LD. I'm grateful you're continuing with the content in spite of personal difficulties. I am concerned for yur ongoing mental welbeing, but at the same time? I can speak for nobody else when I say this but I'm glad you're continuing on.
Sega of the mid 90s was the corporate equivalent of throwing spaghetti on the wall and seeing what sticked. As opposed to the tried and true formula of giving the consumer a good overall product.
A lot of companies practiced this, even into the mid 2000's. Sega really were smoking some serious stuff back then, but like all addictions it eventually ruins you.
Meanwhile, their master system and their Megadrive/genesis made tens of millions of happy kids... I remember going home and start playing games like streets of rage 3, or thunder force 4... And I also remember seeing an Arabic guy buying like 3 or 4 consoles, and maybe over 50 games, for his young son, and spending the equivalent of today's 5000-7000 $ or €... while I, I could barely buy 1 or 2 games per year. That day, I learned a new word: injustice
They were a rock solid company, that for probably multiple reasons/circumstances seemed to have lost their way. The 32X was a bad deal, as was the CD. Both promised a lot and delivered very little. Not sure why they ever developed either product?
Yusssss. Pleased to see some freshie Sega retro content from the beloved channel. Keep doing what you're doing! Biggest of up's to you, and the Mr. Tophat 🙏🎮📺✨💜
If Sega would have continued making more consoles after the Dreamcast, imagine them naming the later ones after constellations: Sega Ursa Major, Sega Libra, Sega Sagitarius, etc.
To be honest I think SEGA actually came up with the best console names overall, compared to any of the competition. Only SEGA consoles had pretty kickass names; Master System (pretty bold for a start), Genesis / Mega Drive, Saturn, heck even their portables (Game Gear and Nomad). And of course, the Sega Dreamcast (which I would argue is the best console name of all time). Atari wasn't bad with the Jaguar name (could have continued on with other animal-based console names if they had been successful, would have been interesting names for follow ups), and maybe NEC were on to something starting with the TurboGraphx. But SEGA steals the show for good and great console names. Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft are completely unimaginative by comparison it's not even fair.
i'm glad i subscribed to this channel! i never knew about sega's lost consoles and this channel is allowing me to expand my knowledge on other companies as well. keep up the excellent work!
Thank you for this. Now the 32X makes total sense : the trust wasn't there yet in CD-ROM based systems. Sega were playing on two tables, with a cheap option (as long as you had a Mega Drive) and an expensive option, the Saturn. The Jupiter could have been the right middle-ground.
Nah, it just makes everything make even less sense. One more console on top of all the other consoles and add-ons they had out at that time. They made a huge mess for themselves in the mid 90's, and we all know how that turned out for them in the end. There was very poor cooperation between SOA and SOJ. They were not on the same page, and that continued even into the development of their final console.
@@brooklynknite I have TURBOGRAFX-16 , NEO-GEO AES Super Nintendo, N- 64, and Genesis 32X. I can't live without my retro systems I don't want to ever miss those days. 🎛🔉🎵🕹🤩📺🕹🤯🎧🎚🔊🎶
@@cpu64 I kept all my consoles too, but that wasn't the norm. Most people back then either had their parents make them get rid of the old console and games for the new one, or they did it so that they'd have a bunch of money to put towards the new console. Also, many people unfortunately don't care about the old consoles too much.
A Necessity of gracious living be about this channel being back up and running again! Thank god ! Where else am I gunna get my occasional Dreamcast , Saturn , Street Fighter related info
The cartridge slot on the saturn should have been used to attach a ram cart expansion with megadrive backward compatibility, and sega cd support, like the power base converter for sms backwards compatibility. It would have been a game changer.
personally I think Sega just should have built the Saturn off of Mega Drive hardware so we wouldn't have to deal with add-ons. They should have just used the same cartridges lot and added sega/mega CD compatibility.
I was an Amiga boy; started with A500 modded it into an A1500, got an A1200 (ah, Syndicate, Pong and Dune, them were the days). I think I managed to get a CD32 second-hand before finally owning the pinnacle, an A4000. I still have a GVP Zorro port IO expansion from the time I ran a multi-modem BBS system from home.
Please carry on with your excellent content and ignore your trolls! There is a say in Spain "ladran, luego cabalgamos", that literally translated it's kind of nonsense but it means that if you have trolls you are probably doing some great things
Lady Decade content, a necessity for gracious living! Another awesome video, by the Queen of retro gaming! Keep up the awesome work and ignore the idiots.
