I have one, was playing street fighter zero 2 dash with a friend and the music kept cutting out. I've heard issues with other fighters as well and there being some fixes; I think I have to submit a bug report. Resetting the console with the 4mb ram cart doesn't seem to boot back to the satiator either. Hopefully compatibility continues to improve!
I own a Satiator and MODE, and hands down the later is a much more developed product. This is defintely a BETA product which will improve in time. Still waiting on Marvel Super Heroes Vs Street Fighter to work. Game tends to boot you back to the multiplayer after playing several rounds. Some games tend to break after fixing other issues. Luckily Prof Abrasive is on it for the most part.
I like living in a world where if an expansion slot or port exists on a piece of hardware, someone is going to invent something to utilize it in a way the original designer never intended nor could have imagined.
Hey Joe, just a quick clarification about the exFAT situation: Prof went back and forth on supporting it a couple times. At first he thought it was not going to be possible to support it, at least not while still being able to update the firmware due to a memory limitation, however he did find a workaround. Later on the issue was the cost of licensing exFAT from Microsoft, but he was able to score a volume license relatively inexpensively through a third party, so in the final release it is supported! That Patreon post you quoted was from over a year ago before he found that licensing solution.
5:49 So it lets you play backups? That's actually a really good feature. As this video shows, there are some games that have issues. If the Satiator lets you play backups, then for those games with issues, just burn a CD. That, in a way, fills in the holes.
"...or maybe you just want to run everything on a raspberry pi, and make sure that everyone on the internet knows that you'd rather run everything on raspberry pi." This got me good, never change my friend : )
Well I have a raspberry pi. I'd love to run Saturn games on there but it's not powerful enough yet. Maybe by the raspberry pi 6 it will be powerful enough.
In the russian forums, when a piece of retro hardware like Genesis or SNES or PSX is discussed, there's always a ton of folks with comments like "lol $$$$, me gonna buy a Raspberry pi instead"
There is firmware update for the Action Replay cart by Professor Abrasive and it works great. Allows the Action Replay to be used and when you press the button combination will boot back to the Satiator game select screen. I have seen few games that will not go back but overall works great and very useful.
@@Shark97281 You don't actually need to copy memory to system to make it work. The way the Satiator works is that if you press the reset button on the console, it bypasses the Satiator menu. The Satiator will keep loading whatever game you selected until you power cycle the console. Thus if you have a patched Action Replay cart and press the reset button, it loads into the cart. The Action Replay cart will not work without patching due to the way the unpatched AR loads its code into memory. When you want to go back into the Satiator menu, just power cycle the Saturn. I also had a flash error when I first tried. I was following the instructions exactly (insert the cart after loading the Satiator menu), but as it turns out, these cartridge slots and carts seem to be rather finicky, so I reseated the cart and it flashed properly. Other people have had the same problem with the same solution.
@@Shark97281 Oh, okay. I misunderstood what you said. Yeah, saving on the AR cart is nice because the system memory fills up so quickly. You can certainly do that, but you just don't have to in order to make the AR cheats work. That's what I meant. "re you telling me that the satiator somehow made it possible to load games from my AR card?" No. If you select a game using the Satiator menu, and then hit the reset button, the Satiator menu is bypassed. So if you don't have a cart inserted, it will just load the game you selected previously. If you do have a cart installed, it'll boot off the cart and you can use it to select whatever cheats you want before loading the game. The game always loads off the Satiator, as it would if you put a disc in. The AR cart doesn't have enough storage to hold an entire CD game.
@@Shark97281 I'm looking into it right now. Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter is one of the games that has had the most problems. Are you on the latest firmware and menu? Current versions are 157 and 64. I can load matches just fine without any glitches but between rounds it will occasionally kick me back to the Satiator menu. I just tried something: I selected the game, then at the Start screen I hit reset on the console to boot into the AR. Then I started the game that way. I played through four rounds of fights before I lost and went back to the Start screen, played another round and it was still working. So give that a try. Edit: Never mind! I just tried it again, and upon pressing start, it kicked me back to the CD player screen. I think we'll just need to wait for more fixes before this game works perfectly. Lots of people have reported varying degrees of the game working and then not working.
@@Shark97281 Hey, sorry I didn't respond sooner. The only translation I've currently loaded up is the Policenauts translation, which I downloaded as a patched version from somewhere (I honestly can't remember). But usually the mnethod is that you take the original game ISO and use a utility to patch the game, creating a new ISO. Then you'd just copy that to the Satiator. Are you asking about how to patch and create a translated ISO? I've never done that but I'm sure I could figure it out if that's what you're asking. Otherwise you can always search for a pre-patched version, although you probably want to make sure it's a final version made from a legit ISO dump, which isn't always easy. Like I said, once it's patched you just load the patched ISO onto the Satiator like any other game. It should work just like the unpatched game.
Probably, or maybe "Sey-shi-e-taa". It says セイシエター, so you could argue it's "Sē-shi-e-taa" (long e, not "say"), but if they just wanted a long e, they could have used the extension character ー instead of イ (I) there. By the way, it's curious they wanted to make the last vowel long as well with that extension.
@@SimonPiano42 That long final syllable may just be due to how different the Japanese R sounds are from the English R sounds. Like they're approximating the English R maybe?
Here we go :), I have been interested in this device. I have a Saturn, only a hand full of games, and sadly some have disc rot. Although its not something I would buy right now, I am happy something like this exists.
I bought one of these and so far I absolutely love it. Can still play CD games, but for convenience sake the thing is just incredible. Now I can play Super Tempo without spending hundreds of dollars!
I think it's a lifesaver for folks with large libraries of retail games. I never installed an HDD into my PS2 Slim because I have a few sweet black CDs to spin in it, so I boot all my... cough, backups, cough off an USB stick.
Having used a RetroPi, I find it decent but the button configuration was too frustrating. They put the menu hotkey on Start and Select... which you need to reset GB/GBA games or manually save in Zelda GB games. And I agree on how annoying those people are. We get it, you pirate and have low standards. Now please shut up and let other people have their fun.
@@penismightier9278 yesh, the classic xbox emulators were a lot more friendlier when it comes to button configuration and they always set the menu button to the R3 buttons.
@@penismightier9278 I'd get the terraonion mode for Saturn or any ode device. The main reason is that plenty of Saturn games are close to or exceed 100 dollars each per game. Ode devices are pretty much unavoidable these days.
I got one of these. I was never going to remove my CD drive- I think a lot of folks are going to regret doing that. I love how easy going it is with game formats, most everything works. I’ve only experienced one glitch (Burning Rangers intro locks up after a few reruns- no biggie). Meanwhile, while I own no multi-disc games, I wonder if you can just use your original media or CDR’s to solve that rare problem.
