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9589170 No.9589170 [Reply] [Original]

What's better, Dreamcast or Saturn for arcade, RPGs and action games, especially if I have a fondness for rail shooters?

>> No.9589173

>>9589170
Saturn really, Dreamcast had great games but feels very incomplete, in every genre they share Saturn is superior.

>> No.9589180

>>9589173
Fighting vipers 2 and house of the dead 2 are better than their saturn predecessors

>> No.9589212

>>9589170
Platformers: SAT > DC
Shmups: SAT > DC
Fighting: SAT > DC
Racing: SAT < DC
Puzzle: SAT < DC
Adventure: SAT < DC
RPG: SAT > DC
Bmup: SAT > DC
FPSs/TPSs: SAT < DC
Rhythm: SAT < DC
Sports: SAT < DC
Strategy/tactics: SAT > DC
Simulation: SAT < DC
Pinball: SAT > DC
Party: SAT < DC

Verdict: Dreamcast wins, by a hair.

>> No.9589215

>>9589170
>shooters
saturn
>fighters
dreamcast (some fag is gonna circlejerk VF2 though)
RPGs
>saturn
racers
>dreamcast
action games
>dreamcast

desu both consoles' libraries feel incomplete without one another. the dreamcast should've had saturn backwards compatbility

>> No.9589218

>>9589170
Get the saturn. You could emulate the DC.

>> No.9589301

>arcade
depends what era of arcade games you want
>RPGs
If you know Japanese or are a rich bastard, then Saturn, otherwise go Dreamcast
>Action games
You want 2D or 3D?
>Rail shooters
Dreamcast

>> No.9589307

Saturn has by far more good games than any other console ever. Dreamcast could have been way more but it was cut short.

>> No.9589313

>>9589170
They're both wonderful consoles but most of their library will be inaccessible to you unless you know Japanese.

>> No.9589319

>>9589313
Most of the good dreamcast games aren't that text heavy, anon.
Saturn, yeah, a bunch of the cool stuff is behind a language barrier.

>> No.9589329

>>9589319
>Most of the good dreamcast games aren't that text heavy
2/3 of the library is exclusive to Japan and 1/3 of the library are adventure and simulation games which would be impossible to play at all without knowing Japanese. The system was easy to port PC games to so it was a hot console for that genre.

>> No.9589331

>>9589212
Dreamcast has way better fighting games than the saturn.
Soul Calibur, Dead or Alive 2, Virtua Fighter 3, Dark Stalkers 3 (better version), KoF XI, Power Stone, Power Stone 2, Street Fighter 3 3rd Strike, Marvel vs Capcom 2, etc...

>> No.9589334

Sega Dreamcast:

•3PS/FPS: Bang! Gunship, Cyber Troopers Virtual On 2, Frame Gride, Gundam Side Story Ashes, Head Hunter, MDK2, Outrigger, Red Dog, Slave Zero, Soldier of Fortune, Unreal Tournament

•Action: Berserk, Draconus, Dynamite Cop, Elemental Gimmick Gear, Heavy Metal Geomatrix, L.O.L lack of love, Maken X, Shenmue 1&2, Soul Reaver, Spawn Demon's Hand, Zombie Revenge

•Fighting: Capcom vs SNK 2, DOA 2, Fighting vipers 2, Force Five, Guilty Gear X, Kenju, KoF XI, MVC2, Power Stone 1&2, Project justice, Soul Calibur, Street Fighter Alpha 3, Virtua Fighter 3

•RPG: Black/Matrix AD, Grandia 2, Skies of Arcadia, Time Stalkers

•Horror: Blue Stinger, Carrier, D2, Dino Crisis, Resident Evil 2/3/CVX, Illbleed

•Vehicle: Crazy Taxy 1&2, Hydro Thunder, Millennium Racer, Re-Volt, Sega GT, Sega Rally 2, Star Wars Racer, Stunt GP, Test Drive 6 & V Rally, Tokyo Xtreme Racer 2, Toy Commander, Toy Racer, Vigilante 8 2nd, Zusar Vasar

•Platform: Evil Twin, Frogger 2, Jet Grind Radio, Ms Pacman Maze Madness, Napple Tale, Rayman 2, Sonic Adventure 1&2, Super Magnetic Neo, Tomb Raider Revelations & Chronicles

