I've been starting to think about picking up a Sega Saturn again. Idly watching a few eBay auctions, it's becoming obvious that at some point the prices on the things have definitely gone up. Way up. They're fetching noticeable money now; time was you couldn't give them away, of course.
Of course it's very unlikely that we'd ever see a Saturn Classic, since it's a notoriously hard machine to emulate. And it would be too hard of a sell, probably, since it was (undeservedly) never a particularly popular machine. But on the other hand, it's the sort of hypothetical thing that could say "hey, this thing actually did have a bunch of amazing games that you may well have missed out on the first time around".
This sparked off from me wanting to play Fighters Megamix again. But man, there was some great stuff on the Saturn. I've always regretted selling my first one. One of the dumbest things I've ever done in my gaming career.
Hypothetical and slightly whimsical Saturn Classic first draft game list:
Burning Rangers
Daytona USA
Dragon Force
Duke Nukem 3D
Fighters Megamix
Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter
Nights into Dreams (& Christmas Nights)
Panzer Dragoon Saga
Panzer Dragoon Zwei
Quake
Radiant Silvergun
Sega Ages Vol. 1 (After Burner, Out Run, Space Harrier)
Sega Rally Championship
Shining Force III
Shining the Holy Ark
Sonic R
Tempest 2000
Thunder Force V
Virtua Racing
Virtual On: Cyber Troopers
That's 20, focusing on games that had a Western release and trying to avoid some redundancy (so no Last Bronx, Fighting Vipers, Virtua Fighter I or II - all covered by Fighters Megamix - and no X-Men vs Street Fighter, apparently that only got a Japanese release and its successor MSHvSF is on the list; I'm assuming a Classic system would also emulate the RAM expansion cart, and of course I'm ignoring Marvel licensing nightmares). Quake and Duke make it on there because their Saturn versions were actually amazingly good, Quake especially, and they include a bonus mini-game if you owned them both. Thunder Force V and Radiant Silvergun are the only Japanese exclusives there; the latter really is a must, although it did also come to XBLA eventally.
I've been starting to think about picking up a Sega Saturn again. Idly watching a few eBay auctions, it's becoming obvious that at some point the prices on the things have definitely gone up. Way up. They're fetching noticeable money now; time was you couldn't give them away, of course.
Of course it's very unlikely that we'd ever see a Saturn Classic, since it's a notoriously hard machine to emulate. And it would be too hard of a sell, probably, since it was (undeservedly) never a particularly popular machine. But on the other hand, it's the sort of hypothetical thing that could say "hey, this thing actually did have a bunch of amazing games that you may well have missed out on the first time around".
This sparked off from me wanting to play Fighters Megamix again. But man, there was some great stuff on the Saturn. I've always regretted selling my first one. One of the dumbest things I've ever done in my gaming career.
Hypothetical and slightly whimsical Saturn Classic first draft game list:
Burning Rangers
Daytona USA
Dragon Force
Duke Nukem 3D
Fighters Megamix
Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter
Nights into Dreams (& Christmas Nights)
Panzer Dragoon Saga
Panzer Dragoon Zwei
Quake
Radiant Silvergun
Sega Ages Vol. 1 (After Burner, Out Run, Space Harrier)
Sega Rally Championship
Shining Force III
Shining the Holy Ark
Sonic R
Tempest 2000
Thunder Force V
Virtua Racing
Virtual On: Cyber Troopers
That's 20, focusing on games that had a Western release and trying to avoid some redundancy (so no Last Bronx, Fighting Vipers, Virtua Fighter I or II - all covered by Fighters Megamix - and no X-Men vs Street Fighter, apparently that only got a Japanese release and its successor MSHvSF is on the list; I'm assuming a Classic system would also emulate the RAM expansion cart, and of course I'm ignoring Marvel licensing nightmares). Quake and Duke make it on there because their Saturn versions were actually amazingly good, Quake especially, and they include a bonus mini-game if you owned them both. Thunder Force V and Radiant Silvergun are the only Japanese exclusives there; the latter really is a must, although it did also come to XBLA eventally.
I've been starting to think about picking up a Sega Saturn again. Idly watching a few eBay auctions, it's becoming obvious that at some point the prices on the things have definitely gone up. Way up. They're fetching noticeable money now; time was you couldn't give them away, of course.
Of course it's very unlikely that we'd ever see a Saturn Classic, since it's a notoriously hard machine to emulate. And it would be too hard of a sell, probably, since it was (undeservedly) never a particularly popular machine. But on the other hand, it's the sort of hypothetical thing that could say "hey, this thing actually did have a bunch of amazing games that you may well have missed out on the first time around".
This sparked off from me wanting to play Fighters Megamix again. But man, there was some great stuff on the Saturn. I've always regretted selling my first one. One of the dumbest things I've ever done in my gaming career.