Would you say it's worth getting if affordability isn't an issue? I've got a Fenrir for one of my Saturn consoles, and it's good, but I have been having some problems, primarily because of issues with seating the ribbon and having to unscrew and remove the cover each time I need to fix or amend the game list.
Just for clarification at 7:44 - Many people use the AR as an 4mb because the official hardware is sometimes hard to get a hold of. So there you go if you need an 4mb cart!
If you're willing to spend the money on it, and you're on the fence, let me just say that you should probably buy it. The thing is, some of the downsides that Joe mentions are just due to ignorance (no offense to Joe, I had to figure them out myself). The AR cart flash failure, for instance, is a common occurrence due to the cartridge slot and cartridge. All he needed to do was re-seat the cart and it would have worked. Likewise, once patched, you can use the AR cart as you normally would, by simply selecting a game off the Satiator menu, then pressing the reset button on the console itself. This bypasses the Satiator menu, allowing you to boot into the AR cart. The Satiator will load whatever game you selected prior to hitting reset. And regarding another thing that Joe mentioned, there IS a way to get back to the Satiator menu. You simply press A+B+C+Start. Normally this soft resets the game, but if you do it again once you're at the title screen, it will take you back to the Satiator menu. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work in every game. Some games will just keep soft resetting. I'm not sure if this is something that Abrasive can eventually solve or if it's how the game was programmed. It may be the latter. One thing to keep in mind is that Professor Abrasive is constantly updating this and seeking feedback to create bug fixes. So if there is a specific bug you experience with a game, hop into his discord and tell him directly. He's usually pretty quick on fixing bugs. If the price really bothers you and you don't mind modding your console, get a MODE. It's a great device that seems to work very well with Saturn and Terraonion makes some great products. They're also not a one-man job. I personally am a bit too attached to my Saturn to discard parts and solder things to the board when there's a plug-and-play option available. Also, I happen to think that this device is incredibly ingenious and I'm happy to support all of the amazing work that went into making it. It works well for most of the games I have played and I love that my Saturn is still completely stock. It is such a unique device and it works well enough that I'm really happy I bought one. It'll only get better with time, but as is it's already great. By all means, buy what suits you best! I'm just trying to help provide another perspective.
I didn’t think to check the FMV games, but the only game I had a problem with was In The Hunt. Turns out, the problem was with my “backup”, which has been confirmed to have been a problem with the actual game. To properly boot this US version, you have to unplug the controller as soon as you launch it from the Satiator menu. After the intro scene plays, you’ll get to the title screen, and you can play the game. The JP version does not exhibit this problem, btw.
I bought mine immediately. Although I’m hesitant to buy a 1 T SD card. It’s almost $200! The Satiator saves a lot of hassle of taking the Saturn apart and I can still play physical games, if I so choose. I would highly recommend this product over any of the others. It’s worth the price for sure. Thanks Joe for covering this.
I did, but a 1 terabyte can hold all of the games. My 256 gb from Walmart is still in the packaging and I might return it for the 1 tb on Amazon. The 1 tb on EBay sells a lot of fakes.
@@shaggymcdaniel3216 256 is more than enough to put all the games worth playing and most of the bad ones too lol...if you need all the video dating discs then maybe u need more but u could get by with even 128 and have everything you'd have even the most remote interest in playing in your lifetime
@@shaggymcdaniel3216 I'm counting those as well, including the English patched ones that are worth playing. If you skip the hundreds of video dating/soft porn titles 256 will fit em all. If you want everything including the most garbage bin titles than yeah u need more but everything that's even moderately worth playing...
Nice review; I have a Satiator myself and wrote a blog post on it a few weeks ago; I think you should be able to go from an unmodded AR cart to the Satiator menu by pressing "C" like you were going to go to the CD player, as it looks like the Satiator hijacks the CD player.
The Sega Saturn was really at risk of being forgotten about considering how hard it was to emulator and play backups on the original console. For years there was little to no option for emulation and flash cards, the tech was just too awkward and most of the people who tried over the last 20+ years gave up. Only recently has there been great strides made in the scene and I'm so glad we are finally at the start perfecting plug and play solutions and reliable emulators for the system. We may even get streaming speedrunners interested in the system which will really give the Saturn a new lease of life.
Same here. I have no problem modding a cheap, common console like a PSX but the Saturn is a little more dear to me, and it still works perfectly so I'd rather not toss out the optical drive and solder a bunch of stuff to the board. IMO it's worth every penny. Really slick little device. Abrasive is constantly updating it and fixing little bugs. I'd like to point out that Joe's failure to flash his AR cart is a common problem and is caused by the cartridge slot and the cart itself, not the Satiator. I got the same error and just had to re-seat the cart to get it to work. Once you patch it, you can use the AR by selecting a game from the Satiator menu and then hitting the reset button on the console. This bypasses the Satiator menu and boots you into the AR cart, and whatever game you selected will continue to load until you power cycle the Saturn.
I like game sack because you are a profesional and perfectionist, it shows the amount of work and dedication to your videos, and you never stop improving the quality, specialy the sound (following since you started). But the thing I enjoy the most is your sense of humor. It goes beyond video games. Thank you.
Great episode. I just got the Satiator as well. It sucks you can't get back to the menu when you are in a game without having to completely restart the console. Hope they fix that.
One of the most recurrent thoughts I have while watching GameSack episodes that features consoles I didn't have the chance to own is "hey, that' seems like a pretty cool game that I'd like to play over many modern ones that I end up playing because of easier accesibility". Even if no new videogame came out ever again, I have a ton of older ones in my backlog. I just wish Sega released some kind of mini-saturn & dreamcast.
It does support exfat. Also supports action replay cart but you need to flash it with the patch on the official satiator wiki. When you have a patched at cart you can reset from game into satiator menu buy pressing start+a+b+c. Multi disc games are not currently supported.
Well, hot-swapping isn't supported but multi-Disc games like Panzer Dragoon Saga work fine. It's just games like D which kinda throw a wrench into things.
I already have a RHEA ODE and it works perfectly however I do like the idea of being able to still use discs on the console so I'll probably get this at some stage
Admittedly, the Satiator is pretty expensive compared to other ODEs. However, it is the most ingenious ODE available. You are paying for all of the amazing work that went into making it. My Saturn still works fine, so I like the fact that I didn't need to remove the optical drive or modify the console in any way. Dr Abrasive is updating this thing constantly and if you have any particular issues with it you can hop into his discord and talk to him directly. Or you may even be able to find a solution from the other members there. I like how it favors function over form and the menu is super fast. Given the convenience of it, I think it's worth the price. If you're willing to mod your own Saturn and don't want to spend as much money, MODE is probably the way to go. But I do really appreciate the immediacy of a plug-and-play device like this. And also keeping my console intact and original.
