Sega PC

[Ezri_Muldoon]

Now here's a minor obsession of mine. Sega PC titles.

Some are well known, Daytona USA, Panzer Dragoon, Enemy Zero, House/Typing of the Dead, Virtua Cop, Sega Rally, Sonic CD.
And surpassingly most will still run on Windows 7/10 machines in software mode.

But how about Hundred Swords?

A Japanese exclusive Dreamcast game that received an English PC Port

Or the fact every mainline Sega hardware exclusive Sakura Wars title has sneaky PC Port

Does any one know of any other under the radar PC Ports of classic Sega games?
Or used to play any growing up?

 

[psvitaforever]

I owned a physical copy of Hundred Swords for PC Never beat the last mission and I don't remember the plot at all, but I remember I loved it while playing! I think it's a very obscure game here, because on YouTube there's almost no video about it.

 

[Megazao]

You forgot the Best Game Of All Time

 

[Ezri_Muldoon]

You forgot the Best Game Of All Time

Truly the greatest deal in gaming history

 

[sunofpearl89]

The PC versions of Sonic 3D Blast, Sonic CD, and Sonic R were some of my first gaming experiences as a little kid.

 

[Ikagura]

This

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I owned Virtua Cop and Sonic R, but I remember how hellish to run some of the others were, particularly Panzer Dragoon.

 

[Clippy]

Fun fact about Sakura Wars. PC ports of the first 2 games got official Russian localizations. They didn't bother translating them to English but Russian was A-OK. I already had a beef with Sega over them not bringing the games to the West but when I found about this I think I legit popped a vein.

 

[fake-kun]

Fun fact about Sakura Wars. PC ports of the first 2 games got official Russian localizations. They didn't bother translating them to English but Russian was A-OK. I already had a beef with Sega over them not bringing the games to the West but when I found about this I think I legit popped a vein.

To be fair, Russians fricking love Sega (mostly for Sonic, but still).

 

[ThunderBoy]

 

[Ikagura]

Well, the only downside is that you need to apply some patches for most of them.


Also too bad House of the Dead PC is a port of the Saturn game rather than the Arcade version.

 

[Zerpina]

Oooo i saw this and thought you meant the SEGA Tera Drive
my bad XD

 

[stealthRUSH]

I owned/own Hundred Swords, Sonic R, and Sonic & Knuckles Collection on PC.

Bought HS on a whim at Toys'R Us since the front and back boxart captivated me. A 3D RPG that plays like a RTS, I enjoyed the character artwork, objectives, and overall gameplay- but I never finished it. I remember being confused whether or not it offered an online mode looking back now it did have LAN options.

Despite owning a Sega Saturn back in '96 and reading previews, reviews on SR I never found a copy in the wild on the system. Until coming across the PC version, which is hard to miss since they came in large boxes. I played this more than HS, once becoming familiar with the controls I thought it was truly a fun game- from the soundtrack, characters/hidden characters, graphics, courses. Another game that featured LAN multiplayer I never tried.

S&KC I bought on sale since I was a Nintendo kid early on (NES/GB/SNES) and my first SEGA home console would be Saturn- the only time I played Genesis was at friends home (Gunstar Heroes, Sonic the Hedgehog, Dynamite Headdy) was a good deal at the time, and think it's a decent bundle today.

 

[Jeanfranc]

I own the pc port of Puyo Puyo Fever, though I only bought it because of the included usb saturn controller

 

[groundbeef]

Sega Rally 2. I just made a repack of it a few months ago. It is also available on archive.org under the 25th Anniversary. There is a very good guide online to make the game very playable with or without bezel artwork.

 

[Kamako]

Pretty sure I still own physical PC ports of Panzer Dragoon and Sonic 3D, not too familiar with many others tho! Intriguing...

 

[Jeff]

 

[Kamako]

Ahh yeah, found 'em
As a kid I never recognized the SEGAPC logo and always went straight to the EXPLOSIV branding

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's iconTamagotchiTamaHero24]

I'm sure it's been said, but Sonic R got a PC release that the Gems Collection version is derived from. Missing several things from the Saturn version, but has its own options! It can be modded nowadays to run without the disc, have the Saturn effects, have tighter controls, all sorts!

Why choose which version to play when you can just mod and win?

*I say this, buying a Saturn copy instead of PC because I'm a stupid collector gremlin*

 

[Ikagura]

Ahh yeah, found 'em
As a kid I never recognized the SEGAPC logo and always went straight to the EXPLOSIV branding

Is this the European label?

I own some of these games btw. Sonic Adventure, Sonic & Knuckles Collection, Sonic 3D Flickies Island, The House of the Dead 2 and Panzer Dragoon.

 

[Ikagura]

Something I've always felt it was weird is how Sega ported Sonic 3 and Knuckles Collection in 1997 with MIDI musics (they're not great but not that awful either) whereas Sonic CD and Sonic 3D Blast/Flickies' Island got proper MP3.

Some theorised that it was because of copyright issues that they used the Prototype music instead of the ones we heard on the Genesis for three levels, Knuckles and the ending themes of the Standalone Sonic 3.

A small hypothesis from me is that the team behind that port just ended up rushing it so they didn't bother making MP3s and used the midi tables of the prototype version but nobody could be ever sure.

On a side note, Sonic 3D Blast was named both 3D Blast and Flickies' Island in the executable while they've also decided to use the Saturn version as the basis for the visuals and soundtrack instead of the original Genesis one (minus some visuals like the fog in Rusty Ruins and using a completely original half-pipe special stage instead of the Saturn one made by the Sonic Team).

While I have a love-hate relationship with half-pipes in the franchise (thank you Sonic 2) I found that the Saturn ones were arguably some of the best next to Colours DS':

But alas, because of the transparencies and other effects on the Saturn they've decided to make something much inferior (at least they're really easy) and closer to the Genesis ones (with a 2D Sonic sprite).

 

[dr grim]

still have my virtua fighter for PC somewhere !

 

[VidiyaGaemer]

I grew up with Sonic and Knuckles Collection, and still replay it to this day! It's one of the first things I do on a new Windows version, check if it's still playable. As of Win11, it is recommended to use the Sega PC Reloaded to get it optimal once more. It also patches Sonic CD, Echo the Dolphin, and Sonic 3D Blast PC versions.

 

[Ikagura]

still have my virtua fighter for PC somewhere !

I would love to get the full collection. Even if it's the Xplosiv re-release from the 2000's.

I grew up with Sonic and Knuckles Collection, and still replay it to this day! It's one of the first things I do on a new Windows version, check if it's still playable. As of Win11, it is recommended to use the Sega PC Reloaded to get it optimal once more. It also patches Sonic CD, Echo the Dolphin, and Sonic 3D Blast PC versions.

Objectively speaking in the 2020's there's Sonic Classic Collection on a Genesis emulator or Sonic 3 AIR but I enjoy that one game because it's a nice relic of an older era where Sega were still producing console hardware, Arcade games and PC ports (which were the three major sides of gaming before Arcade faded out in favour of mobile phone gaming).

Bless the fans btw, it's how I managed to do Sonic 3D Blast, Sonic R and Sonic CD with improvements.