
here's your (you) now shut the fuck up

[Anonymous No.5667781]

>>5663980
hey that was me! cheers bro, so many good saturn games

[Anonymous No.5669369]

Dragon force 1 and 2 (2 has a very good translation. the game froze for me at one point though and i had to advance with the untranslated version)

[Anonymous No.5669426]

>>5669369
I tried to play Dragonforce once but the amount of options overwhelmed me.

[Anonymous No.5670019]

I did the whole pseudosaturn thing with my Action Replay cart, is there anyway for me to save while using this? Even if it's just plopping in another memory cart while the burned game is playing? (Can I do that?)

[Anonymous No.5670028]

>>5667319
I'm not seeing it here

[Anonymous No.5670061]

>>5670028
It's under S for "Sega Ages".

[Anonymous No.5670083]

>>5670061
imma dumbass idiot tysm

[Anonymous No.5670087]

>>5670083
kek nah I made the same mistake.

[Anonymous No.5670098]

>>5667319
>https://mega.nz/#F!jvgBHSCZ!DEr8cAyL57KjXanXKKtLTg
Are these redump or random trash?

[Anonymous No.5670104]

>>5670098
I'm not sure honestly.

[Anonymous No.5672419]

What's the best saturn color and why is it the skeleton saturn?

[Anonymous No.5672456]

>>5670098
redump

[Anonymous No.5672609]

>>5672419
if it didn't say "This is Cool" it'd be cooler

[Anonymous No.5672897]

>>5670019
Saturn has internal save ram

[Anonymous No.5672903]

>>5672897
Which gets wiped whenever the watch battery in it decides to die.

[Anonymous No.5673407]

>>5659760
The house of the dead port is bad, but the rest are great, it's a solid enough list.

[Anonymous No.5673410]

>>5670019
There is an active curren running through the cart when in use (obviously quite small) so pulling it out and putting another one in isn't a great idea. Unfortunately you can't access the internal save using an action replay, though you can buy a dev cart that can retain that function with Pseudo Saturn installed.

Your best bet would be to buy a mod chip and just flash the cart back to its original firmware, or buy a memory card.

[Anonymous No.5673418]

>>5662227
The sega ages version of outrun (the collection with Afterburner, Space Harrier and Outrun) works fine on my Japanese Model 2, but I always had issues with the standalone release. My assumption was that it was due to a bad dump, but revision issues might be the culprit.

Interesting, i'll have to remember that for future threads.

[Anonymous No.5673419]

>>5672609
>not wanting to hear ryo hazuki say "This is cool!" in your head everytime you look at your saturn

[Anonymous No.5673420]

>>5660564
The Extra content adds almost nothing to the game, and is outright low quality, if you want to play Marie just get the PSP port, it was much better anyway.

[Anonymous No.5673440]

>>5673420
ITEM USE button and double-tap run are exclusive to Saturn though. And the Saturn Maria fight is pretty nice and different from the PSP, more fun than playing her.
Pah who cares SotN is a baby game anyway.

[Anonymous No.5673461]

Reminder that most gaming nips hate tourists who come in and buy up all the stock to take back home overseas. You are the cancer.

[Anonymous No.5673465]

>>5673461
Is that a real thing? Damn, I was hoping to pick a few games up some day, but if it's frustating to the locals I won't bother.

[Anonymous No.5673494]

>>5659420
fave saturns games
>policenauts
>radiant silvergun
>elevator action returns
>asuka 120% burning fest
>batsugun
>waku waku 7
>soukyuu gurentai
>puzzle bobble 2 and 3
>donpachi and dodonpachi

[Anonymous No.5673735]

>>5673494
only 2 of those games are saturn originals

so much for the saturn being a good system

[Anonymous No.5673818]

>>5663362

Most underrated FPS ever.

[Anonymous No.5673842]

>>5663362
I really tried to like this game, but it's just not for me, maybe I should try the PC version, playing a shooter on a saturn pad is hardly fun.

[Anonymous No.5673864]

>>5673842
The PC version is not the same game.

[Anonymous No.5675723]

>>5659420
>Redpill me on the Sega Saturn
it's shit. its best feature is the sound hardware. this makes /vr/ brainlets fuuuuurios, but it's true. and people wonder why sega died as a console manufacturer. dreamcast is where it's at, and even that was a mistake.

[Anonymous No.5676287]

>>5675723
But PSX had better sound hardware. Saturn's lack of compressed samples really hurt how the games sound.