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gypsy
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Post subject: Re: Sega Saturn Posted: 21 Feb 2021, 21:14 |
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retrolaservision wrote: Don't know if I'm posting this to the wrong place or not. But anyway.
I recently bought a Saturn for myself. Finally having enough of the 32x stopgap. (And definitely not because I'm afraid Segata Sanshiro is gonna kill me if I don't have one.)
Anyway the first game I'm planning on getting for it is definitely Virtua Fighter 2. The next game after that is going to be Tomb Raider. After that I'm planning on getting one of those action replay carts to make my Saturn region free. (the model that I got is the second European one)
Anyway what games should I be looking to get after that? Personally I'm mostly interested in fighting games (both 2d and 3d) and racing games. Off course I'm not just going to stick to those to genres.
Anyway hopefully I don't look like a dummy that posted this to the wrong place. Are you planning to buy games only and not burn? This matters for my recommendations because while games like Elevator Action Returns are awesome, they are also rather pricey now. Some that I recommend that should still be reasonable: Puzzle Bobble 3, Digital Pinball Necronomicon, Digital Pinball: Last Gladiators, Twinbee Deluxe Pack, Daytona USA, Sega Rally, Outrun, Touge King of Spirits, Drift King 97, Road Rash, Vampire Hunter, Vampire Savior, X-Men vs. Street Fighter, Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter, King of Fighters 97, various Street Fighter games, Chase HQ.
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Post subject: Re: Sega Saturn Posted: 22 Feb 2021, 00:11 |
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Okay cool these are all games I really recommend.
Elevator Action Returns, Crows the Battle Action, Hyper Duel, Magic Knight Rayearth, Dragon Force, Keio Yugekitai, Shinrei Jusatsushi Taromaru, Sokko Seitokai: Sonic Council, Super Tempo, Tryrush Deppy, Blast Wind, Castlevania Symphony of the Night, Astra Superstars, Death Crimson, Twinkle Star Sprites, Bulk Slash, Nekketsu Oyako.
All awesome games, all pretty unreasonable to buy now. I think I spelled them all right, but there could be some errors. The Saturn has tons of awesome games in general, it's a great console.
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Post subject: Re: Sega Saturn Posted: 22 Feb 2021, 01:21 |
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retrolaservision wrote: Just checked out the price for Castlevania dracula x. And dang it's expensive. When just the disc only costs 90 euros plus shipping. And the playstation version isn't much cheaper either. (well it's not eye popping expensive considering I also happen to own a Mega CD and it has bunch of really expensive games.)
This is why I held off of getting a Saturn for so long and stuck just with the Mega Drive and it's add ons. The 3d games from this era have largely not aged that well. And since the 2d stuff was seen as outdated at the time and thus didn't sell that well compared to 3d games. Which is why some of the good 2d games have become quite expensive.
Luckily from my own research and the titles you have recommended to me, clearly show that the Saturn still has a large library of good games that won't make me sell my kidney or god forbid my Sega tower of power. So I won't have to go full pirate just to enjoy it's library. Part of me now wishes I hadn't written off Saturn and gotten it earlier. Dracula X, like Tomb Raider, is better on other systems. I'd pick the PS1 version of this game any day of the week, and I'm not a Playstation fan at all, any Playstation. While the Saturn has some expensive games (Psychic Killer Taromaru was super hard to find from the day it was released) there are also games like Pocket Fighter or Panzer Zwei which are extremely affordable and excellent. Nearly all the RPGs and strategy games are worthless on the used market so if you can enjoy them, go for it. World Advanced, Giren's Greed, Sakura Wars, all very nice games. One very Sega Saturn sort of Sega Saturn game I can't recommend enough is Guardian Heroes. I've cleared this game dozens of times with friends. Another game that nobody ever mentions is Three Dirty Dwarves, a three player beat-em-em-up with very original western style animation. Very good sense of humor, I don't know if this was released outside of the US or how expensive is. Most of my Saturn collection was acquired years and years ago... EDIT: Some quick research has shown me that Three Dirty Dwarves is not an affordable game anymore. It was before Youtube, I swear! I bought it on clearance, $10-15 probably.
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Post subject: Re: Sega Saturn Posted: 06 Mar 2021, 18:15 |
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I would be very surprised if there was a quality difference with the pads. I think they probably all came off the same line. I think you maybe just have unconventional tastes. The Saturn pad, the real Saturn pad, sold in grey, white, a different grey, black, and maybe other colors, the only one sold in Japan, the one on the right in that picture, is widely regarded as not only being good but also as being the best pre-analog pad ever. I was massive into Street Fighter when the Saturn launched in Japan and to my friends it seemed like an gift from God, the only pad even half as good as an average stick. When the Dreamcast came out, an excellent system with bad controllers, most of us bought adapters to keep using Saturn pads. Saturn pads also wear very well.
I personally always thought the six button MD pad kinda sucked because it’s so small, smaller by far than the three button one, there is nothing to even hold. It’s all buttons. The d-pad is a massive improvement to the POS one on three button MD pad, no question, but it’s dimensions are conspicuously small.
A side note...I have a very hard time calling the US style pad “model one” when it came later. This is driving my brain insane, I don’t care WTF Youtubers call it. They weren’t even born when the stuff came out. The f-ed up over designed glossy one on the left came LATER so it simply isn’t a MkI. It is then second pad to be released and therefore it is the MkII.
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Post subject: Re: Sega Saturn Posted: 07 Mar 2021, 05:32 |
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retrolaservision wrote: Well what else can the Euro/USA redesign be called. It doesn't have a clever name like the Duke. So the simplest way to call it is to use the model of console it came with. That's the very thing...Japanese MkI consoles did come with this pad that people are calling a model 2 pad. This is the very earliest Saturn ever produced, November 22, 1994. Does it have "MkII" pads? How can it when was no MkII at this time? Here is a Lauch USA Saturn: Isn't that a MkI Saturn also? Here is the first MkII Japanese machine: You'll find that same pad sold on every generation of Saturn in Japan including the Hitachi one, the HiNavi, skeleton, etc, All Japanese SS machines always had this pad. It seems to literally be an example of an overbearing Eurocentrist viewpoint. Because the Saturn launched in the west with its own western style pad then that pad came first...never mind that the Saturn came out in Japan first with different pads. A MkIII Ford Focus is still a MkIII in the US even though the MkII was skipped. Tree of Life stuff... The Same OG Saturn was sold with either pad depending on region so MkI/MkII just don't work well because it has nothing to do with the generation of the machine. Its not like "dogbone" NES pads that only existed when the NES was totally redone or Neo Geo CD pads, its just confusing. I'd call the USA style one Slick, or maybe Syd Mead style. The other I'd just call "Saturn Pad". I own about a dozen as well as a (not bootleg) USB one which just rules for emulators.
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