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Saroo makes Saturn hands down the best 32-bit console now. Playstation cannot compete with these load times

SOR4 was co-developed by both Lizardcube and Guard Crush Games, whose previous works are Streets of Fury and Streets of Fury EX.

I miss Sega rally it's one of the greatest driving games ever made

Great video Dan, Zillzone, who knew haha thats amazing. I need get toejam and earl still as well. Crash racing looks really nice and i think we all echo your thoughts on LRG lol

The problem is that some Saturn games don’t like the fast load times with the Saroo and have problems playing.

This game was so ahead of it's time. Console peasants with access to the command-console and could save binds. Then eventually we could use a mouse/kb. It had crossplay with PC. I started on a controller with 56k, and sometimes we even went up against PC users with mouse/kb, 125fps, and broadband. We got our asses kicked regularly, but occasionally got a glorious win, which was a huge flex if they were on a PC. I learned to strafe jump with 30fps on a controller.

It's been a while since I thought of this but can anyone direct me to where anyone explains what it means when you get Saturn games and the folder might have "2M" or "8M". I thought it stood for which Megabyte Rom Cart you needed but obviously there is no 8MB cart.

Actually he's right. SEGA isn't a retro company. They always strived for the future rather than wallow in the past. If they were retro they still be releasing games from 1981 from the SEGA Gremlin vector era. Doing updates to several games doesn't make them retro. Most of these games are designed to get new fans into the brand. Half of which are only getting a new entry because they're attached to movie and TV deals. SEGA fans like us are few and far between now. And were just a section of SEGA fandom who are fans of a specific part of SEGA's history. Part of the reason why there wont be DC or Saturn minis is because SEGA those systems are seen as being a hub for their arcade ports and has decided to port some of the classic arcades as part of the Astro City and mini arcade series. They just released ten new ones in japan including ports for Dynamite Deka and Fighting Vipers. And then there's the new subscription service also coming. Which is why its cheaper and easier and more profitable for them to release their older games in that way rather than mini consoles of the saturn and DC.

I love the Saturn. It remains one of my favorite consoles and has some of my favorite games, including Guardian Heroes and Burning Rangers. I couldn't tell you how many hours each week went into playing on the Saturn. And I still play those games today.

so sexy !!

I loved sonic 06, it shouldn't of gotten so much hate. I do get the hate for the human hedgehog love story though

This was a very good retrospective and breakdown on sonic and knuckles. Excellent video.

great video that - love the idea and most of them i wouldn't have thought of at all! thought it was really interesting!! cheers dude! - bedgell

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Seeing games like Hogwarts Legacy get published by SEGA in Japan reminds me that SEGA published some oddball licensed games in Japan despite not being involved with their release in other regions. The ones that stick out to me that I can remember are Britney’s Dance Beat for the PS2 and The Incredibles Rise of The Underminer, both western licensed games SEGA published in Japan.

Question, does the Saroo let you play original physical games that need the extra ram?

Instantly switched on by the Shining Force 3 music in the background. A Motoi Sakuraba tune NEVER escapes me. Amusingly i need a PSP battery cover myself but more due to a broken clip then a swollen battery 😂 Shining Force is worthy to play on it though. I too am also a Tides of Time Saroo background user and im using Hanuman from PD Zwei as my music 😂 I should get some SF3 on there. Itd be cool if in future we could have a small rotation of tunes, or backgrounds. That would be very cool! Youre going to need a lot of space for the Shining Force 3 saves so the Saroo will definitely help with that but all it does is ask you to load a previous scenario save and thats it, any save from then becomes a separate scenario save. That will be why it works, as it looks for a seperate game save entirely at the start. Just finishing off watching. Some good stuff here. Ive found the load times to be amazing. As i noted on twitter, fames like Discworld with ufterly atrocious constant loading absolutely sing on a Saroo and its better to play using that. Really hand in my PAL machine which has a disk drive still and my JP one has the Fenrir, so best of both worlds!

If i wasnt sold on a DC Maxi before (i was) then I am now. Great overview and thoughts James!

Looks amazing. Another thing to get when i get a GDEMU!

When mentioning series composer Yuzo Koshiro's return to Streets of Rage, you forgot his partner from the second game onwards, Motohiro Kawashima. Also, Alex Kidd in Miracle World was never released on NSO but rather on the eShop under the SEGA AGES series.

Looks good actually ! Classic sounds too .. VR , when engine noises sound like theyre rave samples

Great chat Guys! I'll probably grab one of these eventually. It's good to not put all your Saturn eggs in one basket. I've got a satiator but the saroo has got some cool features I wouldn't mind.