I've also have never heard of these consoles that Sega had..all these years and same thing with Nintendo which only few were forgotten..Thank You Very Much for that, Lady Decade..Well Done 👍..Stay Safe always for You and Big Daddy Top Hat 😊
Always a fan of these type videos especially when they have good knowledge and content.. instant fan of this channel I live watching these when a blaze... im watching this again like 25 times lmao
As a lifelong Sega fanboy who owns every console of their's and every variant of such, I have always unofficially called the Dreamcast "Project Uranus". It's my favorite of the planets, has rings like Saturn, and it's axis is all messed up and it's wobbly as it spins around our Solar System. It was also the one planet Sega never used as a codename. Sega was on shaky ground during the development of the Dreamcast, hence the reason I call it "Project Uranus" because of it's axis.
From an architectural perspective, releasing cartridge-based games for Saturn it's completely feasible for the final release, as the cartridge ports have full access to the main bus and also it's bootable, as we see when we connect cartridges like the Acton Replay. It's just any game that's used the port for that purpose. Partially, because you have two games that indeed used the ROM capabilities of ports, like Ultraman and KOF 95. Also, the Cartridge RAM-based games use the RAM cartridges as ROM cartridges instead, and that it's because instead of randomly reading and writing content to the cartridge, this games charge the cartridge with the whole content, therefore accessing this content as would be if was a ROM.
They are making another Sega classic I heard it will have some Sega CD games built in the system like Sonic CD and Shining Force 3 They are also making another Sega
IIRC, the Jupiter was to be a Saturn lite with no CD-ROM, less memory, etc, but would be backward compatible with the 32X CD, giving a smoother upgrade path for consumers. Jupiter was supposed to have been canceled first because CD-ROMs became less expensive, and the Neptune was supposed to fill in the mid-range gap. However, with the complete collapse of 32X sales in Winter of 1995, the Neptune was also canceled, meaning that SEGA suddenly had no hardware available for less than the shocking Neo-Geo pricetag of $400 and only two launch titles. When developers suddenly shifted to Saturn and PlayStation, SEGA found itself with few third party games for 1995-96, quickly falling from 55% marketshare to 3%. Had they made a $200, one SH2 version of Jupiter and let consumers buy the $200 CD addon later (or only if they wanted more expansive games), then the Jupiter-Saturn combo would probably have won the Console Wars. By letting the 30+ million existing Genesis owners save money by simply swapping the box--reusing their controllers, accessories, and adapters, we could've bought the much more powerful Jupiter console for about $160, the same as the 32X addon and at the same time. Yet SEGA had already become famous for releasing expensive, money losing ($100/box) hardware and discontinuing it as soon as they saw a sales slump. The company was pretty much on deathwatch by developers and enthusiasts as soon as Sega CD buyers realized that the powerful ASIC-DSP scaling/rotation hardware was never going to be used. Imagine how cool the $199 Jupiter would've been, especially if it could play Genesis games.
This idea is much better than the 32x/32x cd add-on and made more sense as a affordable console. Should've been released in 1992 or 1993. Cancel the sega cd or add the neptune hardware on a standalone sega cd or duo console.
The idea is you could upgrade a Jupiter to a Saturn while the Saturn could play the Jupiter's cartridge games. So they were the exact same console in effect, just one was cheaper and missing some stuff.
The advantage of optical drives was there storage capacity vs expensive mask or EEPROM counterparts. But by the time audio CDs came about the demand for cd optical drives significantly reduced the cost as well as manufacturing the discs them selves. The big disadvantage is reliability due being built to a price. Over time laser diodes die and the plastic mechanism of the optical drives begin to ware, the lubricant hardens and the gears begin to chafe. The optical discs fair no better. They are made by pressing pits into a polycarbonate with a foil laminated (glued to its top). Overtime the plastic looses it's plasticity and becomes brittle. The metallic foil begins to delaminate and oxidise leaving you with a useless disc.
Project Titan sounds interesting, but I'm really interested in the Triforce Arcade Board... an arcade system based on the Gamecube that was a collaboration between Nintendo, Sega, and Namco.