It seems really interesting, but like a lot of these, it has some problems that need to get ironed out. I like the packaging though. Would’ve loved to see how Sonic Jam and Sonic R ran with this. Sonic games are typically very interesting to me with these videos.
The "issues" have almost entirely been ironed out. Some of these things he has issues with are described on the wiki and discord. Sonic R, Sonic Jam, Sonic Z-treme, Sonic 3D Blast all work awesome
Pretty much everything has already been solved. So I guess it means we can stop complaining about compatibility issues and start focusing on why it costs 260 dollars instead.
@@FamilyTeamGaming The man should be paid for his decade of work discovering how all this works (Saturn is infamously difficult to reverse-engineer) and I'm sure the small-run manufacturing costs aren't great on most retro-gamer hardware. Cheaper devices required less work to create and/or have been able to lower their prices as they understand how big a manufacturing run they can do (and didn't have to launch first runs in a pandemic)
Yeah, but it's too bad the TG16 has to downgrade the game to an 8-bitiesh Sega Master System style to run. At least he does it in real time, I give you that.
@@CousinHubertRetrogaming Unfortunately it doesn't, and I doubt it ever will as it has no major processing chips on it (that I'm aware of). You'd probably need an FPGA on board to double as an MPEG card.
That was I was thinking, satiator seems like one of those devices that would be great when they were released shortly after announcement. But came out way to late with a better and cheaper alternative for the vast majority of users.
Unfortunately not, that's set in hardware, so you'll need to install a switch of some sort. Depending on the hardware revision this can be an easy mod where you can just solder in a switch to some unpopulated pads in the battery compartment, but other revisions require more aggressive changes (cutting tracks or lifting chip legs).
There's an explanation of the action replay stuff on the retrorgb site. You need to flash it first before you can backup and restore. Also, on the Patreon Prof A said that the first batch don't support ExFAT but it was added from batch 2 onwards.
I’ve never owned a Saturn so I can’t say for sure if I’d want one. I’ll probably stick to emulation on my PC for now. With every passing year, emulation gets better and better, but it still can’t replace the nostalgia of hardware and that sweet smell of ozone from the console and CRT TV screen buzzing on. Also, the end card bits are always funny. Keep it up Joe!
It gets better and better but it will always be inaccurate and never like the real machine. Plus you don't need to play the Saturn on a CRT with all the many upscaler options.
Some of the issues Joe mentioned are not actual issues. Not to slag on Joe, but the AR cart flashing, for instance, is just a common error due to the cartridge and slot. Re-seating it would have resolved the problem. Once the AR cart is flashed, it can be used with games by selecting a game on the Satiator menu first, and then hitting the reset button on the Saturn. This bypasses the Satiator menu and loads the cart. The Satiator continues to load the game selected until the console is power cycled. A+B+C+Start soft resets the game, and if you do that again at the Start screen, most games will kick you back out to the Satiator menu. It appears that some games are programmed differently, which may be the reason that this doesn't always work. There might not be a work-around for that. I know there are still some issues with FMV intros, and this appears to be a timing issue. Abrasive constantly updates this thing and any time a bug is reported to him, he works to fix it relatively quickly. All that is to say, it's not perfect, but it does work on the vast majority of games just fine and is regularly updated to fix bugs as they are reported. So I can't complain about my purchase.
I have one and have been using it to play the fan translations of Shining Force 3 Episodes 1, 2, & 3. Been working pretty well. I went through the process of flashing an AR for use. The trick is you have to put the AR in the cart slot after the system is powered on, and you're in the flash AR menu. Not ideal, but it does work.
The Sega Saturn is a underrated system, I never had one I never knew it existed until around 2008 they only Sega system I knew existed was the Genesis I grew up playing Nintendo and PlayStation
I saw the Satiator is for sale. I tell myself "I'll buy one tonight". I take a nap. This video launches while I'm asleep. The Satiator is out of stock. Literally "snooze you lose"
This is cool and all I'll probably look into it one of these days. Hopefully as we go forward things like this and similar stuff for Saturn will get cheaper and at the same time improve greatly it's compatibility and eliminate errors and other problems.
I mean, some individual games run higher than this, so I really don't get that complaint. Yeah, it's expensive. But it does what no other product can do. I guess it really depends on how much you like the Saturn and how much you value a plug-and-play solution. Personally, I like the fact that I didn't have to modify my Saturn since it's not nearly as common as something like the PSX.
@@rars0n Yep. With games like Super Tempo, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Hyper Duel, or even Shinrei Jusatsushi Taroumaru commanding several thousands in some instances these days, any ODE or flash cart for the Saturn starts to pay for itself quickly.
@@AceTrainerX3 Not to mention, you don't ever have to worry about discs scratching or rotting, your laser wearing out, or just maintaining a huge collection of media. For me, I'd much rather have a digital storage of all my games that I can instantly choose from even if I already have the games sitting on the shelf. So really, you aren't just paying for the engineering that went into the device, but also all of the benefits it provides you, one of which is not having to seek out and pay for ridiculously priced games. Well worth it IMO.
If your Saturn has trouble reading discs, this will likely be an improvement. However, I don't think that it loads faster than a good working disc drive. The reason I say this is because one of the issues Professor Abrasive had to deal with was the timing of reading data off the optical drive. It appears that the disc drive operation is fairly low-level and timing issues can prevent games from running properly. So I'm pretty sure that a lot of care went into reading data exactly as it would have been read off disc. That said, it's weird but I swear Saturn loading times are nowhere near as bad as PSX loading times. I just never have to wait that long for a game to load compared to the Playstation, which often seems to take forever. Same goes for my 3DO. There's a wait, for sure, just not nearly as long in most cases.
A somewhat I'll informed review. There are many revisions of the Action Replay and support is gradually being added for flashing all the different models. Mine was initially not supported but within a week, a firmware update added support. exFAT has also been explained. Being a Microsoft licensed file system, support was not added initially due to cost. Later the developer found a cost effective way to sub-license it and so added support to all but the early models of the Satiator. All of this has been explained by Professor Abrasive.