•Run 'N Gun/Shmup: Bangai-O, Cannon Spike, Dolphin Blue, Expendable, Border Down, Chaos Field, Charge 'N Blast, Fast Striker, Gunbird 2, Gunlord, Ikaruga, Karous, Last hope, Mars Matrix, Psyvariar 2, Rainbow Cotton, Redux Dark Matters, Shikigami Shiro 2, Sturmwind, Trigger Heart, Trizeal, Under Defeat, Zero Gunner 2

•Other: Chu Chu Rocket, Cosmic Smash, MoHo, Popn music 1-4, Rez, Sega Extreme Sports, Space Channel 5, Tetris 4D, Tony Hawk 2, Virtua Striker 2, Virtua Tennis 1&2, Wetrix, Worms Armageddon

>> No.9589372
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>>9589170
Saturn is best for fighting, RPGs, and shmups. DC is best for "action" (which I assume is both FPS and character action), platformers, and racers.

>> No.9589412

>>9589170
Saturn > dreamcast

>> No.9589413

>>9589307
This guy speaks the truth.

>> No.9589491

Considering Saturn was a failure outside of Japan, I'd say Dreamcast.

No one in the USA cared about the Saturn in the 1990s. It was a joke to a majority of people. If you went into a game store, it was either Nintendo 64 or Playstation 1 that dominated store shelves. Most stores didn't have a Sega Saturn display section. And if they did, it was tiny and shoved near the clearance section. Saturn was overpriced and just a terrible selection of games in the USA. No Sonic either. How stupid. No one cared about Saturn. And it just died and wasn't even remember by most kids.

Dreamcast at least had hype. I remember retailer's carrying the system and hyping it up. Selling special edition versions like the Black Dreamcast and other colors. It was a big deal. Too bad about Sega going bankrupt (because apparently Saturn drained their finances too much), but Dreamcast sold 3x the amount of the Saturn in half the amount of time. Much more memorable games too. Crazy Taxi, Soul Caliber, Sonic adventure, etc. If only Sega didn't run their business into the ground I'm sure Dreamcast would have done respectable for itself.

>> No.9589526

>>9589372
Dreamcast has better fighting games.

>> No.9589632
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>>9589170
Your categories are very broad, but I can tell you that while Saturn has the Panzer Dragoon games, Dreamcast has Rez, which is a much cooler rail shooter with a neat synthwave aesthetic and dynamic soundtrack. Neither of them particularly have an abundance or rail shooters, but those are the big ones. There are plenty of arcade ports on both, and for RPG's I would honestly just go with SEGA CD or PS1 instead. Saturn does have Magic Knight Rayearth, but SEGA CD has Popful Mail and both Lunar games in English. Saturn has more 2D games but it's lacking in weird areas (no Sonic game, fewer platformers than Genesis and PS1 somehow, not all exclusives and arcade ports are quality games), Dreamcast has more 3D games and despite having a smaller library has more heavy hitters like Sonic, Crazy Taxi, and Jet Set Radio.

>> No.9589643
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>>9589632
Also, I should mention that while Saturn has the biggest library out of the SEGA consoles, the amount of actual good games on it is relatively small. A good majority of Saturn games are Japan exclusives, including mahjong games, Japanese visual novels, horse betting games etc. So only a fraction of them can be played and understood by English speakers, and even then only a fraction of those games are actually worth playing imo. Yeah there's like eighty shmups on it, but how many of them are actually unique and memorable? Same thing with some of its fighting games and other arcade ports. It's not necessarily bad, but I would just say keep your expectations realistic. It's a cool console but not dethroning the PS1 or Dreamcast anytime soon lol

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>>9589170
Saturn, probably, but only if you're willing to use Japanese imports. Otherwise Dreamcast.
You'll need an action replay cart to let you play Jap games.
>especially if I have a fondness for rail shooters?
Saturn.

Personally, I think the Dreamcast games are better.

>> No.9589707

>>9589170
the one with more games

>> No.9589720

>>9589212
What about good genres?

fishing games???
light gun games????
3d fighters????
2d fighters????
football games?
Racing games??

>> No.9589725

>>9589720
Easy win for Dreamcast in all categories as Saturn wasn't great for 3D and most of the good 2D fighters are also on Dreamcast anyway

>> No.9589753

Saturn has a lot of arcade ports but Dreamcast has legitimately good arcade ports still worth playing when arcade emulation exists and not just "well it's better than the shit we get on everything else" ports.