Theres no technical reason I'm aware of the Saturn cart slot couldn't have been used for ROM cartridges. There just wasn't any incentive to produce any once the saturn came with the cd rom as standard. Far better to produce a RAM cart that could be used with ANY games instead of a dedicated rom cart that would only work with indivudual games, and there was way more space on the cd than you'd ever get space on a cart. Using the cart port as a cart port only made sense if you had a version of the machine with no CD ROM drive. CD's were massive and infintely cheaper than ROM carts. For it to be like a cheaper Saturn suggests something akin to the Neptune, the combined Megadrive and 32x.
Sega and Lego should have merged. They both love stacking interlocking things on top of other interlocking things. Stack stack stack stack, and then it turns into a gestalt robot and goes on a rampage. Tell me you haven't already imagined it! Or is it just me?
I have a "behind the scenes" question. How far ahead do you make/shoot your vids? I just watch this and your last and wonder if it was made before or after that whole DMCA ordeal. You are just as great as ever in these latest vids. I just hope that jerk didn't affect you too badly and you grown even stronger than you were before.
Sega must have gone through the solar system by this point with all their unreleased prototypes. They really did manufacture their own demise, to many unneeded projects spending huge amounts of R&D money, if Sega had just followed up the MD/GEN with a fantastic 32Bit CD based system, with a MD/GEN slot for backwards compatibility, launch games like Sonic 4, Sonic CD Plus, Streets of Rage 3, Golden Axe 2, Toe Jam & Earl 2, a new Echo game, Earth Worm Jim 3, Altered Beast 2 and so on, basically sequel's that everyone wanted at the time from the best MD/GEN games, they could have used the 32Bit hardware upgrade to make some really beautiful 2D games building on the already great artwork of the MD/GEN, they could have gone 2.5D with some of them, but the technology wasn't good enough yet for decent 3D, so updated 2D would have made much more sense, with FMV cutscenes and CD soundtracks, good quality MIDI/FM Synth sound effects and music, a combination of the MD/GEN, the CD32 and the 32X. Instead, they diluted themselves's, released to many add-ons and subpar games, when all they had to do was release one good nex gen console, they finally got it right with the Dreamcast, brilliant hardware, good games, but they got scared when the PS2 was around the corner and gave up to easy, the DC was a much better console gaming hardware wise, better video IQ, better sound hardware, more innovative unique games with a huge library of IP's to draw from, such a shame, even the online MP was ahead of it's time, the DC still looks incredible when hooked up by VGA to a PC monitor to this day, we don't really get the fun Sega style games any more, Crazy Taxi, Jet Grind Radio, Chu-Chu Rocket, Segagaga, Seaman, Chanel No.5, Toy Commander, Skies of Arcadia, REZ, Power Stone, Shenmue, Samba De Amigo and so on, they were Nintendo level of polished, but often much more experimental than Nintendo's usual releases, Nintendo can be experimental, like Doshin the Giant, Chibi-Robo, Pik-Min etc, but those are getting rare as well now.
The Saturn may of failed in USA but there's tons of Japanese games with English options. Saturn and Dreamcast are both the best fighting consoles ever made. I run Akura Box on Dreamcast and for Saturn SVIDEO CRT or I use SCART if I must play on HDTV. Sometimes I use my 32 inch HDTV and run S-Video on Saturn and set the resolution in Native and it looks okay cuz it's 480p. VGA signal is a must for Dreamcast.
Do an Episode on how Microsoft Betrayed Sega in a bodysnatcher's corporate horror story, bringing an end to a glorious era and opening the path to such "games" as Ride to Hell: Retribution.
The Saturn was capable of booting from cartridges (just look at the Pro Action Replay/GameShark), and presumably could play games from a ROM cart if there was ever one developed
since they launched Saturn at $400 it doesn't surprise me they were trying figure out a way to have a $200 or $250 version of it sans CD drive, $400 was a killer for most gamers at least in North America. If 32X had never existed it might not have been the worst thing in the world, although 299 PS1 launch would have destroyed a 250 non cd saturn machine. It was already confusing for casual gamers with 32X. I always leave Sega CD out of all of this, I don't know why people insist on bringing it in, most people who actually bought a Sega CD loved it and still have good memories of it, doesn't deserve to be lumped in with 32X.
And here we are today, 27 years later with the Xbox Series S and X. Sega was never wrong, just early.
It would be so awesome to see Sega make consoles again
LD.
I'm grateful you're continuing with the content in spite of personal difficulties. I am concerned for yur ongoing mental welbeing, but at the same time? I can speak for nobody else when I say this but I'm glad you're continuing on.