Joe, if you press A+B+C+Start, it will take you back to the Satiator menu. The only problem is that this doesn't work for every game. On most games that it does work on, pressing those buttons mid game will restart the game, and you have to wait until you're at the Start screen to press them again, which will kick you back to the Satiator menu. Sometimes it works by just pressing those buttons twice. It's kind of a trial and error thing, but yeah, currently if that doesn't work, you have to power cycle the console to get back to the menu.
*Plays literally every Saturn game in existence including translations of games Americans never got to play. *Plug and play. Buy it, put it in Saturn, play forever. *250 dollars. Not seeing the problem here guys.
I just got the mode. Love it. Though you have to take apart to install. For resetting. Have you held A+B+C and pressing start ? In a game it will take you back to game logo, then press again to reboot system.
I had the same error code when backing up my AR cart. Had to pull it out and insert it a few times. Also the “flash AR” is for flashing the firmware that professor abrasive made so you can boot games with the AR cart. Also adds Controller reset to menu too!
Sega just need to come out with a really good Saturn compilation or mini console. So sick of them focusing solely on Mega Drive with a sprinkling of Dreamcast.
Just release them on current gen consoles. Heck even the switch should be able to handle some saturn games emulated. Segata Sanshiro runs well on the nvidia sheild tv
@@thisisakodibox2635 yeah if they give me a way to show my support financially I will. Don't want to have to resort to the grey area of emulators etc. They have a captive audience who they're basically ignoring (much like Nintendo)
@@pb879 just because it's not 100‰ accurate doesn't mean it doesn't need to exist. Getting real hardware hooked up to modern displays is difficult for a lot of people. Plus the games cost alot. Plus I'd like to be able to support the growth of this sort of thing. I think it's valuable and important to look back and to allow the general buying public an opportunity to get a feel for older games. If it gets at least 90% there in terms of accuracy that's okay with me. It's all about enjoying the games.
Agree on needing the highlight for the selected game. Other than that, the menu is perfect. For an ODE, I want as simple of a menu as you can get. Satiator, Mnemo devices just barebones and I like it. The Mode menu, it's a little too busy for my liking. To backup the Action Replay, you have to insert it after you've booted to the Satiator menu. There is a AR custom firmware, download that put it on your sd. Backup the AR then flash it with the custom firmware and it works perfect.
Is the Satiator something you'd be interested in getting for your Saturn... or if you had a Saturn?
It's not for me ... but learning about it from The 'Sack certainly is. Guess I'm weird like that.
I love my Saturn and I would get it but it's a tad expensive.
I have one, was playing street fighter zero 2 dash with a friend and the music kept cutting out. I've heard issues with other fighters as well and there being some fixes; I think I have to submit a bug report. Resetting the console with the 4mb ram cart doesn't seem to boot back to the satiator either. Hopefully compatibility continues to improve!
I own a Satiator and MODE, and hands down the later is a much more developed product. This is defintely a BETA product which will improve in time. Still waiting on Marvel Super Heroes Vs Street Fighter to work. Game tends to boot you back to the multiplayer after playing several rounds. Some games tend to break after fixing other issues. Luckily Prof Abrasive is on it for the most part.
I have a Saturno but not all those money.
Better go with a Fenrir.
I like living in a world where if an expansion slot or port exists on a piece of hardware, someone is going to invent something to utilize it in a way the original designer never intended nor could have imagined.
Technology is beautiful, upgrading old consoles with modern tech capabilities that we would never dreamed imaginable at the time.
Still wanna me something for N64 bottom port.
Sega 32x to make my coffee
"I'm Joe Redifer and Sandisk is my favorite SD card on the Citadel"
I didn’t realize how much I needed Japanese Craig Stadler in my life.
so true
@UC66r8zmU85qNsccaOvLembA He doesn't actually ask if you can stick it in him does he?
Bet you can't get it inside of mine...tomodachi-san.
I KNOW, Right?
Kawaiii!
Satiator for the Saturn. Master...bator for the Master System.
This now has to happen.
@@WarcleanePro Yep. That's the rule. No use denying it. Wonder what kind of "made up" verb could be used for someone in the act of using it?
Generalizer for Genesis. Dreamer for Dreamcast.
The Master system "Master Race" steering wheel now available!!!
Hey Joe, just a quick clarification about the exFAT situation: Prof went back and forth on supporting it a couple times. At first he thought it was not going to be possible to support it, at least not while still being able to update the firmware due to a memory limitation, however he did find a workaround.
Later on the issue was the cost of licensing exFAT from Microsoft, but he was able to score a volume license relatively inexpensively through a third party, so in the final release it is supported! That Patreon post you quoted was from over a year ago before he found that licensing solution.
Thank you for bringing Japanese Craig Stadler into our lives.
5:49 So it lets you play backups? That's actually a really good feature. As this video shows, there are some games that have issues. If the Satiator lets you play backups, then for those games with issues, just burn a CD. That, in a way, fills in the holes.
"...or maybe you just want to run everything on a raspberry pi, and make sure that everyone on the internet knows that you'd rather run everything on raspberry pi." This got me good, never change my friend : )
Well I have a raspberry pi. I'd love to run Saturn games on there but it's not powerful enough yet. Maybe by the raspberry pi 6 it will be powerful enough.
In the russian forums, when a piece of retro hardware like Genesis or SNES or PSX is discussed, there's always a ton of folks with comments like "lol $$$$, me gonna buy a Raspberry pi instead"
You mean that Saturn games are running in full speed on a Raspbery pi 4 (4gb model)? I bought one and never used it....
A diss to the etaprime
My understanding is that the Sega Saturn has never been fully emulates.
There is firmware update for the Action Replay cart by Professor Abrasive and it works great. Allows the Action Replay to be used and when you press the button combination will boot back to the Satiator game select screen. I have seen few games that will not go back but overall works great and very useful.
@@Shark97281 You don't actually need to copy memory to system to make it work. The way the Satiator works is that if you press the reset button on the console, it bypasses the Satiator menu. The Satiator will keep loading whatever game you selected until you power cycle the console. Thus if you have a patched Action Replay cart and press the reset button, it loads into the cart. The Action Replay cart will not work without patching due to the way the unpatched AR loads its code into memory. When you want to go back into the Satiator menu, just power cycle the Saturn.
I also had a flash error when I first tried. I was following the instructions exactly (insert the cart after loading the Satiator menu), but as it turns out, these cartridge slots and carts seem to be rather finicky, so I reseated the cart and it flashed properly. Other people have had the same problem with the same solution.
@@Shark97281 Oh, okay. I misunderstood what you said. Yeah, saving on the AR cart is nice because the system memory fills up so quickly. You can certainly do that, but you just don't have to in order to make the AR cheats work. That's what I meant.
