The Sega Saturn vs The Arcade - Part 2
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- We take a look at 8 more arcade games that were brought home to the Sega Saturn during its life.
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Opening "Sega" jingle is from Astal for the Sega Saturn.
Ending Music during the credits is from Batman for the Sega Genesis.
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Episode Notes:
1. Saturn footage captured on real hardware.
2. Arcade footage captured via MAME(at original resolutions) and Nebula Model 2 at the closest original resolution. (640x480 for Model 2)
3. I already have a part 3 in the works. Let me know what games you'd like to see!
4. Opening monologue music is from Virtua Cop. Ending monologue tunes lifted from Virtual On.
5. The last game is Cyberbots. During the edit I stripped out the part where I named it.
6. If you'd like to see Part 1, check it out here:
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Thank you. Appreciate the comment.
@@SegaLordX yeah you have great content sir
Yes, this and Game Sack will get my watch and like no matter the topic.
I agree that this is a top notch channel, but I'm curious on what basis would you say that he's "the best"? To be clear, I'm aware that that's one of those "impossible arguments" that can't actually have an answer due to its inherently subjective nature. He's far from the most in-depth (My Life in Gaming, Digital Foundry, Square Eyed Jak, so so many are much more in depth). I'm sure you'll agree that this isn't the "funniest" gaming channel (Larry Bundy Jr and Square Eyed Jak and Rerez and many others make humor a main part of the content, unlike SegaLord). What's left? Sure, it's very entertaining, but if your criteria is "the one that entertains me the most", I hope you are aware of how divisive that is. That's the can of worms you open when you state extremely generalized opinions like that. At the end of the day though, I know you're just sharing your opinion, but so am I, and I'm pointing out that the reasons you are using to make this your favorite gaming channel are likely very good reasons that this is NOT the best gaming channel. That's the magic of the internet though, there doesn't HAVE to be a "best channel". A big part of the problem with giving compliments in the way you have is the diversity of gamers, after all, and that's actually a good thing. We shouldn't have to agree on what is a "best gaming channel" because different channels are better for different people. Retro gaming is such broad topic anyway. Heck, if you're really a gaming enthusiast, your favorite retro gaming channel might be modders like Voultar and not even a "retrospective" channel like this.
@@awesomeferretwell he’s extremely consistent in both quality and quantity of his content, he manages to include a lot of information about the games and consoles and such while also maintaining a high entertainment value with his sense of humor and presentation quality.
A buddy of mine had some Japanese relatives and they brought their Saturn back in the day stateside and I happen to get a chance to play it. King of fighters 95 blew my mind. At the time the best looking game I played was probably super Street fighter II on the Genesis
I had KOF 95 with the cart and an arcade stick and Deep Fear!
I picked up a Japanese Saturn and KOF95, with cart, in a Japanese bargain bin in 06. I was a poor student in Kyoto and a Saturn was the only game console I could afford since many games sold for just ¥100 each. But damn it was awesome. The guy next door had a PS2, but I got just as many over to my dorm room to play Saturn as he did to play PS2.
@@mscottjohnson3424 They sell for more now on ebay.
@@RealAlphaDrum The funny thing is now that you mention that, is a cvg magazine in 99' said kof looked like a megadrive game but megadrive wouldn't be able to handle KoF.
I played it on Snes. Saturn is ok but not Reliable. I had a Saturn in the 90s i like plauing bomberman. But adapter controles and console was not reliable. Snes was always Reliable. Always work. I only changed the. Adapter once
Darius Gaiden is by far my favorite Darius game ever.
I'd agree with that. It's got a pick up and play fun factor the others don't have. You don't need to be a shoot'em up God to beat it either.
@@SegaLordX Please can you and Joe do a casual "fireside chat" video on a random Saturn topic like Beat em ups or Shoot me ups? We'd love it.
@@_TheElMan Sega Sack
It is either that or the 1997 sequel. If you haven't tried it give it a go! You won't regret it
@@Andrea-di2ew I've tried it. Heck I own it. Prefer Gaiden.
