Hi! Geril here.
So, we bought a Sega Saturn.
We have quite a lot of game consoles now, and the Saturn is such a weird and interesting one that we just had to buy one. I mean it uses quads (more like sprites with custom corner positions) and has a cartridge slot and an optical drive (but the cart is mostly for memory expansions and save games), and is in general just very weird.
We have a few classics for it: Sega Rally, Virtua Fighter 2 and Vampire Savior and also a few strange ones like the DOS classic Magic Carpet and a kinda Smash Bros. like Fighters Megamix.
The machine is fascinating. We got it refurbished, with a new lens for the drive in it, and it's kinda hilarious. We bought Virtua Fighter 2 and when we received it, we noticed that the disc had a little hole in it. Like, we can see through it.
But the Saturn still plays it. A few music skips, and the loading is probably a bit longer, but the game is working at a silky smooth 60fps.
Also we got The House of the Dead, and it's just as good as we expected. Lussy loves the House of the Dead series, but never played the first one. It's not as good as the second one, but still fun to play even without a lightgun.
By the way, we also got a "3D" controller for the Saturn, what is more or less the same as the Dreamcast Controller. Sadly only a few games work with it, but The House of the Dead is one and it makes the aiming much easier.
If you know about House of the Dead, then you know that it only got released on the Saturn in Japan. And maybe you also know that the Saturn has a region lock.
And if you know both of these then you probably know how we solved this issue. Yeah, with an Action Replay cartridge.
Good stuff, can't recommend it enough. Saturn games from Japan are cheap, and they got many more games released for the system than us.
Also, they have better disc cases than us. Saturn games' disc cases are the worst. I thought the PAL Dreamcast games had the worst disc cases, but at least those are only destroying themselves; the Saturn cases break easily and scuff up the discs inside.
We only remade Snes and N64 boxes so far, but we maybe should make custom Saturn game cases too, just to be sure.
One day we'll return to posting about our works, but we can't do that now. But we're making friends and learning a lot about Unreal 4 and just in general... we're just very tired. Like, so very tired.
