SEGA Saturn -- simple yet elegant

[fingersmaloy]

I am partial to the black Saturns. Sometimes I wish mine was black. And when's someone gonna mod that Saturn cartridge slot so it plays Genesis games? That's what it should do.

[lisalover1]

I was never aware of the Saturn's cart slot issue. I only bought the system a couple of weeks ago and it came with a GameShark. Never had an interest in these type of add-ons, but it has 4megs of extra backup memory. I haven't gotten it to work yet ... I'm a little worried something might be wrong with the cart slot.

Wedge a q-tip in between the back of the cartridge and the top of the slot. It should put the card forward enough to make the connection. Works for me almost every time.

Thanks, I'll be sure to try it out. On another note, you guys should read this. Well, maybe not -- it might just upset you.

Nerd rage... ACTIVATE!!

[YoshiEgg25]

On another note, you guys should read this. Well, maybe not -- it might just upset you.

Apparently this man has never heard of the Gizmondo. Or N-Gage. Or Phantom. Or Virtual Boy. Or Game.com.

Did I just list five systems worse than the Saturn? It didn't take too long. This guy is obviously very sheltered if the Saturn is the worst system in his book.

[synbiosfan]

The Navi-Saturn that's already been shown is my favorite Saturn. All of them are great looking to me. Still my most played system.

[lisalover1]

Hefty women can be sexy without being fat. The Saturn is a fine example.

After all, can anyone actually name 30 great games they played on the console?

Guardian Heroes
Layer Section
Radiant Silvergun
Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter
Saturn Bomberman
Waku Waku 7
DonPachi
Detana Twinbee Yahoo! Deluxe Pack
NiGHTS into Dreams
Christmas NiGHTS
Road to the Final Victory 3
Panzer Dragoon
Fighters Megamix
Baku Baku
Burning Rangers
Virtual On
Vampire Hunter
X-Men Shildren of the Atom
Darkstalkers
Cyberbots
Die Hard Arcade
House of the Dead
Virtua Cop
Virtua Cop 2
Gex
Deep Fear
Rayman
Astal
Mr. Bones
Three Dirty Dwarves
Robo Pit
Rockman X3
Pocket Fighter
Puzzle Bobble 2X
Clockwork Knight 2
Pandemonium

Oh, I'm sorry. Did I just go over 30?

If you look in the comments section of the article, you can see that I named 50 great Saturn exclusives.

[Flake]

I think I am going to use Scarpers list as my road map.

[Lord_Santa]

never been interested in the Saturn, but after reading the "Worst console of all time" article and then the comments, I got very curious

someone linked to a youtube channel with 155 Saturn games

well... took me one hour to watch, but there were some games there that looked really interesting

and the comments all made me want to try and find one of these consoles

I'm going to scrounge the interwebz and see if I can't find one here in Sweden

:edit

found one...

is €70 too much?

one controller and the console

[Breetai]

never been interested in the Saturn, but after reading the "Worst console of all time" article and then the comments, I got very curious

someone linked to a youtube channel with 155 Saturn games

well... took me one hour to watch, but there were some games there that looked really interesting

and the comments all made me want to try and find one of these consoles

I'm going to scrounge the interwebz and see if I can't find one here in Sweden

:edit

found one...

is €70 too much?

one controller and the console

My advice is to get a Japanese model. If you can find a lot for around US$100 (which is probably in the range of €70), you are doing really well. Of course there will also be shipping costs. If you get a 4MB Pro Action Replay, you can play games from any region (maybe useful to get an EU model and then play JPN games that way, so you won't have to worry about the differences in voltage?).

A lot of the very best Saturn games are exclusive to Japan. This is especially true for shoot 'em ups, but also for a lot of other action games.

Honestly, the Saturn is my absolute favourite console overall.


The author of that article says that the Saturn is the worst of all the MAJOR consoles, not of ALL consoles. He does not include the 3DO as a major console. Why does everyone seem to miss that? He does miss a lot in his article and does seem VERY ill informed, but a lot of the people criticizing him didn't really even address what he said!

[emwearz]

PAL models need to be hard modded to run in 60Hz, if you cant perform mods, import a Saturn, that simple.

[Breetai]

PAL models need to be hard modded to run in 60Hz, if you cant perform mods, import a Saturn, that simple.

There ya go. That explains why you bought that Japanese Saturn a while back.

To the OP, yeah... definitely try to find a deal on a Japanese Saturn lot. It is definitely the way to go.