"re you telling me that the satiator somehow made it possible to load games from my AR card?"
No. If you select a game using the Satiator menu, and then hit the reset button, the Satiator menu is bypassed. So if you don't have a cart inserted, it will just load the game you selected previously. If you do have a cart installed, it'll boot off the cart and you can use it to select whatever cheats you want before loading the game. The game always loads off the Satiator, as it would if you put a disc in. The AR cart doesn't have enough storage to hold an entire CD game.
@@Shark97281 Oh, gotcha. Yeah, as far as I'm aware, most games can only save and load to system memory, if not all of them.
@@Shark97281 I'm looking into it right now. Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter is one of the games that has had the most problems. Are you on the latest firmware and menu? Current versions are 157 and 64. I can load matches just fine without any glitches but between rounds it will occasionally kick me back to the Satiator menu.
I just tried something: I selected the game, then at the Start screen I hit reset on the console to boot into the AR. Then I started the game that way. I played through four rounds of fights before I lost and went back to the Start screen, played another round and it was still working. So give that a try.
Edit: Never mind! I just tried it again, and upon pressing start, it kicked me back to the CD player screen. I think we'll just need to wait for more fixes before this game works perfectly. Lots of people have reported varying degrees of the game working and then not working.
@@Shark97281 Hey, sorry I didn't respond sooner. The only translation I've currently loaded up is the Policenauts translation, which I downloaded as a patched version from somewhere (I honestly can't remember). But usually the mnethod is that you take the original game ISO and use a utility to patch the game, creating a new ISO. Then you'd just copy that to the Satiator.
Are you asking about how to patch and create a translated ISO? I've never done that but I'm sure I could figure it out if that's what you're asking. Otherwise you can always search for a pre-patched version, although you probably want to make sure it's a final version made from a legit ISO dump, which isn't always easy.
Like I said, once it's patched you just load the patched ISO onto the Satiator like any other game. It should work just like the unpatched game.
That ending was a masterpiece. Solid 10/10
The Japanese text says it is indeed called the "Say-shi-ay-tor"
Probably, or maybe "Sey-shi-e-taa". It says セイシエター, so you could argue it's "Sē-shi-e-taa" (long e, not "say"), but if they just wanted a long e, they could have used the extension character ー instead of イ (I) there.
By the way, it's curious they wanted to make the last vowel long as well with that extension.
Sorry, I don't speak *wrong*
@@logannottheonefrommarvel9917 lol, "satiator" in english is speaking Latin wrong. But as you like it.
@@SimonPiano42 That long final syllable may just be due to how different the Japanese R sounds are from the English R sounds. Like they're approximating the English R maybe?
@@Jesse__H good idea! sounds plausible
Love these Saturday Night Sack Drops!
Lol! Sunday morning here.
Time is relative buddy!
Sunday Afternoon Teatime.
Joe still does a great Sack drop.
Here we go :), I have been interested in this device. I have a Saturn, only a hand full of games, and sadly some have disc rot. Although its not something I would buy right now, I am happy something like this exists.
Wow Jason, that is amazing.
@@goldenman8825 thanks Chris
What a great way to play backups of the seven copies of Street Fighter Alpha 3, Panzer Dragoon Saga, and Hyper Duel that I already own.
nice collection
I bought one of these and so far I absolutely love it. Can still play CD games, but for convenience sake the thing is just incredible. Now I can play Super Tempo without spending hundreds of dollars!
I think it's a lifesaver for folks with large libraries of retail games. I never installed an HDD into my PS2 Slim because I have a few sweet black CDs to spin in it, so I boot all my... cough, backups, cough off an USB stick.
Please please tell me where to safely back up all my roms....what website?
Was this made from guy who reverse engineered saturn after 20 years from vcd port ?
Yes, he was on the news back then. Prof. Abrasive.
this needs more attention, that dude is a hero
Won't buy until it fully supports the action replay
Love that shout out to how effin annoying those raspberry pi people are.
Having used a RetroPi, I find it decent but the button configuration was too frustrating. They put the menu hotkey on Start and Select... which you need to reset GB/GBA games or manually save in Zelda GB games.
And I agree on how annoying those people are. We get it, you pirate and have low standards. Now please shut up and let other people have their fun.
@@penismightier9278 yesh, the classic xbox emulators were a lot more friendlier when it comes to button configuration and they always set the menu button to the R3 buttons.
Yeah! Damn Pi lovers. They should buy a MiSTer. 😄
@@penismightier9278 I'd get the terraonion mode for Saturn or any ode device. The main reason is that plenty of Saturn games are close to or exceed 100 dollars each per game. Ode devices are pretty much unavoidable these days.
MiSTer owners are the new version of Raspberry Pi people
Another game sack episode always satiates my needs.
I see what you did there...
The episode was informative but what really made it awesome is the joke about raspberry pie.
Clever editing at its finest. And jesus that caught me off guard. A miles morales mod for the turbografx nice.
Joe, I appreciate your honesty and knowledge about Saturn stuff like this.
I got one of these. I was never going to remove my CD drive- I think a lot of folks are going to regret doing that. I love how easy going it is with game formats, most everything works. I’ve only experienced one glitch (Burning Rangers intro locks up after a few reruns- no biggie). Meanwhile, while I own no multi-disc games, I wonder if you can just use your original media or CDR’s to solve that rare problem.
That Craig Stadler import shot was about the surprise of my day.
The great thing about the satiator is that the disc drive still works. If only it was more budget friendly like the Fenrir.
Would you say it's worth getting if affordability isn't an issue? I've got a Fenrir for one of my Saturn consoles, and it's good, but I have been having some problems, primarily because of issues with seating the ribbon and having to unscrew and remove the cover each time I need to fix or amend the game list.
Just for clarification at 7:44 - Many people use the AR as an 4mb because the official hardware is sometimes hard to get a hold of. So there you go if you need an 4mb cart!
Thank you so much for this review. I've been trying to decide if I should get one of these or not. Your input is much appreciated and valued.
If you're willing to spend the money on it, and you're on the fence, let me just say that you should probably buy it.
The thing is, some of the downsides that Joe mentions are just due to ignorance (no offense to Joe, I had to figure them out myself). The AR cart flash failure, for instance, is a common occurrence due to the cartridge slot and cartridge. All he needed to do was re-seat the cart and it would have worked.
Likewise, once patched, you can use the AR cart as you normally would, by simply selecting a game off the Satiator menu, then pressing the reset button on the console itself. This bypasses the Satiator menu, allowing you to boot into the AR cart. The Satiator will load whatever game you selected prior to hitting reset.
