Why has the Saturn been forgotten among modern gamers?

[Opa Opa]

Also a valid point. I've found several sites with good ROM downloads, but current emulation speeds and compatibility are very discouraging. I tried to emulate Radiant Silvergun a while back and got a total of like 3fps even with overclocking (and I have a fairly high-end system). I ended up getting the XBLA port of it, but that isn't an option with many Saturn classics.

I don't know what emulator you were using but Saturn emulation is actually pretty great. I've played Dodonpachi, RS, and other shmups and they ran just fine.

[ninjainspandex]

use SSF its nearly perfect with just a few hiccups here and there, my old laptop from 2006 was able to run it just fine so unless your computer is truly ancient you shouldn't have any problem running it.

[Opa Opa]

*waits for ZenErik to complain about "input-lag" in SSF*

[brukner1129]

Old games and 2D games aren't of much interest to most modern gamers.

If this were the case, then I dont think the XBLA/PSN/eShop would be packed to the brim with HD remakes, re-releases, and retro style Indie titles.

I think those are for retro gamers who own modern systems, if they truly were popular with modern gamers we would see physical releases of those games. It's cheap to distribute digital only games so those games were able to see the light of day, I think I can count the number of 2d games that got disk releases on one hand not including import shmups.

While it's true that these remakes have been tailored to retro gamers, the fact that they were released digitally is simply good business sense, not popularity among modern gamers. If they were released on disc, they would be required to sell for an initial price of $60 (due to the policies of Sony and Microsoft). I honestly don't know of any gamers, retro or modern, who would be willing to pay that for a rerelease of something like DonPachi or Virtua Fighter 2. There is also the disc space consideration: why pay to print a 400 Mb game on a 12 Gb disc? Their release in the digital marketplace doesn't denote that they aren't popular, it just means that their size makes it almost cost prohibitive to release on disc.

[wip3outguy7]

You can't really ignore the commercial situation it was in, since that's really the primary reason. It sold extremely poorly in the United States and with Sega bailing out of the hardware business there isn't much to remind us of them other than the occasional game they churn out still.

Pretty much that. Sony and Nintendo are still making games/consoles and Sega isn't.

[brukner1129]

Pretty much that. Sony and Nintendo are still making games/consoles and Sega isn't.

True, but Sega is still a very prominent name in the industry, and very popular among gamers (so long as we forget about Sonic '06 )

[Hazerd]

It's fading into obscurity because the vast majority of great games are rare and expensive as shit.

This, i actually could of bought a Saturn for $15 yesterday, but didnt feel like having another console to collect games for, especially since Saturn games are expensive and hard to find, also i would feel the need to mod it since most of the good saturn games are japan only...

[brukner1129]

This, i actually could of bought a Saturn for $15 yesterday, but didnt feel like having another console to collect games for, especially since Saturn games are expensive and hard to find, also i would feel the need to mod it since most of the good saturn games are japan only...

I actually had gotten rid of my saturn several years ago, but got interested again within the last two or three years (being one of my favorite consoles). I bought the one I have currently at a retro game shop for $25, controllers and all. Then just bought an Action Replay, which bypasses the region lock. The price of the games is what's starting to get to me though. I am undecided right now as to whether or not I should chip it, but either way, there still are plenty of good games for it, expensive or not.

[MoNsTeRzKHAOS]

I really need an action replay!

[brukner1129]

I really need an action replay!

Got mine NIB on Craigslist...after about 3 months of searching though.