>> No.9589759

>>9589720
>good genres
>fighting games

>> No.9589778

>>9589643
You're definition of a good game is that it has to be in English. Imagine missing out on a metric fuckton of good games and writing them off as bad simply because you're an EOP. The dekinai cope is strong today.

>> No.9589794

>>9589170
If you had to choose between the Saturn or the Dreamcast for playing games on the original hardware than the clear choice is the Saturn. The Dreamcast is a great system, but the majority of its best games have been ported or re-released on other platforms, whereas the majority of the Saturn's best games are exclusive to the console.

Saturn consoles are still fairly cheap as well, you can get a jap import model with a controller, a memory cart, and sometimes a game or three for around $100 shipped. Spend another $50 on a PseudoSaturn cartridge and you'll be able to play burned games. Alternately you can get an ODE fairly cheaply (from around $140 to around $220, depending on the model).

The Dreamcast can play burned games natively since the copy protection was cracked over 20 years ago, but since the DC supported GD-ROMs (essentially CDs that could store 1GB of data compared to the 700MB you could get out of a CD-ROM) a significant portion of the games on the system have to have data trimmed to make them fit on a CD-R. This usually means stuff like video being heavily downsampled, audio being downsampled, or sometimes audio/video being removed completely. The ODE situation on the Dreamcast is kinda fucked as well (they exist, but availability can be a pain in the dick if you don't want to buy the more expensive model).

Either console will have a solid selection of arcade ports, RPGs, and action games. Neither console had a ton of lightgun games - the Saturn basically has a couple of solid Virtua Cop games, a mediocre port of House of the Dead, and the typical Maximum Force/Area 51 combo (plus a few not stellar others), meanwhile the Dreamcast has a great port of House of the Dead 2 and Confidential Mission (plus a couple more gun sections in other games). Columbine happened in early '99 and basically tanked any US releases of lightgun games for a few years, so the DC got almost none.

>> No.9590112
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>>9589778
Go ahead anon, recommend me some good mahjong games, visual novels, and horse betting games.

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>>9589778
I do like Japanese games though anon, just not ones that require knowledge of Japanese. Heck most of the English games I play don't require knowledge of English

>> No.9590123 [DELETED] 

Bernieposter on suicide watch

>> No.9590393
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>>9590112
Pic related is a legend

>> No.9590412

>>9590393
This is Tokimeki Memorial, right? Isn't it on PC?

>> No.9590417 [DELETED] 

>>9590123
OP is Bernieposting for making a Saturn vs. Dreamcast thread? I'm confused.

>> No.9590489

>>9590412
It's on a lot of stuff, but the Saturn version is THE definitive version with exclusive content that isn't in any other version of the game.

>> No.9590595

The situation of Saturn VS DC when it comes to FPS games is pretty weird. DC has quite a few, Saturn however has far better ones. Do you really want to play a 30fps (with drops) quake 3 and uneral tournament or deal with the 4 minute load times of soldier of fortune? Or would you rather have a fun and interesting version of duke 3D and the excellent power slave?

>> No.9590628

>>9589212
Nigger you could rip any KoF/SF game on CD for Dreamcast, it’s the undisputed king of fighting game consoles. SamSho, SC, etc too. Dumb fag.

>> No.9590629

>>9590628
Saturn disputes that solely by having better fighters. I know, I know, MVC2 blah blah but really, the earlier titles offer far more variety. Also that MVC2 ost sucks.

>> No.9590654 [DELETED] 

>>9590628
Dreamcast doesn't have Fighters Megamix.

Check and mate, Dreamcuck.

>> No.9590693
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>>9589778
>>9590119
A long time back I wasted probably half a ink cartridge printing a entire english translation of Sakura Taisen and putting it into a binder. Played through the entire game with the binder in my lap and had a great time doing so. Absolute shame this game and it's sequels weren't brought over as they are some of the Saturn's best titles but I'm glad to see them finally getting patched so more people can enjoy them.

>> No.9590750

>>9590654
>Fighters Megamix.

virtua fighter is the most overrated garbage fighting game series of all time

>> No.9590763

>>9590693
Me too. But on the laser printer at work.
But I've still to play it. What a shame...