All the great SNK conversions almost made The Saturn look like an alternate Neo Geo CD, and with much better loading times to boot. 😄
There were a few poor Neo conversions but many were really solid. Especially for the time.
@@SegaLordX 95 for saturn is more balanced game. best port in all platforms
Rugal has to be the cheapest and most difficult end boss in any game I ever played....I don't think I ever beat him! Great game though.
@@liambyrne3488 ALL of the SNK fighting game bosses were the cheapest and most difficult end bosses...
@@liambyrne3488 Rugal forces you to learn how to use the dodge mechanic in order to avoid taking too much damage.
Always admired Saturn's arcade ports.
That name. Lol
@Røyål Læg3nd Same here, all the 3D hype back then wasn't impressing me so I stuck with Saturn because of the arcade games it was getting and other 2D games coming to it and I'm still glad I did after all this time.
Me and my mates used to laugh our asses off playing Crypt Killer. It was so bad, but there's a actually good game under it. It was the squinty eyed guide between levels used to send us into fits of laughter.
Elevator Action Returns is an amazing arcade game. Unfortunately, the Saturn version is wicked expensive. But I recommend people play it “any way they can.”
My favourite game on the platform. Play it regularly to this day.
I find you need to say that with many Saturn games these days.
@@SegaLordX
Yep, they are literally crazy expensive these days. I don't understand why Sega can't release at least the arcade versions jeez.
(I mean it is Sega so I kind of know why but still)
I loved it so much in the arcade. I would have died to have it on my Saturn back in the day.
@@deathisaprimitiveconcept I've never owned a Saturn. Just emulate it.
*Like crappy developers like Akklaim...*
That hurts Sega Lord....take it back. 😭
I wonder if anyone from the homebrew community attempted a homebrewed version of cryptic killer for the Sega Saturn that recembles the arcade version as close as the Sega Saturn will allow?
Not worth it when the game is not good
I remember going into electronics boutique wanting to buy X-Men v Street Fighter for the PlayStation and the guy behind the counter told me that he you should get the Saturn version which is better. But then I was a PlayStation card and it really wasn’t much of the Saturn that really appeal to me but I went ahead and bought it anyway a used Saturn, ram cart and a copy X-men v Street Fighter when electronics boutique had sold Japanese games in store. When I played it at home I was blown away as it was damn near arcade perfect. I was so impressed that I return do you Saturn bought it new that came with three games, two extra controllers, the multi tap, and I bought Saturn Bomberman. A month after that I bought radiant silver gun, and Dragon Ball Z legends. I’ve been a Sega fan since…
There's a hack of King of fighters 95 that works with the 4 MB RAM cart. I've tried it under emulation and it's pretty amazing with almost non-existent load times
Came here to chime in with this info as well. Can confirm it works great via my Satiator and my OEM 4MB RAM cart, haven’t tried it with my Action Replay but I assume that works as well. There is also a patch for the Ultraman game that afaik is the only other dedicated ROM cart game.
I was unaware of this. Thanks for the info. I’ll give it a go.
@@SegaLordX I did a short video on the hack that makes the game playable without the rom cart. load times are still the same and I noticed no problems while playing for a long time.
Your channel is my absolute favorite! That warm comforting feeling I get from actually playing these games is also felt when I binge your videos. Thank you!
Sega lord intro teleports me back in time, this channel is magic
@Røyål Læg3nd Agreed 100%
Thank you. I really try to keep it feeling like something you would have seen in the 80s/90s. It just isn’t nostalgia. That was truly my favorite time as a gamer.
@@SegaLordX Same, it was my favorite time for entertainment in general. Movies, music, tv and gaming were just so amazing.
@@SegaLordX I agree about it not being nostalgia. Granted, our tastes were shaped by what we played growing up, but many people in that position have accepted modern gaming. I'm not trying to relive a feeling. I simply prefer game design from that time period, when games were games and the main objective was fun.
