Saturn Saturn appreciation thread

[nobitakun]

I don't care it's been already posted:

My best Saturn game of all time by far :D

 

[Varyag]

i can't tell if it has been posted elswhere on here, but i liked bumping into this article on bluesky the other day: https://www.pastemagazine.com/games/sega/12-sega-saturn-games-that-need-to-be-re-released

a couple here i had never heard of--Shinrei Jusatsushi Tarōmaru for example sounds super interesting! this article also got me to boot up Bulk Slash this morning, which I am loving

whoa, I already like many titles on the Saturn, and got many recommendations from friends and such for games to have in my digital collection, but there's some gems here that I hadn't even considered yet! thanks for sharing

 

[solnK!]

Playing Panzer Dragoon Saga rn.
It´s one of the best games I have ever played.

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

Playing Panzer Dragoon Saga rn.
It´s one of the best games I have ever played.

Right there with you right now.

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Named my dragon off the best Dragoon from another RPG series…

 

[solnK!]

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Named my dragon off the best Dragoon from another RPG series…

That photo is so beautiful
I might be wrong but i think you´re talking about Freya from FFIX, another Goty for me.

 

[tryrushdeppy3]

Tonight I am playing:

 

[Geocide]

Back around 1996 or so, I got a chance to play on a Saturn that a buddy of my oldest brother allowed me to borrow for a week (I was rather young). I don't have many memories of the games I played, but I do remember playing Panzer Dragoon and flying around in the sky. I regretted never playing it much, but I always thought the 3D pad was so cool.

Fast forward to about 2018 and I obtained a Saturn of my own and really started to dive deep into the library the Saturn offered. I always knew that the Saturn failed super hard in the USA, and was gone in a blip (same with the Dreamcasts, but I was able to get one of those a few years after it came out for my birthday, at least), so I never had much experience beyond the little bit I played when I was much younger.

The Saturn library, imho, is one of the most underrated home console libraries of any console I've played thus far, and there are a TON of absolute BANGERS on it, as well. Arcade perfect ports (which is a big deal, especially for the shmups like Batsugun, DonPachi, and DoDonPachi), and quirky, yet interesting and unique games that are still only on the Saturn.

Currently, I have mine installed with a Fenrir ODE (the still working optical drive is safely put away because those suckers are actually the main reason why Saturn consoles cost so much second hand) with a bunch of games on the sd card. One of my goals once I get another job is to actually sit down and finally play Grandia, as well as grinding out Batsugun since I need to get better at shmups again. All on a 32" Sony CRT.

I'm still debating whether to get an S-video cable from Insurrection Industries for dat crispness (since I play my PS2 and Wii with component cables on it as well), or keep using Composite since I do like the idea of playing games as close to how they were when released. The dithering techniques used on the Saturn is quite interesting, and I really do love the effects, personally.

The Sega Saturn has an amazing library with a lot of sleeper hits, and it's no wonder that it lasted so long in Japan, while having over 1100 games made on it.

 

[nobitakun]

I'm still debating whether to get an S-video cable from Insurrection Industries for dat crispness (since I play my PS2 and Wii with component cables on it as well), or keep using Composite since I do like the idea of playing games as close to how they were when released. The dithering techniques used on the Saturn is quite interesting, and I really do love the effects, personally.

But don't get S-Video cables, use SCART, they are superior. I think I only played Famicom and Super Famicom with composite cable because I was very young and I didnt know anything about modding, but the rest of the consoles, specially starting from PS1, everything was SCART.

I remember buying my first PS1 and keeping it a day without using it until I got the SCART cable. It is like night and day in comparison with the one that comes with the console.

Get tons of SCART cables from Aliexpress, I've got for Saturn, PS1/PS2, Dreamcast and Gamecube and all of them work very good. I remember buying one cable like 15 years ago, but it was horrible, I had to solder a capacitor to make it true SCART, it was very low quality, but 3 times cheaper in comparison to the cables I could get at stores at that time.