Sega of the mid 90s was the corporate equivalent of throwing spaghetti on the wall and seeing what sticked. As opposed to the tried and true formula of giving the consumer a good overall product.
*Sega of America. The clowns in charge over there were just something else. They had a great thing going and pissed it all away in record time.
A lot of companies practiced this, even into the mid 2000's. Sega really were smoking some serious stuff back then, but like all addictions it eventually ruins you.
Meanwhile, their master system and their Megadrive/genesis made tens of millions of happy kids...
I remember going home and start playing games like streets of rage 3, or thunder force 4...
And I also remember seeing an Arabic guy buying like 3 or 4 consoles, and maybe over 50 games, for his young son, and spending the equivalent of today's 5000-7000 $ or €... while I, I could barely buy 1 or 2 games per year. That day, I learned a new word: injustice
1994 is the turning point and decline of sega.
They were a rock solid company, that for probably multiple reasons/circumstances seemed to have lost their way. The 32X was a bad deal, as was the CD. Both promised a lot and delivered very little. Not sure why they ever developed either product?
It is amazing how many constellations, SEGA utilized as project names. Kinda miss it.
Yusssss. Pleased to see some freshie Sega retro content from the beloved channel. Keep doing what you're doing! Biggest of up's to you, and the Mr. Tophat 🙏🎮📺✨💜
If Sega would have continued making more consoles after the Dreamcast, imagine them naming the later ones after constellations:
Sega Ursa Major, Sega Libra, Sega Sagitarius, etc.
I can see the advert now
"Insert your disc into Sega's Uranus"
To be honest I think SEGA actually came up with the best console names overall, compared to any of the competition. Only SEGA consoles had pretty kickass names; Master System (pretty bold for a start), Genesis / Mega Drive, Saturn, heck even their portables (Game Gear and Nomad). And of course, the Sega Dreamcast (which I would argue is the best console name of all time). Atari wasn't bad with the Jaguar name (could have continued on with other animal-based console names if they had been successful, would have been interesting names for follow ups), and maybe NEC were on to something starting with the TurboGraphx. But SEGA steals the show for good and great console names. Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft are completely unimaginative by comparison it's not even fair.
they stopped making consoles because they ran out of planets
....... eventually and finally ending up with the Sega Big Bang
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i'm glad i subscribed to this channel! i never knew about sega's lost consoles and this channel is allowing me to expand my knowledge on other companies as well. keep up the excellent work!
Thank you for this. Now the 32X makes total sense : the trust wasn't there yet in CD-ROM based systems. Sega were playing on two tables, with a cheap option (as long as you had a Mega Drive) and an expensive option, the Saturn. The Jupiter could have been the right middle-ground.
Nah, it just makes everything make even less sense. One more console on top of all the other consoles and add-ons they had out at that time. They made a huge mess for themselves in the mid 90's, and we all know how that turned out for them in the end. There was very poor cooperation between SOA and SOJ. They were not on the same page, and that continued even into the development of their final console.
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Glad to see you making videos and doing well !! Thanks for being here for us the true fans !!
Really enjoyed this dive into the Jupiter. Great to see you keeping the videos coming.
_Nintendo is gonna turn your Sega into Uranus_
...or something
I had a Turbo Grafx-16 and a Super Nintendo. Miss those days.
I still have my super Nintendo.
@@brooklynknite I have
TURBOGRAFX-16 , NEO-GEO AES
Super Nintendo, N- 64, and Genesis 32X. I can't live without my retro systems
I don't want to ever miss those days.
🎛🔉🎵🕹🤩📺🕹🤯🎧🎚🔊🎶
Should've kept them, I have everything still hooked up.
@@cpu64 I kept all my consoles too, but that wasn't the norm. Most people back then either had their parents make them get rid of the old console and games for the new one, or they did it so that they'd have a bunch of money to put towards the new console. Also, many people unfortunately don't care about the old consoles too much.
A Necessity of gracious living be about this channel being back up and running again! Thank god ! Where else am I gunna get my occasional Dreamcast , Saturn , Street Fighter related info
The cartridge slot on the saturn should have been used to attach a ram cart expansion with megadrive backward compatibility, and sega cd support, like the power base converter for sms backwards compatibility. It would have been a game changer.
Hell yeah. Add a little advertising tidbit about "making your Genesis games look their best" or something and I think it would've flown off the shelf
personally I think Sega just should have built the Saturn off of Mega Drive hardware so we wouldn't have to deal with add-ons. They should have just used the same cartridges lot and added sega/mega CD compatibility.