>> No.9590767

>>9590750
Why expressing such ignorance? What's the point. This opinion of your will never be true. What's the point? Bait?

>> No.9591078

>>9590750
I played virtua fighter 2 for first time in 2019 on my xbox one and that game is amazing. You are lying.

>> No.9591150

>>9589173
Cvs2, mvc2 are better than Saturn fighters. Pso is better than any action rpg, shenmue is better than any adventure game.

>> No.9591154

>>9589215
Dreamcast 3rd Strike is a bad port.

>> No.9591213

>>9589526
Not even true. Also the DC port of 3rd strike is rather shitty.

>> No.9591218

>>9591213
Ok and? Saturn doesn’t even have a port of SFA3 which is better than Third Strike anyway you fucking scrub retard.

>> No.9591237 [DELETED] 

>>9591218
Why are you so mad? I'd agree with you but you're giving me major incel vibes.

>> No.9591253

>>9591150
>Cvs2, mvc2 are better than Saturn fighters
Both games use upscaled recycled sprites of cps2 games. Even Mvc1 on DC is rather a questionable port. The only decent Dreamcast port was the SFIII W-Impact collection.

>>9590750
>virtua fighter is the most overrated garbage
Funny way to spell tekken. Typo?

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>>9591218
wat

I really don't think DC 3S is any worse than any Saturn arcade port though, and people are still using the Dreamcast versions of MvC2 and CvS2 for tournaments.

>> No.9591267

>>9591218
The port of SFZ3 on Saturn is a much better, faithful port than the botched 3rd strike port on Dreamcast. Talking about the actual real world now. Not the schizophrenic mess in your head.

>> No.9591314 [DELETED] 

>>9591237
Nah that’s you
>>9591254
Nice photoshop
>>9591267
>words words words
Touch grass

>> No.9591562

>>9591314
https://youtu.be/wAOl0YfV7GU

>> No.9591751

>>9589329
>Adventure and simulation games
But are they worth playing?

>> No.9591814
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>>9589307
The list of canceled Dreamcast games is pretty depressing. There was some real cool shit in there.

>>9590123
the bernieposter was on suicide watch ever since he accidentally posted in another thread on /adv/ about how his wife had refused to have sex with him for the past two years without turning off his tripcode (this was like a year ago btw, so it's likely been even longer now)

> ODEs and PSK carts are cheap
> Import consoles are still relatively inexpensive
> Getting a steady stream of English translations
> Batshit crazy homebrew like the z-streme guy recreating the first Unreal on Saturn hardware
> Bernieposter found dead after being unable to bear the shame of his wife being disgusted by him so he commits sudoku

It's a pretty good time to be a Saturnchad.

>> No.9591829 [DELETED] 

>>9589170
Dreamcast has more non-weebshit titles in its library, therefore it is the superiour system.

Only trannies and soi-males care about the Shiturn and its irrelevant, paltry existence.
>b-b-but muh 6 million units sold in j-j-japan
Lmao. Keep touching your dick to those shitty tranime games, faggot. Your console will forever remain Sega's shittiest one.

>> No.9591839 [DELETED] 

Can someone translate that post into coherent English

>> No.9591939
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>>9591814
>canceled Dreamcast games
Speaking of, I saw SSX was in development for DC. Apparently it looked very different than the PS2 version because it didn't use the same geometry rendering system.

Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair

>> No.9592013

>>9591939
> There is a timeline out there somewhere in the multiverse where Daikatana was released on the Sega Dreamcast

lol

Also, seeing Baldur's Gate having a canceled DC port is interesting. There was a PS1 port that was canceled as well, but was leaked quite a while back. It's playable from start to finish, but it wasn't a final build so there are some performance issues and bugs.

I downloaded it years ago because I thought it might be fun to play through Baldur's Gate on the Vita, but the resolution is incredibly low and playing a CRPG on a controller sucks ass.

>> No.9592604

>>9591939
EA sports? working with Sega? really?

>> No.9593138

I see a lot of people talking about how the Saturn has a great import library but I never see them actually talking about the games

>> No.9593609

>>9593138
Because it's mostly games in a language you can't read, and arcade ports you can play elsewhere and don't need a Saturd for.

>> No.9593751

>>9593138
Collecting games is about the collecting, not the playing.