And regarding another thing that Joe mentioned, there IS a way to get back to the Satiator menu. You simply press A+B+C+Start. Normally this soft resets the game, but if you do it again once you're at the title screen, it will take you back to the Satiator menu. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work in every game. Some games will just keep soft resetting. I'm not sure if this is something that Abrasive can eventually solve or if it's how the game was programmed. It may be the latter.
One thing to keep in mind is that Professor Abrasive is constantly updating this and seeking feedback to create bug fixes. So if there is a specific bug you experience with a game, hop into his discord and tell him directly. He's usually pretty quick on fixing bugs.
If the price really bothers you and you don't mind modding your console, get a MODE. It's a great device that seems to work very well with Saturn and Terraonion makes some great products. They're also not a one-man job. I personally am a bit too attached to my Saturn to discard parts and solder things to the board when there's a plug-and-play option available. Also, I happen to think that this device is incredibly ingenious and I'm happy to support all of the amazing work that went into making it. It works well for most of the games I have played and I love that my Saturn is still completely stock.
It is such a unique device and it works well enough that I'm really happy I bought one. It'll only get better with time, but as is it's already great. By all means, buy what suits you best! I'm just trying to help provide another perspective.
I didn’t think to check the FMV games, but the only game I had a problem with was In The Hunt. Turns out, the problem was with my “backup”, which has been confirmed to have been a problem with the actual game. To properly boot this US version, you have to unplug the controller as soon as you launch it from the Satiator menu. After the intro scene plays, you’ll get to the title screen, and you can play the game. The JP version does not exhibit this problem, btw.
I bought mine immediately. Although I’m hesitant to buy a 1 T SD card. It’s almost $200!
The Satiator saves a lot of hassle of taking the Saturn apart and I can still play physical games, if I so choose. I would highly recommend this product over any of the others. It’s worth the price for sure. Thanks Joe for covering this.
Just get some 256 gb ones
I did, but a 1 terabyte can hold all of the games. My 256 gb from Walmart is still in the packaging and I might return it for the 1 tb on Amazon. The 1 tb on EBay sells a lot of fakes.
@@shaggymcdaniel3216 256 is more than enough to put all the games worth playing and most of the bad ones too lol...if you need all the video dating discs then maybe u need more but u could get by with even 128 and have everything you'd have even the most remote interest in playing in your lifetime
@@aaronking9332 not if you count all of the Japanese games. There’s over 1,000 of those.
@@shaggymcdaniel3216 I'm counting those as well, including the English patched ones that are worth playing. If you skip the hundreds of video dating/soft porn titles 256 will fit em all. If you want everything including the most garbage bin titles than yeah u need more but everything that's even moderately worth playing...
Nice review; I have a Satiator myself and wrote a blog post on it a few weeks ago; I think you should be able to go from an unmodded AR cart to the Satiator menu by pressing "C" like you were going to go to the CD player, as it looks like the Satiator hijacks the CD player.
How can i find your blog?
Also, anyway to get help loading my "rom backups" once i decide to purchase ?
Interesting product, definitely like the ease of use. You don't have to remove the optical drive like the Dreamcast SD card readers which is great.
The Sega Saturn was really at risk of being forgotten about considering how hard it was to emulator and play backups on the original console. For years there was little to no option for emulation and flash cards, the tech was just too awkward and most of the people who tried over the last 20+ years gave up. Only recently has there been great strides made in the scene and I'm so glad we are finally at the start perfecting plug and play solutions and reliable emulators for the system. We may even get streaming speedrunners interested in the system which will really give the Saturn a new lease of life.
I'm on the waiting list for their restock. The plug and play nature is a massive selling point for me.
Same here. I have no problem modding a cheap, common console like a PSX but the Saturn is a little more dear to me, and it still works perfectly so I'd rather not toss out the optical drive and solder a bunch of stuff to the board.
IMO it's worth every penny. Really slick little device. Abrasive is constantly updating it and fixing little bugs. I'd like to point out that Joe's failure to flash his AR cart is a common problem and is caused by the cartridge slot and the cart itself, not the Satiator. I got the same error and just had to re-seat the cart to get it to work. Once you patch it, you can use the AR by selecting a game from the Satiator menu and then hitting the reset button on the console. This bypasses the Satiator menu and boots you into the AR cart, and whatever game you selected will continue to load until you power cycle the Saturn.
Did you get your Satiator? I'm thinking of ordering one myself
@@clockworkengine Did you get one?
@@sillkthashocker I did! Quickly, took a few days to arrive after ordering. 2 days or so. Worked perfectly, totally satisfied with it.
@@clockworkengine and it plays everything perfectly no issues?
I’m so glad this hardware project finally got finished. Great video!
4:22 Thank you for letting me know that Japanese dub Craig Stadler exists
I just got my Satiator. This video sold me on it.
A bonus episode is always a good thing
I like game sack because you are a profesional and perfectionist, it shows the amount of work and dedication to your videos, and you never stop improving the quality, specialy the sound (following since you started).
But the thing I enjoy the most is your sense of humor. It goes beyond video games. Thank you.
goly crap suikoden 1 on saturn?! that one is rarely covered only the plastation version. I love you for that Joe.
A lot of the bug reports will be wrong because it's by game, but the cause is usually down to specific SD cards.
What was the name of the top-down shooter at the end? That looked amazing!
Batsugun
Great episode. I just got the Satiator as well. It sucks you can't get back to the menu when you are in a game without having to completely restart the console. Hope they fix that.
Does it run all the games you've tried with it well?
The Satiator ... I think my ex had one of these in her bedside table.
I guess it did a better job than you haaaaaaaaaaaaa ;)
It's hard to compete, he doesn't even have a battery slot.
That would be why she’s your ex. She found a better man
Yeah she speaks a lot about it. 😂
Satiator does what Jessedon't
One of the most recurrent thoughts I have while watching GameSack episodes that features consoles I didn't have the chance to own is "hey, that' seems like a pretty cool game that I'd like to play over many modern ones that I end up playing because of easier accesibility". Even if no new videogame came out ever again, I have a ton of older ones in my backlog. I just wish Sega released some kind of mini-saturn & dreamcast.
Yep, minis of those consoles would be sick
damn i wanted to sleep (4 am here) but im curious about this!!
Excellent video, your channel is one of the only real gaming channels left. All the other big ones have fallen.
Yes, another GameSack episode!!!!
It does support exfat. Also supports action replay cart but you need to flash it with the patch on the official satiator wiki. When you have a patched at cart you can reset from game into satiator menu buy pressing start+a+b+c. Multi disc games are not currently supported.
