There's one detail that nobody discusses is the vibrant colour palette that Sega used in all its games. Games like Virtua Racing and Virtua Fighter looked gorgeous with their colour scheme and their glorious 60 fps. Thanks for the video. Cheers!
Doug R. Except people do talk about it. There’s a whole movement on the Internet called “Sega blue skies” which began with the (now defunct) website “UK Resistance” and spread everywhere. Just Google it, it’s a well known term to describe and invoke that kind of colourful Sega magic.
@Retro Regulator You know this. Once I seen mesh gates on every shadow in every game he discusses.. I knew Something was off. I own the original to a majority of these titles and I clearly remember thicker polys and transparent shadows. These viewers believe these are the original versions. Can't have the original versions in HD. So this is a terrible false narrative that should be disclaimed. Because VR racing on Sega Saturn is a BEAUTY TO BEHOLD
I have never used emulation on Saturn game I've covered. The mesh you see is created by the RGB capture I use. That's how it comes out looking. The old school composite and S-Video signals on a CRT simply hides the pseudo transparency better.
Sega Model 1 ran at 30fps. Simply compare VR on model 1 with that of the PS2 Sega Ages version which does run at 60fps. Night and day difference. Model 2 is where 60 fps became a reality for the Sega Model boards.
@@TheL1arL1ar No, the original VR arcade ran at locked 30 fps. I might look very smooth on a CRT, but on a modern monitorits easy to see it runs at 30. The perfect Switch HD recreation of VR run at 60 fps.
Model 1 was capable of 60 FPS, and some elements of these games ran at 60 FPS but the polygon rendering ran it 30 FPS. Remember when spec sheets say something like "180,000 polys per second" that would mean 3000 per frame at 60Hz. But 6000 per frame at 30Hz, so they opted for more detail by running the game at 30 FPS in these particular games.
@@nrXic I completely agree with your statement. I didn't mean to give the assumption that the board itself was incapable of 60fps. I'm just saying that all the games on it ran at 30fps.
This is one of the reasons that I love SEGA... They were not only masters at home console business, but one of the greatest arcade machine creators ever, always innovating and bringing something new to the table.
You're channel is one of the few where I actually bother to check the info in the description. There's always lots of fascinating info in there. To be honest, I didn't even make the connection with the Japanese/nuclear thing, but it was a good move to include the apology (especially given how the internet can be).
32X was just a bad deal all the way around. It had potential had it come in way cheaper and way sooner, making it a different product all the way around(an SVP add on), but Sega really made a mistake releasing that thing the way they did. Every one of these Model 1 games should have been Saturn launch games in Japan.
Did you emulate the Net Merc? I didn't see any sign of it in the video in spite of you claiming in the description that you have emulated all 5 of the games covered in the video.
Excellent job man. I always get excited when one of your videos pops up and they never disappoint. Thanks for the great content. Keep up the good work.
I still remember experiencing the Genesis version of virtua racer and being blown away by what I was seeing. I couldn't imagine seeing the arcade version up close. Hopefully one day, Sega will be able to bring all their original arcade titles together for console and PC. That would be a worth it collection!!
Sega, the gods of the arcades. Way ahead of their time and always at the pinnacle of arcade greatness. No one else came close. Man, another stunning video, Sega Lord X, I salute you.
errrrm . . . The polygons only ran at 30 frames a second. ...Still astonishing at the time. I personally first witnessed Virtua Racing when I visited Disney World for my 13th birthday in the early Summer of 1993. The ONLY time my jaw would drop any wider was the Model2-powered Daytona USA a year later--IT ran at 60 frames per second. :P
Almost 500 likes and not a single dislike! You're like some kind of UA-cam wizard. Your videos are always amazing though 💜 😊 I really gotta get into emulating some of these.
I don't comment on all of your videos, but I truly love what you do. We're around the same age, and we seem to appreciate a lot of the same games and advancements. I mean, who didn't love scaling and rotation back in the 90s? I still love it.
Another outstanding video. Thank you! IMO the flat shaded polygon graphics of the Sega Model 1 have aged incredibly well. I love the look of them. So glad I am able to play at least a version of some of these classics on the 32X. They really are fun games. Keep up the great work!
Awesome video!! It’s a real shame sega haven’t put out a proper Model 1 compilation, especially as they continue to release the same old Megadrive packs
it's amazing, these games looked "crap" to my teenage eyes in the mid to late 90s but today they hold up better than any 32-bit console game ever released! I feel like a flat shaded trend might actually work in 2019.