Not sure where this is coming from RE SOR 4 and Alex Kidd. Sega gave them to other developers to make games, yes. But those developers would of pitched to Sega and Sega would of offered guidance so no damage would of been done to the franchise or brand. So , yeah. Obviously Sega games. Crash is local publishing. Worms possibly the same at the time. With Killzone the Japanese don't normally get on with FPS. Sony probably sensed a flop. Sega does have an edgy rep though so probably just took a risk

All these cheeseballs making revisionist anti saturn videos and dreamcast videos and articles too, is revealing what TYPE of gamer they are. The saturn was popular among hardcore gamers, PC gamers and SEGA fans. It was only the casuals that it wasnt popular with. The same idiots who thought demolition derby and toshiden was better than daytona usa and virtua fighter, because sony hyped them up that the casuals believed it. Tekken came way after as the true challenger to VF's throne but it wasnt the first challenger to it that sony backed and unfortunately semi pulled off to get casuals to buy the system. But if you read about the saturn s psx years now, you'd think tekken was the first fighting game and ridge racer were the ones that came out first. The stuff is either written by casuals or people that werent around bak then or both. Fake gamers pretending that they are one.

I'm glad you made this video. Because their has been a lot of revisionist history where SEGA is concerned. Changing the global sales of the megadrive from 40 to 30 million in order to make nintendo look good. Calling the MEGA CD a flop when it wasn't and had it not performed well as an add on, SEGA would no have chosen the CD route for saturn and playstation would not have even existed. Companies judge the success of a console on how many systems are sold at the first price point in the launch year. A million sales is the number because they have made money back on RandD costs. Sales after that is profit. Nintendo didnt win the console war financially because SEGA sold their systems at price point at achieving launch unit targets. They then could afford to price it down. TWO years after launch. Nintendo SNES had to price down their system a year after launch meaning it lost money and continued to do so with subsequent sales . Secondly SEGA sold more software than nintendo did. Nintendo's 47 percent numbers are down to two things. In 96-97 it was extremely cheap and secondly the system kept breaking down so people got replacements. Much like why the PSX and PS2 numbers are so high because people were buying replacements. SEGA megadrive and saturn didnt break down. SEGA not only made its money back on the genesis and the Mega CD model 1 but it made PROFIT on megadrive units at the first price then the half prices after, after its launch year for four more years in which they defeated nintendo directly. 95 -98 SEGA pulled out to focus on saturn. So nintendo hardly won the console war when their main competitor had already left the market with a big bag of cash. Lastly as we all know the saturn wasnt a flop in japan as it achieved launch target sales at price point, it didnt achieve that in the states or europe at the price point it needed to make budget back as SEGA dropped the original price to a competitive price after that E3 sony fiasco. So it was losing money from the start. Thats why it can be considered a failure in the west much like the Dreamcast because it sold for 199 when it was meant to sell for 250 in the west, which is why SEGA fired stolar but couldn't change the retail price. Even though the system sold well, they were losing money and not making budget costs. Despite that, the saturn was competitive enough to have resident evil and tomb raider as limited exclusives.

Any doubters look at the Saturns quadrilateral pixels. Ps1 used triangular pixels

The Panzer Dragoon Remake on the PS4 is currently £1.99 until 17/01/25

Shenmue 3, Bayonetta and House of the Dead Remake should've been included.

So you're saying SEGA published their rival and competition Crash Team Racing in Japan at the same time they were selling their own kart racing game Team Sonic Racing? Good job, SEGA!

Speaking of Crash Bandicoot, here's another interesting trivia, as someone from Asia who grew up with an MSX I feel this piece of information isn't well known in the west, but the penguin character who appears often in Crash games called Penta Penguin is actually Konami's mascot from the 1980s, much like Alex Kidd for Sega, he had his own series of games and one of Kojima's first games he worked on and what a game it was, it's actually the game that made me a gamer. Now the reason is because in Japan Crash games were being published by Konami, that's right, Crash Bandicoot went from a Playstation and Naughty Dog mascot to a Konami mascot and now to a Activision and Xbox mascot.

As for Toe Jam and Earl the game i'd say is SEGA adjacent because SEGA did actually own the ip but sold it to JCP productions after it became clear according to Greg Johnson that the management didnt want or liked the game for it to continue. So they sold the ip to his company back in 95, the same year SEGA sold the ip Frogger to konami, after the Frogger fiasco. Despite revisionist history, Frogger was never licensed to SEGA, both ips were second party games and fully owned by SEGA. Unlike Frogger, SEGA still owns the publishing for Toe Jam and Earl's genesis/megadrive rights, they just dont own the ip anymore or rights to future games. But they can and still do publish the first two games. With Frogger, SEGA sold publishing AND IP rights to konami who now fully controls it. So because the first two games are still linked to SEGA and the fact that the recent film rights for TJ&E are held by a producer and film production company that are involved with the sonic movies and the upcoming altered beast, HOTD and Shinobi movies, I would say its SEGA adjacent as the series still benefits from SEGA association.