I wish Cyberbots' console ports got English releases, because while the Arcade original is, the console versions also added new content like a mech based on Akuma, and 3 new pilots (who were already in the Arcade game as NPCs but now have their own stories). I don't think any of that is in the recent Capcom Arcade collection either.
Me: Watches Sega Lord X video.
Retroarch: I am ready.
This time I will try Vulcan for Saturn emulation. I wonder how it will work.
I never owned a Saturn back in the day, since last year i now own 2 fully modded Saturns and play a tonne of classic schmups on them with none of the annoying always online bs currently plaguing modern games. Thanks Sega Lord.
Bro same here! I’m literally playing nonstop.
Part 3 Hyper Duel: A perfect and much improved arcade port in saturn mode
The Saturn port of Cyberbots is the definitive version IMO because of the additional content, most notably the extra playable characters. Princess Devilotte and her Super-8 octopus mech is my favorite but fans are probably most familiar with Mecha Akuma/Gouki.
Agreed, I have a cps2 board flashed with all the games on it and yet I still go back and play the Saturn port over the arcade. The same can be said about sf alpha 2, gold and alpha 3 on the Saturn
SNK's fighting games are...meh. I like Capcom better when it comes to 2D fighting games.
I was not impressed with Crypt Killer's "superior" PS1 port. Very dated visuals for when the game was released.
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14:36 you forgot to mention the name of the game. It looks like the same IP as Armored Warriors, the Capcom beat em up.
Indeed I did. Sorry for that. It’s Cyberbots.
25 years later and Crypt Killer makes millions rebranded as Minecraft!!!
Night Striker S is everything my imagination loves
Joe from GameSack named dropped you in a recent vid so I looked you up. I'm glad I did. This is a quality channel and I'm enjoying watching through your sizeable backlog!
Awesome, thank you for watching.
Saturn always excelled with its arcade ports, especially the 2D ones from Capcom and SNK. Can't wait for the 3d part!
I made this game similar to astall kinda but he double jump and triple jump but I lost the game that computer got sold for drugs
Darius Gaiden & Elevator Action Returns, 2 truly memorable games which are also included in the Taito Legends 2 compilation for PS2 & XBOX, mind you the emulation on that compilation probably doesn't hold a candle to these Saturn conversions.
Darius gaiden is one of my favoite shmup games of all times.
Pro tip: skip Fighting Vipers and get Fighters Megamix instead
I bought a Saturn for the arcade ports. I don't have a huge number of titles (it's in the 40's), but the overwhelming majority of them are arcade conversions.
I lived for arcade ports during its life. It’s mostly what I played.
I remember the day that the MK2 port was released in the stores such as Electronic Boutique. It was such a disappointment for something that should have been more than an Arcade perfect conversion. If they worked hard to make the game arcade perfect and packaged in MK1, it would have sold aplenty even though it arrived well after the 16-bit releases. If I remember, the only MK I purchased on the Sega Saturn was Ultimate MK3, which was a spectacular conversation (perfect even). It was so good that if you were excellent on the Saturn version, you could easily conquer the arcade version as well.
i love crypt killer. it might be a little ugly but to me was still fun. i love light gun games a ton and was just playing it a few days ago.
It’s a great 2 player game. It just looks terrible.
Really Acclaim,Arena,Probe.?.Yall couldnt get you shit together for MK2 three generational spanning freaking times?? It s just Mortal Kombat II ya slackers!
Sculptured is goat when it comes to 2D mortal kombat ports. Probe even butchered ps1 port as well. I wish mk2 used rom and cd port combo.