Great video as always, your collection must be worth quite a bit, I'm seriously jealous!
Hello my Lady ✌️ it's so good to see you do what we all love and that's the games channel you do best ☺️
Don't let those chump bring you down Lady Decades. You are the Lady to Deck us out with sweet retro gaming history. Keep on Rock'n!
I was an Amiga boy; started with A500 modded it into an A1500, got an A1200 (ah, Syndicate, Pong and Dune, them were the days). I think I managed to get a CD32 second-hand before finally owning the pinnacle, an A4000. I still have a GVP Zorro port IO expansion from the time I ran a multi-modem BBS system from home.
Glad your back. Thanks for the awesome content. 😁
Don’t forget the fabled SEGA Neptune.
Good to see you back
Please carry on with your excellent content and ignore your trolls! There is a say in Spain "ladran, luego cabalgamos", that literally translated it's kind of nonsense but it means that if you have trolls you are probably doing some great things
Keep simping
@@kurisu3000 straight up
Sega, forever in our hearts
I legit searched Sega unreleased consoles and this was just posted minutes ago! Brilliant
Happy Tuesday more lady decade :D
Good stuff, as always. You're the best 👍
Lady Decade content, a necessity for gracious living! Another awesome video, by the Queen of retro gaming! Keep up the awesome work and ignore the idiots.
Thank you for your content. I love sega’s canceled consoles. Especially the sega Pluto.
I've also have never heard of these consoles that Sega had..all these years and same thing with Nintendo which only few were forgotten..Thank You Very Much for that, Lady Decade..Well Done 👍..Stay Safe always for You and Big Daddy Top Hat 😊
Great video Lady D❤
Always a fan of these type videos especially when they have good knowledge and content.. instant fan of this channel I live watching these when a blaze... im watching this again like 25 times lmao
great vid! i always thought the saturn got its name from the rings looking like a cd disc. 6th planet = 6th console release makes sense.
Nailing it again LD!
That was a great intro!
Have you did *Sega Channel* yet? Man, I miss my* Sega Saturn*
Love your energy subscribed 😊
As a lifelong Sega fanboy who owns every console of their's and every variant of such, I have always unofficially called the Dreamcast "Project Uranus".
It's my favorite of the planets, has rings like Saturn, and it's axis is all messed up and it's wobbly as it spins around our Solar System. It was also the one planet Sega never used as a codename.
Sega was on shaky ground during the development of the Dreamcast, hence the reason I call it "Project Uranus" because of it's axis.
Interesting video, please do work on a video for the Titan system! Cheers!
From an architectural perspective, releasing cartridge-based games for Saturn it's completely feasible for the final release, as the cartridge ports have full access to the main bus and also it's bootable, as we see when we connect cartridges like the Acton Replay. It's just any game that's used the port for that purpose. Partially, because you have two games that indeed used the ROM capabilities of ports, like Ultraman and KOF 95.
Also, the Cartridge RAM-based games use the RAM cartridges as ROM cartridges instead, and that it's because instead of randomly reading and writing content to the cartridge, this games charge the cartridge with the whole content, therefore accessing this content as would be if was a ROM.
Awesome Video, Lady Decade your channel is so informative 😎✌️
Never knew this even existed. Awesome documentary!
Omg, the Panzer Dragoon Screenshot is amazing! Could you please make a documentary on the development of this?
That would be awesome.
Thanks LD, another top vid! :) It would have been pretty cool if the Jupiter was Sega's rival to the Neo Geo, with actual arcade quality 2D games.
Superb video
I love your content Ms lady decade ❤
So glad u are back!
They are making another Sega classic I heard it will have some Sega CD games built in the system like Sonic CD and Shining Force 3
They are also making another Sega
Sega Neptune Confirmed.
Great seeing you still making great content.So well done.
So happy you're feeling better.
IIRC, the Jupiter was to be a Saturn lite with no CD-ROM, less memory, etc, but would be backward compatible with the 32X CD, giving a smoother upgrade path for consumers. Jupiter was supposed to have been canceled first because CD-ROMs became less expensive, and the Neptune was supposed to fill in the mid-range gap. However, with the complete collapse of 32X sales in Winter of 1995, the Neptune was also canceled, meaning that SEGA suddenly had no hardware available for less than the shocking Neo-Geo pricetag of $400 and only two launch titles. When developers suddenly shifted to Saturn and PlayStation, SEGA found itself with few third party games for 1995-96, quickly falling from 55% marketshare to 3%.
