Genesis Knight
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Yeah. Dreamcasts do exactly that when the PSU is overheating.
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Sega Saturn Appreciation and Emulation Thread
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Yeah. Dreamcasts do exactly that when the PSU is overheating.
I don't get no lines going across my screen before it powers out though, even though I've had that model since 2005-ish it's only just started acting up. Hmmm going to open it up tomorrow when the sun is up.
EDIT:
There better not be any spiders or cockroaches in there when I open up the chassis....
EDIT:
There better not be any spiders or cockroaches in there when I open up the chassis....
IrishNinja
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Laevateinn
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I need an end to the Julian/Galm saga.
This! I picked this one up back in '97 as a kid and me and a friend were obsessed with it for several months. Got a lot of nostalgia for it.
RedHoodedOwl
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Anyone remember those gaming magazines devoted to Sega like Sega Visions.
IrishNinja
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im a few issues shy of a full run on Sega Visions
Dreamcast magazine was much shorter but harder for me to find, only have a few of the Team Sega newsletter thing from SMS era but yeah, i fuck with all of that!
Dreamcast magazine was much shorter but harder for me to find, only have a few of the Team Sega newsletter thing from SMS era but yeah, i fuck with all of that!
RedHoodedOwl
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I had a huge library of Gamepro and EGM magazines but I only read one issue of Sega Visions.
sixteen-bit
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Being a 3D game, is it better on PS1?
I've seen some nut on a panzer dragoon forum claims the Saturn version has a better framerate due to heavily using VDP2 for the ground textures (which is a thing a few games like Mass Destruction and Independence Day did to be better than their PS1 counterpart) butn ot having the PS1 version and all of the videos of that version online being emulators, I have no way to verify the claim.
What I can observe, however, is that the PS1 and Saturn versions of Robo Pit have some major and rather arbitrary differences despite being released not far from each-other. The menus are different. The opponent list is entirely different between the two versions and so are the bosses. The PS1 has an exclusive type of legs while Saturn has an exclusive weapon. The PS1 version starts you with two pre-built robots while Saturn has you starting with creating your own bot. The Saturn has an exclusive "Training Mode" where you fight against three randomly-selected guys at the same time (so on PS1 there's no way to fight more than one robot), and more. So yeah, it's odd!
Either way the Saturn version looks good, runs good and the game's control scheme translate well to its controller so I'm not too fussed.
Laevateinn
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The Playstation is shit.
Plaything.
sixteen-bit
Member
Fly Plaything, fly
I think my PSU board is different from that.
My SS innards, UK Model 2
Does anyone know what model/power this is? It's the first thing I want to try first and if it fails I better get a professional.
EDIT
I managed to replace the fuse and got the Saturn running for a few hours with no problem then... power cut again.
Yearly heads up:
GAF plays...31 Nights of Horror...5
Posted. Going to add more to it throughout the day.
GAF plays...31 Nights of Horror...5
Posted. Going to add more to it throughout the day.
Saoshyant
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That doesn't sound good. Hope you manage to fix it and, if you do, please share what you did -- it's always important to document repair experiences on vintage, collectable hardware like this.
Laevateinn
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I have a Japanese Saturn with power issues too. I might look at mine this weekend to see if I notice anything as well.
theSlacker
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I beat it as a kid once. Don't think I "fully" beat it by getting all the emeralds though, unlike with like all the other Sonic games I've played though.
sixteen-bit
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I beat the Genesis version
Laevateinn
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I want to like 3D blast but isometric is terrible. The only game that I've played that pulls it off well is Landstalker.
sixteen-bit
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Even then, the platforming in Landstalker is bad
KDash31987
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I finished the PC version a bunch of times, including getting all of the emeralds.
Shadow Hog
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Several times. Only version I haven't cleared at least once is the Genesis version, funnily enough (though I do own it as of around a year ago).
Helps that the PC version saved your progress, so that being my first version helped ease me into the game. Really weird that the Saturn version doesn't have that; not so weird that the Genesis version doesn't, if disappointing given both its length and the existence of Sonic 3 already setting a precedent.
Helps that the PC version saved your progress, so that being my first version helped ease me into the game. Really weird that the Saturn version doesn't have that; not so weird that the Genesis version doesn't, if disappointing given both its length and the existence of Sonic 3 already setting a precedent.
sixteen-bit
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gotta save money on cart production, especially since it was such a late release, I guess
AdamisFox
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I grew up with the Genesis version, which I finished lots of times, but IIRC I've finished the Saturn version at least once !
eXistor
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Never even played it or ever owned it, always thought it looked awful.
sixteen-bit
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Load times are a bummer and I prefer Jun Senoue and Tatsuyuki Maeda's Genesis soundtrack to Richard Jaques' Saturn one.
I beat it on Genesis back in the day. It was a challenge for me as a kid. But I actually thought it was a legit good game back then.
Haven't played it in decades though. I still have my original cart and may try it again sometime. I think it has an unfairly bad rep from what I remember.
davidwhangchoi
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hey SaturnGAF,
got this in the mail today =)
got this in the mail today =)
Flizzzipper
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It's still unbelievable to me that they have new stock of those on amazon. What a great time to be alive.
Laevateinn
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Sega systems never die.
Laws00
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hey SaturnGAF,
got this in the mail today =)
You going to mod it and install pseudo saturn?
Shin Johnpv
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hey SaturnGAF,
got this in the mail today =)
This thing is awesome. Nice get.
Were they able to reinstate some of the original functions of the AR? (RAM cartridge, memory cartridge, AR codes) I remember reading they wanted to at least get the RAM function back, but I didn't keep up with it.
Laws00
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I have no idea.
I have no need for it play imports or back ups anymore since I got A modded sega Saturn early this year
It just serves for being a ram cart, memory cart, and ar code thing now.
Only thing I heard was the ram being useable so far but that was like maybe at the beginning of the year as well too
MikeHattsu
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Looks like AR codes are coming soon:
http://ppcenter.webou.net/devblog/article/108/crc-merge-done.html
sixteen-bit
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I should look into Psuedo Saturn. I only have my JP Saturn hooked up at the moment, and it limits my access to my western library except for the very few multiregion games like Dark Savior
sixteen-bit
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Really? I always thought it was a one-way thing (NA -> JP), It works on JP systems too?
MikeHattsu
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It works on all systems worldwide*
*unless you got some kind of exotic model without a cart slot
Shadow Hog
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Pretty much a straight upgrade, frankly. Only real downer are the added load times, as sixteen-bit noted, though I don't think they're too unbearable.
Unlike sixteen-bit, though, I much prefer the Jacques soundtrack to the Senoue/Maeda one (though Maeda's half of the OST is still really good! ...as well as the two of Senoue's tracks that wound up in Adventure for some reason).
Laevateinn
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I love everything by Richard Jacques. Sega had the best stable of musical talent.