@@maroon9273 The only thing i like about say mega drive and 32x MK 2 versions were how smooth the resolution of the fighters were compared to MK 1(MD) and even SNES(MK2)has choppy pixilated sprites. Everything else was what these versions lacked. There is just nothing i can form into words for the fumble on Saturn. Probably programming is the likely reason. I like certain games Probe is responsible for too. ALIEN3, DEMOLITION MAN ,Die Hard Trilogy. Their handling of Mortal Kombat kinda ruined my childhood. Especially when Sculptured swooped in and MK 3 on SegaMD was fantastic even to this day on that old bucket of Bolts..They should ve been developing all versions..SmDh .. So yeah totally agree with ya on that. I think all in all the Sega MD versions controlled and felt more like the arcade there. The essence of the arcade was SNES up until 3..
@@Aeon2Flux I will always prefer mk3, trilogy and umk3 over mk1 and mk2 sega ports due to sculpture/eurocom/avalanche. They played and looked better compare to mk1 and mk2. Mk1 and mk2 genesis ports is a eyesore graphically. A lot of dithering, making the graphics to look very grainy all around regardless of resolution. Mk2 32x version has lazy 16-bit background graphics especially goro lair (and the Saturn version is extremely buggy.
I wish they’d do a Saturn mini console
Hopefully with time they will.
dreamcast was the champ when it came to arcade games. mvc2 was played on dreamcast for years in tournament(up until it came to xbla) because of how perfect the port was.
The SS MKII port had slowdown/loading everytime u did a fatality or a special move for the 1st time in a match without mentioning the damn micro-loadings for shang tsung transformations (the bane of every CD based port if i m correct)...gfx were good and quite faithful to the arcade though
Even with just the standard 2mb ram the game should have turned out better than it did with both graphics and sound and the little pauses never should have happened too.
Most buggy arcade fighter game of the 5th gen console era. Hopefully a hacker will fix the Saturn and ps1 ports one day.
Love your stuff. My wife may not be a fan as watching your vids has driven me to repurchase a Saturn and games. All Japanese for cost purposes of course (plus I just had to have that black light gun vs orange). None the less, thanks for all you do. Again, I love your content!
I’m sorry your wife has been less enthusiastic about the channel but I do appreciate you watching!
@@SegaLordX haha, it's all good my friend. She gets it. Just one of those many opposites that makes her and I attract! 👍😁 Have a great evening and thank you again as always for your content!
It would be interested to have a Arcade vs. Dreamcast. I think there's lots of Arcade games that came to the Dreamcast, such as Soul Calibur, NFL Blitz 99 (2000 - home version), Power Stone, etc. That's a lot of work to do the Arcade vs. Dreamcast Chronicles. 😔 I still miss the Sega Dreamcast - so much memories...
I just bought a japanese saturn from ebay, I got rid of my launch day Saturn many years ago which I totally regret. Game prices on ebay are getting stupid now, I just bought the import version of outrun for $65. Rabbit hole indeed!
17:40 History will say that but the futute history, which will include us and the retro gamimg community, will say that the Sega Saturn is an awesome console which was unappreciated during its time but it later gets the love it has. The legacy of it will change in the future.
I never got into Sega Saturn much. I loved Genesis and Game Gear, but PS1 and N64 quickly caught my attention while Saturn was always kind of struggling along in the background.
I had the kof 95 first in the Japanese version, then I bought the European version and it was a real disappointment with the 50hrz limitation.
There is a patch for the kof 95 which allows you to play with a 4mb cartridge ( or an action replay 4mb) instead of the rom cartridge. I do a quick video on my channel this weekend with a versus screen to see if there is any difference in loading times.
You have done as always a great video 👍
I'm a huge Mortal Kombat 2 fan and I was excited when I bought MK2 for
Sega Saturn in 1995 when I was 17! Only to come home disappointed when I found out how bad it sucked balls so much was missing and and I assumed to rather play the Genesis port instead. While the Sega Saturn version of pit fatality looked good... The gameplay was like Silly Putty you gave Mortal Kombat 2 Sega Saturn way more good points and credit for being good then I did. My favorite HomePort is Mortal Kombat 2 Genesis 32x for right now ‼️🙏🏻☯️🧘♂️
14:36 Great video, but I think you forgot to mention the name of the Capcom robot fighting game (I believe it's Cyberbots: Full Metal Madness). Maybe add a list of game in the description so people can play it on MAME. Thanks for your hard work.