Had they made a $200, one SH2 version of Jupiter and let consumers buy the $200 CD addon later (or only if they wanted more expansive games), then the Jupiter-Saturn combo would probably have won the Console Wars. By letting the 30+ million existing Genesis owners save money by simply swapping the box--reusing their controllers, accessories, and adapters, we could've bought the much more powerful Jupiter console for about $160, the same as the 32X addon and at the same time.
Yet SEGA had already become famous for releasing expensive, money losing ($100/box) hardware and discontinuing it as soon as they saw a sales slump. The company was pretty much on deathwatch by developers and enthusiasts as soon as Sega CD buyers realized that the powerful ASIC-DSP scaling/rotation hardware was never going to be used.
Imagine how cool the $199 Jupiter would've been, especially if it could play Genesis games.
It's a good day every time we can enjoy new content from you! Please do that deep-dive into the Sega Titan Video! I look forward to your take on it.
Hello lady decade I'm glad to see you're still making videos I hope everything worked out for you :-)
I remember waiting for this console the minute I saw it in my sega magazine.
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Basically a rumor of systems in the works, that got repurposed by the market itself, and with a prototype inspired by the Jupiter, the Neptune.
I miss Sega innovations 😢
A truly cursed console!
On the road to 100K
This idea is much better than the 32x/32x cd add-on and made more sense as a affordable console. Should've been released in 1992 or 1993. Cancel the sega cd or add the neptune hardware on a standalone sega cd or duo console.
Those 5 32X CD ROM games all suck. Terrible and not even worth loading.
My favourite is unreleased Sega Uranus xD
Can't wait! 🤣
Sega Jupiter forgotten
If the Sega Jupiter came out, then Nintendo PlayStation should have been released first.
“Where does this madness even end!?!” 😂
I love the idea of the cartridge system, but then also planning to release a CD drive is lunacy, whilst running alongside the Saturn.
The idea is you could upgrade a Jupiter to a Saturn while the Saturn could play the Jupiter's cartridge games. So they were the exact same console in effect, just one was cheaper and missing some stuff.
Now that you teased us, Ju-piter tell us more about this Titan machine ;-)
The advantage of optical drives was there storage capacity vs expensive mask or EEPROM counterparts. But by the time audio CDs came about the demand for cd optical drives significantly reduced the cost as well as manufacturing the discs them selves.
The big disadvantage is reliability due being built to a price. Over time laser diodes die and the plastic mechanism of the optical drives begin to ware, the lubricant hardens and the gears begin to chafe.
The optical discs fair no better. They are made by pressing pits into a polycarbonate with a foil laminated (glued to its top). Overtime the plastic looses it's plasticity and becomes brittle. The metallic foil begins to delaminate and oxidise leaving you with a useless disc.
I love SEGA and I know about the Jupiter
In a parallel universe Sega never went out of the console market and released the whole solar system and Sega Earth the ultimate game console
They should've released both systems and just make the Jupiter games cheaper and the Saturn games more expensive.
Project Titan sounds interesting, but I'm really interested in the Triforce Arcade Board... an arcade system based on the Gamecube that was a collaboration between Nintendo, Sega, and Namco.
Well, you will enjoy content coming next week then :)
Theres no technical reason I'm aware of the Saturn cart slot couldn't have been used for ROM cartridges. There just wasn't any incentive to produce any once the saturn came with the cd rom as standard. Far better to produce a RAM cart that could be used with ANY games instead of a dedicated rom cart that would only work with indivudual games, and there was way more space on the cd than you'd ever get space on a cart.
Using the cart port as a cart port only made sense if you had a version of the machine with no CD ROM drive. CD's were massive and infintely cheaper than ROM carts. For it to be like a cheaper Saturn suggests something akin to the Neptune, the combined Megadrive and 32x.
I am so thankful for your content. Keep up the excellent work.
Give us the Titan!
Before I watch this, I always thought "Jupiter" was the code name for the dreamcast, I swear I heard that back in the day.
I love your videos, I’ve seen most of them… I finally have a gripe though, the way you say ‘sixth’ slightly bothers me. 😂😂
Too many consoles, not enough games.
Would like titan vid, yes.