>> No.9593759

>>9589720
>good genres
>footy

>> No.9594834

>>9589173
>but feels very incomplete

saturn didn't even get a tony hawk game
let alone any "good" 3D platformers

>> No.9595253
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>>9594834
Dreamcast really got the better half of that generation. I like Mega Man X4 but DC got both Tony Hawk games and two Sonic Adventures. They didn't even bother making a NiGHTS sequel on Saturn which is just lame.

>> No.9595857

to sum up:

if you are a dudebro: dreamcast
if you are a hardcore videogame player from early 2000s: saturn

>> No.9595946 [DELETED] 

>>9595857
So in other words, DC is for chads while Saturn is for basement-dwelling incels.

Got it.

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>>9589170
Why, the one that IS our future, of course.

>> No.9597617

>>9595990
Future my ass, he killed the Dreamcast.

>> No.9597673

>>9597617
Killed how?

>inb4 muh DVD
Sega higher-ups were not willing to pay Sony to use their DVD format.
>inb4 muh $199 price tag
Dreamcast hardware was very inexpensive to manufacture by Q3 1999 and beyond.

If anything killed the DC, it was the retarded Japs insisting on including MIL-CD which nobody used besides for piracy.

>> No.9597689

>>9597673
By saying "The Saturn Is Not Our Future", he destroyed any future the Dreamcast had with retailers. Due to him pissing off the retailers, they refused to stock anything Sega related, heck I remember seeing Sega Saturn and it's games in bargain bins before the Dreamcast came out. It was hard for me to even buy a Dreamcast at a local retailer, I had to go to the mall.

>> No.9597727

>>9597673
>If anything killed the DC, it was the retarded Japs insisting on including MIL-CD which nobody used besides for piracy.

I grew up in that era. Piracy wasn't a big issue. Playstation hurt everyone. I recall most of my friends were saving their money for a PS2. A few bought Dreamcast but most were waiting. Some of us could only afford one system. So most of us chose Playstation.

Sony was just that good. No one could compete anymore. Especially not with a hardware manufacturer with endless money.

>> No.9597737
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>>9597689
The saturn games in bargain bins were the reason he said the "Saturn is not our future",
I really doubt retailers based their entire strategy based on a tiny little article in the corner of EGM. Retailers stopped supporting the Saturn because it wasn't selling well, period. Stolar even said they'd continue to support the Saturn for the time being.

>> No.9597751

>>9597673
>piracy
Meme. Also this >>9597727
Piracy on Dreamcast was discovered when Sega was already about to kill the console, not to mention no console has ever died due to piracy.

The Dreamcast was a failed hail mary from it inception.

>> No.9597795

>>9597751
>The Dreamcast was a failed hail mary from it inception.

It's pretty sad, because the Dreamcast was basically designed to fix every single problem that developers had with the Saturn:

> The multi-processor architecture on the Saturn is a pain in the ass to code for and port games from other consoles to
The Dreamcast was built with a single powerful CPU
> We needed to utilize the RAM cart to get the best performance because of the low amount of memory, a peripheral that wasn't even released outside of Japan
The Dreamcast shipped with 16MB of RAM, an insane amount for a console in 1999
> It's difficult to get high quality 3D graphics out of the console
The Dreamcast shipped with a powerful GPU, 8MB of VRAM for high quality textures, and hardware antialiasing (meaning AA was essentially "free")
> People were turned off by the Saturn's high pricetag at launch
The Dreamcast launched at half the price of the Saturn, and two thirds the expected price of the PS2
> Coding games for the Saturn is difficult due to the low quality official documentation
Sega made a point to have extensive and widely available hardware documentation for developers
> Porting games from the PC to the Saturn is difficult to impossible
The Dreamcast shipped with WindowsCE support to make porting games from the PC to the console easier (if developers chose to utilize it)
> Coding online multiplayer for Saturn games wasn't worth the time and money spent due to low sales of the Netlink (mostly due to its high cost)
Every Dreamcast launched with a 33.6k or 56.6k dialup modem, and support for a broadband adaptor
> Supporting 3 or more players in games is a waste of time due to the low sales of the multi-tap
The Dreamcast shipped with four controller ports

Pretty much the only steps backward from the Saturn were no onboard save storage, and the controller (losing the 3x2 arcade layout in exchange for a 2x2 diamond as well as using only a single analog stick).