Well, hot-swapping isn't supported but multi-Disc games like Panzer Dragoon Saga work fine. It's just games like D which kinda throw a wrench into things.
“OH MY GOD, WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOUR FACE!?!?” -Mr. Plinkett
Another man of culture...
I already have a RHEA ODE and it works perfectly however I do like the idea of being able to still use discs on the console so I'll probably get this at some stage
Late night game sack brilliant I can't sleep so some gaming entertainment is all good
same same.
Admittedly, the Satiator is pretty expensive compared to other ODEs. However, it is the most ingenious ODE available. You are paying for all of the amazing work that went into making it.
My Saturn still works fine, so I like the fact that I didn't need to remove the optical drive or modify the console in any way. Dr Abrasive is updating this thing constantly and if you have any particular issues with it you can hop into his discord and talk to him directly. Or you may even be able to find a solution from the other members there.
I like how it favors function over form and the menu is super fast. Given the convenience of it, I think it's worth the price. If you're willing to mod your own Saturn and don't want to spend as much money, MODE is probably the way to go. But I do really appreciate the immediacy of a plug-and-play device like this. And also keeping my console intact and original.
Try blowing on the cartridge when the game freezes. That ALWAYS works...
Kenny omega said I could do it!
My car won't work, I just don't know where to blow into it to fix it...
Loving the Sonic R music at the beginning! :)
It brought a smile to my face instantly
Damn it! I wanted to hear what "Think you can get it inside mine" sounded like in Japanese...I guess I'll use Google.
Wow! I have been following this project for awhile! Glad to see it come out after all these years!
Seeing Suikoden threw me off for a few seconds. I'd completely forgotten there was a Saturn port.
This end skit has just had me in stitches, again!
The awesome power of 1991 technology wins again 🤘
It seems really interesting, but like a lot of these, it has some problems that need to get ironed out. I like the packaging though.
Would’ve loved to see how Sonic Jam and Sonic R ran with this. Sonic games are typically very interesting to me with these videos.
Sonic Jam and R seem to work perfectly, if the compatibility list is anything to go by.
The "issues" have almost entirely been ironed out. Some of these things he has issues with are described on the wiki and discord.
Sonic R, Sonic Jam, Sonic Z-treme, Sonic 3D Blast all work awesome
Pretty much everything has already been solved. So I guess it means we can stop complaining about compatibility issues and start focusing on why it costs 260 dollars instead.
@@FamilyTeamGaming The man should be paid for his decade of work discovering how all this works (Saturn is infamously difficult to reverse-engineer) and I'm sure the small-run manufacturing costs aren't great on most retro-gamer hardware. Cheaper devices required less work to create and/or have been able to lower their prices as they understand how big a manufacturing run they can do (and didn't have to launch first runs in a pandemic)
the little sound effect when you pulled out the card was great.
If you are interested, the Japanese katakana on the front of the box says Seishietah so it indeed should be pronounced as in satiate~~
Another late Saturday night, another Game Sack but video :)
The TG16 version of Spider-Man: Miles Morales looks quite impressive. Need to get myself a copy ASAP.
Yeah, but it's too bad the TG16 has to downgrade the game to an 8-bitiesh Sega Master System style to run. At least he does it in real time, I give you that.
I believe that's the genesis/master system version. Unless the tg16 version is identical
@@shawnje3072 It's the Master System's.
By the way Joe! Does it double also as an MPEG card for the few games that support it?
@@CousinHubertRetrogaming Unfortunately it doesn't, and I doubt it ever will as it has no major processing chips on it (that I'm aware of). You'd probably need an FPGA on board to double as an MPEG card.
I supported this for a couple months but then I opted for fenrir and have been totally satiated in my needs.
That was I was thinking, satiator seems like one of those devices that would be great when they were released shortly after announcement. But came out way to late with a better and cheaper alternative for the vast majority of users.
Will this allow a PAL Saturn to play in 60hz NTSC?
Unfortunately not, that's set in hardware, so you'll need to install a switch of some sort. Depending on the hardware revision this can be an easy mod where you can just solder in a switch to some unpopulated pads in the battery compartment, but other revisions require more aggressive changes (cutting tracks or lifting chip legs).
There's an explanation of the action replay stuff on the retrorgb site. You need to flash it first before you can backup and restore.
Also, on the Patreon Prof A said that the first batch don't support ExFAT but it was added from batch 2 onwards.
I ALWAYS WANTED A THING CALLED TUNA SASHIMI!!
Close your eyeeeeeeeeees
Close your heaaaaaaaaaad
3...
2...
1!!!
I’ve never owned a Saturn so I can’t say for sure if I’d want one. I’ll probably stick to emulation on my PC for now. With every passing year, emulation gets better and better, but it still can’t replace the nostalgia of hardware and that sweet smell of ozone from the console and CRT TV screen buzzing on. Also, the end card bits are always funny. Keep it up Joe!
It gets better and better but it will always be inaccurate and never like the real machine. Plus you don't need to play the Saturn on a CRT with all the many upscaler options.
Love emulation, but there's nothing like real hardware. Looks like some bugs to work out, but if Sega Saturn was my jam, I'd be on this one.
every time you do one of these satrun videos it makes me remember how much i regret selling off my old saturn..... anyway great vid none the less ^^
SAY SHE ATE HER
Great Review, love the simplicity, hopefully they fix the issues with some firmware updates
Some of the issues Joe mentioned are not actual issues. Not to slag on Joe, but the AR cart flashing, for instance, is just a common error due to the cartridge and slot. Re-seating it would have resolved the problem.
Once the AR cart is flashed, it can be used with games by selecting a game on the Satiator menu first, and then hitting the reset button on the Saturn. This bypasses the Satiator menu and loads the cart. The Satiator continues to load the game selected until the console is power cycled.
A+B+C+Start soft resets the game, and if you do that again at the Start screen, most games will kick you back out to the Satiator menu. It appears that some games are programmed differently, which may be the reason that this doesn't always work. There might not be a work-around for that.
I know there are still some issues with FMV intros, and this appears to be a timing issue. Abrasive constantly updates this thing and any time a bug is reported to him, he works to fix it relatively quickly.
All that is to say, it's not perfect, but it does work on the vast majority of games just fine and is regularly updated to fix bugs as they are reported. So I can't complain about my purchase.