Agreed. Those flat-shaded games have an attractive aesthetic to them, whereas many early texture mapped games look a little ugly and warped (except Daytona USA, which still looks great)
Same here. I was not a fan of the Model 1 in its time. I think it was mostly Virtua Fighter. Doing human characters on Model 1 was not to its advantage. They lacked the kind of style you'd see in sprite-based games. It all seemed to be a step backward to me. I've also changed my overall opinion on the topic. Some of the games look excellent now, especially ones that are just vehicles and environments. The smoothness and higher resolution than the home systems could give helps too. I've even come to appreciate what they were doing with Starfox on SNES, which I did not find appealing in those days. I thought that Namco space game show in this video was quite nice looking as well, along with the Model 1 stuff. Maybe it was the purple spaceships.
I think it’s also a kind of nostalgia we have for these type of graphics. Today games are trying to be so real they lose the artistic view and we also lose a fun factor we will never get back. I’m not saying yesteryear is better, just far removed and we won’t see to many Retro type Games and graphics. We miss this style ...
@@Kashmir23 that's a good way of putting it. For me, it's like the uncanny valley concept. My view is that graphics got to a point where they got too realistic and too detailed that it doesn't look appealing anymore. I'd say it looks off in a lot of ways too. I think some of that is due to animation as well.
623-0, impressive and well deserved. Congrats on 20K subs as well! The quality of your videos is exceptional, and the growth has been fast, despite the fact that the audience for this kind of stuff is clearly relatively limited.
Wait a moment. Virtua Racing runs at 30 fps, not 60. Am Igual missing something? The first 3D poligons arcade I remember seeing at 60fps was Daytona Usa on the Model 2.
I remember being a kid at my local mall's arcade and seeing Virtua Fighter for the very first time. I must have stared at people playing that game for over an hour not being able to comprehend what I was seeing. It was so bad one of the arcade workers checked on me...and when he realized what I was staring at he left me alone. I wound up playing that game for hours that night. I have never heard of Wing War or Sega Net Merc. I want to play both.
Great video! I'm a sucker for flat shaded polygonal games, there's just something so mystical and interesting about them. It kinda seems like Star Wars Arcade flew under the radar back then. It's funny, many will say that Star Wars Arcade on the 32X was a port of the 1983 Atari arcade game. There was a twin Wing War machine at a Tilt location and they were looking to get rid of it for $100, though one side was out. It didn't sell so they took it to an auction and I haven't seen any Model 1 game on location since.
I read the description and accept your explanation/apology... but I'm still flabbergasted how a nuclear bomb joke involving Japan in the same sentence didn't instantly set off all the alert bells in your brain the first time around, lol :D Great video though. I like your channel ;)
Model 1 games still look so good today. It's just incredible what they were able to accomplish. I only wish they had made more of them. When is virtua racing 2 coming out?!! I still need to play wing war, it's really too bad that never came out on 32x. The other 32x model 1 games were so excellent. Also have you seen the UA-cam channel "xl2"? He made this amazing homebrew called sonic z-treme for the Sega Saturn that is really cool.
Does anyone else remember playing afterburner on a Sega R360? Damn that was insane.. None left in Australia that I know of but if I ever see one again, I am going to play through the whole damn game spinning upside down!
I was lucky enough to experience Virtua Racer on a single lonely cabinet at a pizzareia one time. I don't remember where it was - only that it was there and it was a blast!
love the narration/edits -- this is only my 2nd vid watched from your channel, i'm crazy-impressed... thanks for making these, going to watch all your vids tonight (already on 2/109...i have some ways to go...)
I hate how Mame's camera is jittery in Virtua Racing, it seems to go up and down with every little polygon in the road, I don't remember the arcade being like that at all (but could be mistaken). Great vid btw, I didn't know about that Net Merc one.
should be noted guys most of the model 1 games run in mame, i played wing wars perfectly though it, i recommend using a mouse or a flight stick for it.
The Intro Music are from Astal for Sega Saturn Arcade machine back then like Sega Model 1 or Neo Geo are way more impressive than today’s arcade machine that use low end pc hardware
Great video 👏👏👏 My first proper 3d experience was virtual racing. It was just mind-boggling at the time. Sitting in that cabinet felt like you were inside the action. This and virtua fighter were the main reason I chose saturn over playstation back in the days.
Great video! I know you’re more into the older stuff, but would you ever consider doing a video covering 6th gen Sega games that did NOT appear on the Dreamcast? I love how Sega developed over the years and am still blown away by their Dreamcast offerings. It’s a shame how it ended so abruptly and I never really kept up with them afterwards. It’d be great to see how the spirit of Sega lived on after their final console.
