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>want to buy saturn
>realize all their best games are on PC with better versions

Why did Sega do this?

>> No.9877945

>>9877943

*all their best games

>> No.9877947

>>9877943
I also love Sonic's Schoolhouse

>> No.9877950

Baku Baku on PC is the Game Gear version. Saturn has an arcade perfect port.

>> No.9877953

>>9877945
???

>> No.9877962

>>9877943
Why do you think lol

Although, this post kind of gives me an idea. Thank you OP

>> No.9877991

Bug Too! is also available for PC so there's pretty much no reason left to get a Saturn

>> No.9878067 [SPOILER] 
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>>9877943
they arent the same

>> No.9878126

>>9877947
>nooo we don't want to move Xtreme to the pc cause the sega pc line is only for ports of arcade and console games!
>Schoolhouse and Yoot Tower exist.

I will go to my grave being pissed about this.

>> No.9878152

Isn't Panzer Dragoon worse on PC?

>> No.9878272

>>9877943
Why do you want to buy a Saturn then?

>> No.9878316

Panzer Dragoon Saga lies rotting in some gutter after GameTap closed down, so no, not all of them were ported.

>> No.9878404

>>9877943
Nigga I don't see ASTAL on that list.

>> No.9878420

>>9877962
When I find your video on youtube I'll expose you as a evil 4chan incel. That'll ruin you.

>> No.9878439

>>9877950
No, it's not. You're thinking of the version included on the Sonic & Garfield Pack. Baku Baku stand alone PC version is unique (like a downgraded Saturn version): https://youtube.com/watch?v=3eVBvTap8yY&pp=ygUMYmFrdSBiYWt1IHBj

>> No.9878447

>>9878272
to coooooooomlect

>> No.9878578

>>9877945
>*all their best games
Daytona USA Deluxe = Arcade port of the Saturn Daytona USA CCE. But has a few extra features, also has online play. Direct X rendering.
Virtua Squad 2 = Virtua Cop 2 Saturn port. Has D3D rendering.
Sega Rally Championship 1995 = Saturn port. Has D3D patch.
Virtua Fighter 2 = Saturn Port. Contains arcade model meshes and D3D.
Sonic 3D Blast = more or less a Saturn port. But has worse bonus stages.
Bug! = Saturn port
NBA Action '98 = saturn port with D3D
Manx TT SuperBike = Saturn port, has D3D. Never played it.
Baku Baku = Saturn port, has online play
Sonic & Knuckles Collection = basically it's Sonic 3. Sonic & Knuckles and Sonic 3 + Sonic and Knuckles. has some MIDI music tracks. CyberTroopers: Virtua On = Saturn port with D3d. never played this one.

>> No.9878810

These ports are complete garbage.
>Computer needs to be in 16 bit mode
>Switch to 16 bit mode
>Computer needs to have 256 colors
>Switch to 256 colors
>Computer needs to be in 16 bit mode
>Repeat forever
At least from my experience with Daytona on 98SE

>> No.9878823

Imagine how expensive Saturn games would be if tendies actually bothered to look at the library

>> No.9878831
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>>9878126
So much this.
The post-Saturn cancellation PC conversion of Sonic X-Treme had so much potential to be a streamlined (better) version, but Sega's autism about unoriginal PC ports that'd be outdated in a few years killed it in one final bout of the mismanagement that destroyed the game.

>> No.9878851

>>9878404
Fuck off sega lard x

>> No.9878965

>>9878067
thought this was an edgy game ad for a moment kek

>> No.9879017

>>9877953

I am mentally ill

>> No.9879034

>>9878404
>>9878851
Lol

>>9878126
>>9878831
This is the part of X-Treme Saturn fans never talk about, this is the first I'm hearing of it. Could've probably been great on Windows, just like Sonic CD and Sonic R

>> No.9879052

>>9877943
Sure you faggot, try to run these ports on your current pc now.

>> No.9879065

you people haven't owned a Saturn since the 90s?
Just with WHAT kind of people do I share this board with?

>> No.9879067

>>9879052
Why were Sega PC ports so broken early on? It's pure madness as to why they won't work elsewhere.The ports only seem to work on specific versions of Windows 95 and 98 and literally nothing else

>> No.9879131

>>9879065
sorry fren, I have been playing them all on the computer since the 90s...

>> No.9879150

>>9879131
I'm sorry you missed on stuff like PD Zwei, fren

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>>9878810
it depended on the game. i remember sonic cd forcing 256 colors on windows 98 like that but iirc 3d blast just werked even on xp as well as every game from picrel but cd. sonic r had no music but apparently that was an issue specific to this pack

>> No.9879350

>>9879017
Nice

>> No.9879354

>>9877943
Ah yes, who could forget Sonic's Schoolhouse

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>>9879034
It's a pretty overlooked part of the story even among because the X-Treme crowd because very little is known about that phase of devepopment and people still like to romanticize it as the Saturn game that could've been. I think if they gave another team at Sega their assets and said "here, finish it for us," sure it wouldn't have made Christmas or console but it would've been an interesting PC exclusive (until Gems Collection probably).

>> No.9881593

>>9878152
lol no, did you even check?

>>9878810
Doesnt it work on DOS? I reasonablly sure I got it to work Dosbox

>> No.9881595

>>9879052
>>9879067
Stop lying, they all work, even on 10

>> No.9881725

>>9879034
>>9881454
It probably would have sold good too, considering how well the other Sonic pc ports had done and were getting re releases up into the 2000s.

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>>9878810
It's not in that pic but Sonic R is actually better on PC, there's way more options for things like weather and a day/night cycle, better models/animations (especially for Amy), and a couple of other improvements. Sonic CD also got the full quality FMV opening and ending on PC which the original SEGA CD couldn't handle. This is how I first played both of these games before I even knew about SEGA CD (I did know about Saturn though, just never got one). It seems 3D Blast is the only one that was slightly worse as it has a different Special Stage from the Saturn version, but still mostly the same otherwise

>> No.9882448

>>9881928
>Sonic CD also got the full quality FMV opening and ending on PC which the original SEGA CD couldn't handle
It always messes with me that the original version of Sonic CD's opening/ending looks like complete trash. Like they went out of their way to make this beautiful animated sequence set and it doesn't even work on the lead platform? A shame about how bad the original PC version of CD was gameplay-wise, but christ.