>> No.9597824

>>9597795
>The Dreamcast launched at half the price of the Saturn, and two thirds the expected price of the PS2

This was probably Sega's only mistake.

Sega should have never sold the Dreamcast at loss (sell it for less than it costs to make it). They would never win against Sony who also sells at a loss but has money to burn.

Nintendo NEVER sells at a loss. Nintendo always sells their consoles for a profit. Even if its a small profit. Sega should have done the same as Nintendo. They can't fight Sony the same way they fought Nintendo.

Plus Sega was actually not in a good financial position before launching the Dreamcast. The failure of the Sega Saturn hurt Sega and bloodied them. Sega didn't actually have the cash reserves to fully support a new system. Maybe if Sega had several more years to recover. But of course that wasn't happening. The Playstation 2 was coming.

So Sega took out loans and went into deep debt to make the Dreamcast happen. The only way to pay the loans back was if the Dreamcast sold huge numbers. Like Sega Genesis numbers.

>> No.9599267

>>9597737
Ha! Some of my friends whose parents do retail were quick to not stock any Sega products because of Bernie Stolar's stupid comment.

>> No.9599274

>>9597727
Piracy was the key factor in Dreamcast's demise. I remember a friend of mine trying to sell burned CD's of Dreamcast games to me for $5 each. I was like "pass" because I preferred physical copies over pirated ones.

>> No.9599278

>>9599274
Burnt discs are physical

>> No.9599287

>>9599274
Your reasoning is why piracy never worked. It only appealed to a tiny percentage of people.

People who buy consoles want the official released games for their collection. Not some burned bootleg copy.

>> No.9599291

>>9589170
Saturn doesn’t have as many rail shooters, but it’s better for everything else

>> No.9600024

>>9594834
To be fair, the Saturn was basically dead by the time Tony Hawk franchise came into the picture.

>> No.9600217

>>9600024
That guy is trying to bait the thread, it's not a serious post.

I do wonder what THPS would have been like on the Saturn though. The control scheme would have to be something like B to ollie, A for kick tricks, C for grab tricks, and Y to grind, with L and R being used for rotations. That would leave X and Z, I don't know if there is anything else that would be useful to be mapped there. Skipping music tracks maybe?

The major thing with a THPS port would be that the framerate would have to be solid. It has Steep Slope Sliders, which runs well, as well as a couple other Japanese snowboarding games. I think it would be doable. The PS1 version has a few large open levels, but it also has very aggressive fogging to keep the draw distance down.

Getting THPS2, 3, and 4 running on the console would have been a struggle I think though. With THPS2 the skater models and skater/environment textures had a huge increase in quality (THPS3 and 4 on the PS1 are basically just reskins of THPS2 with new moves).

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>>9589170
Saturn on a projector is legit

>> No.9600667

>>9600664
Basado

Do you get any input lag? Something like Sega Rally on a bigass screen sounds like it would be fun as hell.

>> No.9600669

>>9600667
It says around 20-25ms but I haven't put it to the test just yet, mostly playing rpgs atm. I'll have to set up my nes and play some super street fighter 2010 and smb. But this is my first time playing Albert odessy, so ill post my results tomorrow.

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>>9600669
How is the Saturn hooked up? If you're doing composite, you can get a cheap splitter and run one set of cables to the projector and one set to a CRT TV and set it under the projector's screen.

Then, fire up Virtual On and start a match, take a picture of both screens with your phone, and compare the times on the bottom right of both screens. This will tell you the projector's delay down to one hundredth of a second.

>> No.9600786

>>9599274
Nope >>9597751

>> No.9600878

>>9589170
It's title specific really.

>> No.9600909

>>9589643
That looks like an actually good game.

>> No.9601215

>>9589643
>imeopo
fyfyeop

>> No.9601223
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9601223

>>9597673
>>9599274
>Piracy killed-
No. I have numbers to dispute it.

>> No.9601316

>>9590693
I did that, but for Super Robot Wars Alpha on PSX.

Thank glob they finally fantranslated the first game for Saturn.

>> No.9601468

>>9601223
Now let’s see those console sales numbers to put that into perspective

>> No.9602340

>>9601223
Now imagine how much higher the attach rates would've been for the Dreamcast had the MIL-CD exploit not been a thing.