This has probably been mentioned already, but the 10th Anniversary Virtua Fighter you mentioned is on the U S. release of Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution for PS2. Great vid, btw.
Very nice video. Along with other viewers, I think the flat, shaded polygons look quite nice now. Some look better than others. The human characters in VF1 were tougher to pull off at that time. Back in 1992 and 1993, I was not a big fan of Model 1 graphics, especially Virtua Fighter. The polygonal characters seemed a step backward compared to the sprite art(Capcom and SNK were pushing that forward) and digitized graphics at the time(which looked pretty good when it was a Midway game). Despite not liking the graphics at first, I was blown away when I got to play Virtua Fighter in 1995 after a friend bought a Saturn. I got used to that game pretty quick and was pretty good at ducking my friend's high kicks at the last second and then scoring tons of throws. As I got older, I was able to see things differently and have come to appreciate the Model 1 graphics along with other early 3D like Starfox, which I appreciate more now than I did back in the day. On games with a vehicle focus like Virtua Racing and Star Wars Arcade, the Model 1 looks particularly nice. That Namco space shooter also has a great look to it. Great work and thank you.
Yup AM2 revolutionized the arcade scene with there Model 1 Virtua Racing, but despite it just having flat shaded abeit light sourced polygons I think it's aged quite well, I still play an arcade perfect home port of it on PS2 and it's absolutely stunning and fun to play.
I think nearly every arcade game Sega has done has aged well. I mean the hardware Sega released in the arcade was just always so good, everything has such a great look to them.
Love your videos man! keep em coming. I Do have a request- Sega - back in the day use to make their own version of a game instead of porting. for example Double Dragon. (Which is my first video game) on the SMS. Can you make a video of Sega games compared to other console versions! Also, more Sega Master System stuff....this console deserves the attention!!
Seeing Virtua Fighter move for the first time was mind-blowing. I'd never even seen 3D human characters before, alone well animated ones. I think that was the first time I realised that 3D was the future of gaming, not just some novelty for the arcade.
2:46 You are mistaken. Virtua Racer runs at 30 frames per second, which was already almost twice as much as the competition. It wasn't until Dayona USA and the Model 2 that 60fps became possible.
I really miss those cool SEGA arcade cabinets, back in the day I was a little kid the first time I played Hang On and as far as I can remember the motorbike was bigger than me.
I own 2 virtua fighter arcade games, and the game is still great today! Nothing beats the beautiful polygons on a medium rez monitor, crisp, clear and colorful! The best part is that as far as arcade cabinets go, its pretty cheap these days. Sound boards are tough to get as they are usually robbed from them so operators can keep Daytona USA’s going even today!
I still play Virtua Racing on my ps2. Pure gameplay joy. The landscape would have looked so much different if Sega leaned into the arcade technologies more when developing their console hardware. Nice video dude!
Yeah the first time I saw Virtua Fighter at Disney's Epcot my mind was just completely blown being used to Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat in the like!
I love Sega Lords channel and all its content. So beautiful. But there should be a disclaimer that most of the model 1 and 2 arcade games are emulated and they take a big hit through emulation. Less polys and No transparencies. I have these a majority of these games and the shadows are mesh in emulation but transparent on Saturn hardware. This is evident by watching Burning Rangers. That game has EXCELLENT TRANSPARENCIES. BUT THRU EMULATION ITS MESHED. I urge you guys to seek out the real versions of these games on the UA-cam. They may not be HD but they are really better looking
I stated in the episode and the description that the games in this episode were emulation. I do not own the Model 1 originals so that's how it had to be. I'm not sure what you mean by Burning Rangers, however.. Every Sega Saturn game I cover is captured on real hardware. I've never used emulation on any Saturn game I've covered.
Burning Rangers keeps its transparencies when emulated through SSF; player shadows and teleportation effects are mesh on both the original hardware and emulators. Also, there's no sense in downgrading from a transparency to a mesh unless it's for speed, and SSF actually allows you to render meshes as transparencies.
@@SegaLordX I see what you are saying... What im saying is I have access to a Lindbergh without the online dongle to play a fully working version of Virtua Fighter 5:R. We also have access to the Model 1,2, 3 arcade card that has the games stored up to full graphic capability. With that being said..Some of the arcade games you are showing have transparency issues. Even. That's beyond the point tho.. The point is.. Unless you record from the Saturn itself with the original components. Burning Rangers looks like shit anywhere else other than the Sega Saturn with its original components. Bottom line with all due respect Sega Lord.
@@SDSOverfiend If it's made with mesh and dithering than I don't mind seeing it that way even if it was intended to look better through a softer CRT with original hardware. Most people arent viewing youtube through a CRT anyway. I only dislike emulation if the sound is off or the movement is glitchy.