Hypothetical and slightly whimsical Saturn Classic first draft game list:
Burning Rangers
Daytona USA
Dragon Force
Duke Nukem 3D
Fighters Megamix
Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter
Nights into Dreams (& Christmas Nights)
Panzer Dragoon Saga
Panzer Dragoon Zwei
Quake
Radiant Silvergun
Sega Ages Vol. 1 (After Burner, Out Run, Space Harrier)
Sega Rally Championship
Shining Force III
Shining the Holy Ark
Sonic R
Tempest 2000
Thunder Force V
Virtua Racing
Virtual On: Cyber Troopers
That's 20, focusing on games that had a Western release and trying to avoid some redundancy (so no Last Bronx, Fighting Vipers, Virtua Fighter I or II - all covered by Fighters Megamix - and no X-Men vs Street Fighter, apparently that only got a Japanese release and its successor MSHvSF is on the list; I'm assuming a Classic system would also emulate the RAM expansion cart, and of course I'm ignoring Marvel licensing nightmares). Quake and Duke make it on there because their Saturn versions were actually amazingly good, Quake especially, and they include a bonus mini-game if you owned them both. Thunder Force V and Radiant Silvergun are the only Japanese exclusives there; the latter really is a must, although it did also come to XBLA eventally.
I kinda want a Saturn Mini just because I'd like to check out Panzer Dragoon Saga, and the Saturn Mini would be five times cheaper than buying an actual used copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga at this point.
I kinda want a Saturn Mini just because I'd like to check out Panzer Dragoon Saga, and the Saturn Mini would be five times cheaper than buying an actual used copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga at this point.
Years ago, I played through it, but did not pay for it. It's very good!
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Another important Saturn addition is Saturn Bomberman, which is the best multiplayer Bomberman for me. It has a 10 player mode!
Once I get myself more settled, I’d like to look into replacing the CD drive on my Saturn with an SD card reader. It doesn’t respond when a disc is put into the drive anymore. I suspect that the motor is dead.
I actually deliberately left off Saturn Bomberman just because of the unlikelihood of a Saturn Classic supporting more than two players. But yeah, it was great.
That is a fine list for a dream console. Exhumed/Powerslave was both (a) fantastic and (b) virtually impossible to complete without save states so I would put that on there as well. Maybe Daytona CCE over plain Daytona?
I owned two Saturns, but sold one of them and most of my games a few years ago. The amount of money people were willing to pay for Saturn titles made me blush at the time, and I deliberately do not look at what they are going for nowadays.
I'd like Sonic Jam, but if that's not possible, I'd like a retooled hub world from it to be an optional menu here (as well as a more straightforward one, of course).
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Yeah, I'm guessing the complete failure of the PlayStation mini will scare off anyone else from making a mini from relatively newer hardware. Never mind Sony was directly responsible for at least 50% of that fuckup.
Is this even going to apply to the Western version? I mean were those puyo puyos even released here?
Puyo Puyo was released as Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine. But there's a good chance that the original Puyo Puyo won't be on the Japanese version, as Puyo Puyo Tsu is the series's breakout hit.
Yeah, I'm guessing the complete failure of the PlayStation mini will scare off anyone else from making a mini from relatively newer hardware. Never mind Sony was directly responsible for at least 50% of that fuckup.
Probably. But wouldn't it be nice if the lesson they took from it was a combination of the NES, SNES and PlayStation, which is if you don't half-ass it, but take the care to do it right, it can be brilliant and shift a metric fuckton of units?
I wonder why this generation has lacked so many Sega ports compared to other companies? I'd easily rebuy Crazy Taxi, Beach Spikers or Sonic CD on the Switch. Feels like they are wasting some of their library.
Mang what I really want is a 486 mini and a Win95 mini.
Especially the latter, to play Mechwarrior 3 and Crimson Skies and so many other Voodoo age games.
Mildly related to minis maybe, but I ordered a Pandora's Box 6 (family version) from Aliexpress last week.
I've been poking around at the idea for a while now getting one. I want to build a 2 player arcade panel and set it up inside that. I've heard good to mixed things about them as well, so here's hoping most of what I'd like it to do runs well on it.
Anyone else happen to have experience with these things?
Mildly related to minis maybe, but I ordered a Pandora's Box 6 (family version) from Aliexpress last week.
I've been poking around at the idea for a while now getting one. I want to build a 2 player arcade panel and set it up inside that. I've heard good to mixed things about them as well, so here's hoping most of what I'd like it to do runs well on it.
Anyone else happen to have experience with these things?
I hope it works out and post and update here on it, but my initial google on it makes it seem shady. What's the difference between that and a Pi besides coming with games and from china?
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You can now play Half-Life 1 on your NES/SNES Classic. It looks like you just have to supply your own Half-Life 1 files from the Steam version. I'm not particularly interested in playing Half-Life 1 on my system, but it's cool that they got it out there.
