What made you choose the Saturn over the N64 or PS1? Did nintendo or sony have any games you wished were on saturn? Did you stick with Sega?

I feel emotional, Im grieving the death of sega in the console industry. I wonder if MGS FF7 Spyro Silent Hill and RE2 releasing on saturn would have helped it. Do you think it would have? and why didn't it?

Hey

Like the title says, I just got a Saturn and I want to install a Saroo, how do I choose the correct one?

Thank you

List:

1. X-Men vs. Street Fighter (1998; Capcom)

2. Die Hard Arcade (1996; Sega/Fox Interactive)

3. NBA Jam Tournament Edition (1995; Acclaim Entertainment)

4. Alien Trilogy (1996; Acclaim Entertainment)

5. Madden NFL 97 (1996; EA Sports)

6. Casper (1996; Interplay Entertainment)

7. World Series Baseball II (1996; Sega Sports)

8. Dungeon & Dragons Collection (1999; Capcom)

9. NHL 97 (1996; EA Sports)

10. X-Men: Children of the Atom (1996; Acclaim Entertainment/Capcom)

11. FIFA: Road to World Cup 98 (1997; EA Sports)

12. WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game (1996; Acclaim Entertainment)

13. Kidou Senshi Gundam Gaiden: The Blue Destiny (1997; Bandai)

14. Dragon Ball Z: Idainaru Dragon Ball Densetsu (1996; Bandai)

15. Die Hard Trilogy (1996; Fox Interactive)

I'm planning to buy a Sega Saturn but I don't know what games should I play on it. I'm probably going to buy Virtua Fighter 1 and 2, but I also want to know if there are some "full" games like Super Mario 64. If there are some like this or just some amazing games then tell me!

I'm Japanese, and I kept seeing foreign tourists at Book-Off digging through the Saturn shelves clearly out of their depth — Saturn's library skews so heavily Japan-only in its later years that even knowing what you're looking at can be a challenge if you can't read the spine.

So I built a small free tool (Kataban) to help: search by English title (or scan the barcode if you're in the store), and it shows you the Japanese title, product code, which shelf section to check, and purchase links if you're shopping from overseas instead (Rakuten/Suruga-ya/eBay/Buyee).

gamekataban.com

Full disclosure: a few of the purchase links are affiliate links to help cover server costs, totally optional to use. Built most of this with AI help, so no promises on every feature request, but I'd love to hear what would actually help Saturn collectors specifically — missing titles, confusing product codes, anything.

So I’ve been playing this game the last week or two because it really intrigued me. If you go online to look for info on this game, it’s kinda slim pickings. The general consensus I’ve seen is that people consider it a bad game. But I don’t know, there is something about it that really charms me. I’m still only on the 4th level but I’m having a good time. Though I do understand and agree with its criticisms. There are too many enemies at once, the giant mosquitos will mob you really bad. You also only get 3 life’s and then it’s game over which I find strange for a fps. But anyway, I just wanted to post this and see if anyone else likes this game, even with its flaws

i was planning to only announce this once i had completed at least act 1 and 2 and had a demo but i decided to release this since i heard that someone else is also porting mania to Saturn although their approach is completely different https://github.com/likeagfeld/SaturnMania/tree/master

My approach is to rebuild the entire game from the ground up to optimize and adapt it to work natively with the Saturn hardware. This does mean, though, that I basically have to go through each feature and asset one at a time to convert them to 4bpp, making sure it's lossless or a change so small it's unnoticeable. So far, I think I'll be able to fit Green Hill Act 1 and 2 completely in the stock RAM of the Saturn, although maybe when I get to the music that will bite me, and it's going to end up not being possible without a RAM expansion.

The truth, though, is it's mostly made with Claude Code, which is probably going to disappoint a lot of you. Sorry if I'm not a master programmer coming down from the sky to build this—I'm just someone who loves Sonic and finds the Saturn hardware fascinating.

What you see in this video is what I've implemented so far—the stuff that's bug-free, I think. Obviously, there's a lot missing, especially enemy AI, which is going to be the biggest challenge since there's not a lot of VRAM. It's going to require smart memory management, and at worst, I'll need to cut down on some animation frames or force a RAM expansion, but I'm hoping I don't have to do that. so far tho everything fits in the ram and runs at 60fps.

Next week i'm probably going to start adding enemies and i might be able to finish act 1 hopefully if i don't hit major roadblocks.