@@Lightblue2222 True... But GamingPalooza has a high fidelity series some including Saturn games on the original hardware. I don't know what tools they are using but the emulation comes out crispy. Nothing takes a hit. But I agree.. Once the sound takes a hit... It's unacceptable.
Amazing as usual. Question: after viewing video and reading description, I'm a little confused on how to emulate the star wars arcade. What are my choices ? Only mame? What version is best if that's all we can push it on?
I love these flat shaded untextured polygon games. They're just so clean looking.
they are amazing!! Truly works of art.
Mike F So do I!
You're not alone!
Virtua Racing, is for me the "archetypal" of the 90's arcade cabinet 😍
Same!! Love how the colors pop
Some of the best Arcade machines ever in this list.
Yup. Classic every one of them.
There's one detail that nobody discusses is the vibrant colour palette that Sega used in all its games. Games like Virtua Racing and Virtua Fighter looked gorgeous with their colour scheme and their glorious 60 fps. Thanks for the video. Cheers!
Doug R. Except people do talk about it. There’s a whole movement on the Internet called “Sega blue skies” which began with the (now defunct) website “UK Resistance” and spread everywhere. Just Google it, it’s a well known term to describe and invoke that kind of colourful Sega magic.
Then you need to see the real versions and not the emulation Sega Lord is using.
@Retro Regulator You know this. Once I seen mesh gates on every shadow in every game he discusses.. I knew Something was off. I own the original to a majority of these titles and I clearly remember thicker polys and transparent shadows. These viewers believe these are the original versions. Can't have the original versions in HD. So this is a terrible false narrative that should be disclaimed. Because VR racing on Sega Saturn is a BEAUTY TO BEHOLD
I have never used emulation on Saturn game I've covered. The mesh you see is created by the RGB capture I use. That's how it comes out looking. The old school composite and S-Video signals on a CRT simply hides the pseudo transparency better.
Sega Model 1 ran at 30fps. Simply compare VR on model 1 with that of the PS2 Sega Ages version which does run at 60fps. Night and day difference. Model 2 is where 60 fps became a reality for the Sega Model boards.
MoonScythe1 True Facts but VF1 wasn’t 60 FPS?
@@TheL1arL1ar No, the original VR arcade ran at locked 30 fps. I might look very smooth on a CRT, but on a modern monitorits easy to see it runs at 30.
The perfect Switch HD recreation of VR run at 60 fps.
@@CanaldoZenny VF’s 2D background ran at 60FPS, with the 3D graphics running at 30FPS
Model 1 was capable of 60 FPS, and some elements of these games ran at 60 FPS but the polygon rendering ran it 30 FPS.
Remember when spec sheets say something like "180,000 polys per second" that would mean 3000 per frame at 60Hz. But 6000 per frame at 30Hz, so they opted for more detail by running the game at 30 FPS in these particular games.
@@nrXic I completely agree with your statement. I didn't mean to give the assumption that the board itself was incapable of 60fps. I'm just saying that all the games on it ran at 30fps.
This is one of the reasons that I love SEGA... They were not only masters at home console business, but one of the greatest arcade machine creators ever, always innovating and bringing something new to the table.
Please check the description for more information on this episode!
You're channel is one of the few where I actually bother to check the info in the description. There's always lots of fascinating info in there. To be honest, I didn't even make the connection with the Japanese/nuclear thing, but it was a good move to include the apology (especially given how the internet can be).
32X was just a bad deal all the way around. It had potential had it come in way cheaper and way sooner, making it a different product all the way around(an SVP add on), but Sega really made a mistake releasing that thing the way they did. Every one of these Model 1 games should have been Saturn launch games in Japan.
Billy Pattison - I agree. I hadn't even considered it until I was deep in editing. It was an unfortunate turn of a phrase.
Did you emulate the Net Merc? I didn't see any sign of it in the video in spite of you claiming in the description that you have emulated all 5 of the games covered in the video.
Excellent job man. I always get excited when one of your videos pops up and they never disappoint. Thanks for the great content. Keep up the good work.
Agreed! No matter if they are long or short (like this one), I never feel there is any padding at all, just great content.
Appreciate that. Means a lot to get positive feedback like this.
I still remember experiencing the Genesis version of virtua racer and being blown away by what I was seeing. I couldn't imagine seeing the arcade version up close. Hopefully one day, Sega will be able to bring all their original arcade titles together for console and PC. That would be a worth it collection!!
