Reading through an old interview with Capcom, (around time Sega had just annouced the Dreamcast) and it threw up a few interesting points:
1)Saturn Resident Evil 2 (or Biohazard 2 in Japan), Capcom said it WOULD'NT have been impossible to do, nor would it needed the 4MB Ram cart, as Ram was'nt the issue, 2 key things stopped it happening:
The 1st, Sega annoucing the Dreamcast and that they (Sega) were no onger working on Saturn games-Capcom felt that people would stop buying Saturn games as it was seen as being a 'dead' console and also retailers would start clearing shelves of Saturn games, to replace with something else (this also meant Capcom would'nt be converting any more CPS II games to Saturn).
The 2nd issue was that Capcom were struggling to get the top performance from the Saturn's CPU, (something they admit Sega's own internal team had managed) and as a result, the CPU speeds they were getting, were too slow to handle the 'graphics calculations' Res Evil 2 needed, as it was on PS1.
So, they were'nt going to re-code Res.Evil 2 for Saturn, when Sega had just pulled the plug on it.
I need to play some more Deep Fear and Enemy Zero on my Saturn, also really wanna get more into some of the new titles I bought like Tunnel B1 and Crusader No Remorse. Doubt I will get too far into these as I have SOOOOO many games I wanna play and projects I wanna start on my channel, but maybe if/when we have kids and they are older and I'm in my 40s I can get back into them again. Hopefully I'll have a nice retro gaming loft or basement where I can retreat to lol
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I need to play some more Deep Fear and Enemy Zero on my Saturn, also really wanna get more into some of the new titles I bought like Tunnel B1 and Crusader No Remorse. Doubt I will get too far into these as I have SOOOOO many games I wanna play and projects I wanna start on my channel, but maybe if/when we have kids and they are older and I'm in my 40s I can get back into them again. Hopefully I'll have a nice retro gaming loft or basement where I can retreat to lol
You can always give the games I don't have to me! They have loads of Saturn games in the shop where I live but there was only one in there that I didn't already have, which was Maximum Force and I bought that already. I still need to work out what I am missing PAL games wise, would be nice to get close to having a complete collection. I know I am not that far off, I have a list somewhere.
Have been putting in some time on Saturn DoDopnPachi with my rotated CRT.....great game. The Saturn version really benefits from the TATE mode as the hori mode is very pixellated,
Something I really want to pick up is the MSX collection by Konami, it has over 30 of their games from the MSX computer on it all perfectly emulated. I have no experience of the MSX but the system has always intrigued me and there are some real classics here.
You can see a full list of the games on it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Ant ... Collection
I also found a good gameplay video too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbyAoFBrcac