Sega Saturn Love

I've read lots of reviews on how Symphony of the Night and Doom on Saturn had slow down. My solution to this was to slap in a 1 meg or 4 meg cart. I love my Saturn, have it hooked up to my hdtv, and realise it was ahead of its time with 2 processors. Just look at the leaked Saturn Shenmue video and you'll realise, the problem was never the hardware, it was sloppy programing. What it accomplised with Shenmue, Playstation one could never do (facial expressions, the amount of detail, and complete 3d world). I've played every version os Sotn and Saturn is the best with all the extras plus the six button controller.

Are there any more Saturn lovers out there?

You can't just insert a RAM cart to eliminate slowdown or improve performance in games. It doesn't work like that. Outside of minor exceptions, games that Support RAM carts won't even boot without the proper RAM cart inserted. You can't also use a 4MB cart for games that require a 1MB one.

In the case of Dracula X. The slowdown and lack of transparency effects was because of a very poor translation work by Konami Nagoya.There was really no need to use a RAM cart to make the game superior to the Playstation version. But Konami Nagoya opted instead by using the original Playstation code for porting the game to the Saturn, and so they didn't took advantage of the vastly superior Saturn 2D capabilities.

Also the Shenmue Saturn version video wasn't leaked. It came as an extra with Shenmue II on the Dreamcast and Xbox.

The Saturn was about Segata Sanshiro and Dragon Force.

Two great things that didn't go together, but were so classy that they have never been replicated.

Society would benefit by the return of both.

i think the saturn was good, i recently got one i own 4 games i found one today lol and it was need for speed 1 , i was shocked actually, it only costed me 2 and change, they had 1 more game i didnt already have that was madden 97 , i thinik i should have grabed it ,

its hard to come by these days,

for what i have, im impressed, though i wished they would still sell all the old stuff,

alot of the older games are funner then the current ones, i can guarantee you that if this gen were to end riht now this would be the worst lol ,

You can't just insert a RAM cart to eliminate slowdown or improve performance in games. It doesn't work like that. Outside of minor exceptions, games that Support RAM carts won't even boot without the proper RAM cart inserted. You can't also use a 4MB cart for games that require a 1MB one.

In the case of Dracula X. The slowdown and lack of transparency effects was because of a very poor translation work by Konami Nagoya.There was really no need to use a RAM cart to make the game superior to the Playstation version. But Konami Nagoya opted instead by using the original Playstation code for porting the game to the Saturn, and so they didn't took advantage of the vastly superior Saturn 2D capabilities.

Also the Shenmue Saturn version video wasn't leaked. It came as an extra with Shenmue II on the Dreamcast and Xbox.

Panzer_Zwei

The ram cart worked for me. I know it wont work for every game, but you never know. Doom and SOTN run better for me on my saturn with the cart in. I'm happy :-)

[QUOTE="Panzer_Zwei"]

You can't just insert a RAM cart to eliminate slowdown or improve performance in games. It doesn't work like that. Outside of minor exceptions, games that Support RAM carts won't even boot without the proper RAM cart inserted. You can't also use a 4MB cart for games that require a 1MB one.

In the case of Dracula X. The slowdown and lack of transparency effects was because of a very poor translation work by Konami Nagoya.There was really no need to use a RAM cart to make the game superior to the Playstation version. But Konami Nagoya opted instead by using the original Playstation code for porting the game to the Saturn, and so they didn't took advantage of the vastly superior Saturn 2D capabilities.

Also the Shenmue Saturn version video wasn't leaked. It came as an extra with Shenmue II on the Dreamcast and Xbox.

geodoc

The ram cart worked for me. I know it wont work for every game, but you never know. Doom and SOTN run better for me on my saturn with the cart in. I'm happy :-)

That's like saying FMVs in games will look better with a MPEG cart inserted, it makes no sense.

None of those games support any RAM cart. The RAM cart wasn't even released overseas for it to be supported by any western games like Doom.

Furthermore, the slowdown and load times in the Saturn version of Dracula X are design flaws imbued in the game's code. It is not something that you could improve or fix with anything.

You can't just insert a RAM cart to eliminate slowdown or improve performance in games. It doesn't work like that. Outside of minor exceptions, games that Support RAM carts won't even boot without the proper RAM cart inserted. You can't also use a 4MB cart for games that require a 1MB one.

