/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.9049482]

Anons, what are the best Saturn games (if japanese, translated) to play, any genre, and on what emulator?

[Anonymous No.9049532]

>>9049482
None

[Anonymous No.9049535]

>>9049482
I just finished the first Clockwork Knight and thought it was pretty fun, albeit short. (which is good for me as I like short games)
It's a 2D sidescrolling action game.
>what emulator
I used the standalone Yaba Sanshiro, though FMV audio was fucked a bit and I had to save state at the start of every level because the game would occasionally fuck up completely.
Retroarch was giving me trouble as well.
There's a sequel too which I plan to play soon.

[Anonymous No.9049537]

emulator : SSF
games: dragon force, dark savior, the list goes on

[Anonymous No.9049542]

>>9049535
That game is so damn ugly. toy worlds were a mistake

[Anonymous No.9049550]

>>9049532
t. guy who wants to buy a Saturn and games and wants to convince other people online to hate the Saturn in hopes that, with less demand, the prices will decrease.
I'm on the same boat.

[Anonymous No.9049563]

>>9049482

Mednafen is the best emulator for Sega saturn right now. Probably Nights into dreams or panzer dragoon (whole series honestly). If you don't like fighters or arcade ports you won't really get much out of the console. There are a lot of action rpg/jrpg's on the system but I don't play those because I'm not gay. DUH END.

[Anonymous No.9049570]

>>9049550

NEVREVAR. Its sad man. I used to collect, but looked at Saturn shit 10, maybe 15 years back? Prices back then weren't terrible but some of the more well known stuff was pretty expensive. I think the only console left to really collect for (because it has some of the best games ever made on it) would be the playstation 2, which incidentally had a lot of Sega stuff ported onto it.

[Anonymous No.9049578]

>>9049482

[Anonymous No.9049590]

>>9049537
>ah yeah man two games yenno the lost goes on

[Anonymous No.9049596]

>>9049537 #
>ah yeah man two games yenno the list goes on

[Anonymous No.9049598]

Sakura Taisen, Shining Force III, the list goes on.

[Anonymous No.9049603]

Saturn port of Resident Evil
Saturn port of Symphony of the Night
...

[Anonymous No.9049628]

Unless you like fighters, shmups or can read runes, its library really is limited. I say that as someone who had it when it was out and over the years have constantly come back, digging through its library to find this so called "2D powerhouse" as i heard it called for years, and yeah no. I guess i was expecting platformers and run n guns, but outside of what i mentioned above, i only find some little niche titles here and there i like. The PS1 absolutely did fucking dominate it with the types of games i hear people claim the saturn has and i wish that wasnt the case, because i want to enjoy it like the genesis, but there is very little that NEEDS to be played on it that isnt available on other platforms of the era.

But i mean if you wanna try some shit out: Super Tempo, both Bombermen, steamgear mash and legend of oasis i enjoyed.

[Anonymous No.9049663]

>>9049578
What am I supposed to do during the levels?

[Anonymous No.9049715]

>>9049482
Elevator Action Returns
Psychic Killer Taromaru
Cotton 2 Magical Night Dreams
Stellar Assault SS
Necronomicon
Bulk Slash
Laughing at 64kids

[Anonymous No.9049720]

>>9049663
Collect orbs and do multiple laps.

[Anonymous No.9049731]

Mednafen works for me

I enjoy:
Sonic Jam
Sonic R
Sonic 3D Blast
Nights into Dreams...
Panzer Dragoon
Virtua Fighter 2
Virtua Fighter Kids
Dead or Alive
Sega Ages Volume 1
Sega Ages Columns Collection
Baku Baku Animal
Sakura Taisen/Wars
Road Rash
Sega Rally
Elevator Action Returns
X-Men Vs Street Fighter
Street Fighter Alpha 2
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Night Warriors / Darkstalkers 2
Real Bout Fatal Fury
Metal Slug
Battle Garegga

[Anonymous No.9049740]

>>9049482
I use SSF. For some reason I can't get it to play Policenauts, but other than that, I use it for

-Bulk Slash
-Castlevania Symphony of the Night
-Dragon Force ! & II
-Guardian Heroes
-Radiant Silvergun
-ThunderForce V
-In The Hunt
-Hyper Duel
-Blast Wind
-Batsugun
-Burning Rangers
-Galactic Attack
-Darius Gaiden
-Virtua On
-The Legend of Oasis

Other good games on the system are better played elsewhere. Silhouette Mirage has an official english version available on the PSX, and the D&D Beat 'em Ups are better emulated on Winkawaks imo. Some people reportedly like Grandia and Shining Force III, I don't really get it.

[Anonymous No.9049760]

>>9049663
Have fun

[Anonymous No.9049769]

>18 posts
>No one has been able to name a single Saturn game
Segabros...

[Anonymous No.9049896]

>>9049482
Sakura Taisen on beetlesaturn

[Anonymous No.9049904]

>Saturn
Sorry... This thread was just too soon... Still thinking about HIM...

[Anonymous No.9049917]

>>9049482
tomb raider, fighting vipers, wipeout and sonic jam

[Anonymous No.9049962]

>>9049578
Ah yes, the game that killed Sega.
Fuck NiGHTS and its boring-ass gameplay, why Sega didn't make Sonic 4 on its engine instead is beyond me. Guess they really wanted to fail.

[Anonymous No.9049994]

>>9049482
The best saturn game is Battle Garegga.