I still have Mortal Kombat 2 on the Saturn, and here's an issue that I found with it. Any Fatality that requires you to start holding a button during the fight is impossible to pull off as the timer resets at "Finish Him!" Mileena's man eater (3 seconds) is still possible. Both of Raiden's fatalities (6&8 seconds) or Shang Tsung's Kintaro morph (25 seconds) I've never been able to do.
Stick with the 32x in this case.
Also what's the music name from 17:00 to 18:00? I really like that background music :)
It's from the Virtual On OST from Sega. That game had some great music.
@@SegaLordX Tks :)
@@SegaLordX I finally found the music and I have to say that the music fits well to the near ending of the video :)
Love this channel. You actually informed me of the english translation of Symphony of the Night for Saturn and have turned me onto many great Saturn titles I never would have tried before. Keep up the great work, Sega Lord!
Thank you. Always good to hear someone enjoying Saturn because of me.
Crypt Killer is a fantastic game,that i still play to this day. Yes it doesn’t look good,but that adds uniqueness. Crypt Killer & House Of The Dead sit proudly in my game cabinet today and are played (along with other’s) every time we have a family get together
Man, get you a SO that waxes lyrical about you like Sega Lord X waxes about super scaling games and the injustice that was SEGA's neglect of them.
Where does that intro sample come from?
Also, how about some hardware episodes for Saturn? Maybe a good "goes with" episode. I just bought a Virtua Stick so I'd love to hear what your "must use the Virtua stick for" games.
I never played MK2 Saturn, but I can tell that the AI is completely broken in the Arcade version, it cheats like crazy and yet, you can "cheat" your way too, just jump kick rinse and repeat to beat the whole game.
While the PS version had terrible load times, it DID have the arranged soundtrack which I preferred for KOF95
I would love to have Elevator Action Returns on Saturn. But the price is astronomical right now on eBay. Smh.....
Great 👌 SS game s
Good news, Capcom just announced Capcom Fighting Collection releasing in June for all modern platforms and Cyberbots will be included in the collection.
The Sega Saturn had a one of a kind gaming library.
That it did. So under appreciated by the masses.
@@SegaLordX Because it missed that "next-gen" feeling that PS1 had at the time. Saturn have good games, but most of them look like enhanced 16-bit games or like in this case arcade ports. Main Saturn problem in my opinion was not having enough real 3D games, and that was because of it's complex architecture.
Saturn MK 2 is just too awkward to play because you notice everything that is missing. Plus the awkward loading times pop up all the time.
Saw Mai Shiranui on the thumbnail and I'm like yeah, I'm watching this lol
I wish Sega had ported Outrunners to the Saturn. The Genesis port is below average and way too underpowered but the Saturn could have handled it with ease even on launch. It would have sold well! I prefer it over the original OutRun since there's so much more
Interestingly the Night Strikers arcade does not seem to be doing scaling or if so it's very poor as you can see the buildings on the sides jerking in and out of size, just like the Genesis would do by employing sprites of different sizes. The Saturn does look like it uses proper scaling is much smoother
I had KoF with the rom cart. Sadly, I didn't like the game much at all. I also had KoF97 which is far superior.
The load times in between "each" fight in 3 vs 3 really killed it for me with KoF 95 on the Saturn.
You might not have noticed, but it seems you didn’t actually say the name of “CyberBots”, lol.
No "Toasty!!" yelled in the Saturn version...sacrilege!!
The one I remember best is House of the Dead, while it was a great game it should’ve been so much better on the Saturn.
Virtua Fighter and Daytona USA were near one to one conversions on the Saturn as well! (Insert sarcasm here) 😆😭
It would be awesome if you could do a video on Shinsetsu Samurai Spirits Bushidō Retsuden.
Sorry but the "Night Striker" port looks like ass! Lower resolution and half the frame rate for a game that was 5 years older than the Saturn itself.