The 60 fps refresh with daring scenarios and camera angles created an unbeatable visual style that is inspiring to watch even today
Yup. I can watch Sega arcade games loop on demo all day long.
@@SegaLordX amen
Sega, the gods of the arcades. Way ahead of their time and always at the pinnacle of arcade greatness. No one else came close. Man, another stunning video, Sega Lord X, I salute you.
errrrm . . .
The polygons only ran at 30 frames a second.
...Still astonishing at the time. I personally first witnessed Virtua Racing when I visited Disney World for my 13th birthday in the early Summer of 1993. The ONLY time my jaw would drop any wider was the Model2-powered Daytona USA a year later--IT ran at 60 frames per second. :P
brilliant video, really enjoying this
Almost 500 likes and not a single dislike! You're like some kind of UA-cam wizard. Your videos are always amazing though 💜 😊 I really gotta get into emulating some of these.
sega lord x is cool
Sega Lord is way past cool !
All Sega fans are cool.
I don't comment on all of your videos, but I truly love what you do. We're around the same age, and we seem to appreciate a lot of the same games and advancements. I mean, who didn't love scaling and rotation back in the 90s? I still love it.
Thank you. Sega's games are easy to cover they are so damn good.
Another outstanding video. Thank you! IMO the flat shaded polygon graphics of the Sega Model 1 have aged incredibly well. I love the look of them. So glad I am able to play at least a version of some of these classics on the 32X. They really are fun games. Keep up the great work!
Indeed. I love the clean look and smooth framerates. Good stuff.
Excellent video. It makes me wish I could go back in time to play these classics in the arcade, especially the sit-down models.
Awesome! Id love a 'how Sega Saturn rendered quads (?)' or how the Saturn worked video.
@Retro Regulator For some reason these days I like seeing the Saturn's 3D more than the PSX or N64's. Not sure why...
@@NotaPizzaGRL I heard the saturn did do more polygons (or their form of it) just not many developers would use the multiple processors.
Awesome video!!
It’s a real shame sega haven’t put out a proper Model 1 compilation, especially as they continue to release the same old Megadrive packs
I never knew about Wing War, never remember seeing it in our arcades. Looks like a really amazing achievement for that era!
it's amazing, these games looked "crap" to my teenage eyes in the mid to late 90s but today they hold up better than any 32-bit console game ever released! I feel like a flat shaded trend might actually work in 2019.
Agreed. Those flat-shaded games have an attractive aesthetic to them, whereas many early texture mapped games look a little ugly and warped (except Daytona USA, which still looks great)
Same here. I was not a fan of the Model 1 in its time. I think it was mostly Virtua Fighter. Doing human characters on Model 1 was not to its advantage. They lacked the kind of style you'd see in sprite-based games. It all seemed to be a step backward to me. I've also changed my overall opinion on the topic. Some of the games look excellent now, especially ones that are just vehicles and environments. The smoothness and higher resolution than the home systems could give helps too. I've even come to appreciate what they were doing with Starfox on SNES, which I did not find appealing in those days. I thought that Namco space game show in this video was quite nice looking as well, along with the Model 1 stuff. Maybe it was the purple spaceships.
I think it’s also a kind of nostalgia we have for these type of graphics. Today games are trying to be so real they lose the artistic view and we also lose a fun factor we will never get back. I’m not saying yesteryear is better, just far removed and we won’t see to many Retro type Games and graphics. We miss this style ...
@@Kashmir23 that's a good way of putting it. For me, it's like the uncanny valley concept. My view is that graphics got to a point where they got too realistic and too detailed that it doesn't look appealing anymore. I'd say it looks off in a lot of ways too. I think some of that is due to animation as well.
ravagingwolverine yep! Part of the joy and mystique was that it wasn’t realistic!!!
623-0, impressive and well deserved. Congrats on 20K subs as well! The quality of your videos is exceptional, and the growth has been fast, despite the fact that the audience for this kind of stuff is clearly relatively limited.
Wait a moment. Virtua Racing runs at 30 fps, not 60. Am Igual missing something? The first 3D poligons arcade I remember seeing at 60fps was Daytona Usa on the Model 2.
I remember being a kid at my local mall's arcade and seeing Virtua Fighter for the very first time. I must have stared at people playing that game for over an hour not being able to comprehend what I was seeing. It was so bad one of the arcade workers checked on me...and when he realized what I was staring at he left me alone. I wound up playing that game for hours that night. I have never heard of Wing War or Sega Net Merc. I want to play both.