[Anonymous No.9050058]

>>9049570
not him but fellow (ex-)coomlectorfag.
Though the PS2 has already exploded in price too. There are some "hidden gems" left but like hell I'll post about them here.
The Saturn has some neat games for sure but the library is lacking unless youre into shmups big time

[Anonymous No.9050082]

>>9049715
As a PS1 fag I really love Saturn visuals.

[Anonymous No.9050098]

>>9049962
It's a much better game than any 3D game Sonic (or 2D Sonic for that matter) and had good sales. Everyone was hostile to 2D back then and any 3D Sonic game would've played like crap. Ridiculous to say it killed SEGA.

[Anonymous No.9050112]

>>9050098
>>9050098
>everyone was hostile to 2D
>so let's make another side-scrolling game, but instead of a hedgehog everyone loves make it star a faggy flying creepy purple tranny jester
BRILLIANT

[Anonymous No.9050145]

It's amazing how hardware intensive Sega Saturn emulation is even today. I have a Ryzen 7 5800x and on Beetle Saturn whenever I load an FMV I get awful audio crackling. I wish the mednafen devs optimized how FMV decoding worked.

[Anonymous No.9050168]

>>9050098
Did NiGHTS even break a million units sold?
Anyway, as long as it had polygons (or even digitized sprites), a "2D" Sonic game would've gone over well. Maybe not as ground-breaking as Super Mario 64, but people would've bought the game and found it enjoyable, and it would've pushed Sega Saturns much better than SHiTES into Diarrhea.

[Anonymous No.9050183]

>>9050098
>>9050168
I like NiGHTS but yeah, acting like the decision to prioritize that over a real 3D Sonic didn't help kill Sega is just delusional. They thought they could just trash Sonic like they did Alex Kidd, didn't realize the power of a good mascot. Even Sega knew they fucked up later on, considering they had to throw together like 3 Sonic games for the system.

[Anonymous No.9050219]

How good is Kronos as an emulator? Only problem that happened to me was a sound distortion in one of guardian heroes' stages.

[Anonymous No.9051051]

Bug!

[Anonymous No.9051195]

I've been replaying Saturn at native resolution and it's shocking to me how quads hold up better than the vaseline filter 64 and jiggly jaggies.

Saturn got so much shit but I recommend replaying now

Sega rally looks better than granturismo
VF 2 looks better than Tekken 3

Alpha 3 on Saturn is the best looking game of the generation

Sotn (hacked on cdromance- you're welcome ) is so damn good on Saturn

[Anonymous No.9051201]

>>9051195
>Alpha 3 on Saturn is the best looking game of the generation
Maybe technically, but I prefer Vampire Savior.
And I also prefer Alpha 2 to 3. idc about the few missing frames on the Saturn port, it's still my fav version of the game.

[Anonymous No.9051208]

>32-bit 3D Sonic
It still hurts to think about.

[Anonymous No.9051387]

>>9049482
Play Deep Fear if you like Resident Evil styled survival horror.

[Anonymous No.9051402]

>>9051208
extreme would have been trippy. they fucked up by not just using the jam 3D engine to make a full game though.

[Anonymous No.9051412]

Battle Garegga
Elevator Action Returns
Crusader No Remorse
Athlete Kings
Saturn Bomberman
Guardian Heroes
Powerslave
Radiant Silvergun
Segata Sanshiro (jap pack-in novelty)

[Anonymous No.9051610]

>>9050145
>Beetle Saturn
Use standalone mednafen. It works much better.

[Anonymous No.9051672]

>>9051610
Beetle Saturn was updated to 1.29.0 (mednafen upstream) a few weeks ago. Also my entire Saturn collection is archived in .chd format so unless mednafen implements .chd support, I don't see myself using standalone any time soon.

I should've clarified that this audio crackling only happens on Grandia's FMVs, others games decode FMVs at full speed. I can get rid of it if I set max swapchain images to 3 from 2, but I gain latency by doing that obviously. It's worth the trade-off but it's kinda frustrating that Saturn emulation still has these performance issues.

[Anonymous No.9051706]

>>9049663
you gotta go fast

[Anonymous No.9051713]

Baku Baku

[Anonymous No.9051734]

Medafen is flawless.

Albert Odyssey
Baroque
Battle Garegga
Bubble Symphony
Bulk Slash
Dragon Force
Dynamite Deka
Elevator Action Returns
Fighters Megamix
Fire Pro Wrestling S
Galactic Attack
Grandia
Last Bronx
Linkle Liver Story
Panzer Dragoon II Zwei
Panzer Dragoon Saga
Powerslave
Radiant Silvergun
Sakura Taisen
Saturn Bomberman
Shining Force III
Shining The Holy Ark
Soukyugurentai
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Super Tempo
Thunder Force V
Vandal Hearts
Vampire Savior

[Anonymous No.9051827]

>>9051402
>they fucked up by not just using the jam 3D engine to make a full game though.
that was the plan with sonic adventure, but then bernie decided the saturn was not our future and told soj to shift development to his new console, the dreamcast.

[Anonymous No.9051841]

>>9049663
wondering why the fuck didnt they just do a sonic game

[Anonymous No.9051882]

>>9049596
newfag

[Anonymous No.9053396]

Do most saturn games use all 6 face buttons? I only have a DS4.

[Anonymous No.9053665]

>>9053396
That has enough buttons to bind everything. I like my Retobit usb pad though for Saturn and general emulation.