Sega and Lego should have merged. They both love stacking interlocking things on top of other interlocking things. Stack stack stack stack, and then it turns into a gestalt robot and goes on a rampage. Tell me you haven't already imagined it! Or is it just me?
Deep dive on the titan please!
I'm a little surprised, that no one thought about sailor Moon and her team, when it comes to a color scheme.
That's from "lifestyles of the rich and famous" right? Lol nice
Seems like Sega had obsessions with planets just like Atari had obsessions with cats
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sega didn't name their consoles after planets, they are named after super heroes in sailor suits!!!
Was it just me that noticed some Ridge Racer mixed in with a sega focused video?
I have a "behind the scenes" question. How far ahead do you make/shoot your vids? I just watch this and your last and wonder if it was made before or after that whole DMCA ordeal. You are just as great as ever in these latest vids. I just hope that jerk didn't affect you too badly and you grown even stronger than you were before.
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Sega must have gone through the solar system by this point with all their unreleased prototypes. They really did manufacture their own demise, to many unneeded projects spending huge amounts of R&D money, if Sega had just followed up the MD/GEN with a fantastic 32Bit CD based system, with a MD/GEN slot for backwards compatibility, launch games like Sonic 4, Sonic CD Plus, Streets of Rage 3, Golden Axe 2, Toe Jam & Earl 2, a new Echo game, Earth Worm Jim 3, Altered Beast 2 and so on, basically sequel's that everyone wanted at the time from the best MD/GEN games, they could have used the 32Bit hardware upgrade to make some really beautiful 2D games building on the already great artwork of the MD/GEN, they could have gone 2.5D with some of them, but the technology wasn't good enough yet for decent 3D, so updated 2D would have made much more sense, with FMV cutscenes and CD soundtracks, good quality MIDI/FM Synth sound effects and music, a combination of the MD/GEN, the CD32 and the 32X. Instead, they diluted themselves's, released to many add-ons and subpar games, when all they had to do was release one good nex gen console, they finally got it right with the Dreamcast, brilliant hardware, good games, but they got scared when the PS2 was around the corner and gave up to easy, the DC was a much better console gaming hardware wise, better video IQ, better sound hardware, more innovative unique games with a huge library of IP's to draw from, such a shame, even the online MP was ahead of it's time, the DC still looks incredible when hooked up by VGA to a PC monitor to this day, we don't really get the fun Sega style games any more, Crazy Taxi, Jet Grind Radio, Chu-Chu Rocket, Segagaga, Seaman, Chanel No.5, Toy Commander, Skies of Arcadia, REZ, Power Stone, Shenmue, Samba De Amigo and so on, they were Nintendo level of polished, but often much more experimental than Nintendo's usual releases, Nintendo can be experimental, like Doshin the Giant, Chibi-Robo, Pik-Min etc, but those are getting rare as well now.
The Saturn may of failed in USA but there's tons of Japanese games with English options. Saturn and Dreamcast are both the best fighting consoles ever made. I run Akura Box on Dreamcast and for Saturn SVIDEO CRT or I use SCART if I must play on HDTV. Sometimes I use my 32 inch HDTV and run S-Video on Saturn and set the resolution in Native and it looks okay cuz it's 480p. VGA signal is a must for Dreamcast.
Huh, were they going to try and go through the entire solar system?
Do an Episode on how Microsoft Betrayed Sega in a bodysnatcher's corporate horror story, bringing an end to a glorious era and opening the path to such "games" as Ride to Hell: Retribution.
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Interesting.
The Saturn was capable of booting from cartridges (just look at the Pro Action Replay/GameShark), and presumably could play games from a ROM cart if there was ever one developed
Don't know if I'm too tired or just a dummy, but when I heard it was "180 pounds" I had a wtf moment. Then I got it.
Considering the Saturn ended up needing more RAM to run some snk and Capcom games properly I'm glad they didn't make a system with half the RAM
since they launched Saturn at $400 it doesn't surprise me they were trying figure out a way to have a $200 or $250 version of it sans CD drive, $400 was a killer for most gamers at least in North America. If 32X had never existed it might not have been the worst thing in the world, although 299 PS1 launch would have destroyed a 250 non cd saturn machine. It was already confusing for casual gamers with 32X. I always leave Sega CD out of all of this, I don't know why people insist on bringing it in, most people who actually bought a Sega CD loved it and still have good memories of it, doesn't deserve to be lumped in with 32X.