Help easiest way to emulate sega saturn?

[prettyhatemachine]

been wanting to play the english patch of the saturn mobile suit gundam game, i've never emulated the saturn before and it seems more intimidating compared to other consoles ive emulated

 

[Yuki Senoue]

There's a new saturn emulator in town...

Releases · StrikerX3/Ymir

Sega Saturn emulator. Contribute to StrikerX3/Ymir development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

Still early but very promising, the interface looks a lot like standalone Flycast.

Anyways, I use Beetle Saturn Core in RAlibreto when things don't work in Ymir:

Releases · RetroAchievements/RALibretro

RALibretro is a multi-emulator used to develop RetroAchievements. - RetroAchievements/RALibretro

github.com

 

[MajesticSiN]

This is what I use

Mednafen - Multi-system Emulator

 

[UnDubious]

Mednafen is really good for the Saturn, but its interface is a little troublesome. What I recommend is to grab a UI, then just google how to change the settings. You'll find guides easily, it's not really that complicated to do, just annoying the first time. Once you're set up it's not hard to use. Still it'd be great to have a Duckstation-style Saturn emulator.

 

[Spike's iconSpike]

I don't know if the easiest. But i wrote this guide some time ago.

 

[bjork]

Is SSF frowned upon as far as Saturn emulation goes? That's what I've used forever.

 

[What's His Face]

I picked-up as Saroo on the cheap recently. Works very well, though just like a regular Action Reply you can't push it in all the way or the system won't recognize it.

 

[Yuki Senoue]

Is SSF frowned upon as far as Saturn emulation goes? That's what I've used forever.

It have too much input lag for my tastes... if even a knuckle-head like me can notice, you know it's bad...

 

[UnDubious]

Is SSF frowned upon as far as Saturn emulation goes? That's what I've used forever.

It's fine with some games, but Mednafen has higher compatibility AFAIK.

 

[loopy]

all things considered, retroarch is probably the easiest way to emulate saturn.
just my opinion

 

[Bonkers225]

Is SSF frowned upon as far as Saturn emulation goes? That's what I've used forever.

Nah. Just old at this point. Kind of like ZSNES.

 

[mangamannn]

Nope easy is this:

NOVA is more fridenly, download, run emultor, open iso and play the game (no need for bios/firmware)

https://www.patreon.com/posts/nova-v0-7-0-118648844