House of the dead should of been ported better to the Saturn . Am2 should of done the conversion
Someone can please port Sonic Mania.
Thats a 2d title i would love to play on Saturn.
I would’ve loved of Konami ported GI Joe the arcade to Saturn
I got the Pal version of King of Fighters 95, SO glad they released it over here. Some kid came to my house and asked if I had a NeoGeo when he saw the cart in the Saturn. Also Bought Darius Gaiden the day before buying a Saturn and loved the music.
I was shocked Europe got it and the US didn’t. I mean they had the English version already done.
@@SegaLordX I traded Sonic R for it, In Ireland it was rare but I was crazy for fighting games back then and had to have it.
Thanks dude... Part 3 Final fight revenge,dark legend and Golden axe the duel.
sega lord x you got anything against emulator and roms? since you always say its price. its not like any money goes to the developer by now
You gotta talk about Sega Rally in Part 3!
And Die Hard Arcade!
Saturn rules :)
Nightstriker is my fav super scaler its just so much fun
Yup. One of my favorites as well. Love that soundtrack.
KoF 95 Saturn Port had the PS port over a barrel getting spanks a plenty
in our time at our age, those differences were irrelevant lmao :) but now that we older we can enjoy the tech hurdles
Even though it’s worth a fortune now, the Saturn port of House of the dead was terrible
@Sega Lord X might want to check my channel and see the real version of "Night Striker" The cockpit cabinet is the best. Sadly the game is amazing when it comes to the Arcade. Not so much as a Ported Game. Same can be said about games like "Starblade" etc.
Nothing beat the arcade experience, that's for sure.
Estos carros son más bonitos originales como salieron de fabrica, nada colocarle accesorios de payaso
Sega Rally on the Saturn is one of the few games I truly mastered. I played it so often that I could complete it flawlessly without making a single mistake. This was back in 2003 though and I would probably suck at it now.
Time has a way of being cruel to your skills.
Amusingly years later I found out that my best time would have been a world record at the time I got it, and one of the fastest in general, in Sega Rally. We didn't have the internet back then when I was young, so I had no idea my crazy obsession with trying to go faster and faster had led me that far until a long time later. I would play the same track for hours non-stop.
What where the big differences in KOF 95 Saturn vs PS1? the only thing I could find was the PS1 music was better & some minor BG frames missing. Was it missing stages or animation? didn't see any animation changes on the main characters.i
Biggest differences were much longer load times and tons of animation cuts in the Playstation release(both backgrounds and fighters). Both versions use the arranged soundtrack from the Neo CD release so I'm not sure how the PS1 has better music.
I own The King Of Fighters '96 on PSX horrible
Loved Virtual On, even own a physical copy on PC
Sega Lord are you comparing Saturn game with emulated arcade games?
I like the Saturn port of Gradius II. It's the only one I know of which has continues making it much better than the arcade game.
Cyberbots on saturn was so cool, Shin Mecha Goki
2:56 just a heads up, there is a hack that unlocks this game to let you use any of the 4MB RAM Carts or Action Replay's etc.
Well he said standard ram expansion upgrades, like the 1mb or the 4mb ram cart, but yes the game the work with the action replay cart
Damn, I use to love Akclaim, especially Team Iguana back in the day. I had MK2 on the 32X so I didn't bother with the Saturn version. The 32X MK2 was solid, characters were a bit small for it's time but they were clean. I think the background was the Genesis version with foreground and characters updated using the 32X power. On the Saturn had MK 3 Ultimate which solid besides the mesh transparency on some the characters like Smoke.
DF retro did a deep dive on this. The backgrounds were drawn by the Mega Drive, but because the mega drive wasn’t doing anything else like characters and UI, they were able to use more colours.
They have done a whole breakdown on each 32X game and what was done by the ad on and what was done by the main system. On some games it’s really surprising how little the 32x actually does. Knuckles Chaotix is basically a 16 bit game with the 32 X only doing some Sprite work for scaling effects and the 3D bonus stage.
