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)

if your computer is low 3ghz your only option is yabause/yaba sanshiro

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

 

[Spike's iconSpike]

HLE Bios isn't perfect.
Might be worth investing 5 minutes into setting it up.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

I use RetroArch Yabause, for some reason I can never get Mednafen to work on it. Downside is that Sakura Wars crashes after Chapter 1

 

[Bakuma1997]

I use Emuhawk, it's not as precise (Some games gets an aneurism with the transparency, especialy heavy ones like Princess Crown) but is the only one that doesn't play at 60 minutes per frame

That said, you need to find the BIOS by yourself

 

[Fray Guillermo]

Still it'd be great to have a Duckstation-style Saturn emulator

I wish every emulator had the same interface as Duck and pcsx2

 

[kingofdragons]

I use Emuhawk, it's not as precise (Some games gets an aneurism with the transparency, especialy heavy ones like Princess Crown) but is the only one that doesn't play at 60 minutes per frame

That said, you need to find the BIOS by yourself

didn't we have a bios collection for almost all systems right here?

 

[Spike's iconSpike]

Still do.

 

[HTBandicoot]

Open Emu is pretty simple. You just have to move over a few bio files, but after that it will run Saturn games. It’s the easiest option I’ve found.

 

[Adrastia]

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

I've always used it but I would like to try something else. However, I'm using a potatotop that can barely do Dreamcast emulation. NullDC is the only one I can get to work after tons of fiddling. So many of the newer emulators do not like to run. I can't do Vita at all. I can do a lot of PSP games. But some lag badly in full screen. Shattered Memories glitches like nightmare fuel. Everything was distorted. In fact, it's what prompted me to mod my PSP. I just need a new battery.

Getting back to Saturn, I tried Yabause many years ago. Back then it had some known issue with the world map for Albert Odyssey. It would be rendered as eye bleeding nuclear yellow. I think it had something to do with the cloud overlay. But I stubbornly refused to switch back to SSF and sallied forth. I finished the whole game like that.

I had another issue with Magic Knight Rayearth. One of the dungeons would not render correctly so I ended up going back to SSF. This was a really long time ago. Maybe 15 years. I'm sure those issues have long since been fixed. But Yabause in its current form does not work for me. I'm not sure why. It just doesn't.

 

[bjork]

I remember several years ago, one of the things with SSF was that it couldn't run Panzer Dragoon Saga properly when you came to the disc swap parts, but somehow it would work if you played the PAL version? No idea if that's still an issue or not, but I would like to replay PDS at some point in a way that actually lets me finish it.

 

[UnDubious]

I remember several years ago, one of the things with SSF was that it couldn't run Panzer Dragoon Saga properly when you came to the disc swap parts, but somehow it would work if you played the PAL version? No idea if that's still an issue or not, but I would like to replay PDS at some point in a way that actually lets me finish it.

I beat it using it. I think you had to turn Perfect Synchro on, though. But I don't remember any disc swapping issue.

 

[groundbeef]

Retroarch cores (Beetle, Kronos, Yaba Sanshiro). Beetle is the way to go overall. Beetle is Mednafen I believe.

 

[loopy]

Still do.

I think the bios downloads are broken on the repo

 

[thecrow2313]

I think the bios downloads are broken on the repo

Bios downloads are working just fine