Great video! I'm a sucker for flat shaded polygonal games, there's just something so mystical and interesting about them. It kinda seems like Star Wars Arcade flew under the radar back then. It's funny, many will say that Star Wars Arcade on the 32X was a port of the 1983 Atari arcade game. There was a twin Wing War machine at a Tilt location and they were looking to get rid of it for $100, though one side was out. It didn't sell so they took it to an auction and I haven't seen any Model 1 game on location since.
I read the description and accept your explanation/apology... but I'm still flabbergasted how a nuclear bomb joke involving Japan in the same sentence didn't instantly set off all the alert bells in your brain the first time around, lol :D
Great video though. I like your channel ;)
Model 1 games still look so good today. It's just incredible what they were able to accomplish. I only wish they had made more of them. When is virtua racing 2 coming out?!! I still need to play wing war, it's really too bad that never came out on 32x. The other 32x model 1 games were so excellent.
Also have you seen the UA-cam channel "xl2"? He made this amazing homebrew called sonic z-treme for the Sega Saturn that is really cool.
I have. I wish more people would make from the ground up Saturn games.
For 1988 hardware the System 21 was way ahead of its time, for me it's mind blowing that such impressive looking 3D games existed way back in 1988.
Sega Lord is trying to get me in trouble at work because he knows I can't wait to watch his videos. Why you gotta be like that, Sega Lord?
I’ve been wanting documentary videos on these platforms for a while. Thanks for providing them!
Oh yeah those beautiful Virtua fighter Arcade cabinets. Just bloody wow if you can find some of the rare ones like the site down
Does anyone else remember playing afterburner on a Sega R360? Damn that was insane.. None left in Australia that I know of but if I ever see one again, I am going to play through the whole damn game spinning upside down!
I was lucky enough to experience Virtua Racer on a single lonely cabinet at a pizzareia one time. I don't remember where it was - only that it was there and it was a blast!
Always a treat for one of my childhood vices! Thanks as always for such a informative and well made video!
Wing War works beautifully on MAME! It's just pure arcade magic...Sega / AM2 just had a sixth sense when it came to arcade games
love the narration/edits -- this is only my 2nd vid watched from your channel, i'm crazy-impressed... thanks for making these, going to watch all your vids tonight (already on 2/109...i have some ways to go...)
Thanks. Appreciate you watching. :)
MAME 0.217 has fixed Model 1 emulation for Star Wars Arcade and Wing War. Also Virtua Fighter although still not perfect is getting closer as well 👍
I still remember the first time I saw Virtua Fighter and Virtua Racing. Fell in love with both franchise, specially Virtua Fighter.
I remember the first time I saw the Virtua Fighter cabinet too as a little kid. Jaw-dropping stuff... very influential!
That was a fun trip down memory lane. Nice job segalordx
I always enjoy talking about Sega arcade games.
I love your videos. You should form the "Retro Dream Team" with SNES Drunk. That would kick major ass.
I hate how Mame's camera is jittery in Virtua Racing, it seems to go up and down with every little polygon in the road, I don't remember the arcade being like that at all (but could be mistaken).
Great vid btw, I didn't know about that Net Merc one.
It wasn't like that at all. MAME's emulation isn't accurate.
Retro Regulator love that version! Got a 32x just for it
should be noted guys most of the model 1 games run in mame, i played wing wars perfectly though it, i recommend using a mouse or a flight stick for it.
Can't wait to see your Model 2 video in the future.
There's nothing better than learning more about the things that were such a huge part of my childhood...your doing gods work Sega Lord x
I'm trying. ;)
KEEP IT UP!!
The fact that your exposing everyone to the glory that is Astal through your video intros was enough for me to subscribe
I got to play one of the deluxe Virtua Racers when I was a kid, I never thought it would get better than that
"It lit Japanese arcades up like a nuclear bomb." LMAO!!!
Joseph D too soon ha
Probably not the best analogy given the country.
Yeah, he apologized for any potential offense in the video description for the poor choice of words, seems like it was just a coincidence.
Awesome episode as always. Still hoping for a port of Wing War one day. That was awesome in the arcades.
I've played Virtua Formula, Air Combat, original Virtual Reality, R360, all sorts, big arcade fan.
The Intro Music are from Astal for Sega Saturn
Arcade machine back then like Sega Model 1 or Neo Geo are way more impressive than today’s arcade machine that use low end pc hardware
Never getting a home port that did Star Wars Arcade justice still hurts. The 32X port was a near miss at best.
Cool video bro as always;) keep up the great work! I love Sega arcade games! Hope to see more releases on the switch!
Great video 👏👏👏
My first proper 3d experience was virtual racing.
It was just mind-boggling at the time. Sitting in that cabinet felt like you were inside the action.
