Shmups lovers, be ready to play 118 new games

[Madroms]

I must let you know, as you are great saturn lovers on this forum:
For Xmas, I released the Dezaemon 2 Save Game Manager at my site. It is a homebrew program for the Saturn.
It contains 118 (new, for us) shmups made by members of the japanese dezaemoners community, 3032 screenshots and 178 music samples.
You need the original Dezaemon 2 to play this games, and the D2SGM to transfert them from the D2SGM to your backup ram cart (it will NOT work with AR as you don't have direct access to its memory) or your floppy disc if you have a FDD. I made a video to let people see how it works.
I also made a database to let you browse most all the dezaemon 2 games that have been made. Screenshots are available for the games found on the D2SGM as well as videos made by IGK.

Enough said, I let you check it by yourself: www.satakore.com

[Yart]

I think I just... I won't even go there.

Thank you VERY much for sharing!

Anyone got a Saturn Floppy Drive for sale? ;D (Or is there a way I can somehow connect an official Memory Cartridge to my PC? I got a second one just laying around only used for Dezaemon 2 so far anyways...)

[Madroms]

Why do you want to connect your backup cart to your PC ? To transfert your saves to PC ? Unfortunately you can't, same for Floppy disc. In fact, I dumped the save games from the saturn memory and I made a PC program to extract them from the dump (this Pc program is not available).
So if you need to share your dezaemon 2 creation, the only way to do that is to send me your memory cartridge so I can "dump" its content.
That's really a shame those saturn FDs are not readable on PC and that there is not any other easy way to transfert the save games to PC. I found a way for the D2 save games but it was not so easy.

[termis]

That's a really damn cool release. I'll definitely check this one out sometime.

[marc]

WOW.......this sounds cool as f**k, honestly. I have toyed with the idea of getting dezza but know for sure there is no way I could program anything because my Japanese is so poor. Just out of interest madroms, is it just aesthetics that can be edited or the actual gameplay bullet patterns etc.......Am rushing to your site to check this out as soon as I finish typ...............

[Madroms]

You can edit all what you want, except sound effects (you can choose between 3 different sets). It is a really powerful tool.
I made a link today to let people browse easily the games found on the D2SGM:
www.satakore.com/sega-saturn-dezaemon2-save-game-manager-downloadable-games.html

Some games are really well made and you can have more than 1 hour of play on a single game on muteki mode (=god mode).