The family owned bowling center I all but grew up in had a Daytona 2 arcade cabinet, and after putting in countless quarters I discovered the panel on the back was loose and I could hit the switch to insert credits without money. With all of that finally out of the way, let's get to the meat of things and look at the games.ĭaytona USA and Daytona USA Championship Circuit Editionĭaytona USA was a must play for me. In Mednafen's defense, this is how redump recommends ripping Saturn games, so I consider the ones dumped like this to be my "official" collection, and the other set to be temporary for testing Yabause. If you feed it one with all the tracks combined into a single. It wants multi-track cue/bin files, with some being split into dozens tracks. To assist users who maybe having the same problems as me, Yabause wants a single. Talk about a bad first impression! I nearly abandoned the emulation part of this article before booting a single game. I find this utterly ridiculous, especially after the troubles I went through with SSF. My only recourse is to maintain two sets of dumps, one for each of the emulators. Yabause runs the bios and acts like you've inserted an invalid CD, which makes sense if it can't detect it, but isn't especially helpful.Mednafen just says the file size is too big for the disc image, which is at least a clue toward what's wrong.Regardless of what emulator I used, I had a difficult time getting them to load anything! If you dare give them a completely valid dump that you verified works on another emulator that they don't want, be prepared to try and guess what's wrong. It's actively developed and recently added features like savestates to the Saturn core along with bug fixes and other nifty changes. Since then, Mednafen has added many more cores, including an extremely popular (and accurate) PSX core and more recently a highly touted Sega Saturn core. I've had some exposure to Mednafen, though it was many years ago and mostly for netplay purposes. With SSF disqualified, I went forward with Mednafen and Yabause (along with uoYabause). Emulation of that seemed solid enough but there obviously wasn't much to look at. So, I couldn't get any games running on SSF, but I did at least throw the Saturn BIOS at it.
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To be fair to it, I did try to use a standard CD emulator, but it doesn't support the features that SSF needs.
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If the emulator doesn't care enough about its users to avoid an adware riddled program, then why should I go out of my way to use it? Is it too much to ask for some form of ISO support like almost every other emulator?
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It requires the use of a CD emulator that contains adware/spyware, and while I could probably defuse the program, I'm choosing not to. While SSF is considered the best by many guides, I'm not using it. There are three main emulators for the Sega Saturn that I'll be talking about some level throughout the article. Nitpicking aside, this article is mostly about the games and emulation.
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My best guess is that these cases are some kind of marketing disaster holdover from the SegaCD. The Japanese Saturn games I have (not used in this article) do not suffer from this problem, as they use the same style jewel cases as the PS1 and Dreamcast. To get a case without damage costs almost twice as much for most games! The bottom tab seems to be broken on almost every Saturn game I bought, sometimes from the front cover, sometimes the actual hole is broken off of the main part of the case. If you're going to be buying complete Saturn games, be aware that many of the cases are broken.īuyer beware online - many sellers will say their game is complete, but not mention the broken hinges. Just as a clue in terms of pricing - Mega Man 8 cost almost double of all the other games combined.