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As long as it can't do Nintendo systems its probably safe.
They also got it on an Atari and an arcade console.
Now, speaking of SEGA and Mini consoles...
Long story short: There are some choices to be made.
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I saw that a day or two ago. Choosing between Shining Force I and II is painful.
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Unless of course this is a ruse and they'll ultimately go "surprise! We put all the games in!"
That's the million dollar question.
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I think the first western Puyo game that didn’t have a Sonic-or-Kirby-themed reskin was Puyo Pop for the NGPC, so like 1999?
Of course it's very unlikely that we'd ever see a Saturn Classic, since it's a notoriously hard machine to emulate. And it would be too hard of a sell, probably, since it was (undeservedly) never a particularly popular machine. But on the other hand, it's the sort of hypothetical thing that could say "hey, this thing actually did have a bunch of amazing games that you may well have missed out on the first time around".
This sparked off from me wanting to play Fighters Megamix again. But man, there was some great stuff on the Saturn. I've always regretted selling my first one. One of the dumbest things I've ever done in my gaming career.
Hypothetical and slightly whimsical Saturn Classic first draft game list:
Burning Rangers
Daytona USA
Dragon Force
Duke Nukem 3D
Fighters Megamix
Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter
Nights into Dreams (& Christmas Nights)
Panzer Dragoon Saga
Panzer Dragoon Zwei
Quake
Radiant Silvergun
Sega Ages Vol. 1 (After Burner, Out Run, Space Harrier)
Sega Rally Championship
Shining Force III
Shining the Holy Ark
Sonic R
Tempest 2000
Thunder Force V
Virtua Racing
Virtual On: Cyber Troopers
That's 20, focusing on games that had a Western release and trying to avoid some redundancy (so no Last Bronx, Fighting Vipers, Virtua Fighter I or II - all covered by Fighters Megamix - and no X-Men vs Street Fighter, apparently that only got a Japanese release and its successor MSHvSF is on the list; I'm assuming a Classic system would also emulate the RAM expansion cart, and of course I'm ignoring Marvel licensing nightmares). Quake and Duke make it on there because their Saturn versions were actually amazingly good, Quake especially, and they include a bonus mini-game if you owned them both. Thunder Force V and Radiant Silvergun are the only Japanese exclusives there; the latter really is a must, although it did also come to XBLA eventally.
Here's the list of releases for the Saturn if you guys want to peruse it for anything I've missed.
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Great list!
I'd add Guardian Heroes.
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My second favorite game of all time. But I will say the xbla version is a marked improvement.
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Years ago, I played through it, but did not pay for it. It's very good!
But not worth the ebay price.
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Once I get myself more settled, I’d like to look into replacing the CD drive on my Saturn with an SD card reader. It doesn’t respond when a disc is put into the drive anymore. I suspect that the motor is dead.
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Steam | XBL
I owned two Saturns, but sold one of them and most of my games a few years ago. The amount of money people were willing to pay for Saturn titles made me blush at the time, and I deliberately do not look at what they are going for nowadays.
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It's one of the consoles I've never owned and I've always been tempted by. The other is the N64.
You can put just Skies of Arcadia on it if you like, I'll still buy it.
Puyo Puyo was released as Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine. But there's a good chance that the original Puyo Puyo won't be on the Japanese version, as Puyo Puyo Tsu is the series's breakout hit.
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Probably. But wouldn't it be nice if the lesson they took from it was a combination of the NES, SNES and PlayStation, which is if you don't half-ass it, but take the care to do it right, it can be brilliant and shift a metric fuckton of units?
It'll never happen, though.
Steam | XBL
Sonic Adventure 1 + 2
Ecco the Tides of Time
Crazy Taxi
Skies of Arcadia
Code Veronica
Rayman 2
Marvel vs Capcom 2
There are more but those are just the top of my head games that made the Dreamcast great.
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Ironically it'd cost more than the Dreamcast did a month after it was released. :P
Only missing Phantasy Star Online, but of course that's never going to happen. Not with a mini console at least.
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Especially the latter, to play Mechwarrior 3 and Crimson Skies and so many other Voodoo age games.
The Dreamcast was pretty hard to find for the first 3-4 months and didn't really see major drops in price until right around the PS2 launch.
I've been poking around at the idea for a while now getting one. I want to build a 2 player arcade panel and set it up inside that. I've heard good to mixed things about them as well, so here's hoping most of what I'd like it to do runs well on it.
Anyone else happen to have experience with these things?
It's a real shame that Power Stone 2 never got re-released on a platform that could do it justice (seriously, the PSP?).
I hope it works out and post and update here on it, but my initial google on it makes it seem shady. What's the difference between that and a Pi besides coming with games and from china?
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