Exploring the Sega Saturn library in the 2020s

(Thanks!)

Japanese collector and youtuber HijiQuish pulled out his HiSaturn, his Sega Digio, his Saturn keyboard, his Saturn Floppy Disk Drive, his Canon printer and the official Saturn Printer adapter released by Koei, and the EGWORD for SegaSaturn CD-ROM to relive, a brief evening, Sega’s dream of a multimedia desktop experience in the mid90s.

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(My pleasure, every time you post here I find something new to add to the collection. Never knew about the Digio until today so thank you!)

There are already many good videos about Ecole’s Death Crimson (1996) but this might be the best good video about Death Crimson.

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He’s right.

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Ving things

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This is totally nuts. They’re selling multiple IP in yahoo auctions of all places and asking incredible amounts for them vs their actual worth.

Perhaps I’m not imaginative enough but I can’t imagine a world in which you could even make your money back after buying harukaze sentai v-force for $2.3m. I highly doubt it made that much in its lifetime so far.

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that seller has lots of odd stuff up for sale.

Rights to Back Gainer.

A few original art pieces that look like they’re from games, but the descriptions are oddly vague.

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How essential is the 3D pad for Saturn?

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Not super essential I don’t think, but certainly nice to have whenever a game supports it.

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Well, I’d say ‘essential’ is not the appropriate description.

It’s highly recommended for two games: Daytona USA Championship Circuit Edition and Sega Touring Car Championship.

It makes Nights into Dreams, Burning Rangers, Croc, Dark Savior and Sega Rally Championship Plus (among others) more comfortable to play.

In any case, it is a sin, a punishable offense and a terrible fashion faux pas to own a Sega Saturn but not own Saturn Bomberman with at least one multitap. So you might as well have one of your 6〜10 Saturn controllers be a 3D controller.

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I feel like NiGHTs is almost unplayable without it.
SEGA Touring car championship is unplayable without it.

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I wish one came in grey. The white controllers with grey console is not my favourite look.

This looks pretty tasty!

Have tested, works like a charm!!!

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There hasn’t been much made about the 30th Anniversary of the (infamous) American launch of the Saturn a couple days ago but Sega Lord X and Sega Saturn Shiro! have each released a propaganda video personal message on the topic.

But more importantly, we got the results of the 30th Anniversary homebrew competition opened in the SegaXtreme forums back in November.

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We got one of the best game commercials ever with the Saturn.

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Definitely a fun and demonstrably incorrect commercial. I think they reused the dropping playstation thing for later commercials too? Maybe I’m just smashing some commercials together in my mind.

I do find it amusing how Sega briefly attempted a “do the math” style commercial series where they talk about how the saturn has “three 32 bit processors” and the playstation only has one. good luck with that fellas!!

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man, soa was such a hot mess at this time


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Well I am certainly agreeing with all those concerns! I guess they just went ahead and did it anyway.

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