In the case of Dracula X. The slowdown and lack of transparency effects was because of a very poor translation work by Konami Nagoya.There was really no need to use a RAM cart to make the game superior to the Playstation version. But Konami Nagoya opted instead by using the original Playstation code for porting the game to the Saturn, and so they didn't took advantage of the vastly superior Saturn 2D capabilities.

Also the Shenmue Saturn version video wasn't leaked. It came as an extra with Shenmue II on the Dreamcast and Xbox.

Panzer_Zwei

Uh...wasn't the game only released in Japan? I'm guessing you mean translation to the Saturn, in which case you should use the word transition. If not, be prepared to have people get pissed at you, thinking that SotN was released in America for the Saturn :P.

[QUOTE="Panzer_Zwei"]

You can't just insert a RAM cart to eliminate slowdown or improve performance in games. It doesn't work like that. Outside of minor exceptions, games that Support RAM carts won't even boot without the proper RAM cart inserted. You can't also use a 4MB cart for games that require a 1MB one.

In the case of Dracula X. The slowdown and lack of transparency effects was because of a very poor translation work by Konami Nagoya.There was really no need to use a RAM cart to make the game superior to the Playstation version. But Konami Nagoya opted instead by using the original Playstation code for porting the game to the Saturn, and so they didn't took advantage of the vastly superior Saturn 2D capabilities.

Also the Shenmue Saturn version video wasn't leaked. It came as an extra with Shenmue II on the Dreamcast and Xbox.

Video_Game_King

Uh...wasn't the game only released in Japan? I'm guessing you mean translation to the Saturn, in which case you should use the word transition. If not, be prepared to have people get pissed at you, thinking that SotN was released in America for the Saturn :P.

I doubt anyone would think that, A game like that would had been noticed by everybody if it had been localized.Panzer_Zwei

I don't know, there are some stupid f'ing gamers out there. Ever been to System Wars :P?

[QUOTE="Panzer_Zwei"]I doubt anyone would think that, A game like that would had been noticed by everybody if it had been localized.Video_Game_King

I don't know, there are some stupid f'ing gamers out there. Ever been to System Wars :P?

I've read lots of reviews on how Symphony of the Night and Doom on Saturn had slow down. My solution to this was to slap in a 1 meg or 4 meg cart. I love my Saturn, have it hooked up to my hdtv, and realise it was ahead of its time with 2 processors. Just look at the leaked Saturn Shenmue video and you'll realise, the problem was never the hardware, it was sloppy programing. What it accomplised with Shenmue, Playstation one could never do (facial expressions, the amount of detail, and complete 3d world). I've played every version os Sotn and Saturn is the best with all the extras plus the six button controller.

Are there any more Saturn lovers out there?

[QUOTE="geodoc"][QUOTE="Panzer_Zwei"]

You can't just insert a RAM cart to eliminate slowdown or improve performance in games. It doesn't work like that. Outside of minor exceptions, games that Support RAM carts won't even boot without the proper RAM cart inserted. You can't also use a 4MB cart for games that require a 1MB one.

In the case of Dracula X. The slowdown and lack of transparency effects was because of a very poor translation work by Konami Nagoya.There was really no need to use a RAM cart to make the game superior to the Playstation version. But Konami Nagoya opted instead by using the original Playstation code for porting the game to the Saturn, and so they didn't took advantage of the vastly superior Saturn 2D capabilities.

Also the Shenmue Saturn version video wasn't leaked. It came as an extra with Shenmue II on the Dreamcast and Xbox.

Panzer_Zwei

The ram cart worked for me. I know it wont work for every game, but you never know. Doom and SOTN run better for me on my saturn with the cart in. I'm happy :-)

That's like saying FMVs in games will look better with a MPEG cart inserted, it makes no sense.

None of those games support any RAM cart. The RAM cart wasn't even released overseas for it to be supported by any western games like Doom.

Furthermore, the slowdown and load times in the Saturn version of Dracula X are design flaws imbued in the game's code. It is not something that you could improve or fix with anything.

Whatever man.  Let's get back to the topic, Saturn Love baby.  VF2, Fighters Megamix, Duke Nukem, and the superb Powerslave!

Panzer Dragoon Saga baby. Made good money off that sucker too.

man i kinda miss my saturn. had every light gun game made for it, even put lazer sites on the guns. lol

Symphony of the Night and Duke Nukem on Xbox Live prompted me to hook up my Saturn, and I'm lovin it! They don't make games like that anymore.