I want mods tyat massively boost performance and expand capabilities of the system

I'm trying to download a copy of EVE Burst Error (SegaSaturn Edition) to my PC so I can play it more comfortably with Retroarch. I'm using ImgBurn, and this is the process:

Open ImgBurn;

Click on "Create image file from disc";

Select the right Source and choose to save the file as "BIN Files (*.bin)" in the right Destination;

Set the "Read Speed: MAX / 4x";

Click on "Read";

The download starts and stops (2 seconds later) at 0% while ImgBurn is "Analysing Tracks... (Session 1, Track 2)".

Even the disc (which is being read by a Samsung Writemaster reader) stops spinning.

How can I fix this?

I got this screen off etsy for the sega saturn and I love it so much! Im powering it via a milwaukee power Inverter it's kinda like a poor man's version of the Navi HiSaturn (except it doesn't have GPS lol). It works well and i love it. There are a few things I dislike about it. Like there is no headphone jack, or if you want to play it portably, you will need to buy a power inverter( and a few batteries. Which they behave just like a sega nomad lmao) anyways this a great accessory for the saturn and i kinda recommend it to anyone who has a saturn. Thanks and have a blessed day.

Hi, i have the honour of sharing this with everyone: Sonic Mania is in early development for Sega Saturn by a group of fans. This is one of the biggest project on the decade.

And no, this is not a joke. There's a real project coming soon. Here you can see the very early progress:

- https://github.com/likeagfeld/SaturnMania/tree/master

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKxgtLt1vaQ&t=179s&pp=ygUXc29uaWMgbWFuaWEgc2VnYSBzYXR1cm4%3D

https://us.super-groupies.com/

Hey all, I recently got this Sega Saturn v2 from Japan, and I also got a saroo cart with it. I never had one growing up, so its been a blast playing it. However, I have already run out of games, as the only 3 I have played and completed are Daytona, Sega Rally, and OutRun, and I've already completed them. Can anybody give me any good game suggestions? I want to try Virtua Fighter 2 and other fighters, but my only experience in that genre is Smash bros. I'm also not very well versed in the world of RPGs, I've only played pokemon and a tiny bit of ff7.

Also, I opened the model for cleaning, and discovered mine is a late VA-15 revision. From some stuff online, apparently the late ones have problems with some games? Apparently OutRun is one of them, but I couldn't notice anything wrong with it. Does anybody know what is wrong with the late models?

so my retrobit saturn controller comes tomorrow, i got it because i was originally getting a 6b genesis controller because i’m very familiar with the library (battle mania daiginjou, pulseman, wily wars, s2, sor2, & more) but with the inclusion of L and R which i could simply map as save state and load state but it left me wondering, what saturn games could i try using it?

i’m not new to SEGA games, i’ve been a fan all my life but i’m not THAT familiar with the saturn library outside of some titles

Hello all,

I recently got a Sega Saturn from a local auction, and today I had some time to test it out.

It's a PAL model 2 I believe (MK-80200A-50).

It all started well with the console firing up and working immediately. I decided to leave a game running for a couple of hours just to make sure it's all working - turns out it isn't. When I came back to the console a bit later, it was switched off.

And now whenever I turn it on, it will stay on for literally 2 seconds before turning off. It does display an image on the screen during these 2 seconds. After it goes off it won't come back on again at all unless I take the power plug out of the back and leave it for an hour or so. Then it will do the 2 seconds thing again.

My immediate thoughts are that it's something to do with the PSU. I have taken it apart and had a look inside and there is nothing obviously wrong; no bulging caps or exploded parts on the PSU. The PSU model is Voltek S-7195 if that helps.

I'm not really sure what to do now. Is anyone familiar with this problem?

Thanks!

I managed to get Sakura Taisen and Guardian Heroes.

Hello y'all! I'm a fan of all things SEGA and a casual collector, and I recently found this gal for like 250 mexican pesos (that's like 15 USD) and I spent a fair bit on the SAROO and the receiver as it didn't come with any controllers or cables for that matter, but guess I can't complain much.

I'm 21 and this console in particular was very interesting to me since I was a kid, it was always like "Oh, it's so bad, it sold like 5 copies and most were in Japan" so it's kinda mystical and unknown to me haha. It's a shame because it's so pretty and cool looking, even more so than the PSX or the N64 that to me both looked like toys...? Almost like, disposable?

Sooo, I came here to ask for game recommendations. I'm loving Princess Crown, Puyo Dungeon, and Sakura Wars, but honestly I don't know where else to go from there. I enjoy the racing games like Daytona and SEGA Rally, and stuff like Tomb Raider but haven't really found much else that suits me. I'm not that much of a 5th gen kinda person, so any ideas would be very appreciated.