Hogwarts and other western games comes under SEGA partners program. SEGA will either distribute the game or publish it themselves. If its under distribution, it just means the publisher will use SEGA's shipping network to get the games in stores in japan and the rest of asia. If its published aka localized by SEGA, it means SEGA gets a cut of the game's profits in the region and will fund promoting the game themselves. That game, and a game called Farming Simulator 25 sold big in japan for SEGA. Since SEGA has gone third party three more tiers have popped up. The original tiers was first party, SEGA inhouse developed games. Second party, Contract developers making games exclusively for SEGA like Bayonetta and Shining Force, Third tier was SEGA western division games which are games made by sega of america or sega europe in a first or second party capacity. Forth tier are SEGA published games which are games made by other companies that SEGA publishes like Worms and Condemned but SEGA doesn't own the ip to. The new tiers that are recent and became prominent since 2001 is the fifth tier which is SEGA partners which is distribution and localization which i already explained. Sixth tier is SEGA licensed, what you referred to in your video with Alex Kidd and SOR4 but this also includes Bayonetta's nintendo exclusive games. The last tier is SEGA out sourcing which are games made by SEGA inhouse teams or subsidiaries but are published by another company. Examples of this are Vampire Night, Macross PS2 and the recent One Piece game for mobile.

There are several games that are not published by SEGA themselves despite it being the games of their IPs. The subsequent Bayonetta games are under the publishing rights of Nintendo when SEGA licensed it to them. Shenmue 3 isn't published by them either. Nor are Space Channel 5: Kinda Funky New Flash, The House of the Dead Remake, The Wonder Boy remakes, and Resonance of Fate 4K Remaster. However, all of them are apparently still under SEGA's copyright. ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove! isn't even under their copyright, meaning it's not really a SEGA game at all.

Love your show. Can't understand what you're saying, folks. Keep at it.

Fun fact: Macaulay Culkin was the executive producer of Toejam & Earl: Back in the Groove.

STALKER 2 is a "non-SEGA, SEGA game" in Japan.

Well this is not new, How Nintendo is Dockey Kong Country?

How to get some games to work on Saroo? I have problem with Last Bronx and a few other games being identifies as empty. Or is it because I'm using a 1tb sd card?

If you go on the Switch and search a Sega game, then click on Sega in the top left corner all kinds of games you would not expect to show up under Sega come up, especially random indie type games

Also, I've been debating if The Rumble Fish and Bakugan are Sega IPs. Sammy started publishing games from the former before Sega acquired Sammy in the mid-2000s. Like Demolish Fist, The Rumble Fish is from Sammy and Dimps. As for Bakugan, Sega used to distribute the cards and toys of the franchise in Japan, but the rights were transferred to Takara Tomy by 2018 when Bakugan Battle Planet happened. Otherwise, Spin Master handled international distribution of Bakugan toys and cards since the series' inception by around 2006, even during the Battle Planet and Battle Clan eras.

I liked that Panzer Dragoon remake well enough but it didn't have the same vibe as the original. I'm torn between wanting Zwei and Saga getting re-released and knowing it'll just be lacking the magic.

Even though Sports Interactive makes Football Manager, its was weird seeing SEGA on the cover box. Fine by me! Easy money for them, there is no competition for FM at the moment. And I really would love a new Virtua Tennis.

that panzer dragoon remake was just poor.

Listening to that Panzer Dragoon music really gets me in the feels 🥹 Oh my childhood.

Crash was kind of Sony's mascot now owned by Microsoft being published by Sega for a Nintendo Console! Wow! would we have believed it back in the 90s!?

Some Sega's staff were mentioned in SoR 4 credits. Almost all Yakuza/Binary Domain/Judgment developers like Daisuke Sato, Sumito Nakai and Daiki Tsuchimoto. Sega is directly involved in this game

It's another in a long string of decisions that makes me shake my head at Sega, Dan. It feels like the company has such disdain for their own IPs (especially if they are from the Saturn days) yet will jump on board to publish highly questionable projects or things that do nothing for the brand. They'll send cease and desist orders on fan remakes and join Nintendo in attacking romsites, yet refuse to make their backlog available themselves. They might be more financially stable since the Sammy merger but I'll never understand their business mentality. Anyway, good video as always!

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