The videos are super interesting they did.
@@sloppynyuszi I can believe it as the backgrounds appears to have the Genesis limited color capabilities complete with dithering. When you think about the 32X and Genesis graphics processing, it's almost the exact way the Saturn uses VDP1&2. Using emulators you can turn off each VDP and segments of the screen will disappear a lot like the Genesis and 32X. Like I've heard the Saturn 3D hardware was bolted on at the last minute making making a 2D system 3D, again similar to the 32X Genesis. Sega in the 90s were weird with two hardware teams always competing against each other.
@@sloppynyuszi Competition sega had with each other. Made them to lose a lot of money. Sega should've choose either one hardware design for the Saturn (Non-compatible Saturn Project or Backward compitable Saturn Project) or a cleaner/efficient 2D/3D design.
@@maroon9273 Sega is over rated with their hardware. They never implemented tech that could imitate their Arcades properly. The Mega Drive didn’t have any scaling capabilities, and when the Mega CD add on did, no one implemented it. Why wasn’t even one super scaler arcade ported to the Mega CD?
It’s crazy that Sega and Namco basically pioneered the arcades with 3D games and Sega made the Saturn 3D capabilities a last minute thing. Like how do you create Daytona, and not have a home system be able to play a descent home conversion of it. It’s like comparing Master System altered beast to the Arcade.
And when they finally became a third party company they segmented their games across three platforms, so it was impossible to have all the Sega games without owning the 3 main consoles.
They published and developed some of my all time favourite games, but their business strategy made it very hard to stay a Sega fan.
@@hababacon I think as an add on, it’s smart to use a combination of the two systems. I think the 32X is under rated. It’s also a shame the cartridge slot on the Saturn couldn’t play them. It would incentivise more games for it than. It would be the 90s equivalent of the master system card slot, where the smaller games came.
I loved my sega Saturn. I ended rebuying it from a used games store. It’s hard to find affordable games though.
Thats why u make your own at home.
I can't believe you collect shitty Saturn games like Mortal Kombat 2, you are a unique Sega fanboy.
The Saturn is my favorite system so it was only natural to be interested in games like MK2. I always wanted to see how ports faired on it. Sometimes you were rewarded with a great game, and sometimes, well, you got MK2.
Love your vids and this series. 🔥🥳👍
SLX!!!! Thank u, u promised me about ELEVATOR ACTION RETURNS a few months ago and u kept ur promise, what a great guy and what a great channel, the man promises something and delivers to his fans, what an all round swell guy.
i never knew a home version of this game exists, wished i knew long time ago, one of my fave arcade games ever.
Hey Sega Lord, question... I didn't have Fighting Vipers on Saturn, but I did have Fighter's Megamix. Did that improve on the graphical fidelity at all? I don't remember it as looking as poor as Fighting Vipers seems to, but my memory is hazy. Thanks buddy.
Fighters Megamix expanded on the engine seen in Fighting Vipers. It used VDP2 more effectively(the Saturn's background chip) and had an improved lighting system. It's definitely a better looking title overall.
@@SegaLordX Yeah that was my first impression when watching your video, but going off hazy memory. Thanks man.
Love the videos 😊 brings back memories
I miss pausing to read the tech specs like the last video but this was still a great piece. Thanks!
The Saturn was a sprite beast!!! too bad it wasn't a good polygon machine...
It was a good polygon machine just horrendously hard to do, requiring far more time and effort than most would come close to doing. There are a few examples of basic attempts at getting the best, such as the first gen specialised engine powering Exhumed, or the Quake port etc.
But there was no money in pushing these initial first attempts onto second gen engines, most 3rd party games became quick, cheap conversions of Playstation games using automatic translation tools to convert the different polygons the Saturn used, stripping out all the effects, and just releasing it with the poor performance this process left it with and no attempt to make it look better.
I was stunned by KOF 95 when I saw it in the arcade ...
I do have cyberbots for saturn that comes with art book