Seeing Craig Stadler (PBUH) speak in my native tongue is such a surreal experience to have
The fact of being self aware of wondering when it will be funny is amazing
hoorah, new vid
I have one and have been using it to play the fan translations of Shining Force 3 Episodes 1, 2, & 3. Been working pretty well. I went through the process of flashing an AR for use. The trick is you have to put the AR in the cart slot after the system is powered on, and you're in the flash AR menu. Not ideal, but it does work.
Bit too pricey for a work in progress imo.
Hopefully it will get there in the end though.
More SACK!!
Okay, that comment at the end was great. It is kinda funny the comments from people talking about there pi every chance they get.
"And i guess Jaguar" in the credits made me smile. They only way to play Rayman
The best way to play Rayman now is Rayman Redemption for the PC. A free fanmade remake of the original game.
The Craig Stadler golf game works. I'm sold
i’ve been waiting for years for this lol. remember in like 2014 when that video came out for it
What are you talking about? This wasn't in development back in 2014.
It’s a pretty awesome time for the Saturn this, the Mode and Fenrir all great devices
The Sega Saturn is a underrated system, I never had one I never knew it existed until around 2008 they only Sega system I knew existed was the Genesis I grew up playing Nintendo and PlayStation
What about multiple disc games? How do you swap disc images? Oh wait you mentioned it doesn’t work right before the end. That’s a bummer.
I saw the Satiator is for sale. I tell myself "I'll buy one tonight". I take a nap. This video launches while I'm asleep. The Satiator is out of stock. Literally "snooze you lose"
This is cool and all I'll probably look into it one of these days.
Hopefully as we go forward things like this and similar stuff for Saturn will get cheaper and at the same time improve greatly it's compatibility and eliminate errors and other problems.
The price is insanely high
I mean, some individual games run higher than this, so I really don't get that complaint. Yeah, it's expensive. But it does what no other product can do. I guess it really depends on how much you like the Saturn and how much you value a plug-and-play solution. Personally, I like the fact that I didn't have to modify my Saturn since it's not nearly as common as something like the PSX.
@@rars0n Yep. With games like Super Tempo, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Hyper Duel, or even Shinrei Jusatsushi Taroumaru commanding several thousands in some instances these days, any ODE or flash cart for the Saturn starts to pay for itself quickly.
@@AceTrainerX3 Not to mention, you don't ever have to worry about discs scratching or rotting, your laser wearing out, or just maintaining a huge collection of media. For me, I'd much rather have a digital storage of all my games that I can instantly choose from even if I already have the games sitting on the shelf.
So really, you aren't just paying for the engineering that went into the device, but also all of the benefits it provides you, one of which is not having to seek out and pay for ridiculously priced games. Well worth it IMO.
How's the loading time vs. a game disc? Are there any disc-based games with long loading times that are improved with the Satiator?
If your Saturn has trouble reading discs, this will likely be an improvement. However, I don't think that it loads faster than a good working disc drive. The reason I say this is because one of the issues Professor Abrasive had to deal with was the timing of reading data off the optical drive. It appears that the disc drive operation is fairly low-level and timing issues can prevent games from running properly. So I'm pretty sure that a lot of care went into reading data exactly as it would have been read off disc.
That said, it's weird but I swear Saturn loading times are nowhere near as bad as PSX loading times. I just never have to wait that long for a game to load compared to the Playstation, which often seems to take forever. Same goes for my 3DO. There's a wait, for sure, just not nearly as long in most cases.
Wouldn't it be pronounced saish-iator, as in it satiates
A somewhat I'll informed review. There are many revisions of the Action Replay and support is gradually being added for flashing all the different models. Mine was initially not supported but within a week, a firmware update added support. exFAT has also been explained. Being a Microsoft licensed file system, support was not added initially due to cost. Later the developer found a cost effective way to sub-license it and so added support to all but the early models of the Satiator. All of this has been explained by Professor Abrasive.
I also pointed this out, along with some other things in a comment that now looks like it was deleted...
If getting the games was easier, I would totally pay the overblown price for one of these.
If only there was a org website that archived things..
Joe, if you press A+B+C+Start, it will take you back to the Satiator menu. The only problem is that this doesn't work for every game. On most games that it does work on, pressing those buttons mid game will restart the game, and you have to wait until you're at the Start screen to press them again, which will kick you back to the Satiator menu. Sometimes it works by just pressing those buttons twice. It's kind of a trial and error thing, but yeah, currently if that doesn't work, you have to power cycle the console to get back to the menu.
*Plays literally every Saturn game in existence including translations of games Americans never got to play.
*Plug and play. Buy it, put it in Saturn, play forever.
*250 dollars.
Not seeing the problem here guys.
Sounds like a huge win for me😊😊
I just got the mode. Love it. Though you have to take apart to install.
For resetting. Have you held A+B+C and pressing start ? In a game it will take you back to game logo, then press again to reboot system.
Japanese Craig Sadler 😂😂
I had the same error code when backing up my AR cart. Had to pull it out and insert it a few times. Also the “flash AR” is for flashing the firmware that professor abrasive made so you can boot games with the AR cart. Also adds Controller reset to menu too!
Sega just need to come out with a really good Saturn compilation or mini console. So sick of them focusing solely on Mega Drive with a sprinkling of Dreamcast.
Just release them on current gen consoles. Heck even the switch should be able to handle some saturn games emulated. Segata Sanshiro runs well on the nvidia sheild tv
@@thisisakodibox2635 yeah if they give me a way to show my support financially I will. Don't want to have to resort to the grey area of emulators etc. They have a captive audience who they're basically ignoring (much like Nintendo)
@@dcashley303 Sega never had the best management that's for sure. They are sitting on a goldmine of unused IP
Emulation is inaccurate, and will never be 100% so there doesn't need to be a mini. Just get the real hardware.
@@pb879 just because it's not 100‰ accurate doesn't mean it doesn't need to exist. Getting real hardware hooked up to modern displays is difficult for a lot of people. Plus the games cost alot. Plus I'd like to be able to support the growth of this sort of thing. I think it's valuable and important to look back and to allow the general buying public an opportunity to get a feel for older games. If it gets at least 90% there in terms of accuracy that's okay with me. It's all about enjoying the games.
Great video. Any chance of an updated MiSTer video theres been so many added cores and improvements since your original video.
The box is kinda... cute. Looks like japanese candy.
Agree on needing the highlight for the selected game. Other than that, the menu is perfect. For an ODE, I want as simple of a menu as you can get. Satiator, Mnemo devices just barebones and I like it.
The Mode menu, it's a little too busy for my liking.
To backup the Action Replay, you have to insert it after you've booted to the Satiator menu. There is a AR custom firmware, download that put it on your sd. Backup the AR then flash it with the custom firmware and it works perfect.