This and virtua fighter were the main reason I chose saturn over playstation back in the days.
Virtua Fighter definitely was a huge reason I went after Saturn. I wanted that at home so bad.
Great video! I know you’re more into the older stuff, but would you ever consider doing a video covering 6th gen Sega games that did NOT appear on the Dreamcast? I love how Sega developed over the years and am still blown away by their Dreamcast offerings. It’s a shame how it ended so abruptly and I never really kept up with them afterwards. It’d be great to see how the spirit of Sega lived on after their final console.
Robert Anthony I concur, the Sega gens on PS3 and PS4 etc etc etc
Sega Lord X Brilliant video! Yu Suzuki Legend!!
This has probably been mentioned already, but the 10th Anniversary Virtua Fighter you mentioned is on the U S. release of Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution for PS2. Great vid, btw.
Excellent video as always!
Very nice video. Along with other viewers, I think the flat, shaded polygons look quite nice now. Some look better than others. The human characters in VF1 were tougher to pull off at that time. Back in 1992 and 1993, I was not a big fan of Model 1 graphics, especially Virtua Fighter. The polygonal characters seemed a step backward compared to the sprite art(Capcom and SNK were pushing that forward) and digitized graphics at the time(which looked pretty good when it was a Midway game). Despite not liking the graphics at first, I was blown away when I got to play Virtua Fighter in 1995 after a friend bought a Saturn. I got used to that game pretty quick and was pretty good at ducking my friend's high kicks at the last second and then scoring tons of throws. As I got older, I was able to see things differently and have come to appreciate the Model 1 graphics along with other early 3D like Starfox, which I appreciate more now than I did back in the day. On games with a vehicle focus like Virtua Racing and Star Wars Arcade, the Model 1 looks particularly nice. That Namco space shooter also has a great look to it. Great work and thank you.
Yup AM2 revolutionized the arcade scene with there Model 1 Virtua Racing, but despite it just having flat shaded abeit light sourced polygons I think it's aged quite well, I still play an arcade perfect home port of it on PS2 and it's absolutely stunning and fun to play.
I think nearly every arcade game Sega has done has aged well. I mean the hardware Sega released in the arcade was just always so good, everything has such a great look to them.
20,000 subs! Congratulations.
Thanks Zachary! :)
awesome video, love this very informative, easy-going style. definitely subbed
Awesome video! What an exciting time in the arcades.
Love your videos man! keep em coming. I Do have a request- Sega - back in the day use to make their own version of a game instead of porting. for example Double Dragon. (Which is my first video game) on the SMS. Can you make a video of Sega games compared to other console versions! Also, more Sega Master System stuff....this console deserves the attention!!
Sega were the best. When I look back to when gaming was special, I see a lot of sega coin ops.
I didn't know anything about Wing War... Strange, how something like that has passed me by :D
Stuff passed me by, and I was a arcade hound back then. Sometimes a game just gets by you and you have no idea.
I remember playing Wing War one year when the traveling fair came to my town. I always hoped it would come to home consoles
Seeing Virtua Fighter move for the first time was mind-blowing. I'd never even seen 3D human characters before, alone well animated ones. I think that was the first time I realised that 3D was the future of gaming, not just some novelty for the arcade.
You and many others. Sega's Model 1 changed everything for many of us.
2:46 You are mistaken. Virtua Racer runs at 30 frames per second, which was already almost twice as much as the competition. It wasn't until Dayona USA and the Model 2 that 60fps became possible.
Indeed. This was addressed in the description.
Very informative. Great Sega history. Virtua Fighter is such a classic. 🦄
Excellent video as usual.
i love your videos SLX, greetings from argentina from a sega fan as well.
Thanks Leandro. Appreciate your comment.
Great video as always man.
Thanks dude. :)
I really miss those cool SEGA arcade cabinets, back in the day I was a little kid the first time I played Hang On and as far as I can remember the motorbike was bigger than me.
Haha, I remember the first time I saw a full Thunderblade cab. I just stood there like "no freaking way!".
I own 2 virtua fighter arcade games, and the game is still great today! Nothing beats the beautiful polygons on a medium rez monitor, crisp, clear and colorful! The best part is that as far as arcade cabinets go, its pretty cheap these days. Sound boards are tough to get as they are usually robbed from them so operators can keep Daytona USA’s going even today!
This video shows SEGA's true potential back in the 90s.No other gaming company could reach SEGA's quality,not even close.
I agree. They were so far ahead of their competition it wasn't even close.
Just a quick correction. The Model 1 games did not run at 60 fps. They ran at 30. They didn't achieve 60 until they made the Model 2 and Daytona USA.
