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Post by icefactor52 on Jun 20, 2011 20:47:39 GMT
You know, I took some time today to sit down and really explore the Sega Saturn menu. I'm not going to lie- I'm impressed. This is a truly awesome menu for a game system to have.
The ability to mute vocals? Select track order? Man, this is stuff my PS3 doesn't even have. Sure, it can't play movies or MP3's, but in 1995 this must have seriously killed in the CD department.
The menu itself is very attractive in my opinion. It's very glass-like, shiny, smooth, very elegant. There are a ton of options ranging from audio to memory to gameplay, and none of it is confusing. I was also impressed to find that the Saturn controller actually has media functions mapped to the buttons, so you don't have to manually select pause, play etc. from the menu, but rather, you can use particular face buttons for each action.
This has officially become my favorite UI for a game console- just one more great thing about the Saturn that I seem to discover every day. A nice, beautiful interface for an awesome machine.
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Post by prabmire on Jun 20, 2011 20:49:37 GMT
Not only that mate, the sound quality from the saturn CD player is pretty damn good!
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Post by Yart on Jun 20, 2011 21:03:31 GMT
Also, you CAN get a VCD card for your Saturn that lets you play movies on it. So now you just lack MP3s.  |
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Post by Stuart36 on Jun 20, 2011 21:24:07 GMT
i heard that if you read out the binary code for a song to the saturn it will store it on the internal memory and then you can play mp3s.
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Post by icefactor52 on Jun 20, 2011 21:57:34 GMT
Also, you CAN get a VCD card for your Saturn that lets you play movies on it. So now you just lack MP3s. Wow, that's really cool, I didn't know that. Does that only work for movie stored on CD's though? I'm guessing it's not able to read DVD's. |
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Post by Yart on Jun 20, 2011 22:04:05 GMT
It won't read DVDs. Sorry.
VCDs are about VHS quality. (With better sound, being CD quality)
I wouldn't recommend it to the average person as a primary media. You'd have to be retarded like myself.
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Post by zyrobs on Jun 20, 2011 22:14:27 GMT
i heard that if you read out the binary code for a song to the saturn it will store it on the internal memory and then you can play mp3s. Err, neither of those 3 functions have anything to do with each other, and you can't play mp3s on the saturn for the simple reason that the system doesn't have enough mojo to decode them (the system can't do floating point calculations). MP3 was VERY computationally expensive in mid 90s hardware. VCDs are about VHS quality. (With better sound, being CD quality) No, they use Mpeg 1 Layer II audio (aka MP2). With decent bitrate it sounds near cd quality, but if you give it high bitrate, the video will suffer instead. |
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Post by Yart on Jun 20, 2011 22:16:58 GMT
He was trolling.
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Post by syn on Jun 20, 2011 22:22:15 GMT
i heard that if you read out the binary code for a song to the saturn it will store it on the internal memory and then you can play mp3s. Your words come back to haunt you  |
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Post by genesisknight on Jun 23, 2011 17:38:44 GMT
I thought there was an MP3 player app for Saturn? Maybe that was Dreamcast...
I wish I could justify the purchase of a VCD card as it would be cool to have but I don't own any VCDs! LOL
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Post by martiniii on Jun 23, 2011 17:41:16 GMT
The ability to mute vocals? Interesting. I've gone through the CD player menu a few times and never noticed it before. Going to try it out... Hmm. Have to say I'm disappointed. It doesn't mute the vocals at all, just drops the volume of the entire recording a notch. Rather redundant, since my stereo system has a volume control. I had some good childish fun playing with the pitch, though. ;D |
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Post by zyrobs on Jun 23, 2011 19:35:51 GMT
It's just a DSP effect that removes some midrange acoustics. You can find similar ones in nearly all media players.
The Hisaturn Navi can do it on-the-fly, though it uses an extra daughterboard to mix the Saturn audio.
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