Yeah, I corrected that in the description quite a while ago. I had seen nothing official stating 30fps until someone else brought it to my attention.
Another great video!! Love your stuff.
I love my Sega 32x because it has some of the best model 1 home versions.
Another great video! Thx man!
Thanks for taking the time to watch it.
Amazing channel bro!
oh god sega your are monster in making arcade games like this in the 90s
This channel is a treasure
I still play Virtua Racing on my ps2. Pure gameplay joy. The landscape would have looked so much different if Sega leaned into the arcade technologies more when developing their console hardware. Nice video dude!
I like the PS2 version as well. I think it turned out quite a bit better than many of the other Sega Ages games on PS2.
@@SegaLordX it's the only one of theirs I play. A lot are shockingly poor.
Great work man!!!!
Thank you. Appreciate the message. :)
That’s what it all was ,extra frame rates, and more polygons onscreen, but in a good way, unlike it’s competitors.
Sega were ahead of it's time starting with Model1.
Yeah the first time I saw Virtua Fighter at Disney's Epcot my mind was just completely blown being used to Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat in the like!
I actually loved the look of VF because it was so different from what was already out there. The animation was just crazy realistic.
@@SegaLordX
Right! It was the first time I legitimately got excited for the future of 3d fighting games! Butter a la 60 fps.
I love Sega Lords channel and all its content. So beautiful. But there should be a disclaimer that most of the model 1 and 2 arcade games are emulated and they take a big hit through emulation. Less polys and No transparencies. I have these a majority of these games and the shadows are mesh in emulation but transparent on Saturn hardware. This is evident by watching Burning Rangers. That game has EXCELLENT TRANSPARENCIES. BUT THRU EMULATION ITS MESHED. I urge you guys to seek out the real versions of these games on the UA-cam. They may not be HD but they are really better looking
I stated in the episode and the description that the games in this episode were emulation. I do not own the Model 1 originals so that's how it had to be. I'm not sure what you mean by Burning Rangers, however.. Every Sega Saturn game I cover is captured on real hardware. I've never used emulation on any Saturn game I've covered.
Burning Rangers keeps its transparencies when emulated through SSF; player shadows and teleportation effects are mesh on both the original hardware and emulators. Also, there's no sense in downgrading from a transparency to a mesh unless it's for speed, and SSF actually allows you to render meshes as transparencies.
@@SegaLordX I see what you are saying... What im saying is I have access to a Lindbergh without the online dongle to play a fully working version of Virtua Fighter 5:R. We also have access to the Model 1,2, 3 arcade card that has the games stored up to full graphic capability. With that being said..Some of the arcade games you are showing have transparency issues. Even. That's beyond the point tho.. The point is.. Unless you record from the Saturn itself with the original components. Burning Rangers looks like shit anywhere else other than the Sega Saturn with its original components. Bottom line with all due respect Sega Lord.
@@SDSOverfiend If it's made with mesh and dithering than I don't mind seeing it that way even if it was intended to look better through a softer CRT with original hardware. Most people arent viewing youtube through a CRT anyway. I only dislike emulation if the sound is off or the movement is glitchy.
@@Lightblue2222 True... But GamingPalooza has a high fidelity series some including Saturn games on the original hardware. I don't know what tools they are using but the emulation comes out crispy. Nothing takes a hit. But I agree.. Once the sound takes a hit... It's unacceptable.
Wing War is my favorite model 1 game.
Dude... I adore Sega. You make me love it even more 😎
Haha, glad to hear that. :)
Damn, that virtua formula cab was cool as shit
Congratulation 🎉👏 no dislikes so far. Great video👍.
Another masterpiece thank you bro.
8:05 - "Grampa, quit hogging the Virtual-Reality cabinet! We wanna play!"
Some of those games are classics, I remember when virtua fighter was new and I was thinking damn that game looks awesome.
Indeed. How it moved and the animation was the real draw there.
Only SEGA could make such detailed games out of flat shaded polygons!
Great video!
I played virtua racing on the arcades....back then....I was amazed....how that was possible....with that frame rate and sense of speed...
I still play it every time I see one in the wild.
@@SegaLordX in Europe is more difficult to find that kind of arcade machines saddly...
Amazing as usual. Question: after viewing video and reading description, I'm a little confused on how to emulate the star wars arcade. What are my choices ? Only mame? What version is best if that's all we can push it on?
ESPECTACULAR VIDEO LORD!!! :-) :-) :-) :-) SEGA IS THE PARADISE
"It lit Japanese arcades up like a nuclear bomb" - Not sure about that one.