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Post by MIK on Sept 21, 2016 12:12:18 GMT
Makes you wonder if the Saturn is being patched during start-up to the front end.
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Post by MIK on Sept 8, 2016 9:56:08 GMT
Unless you can keep repeating the fault it will be a tricky one.
Some food for thought...
I know of one game that has issues depending on how it's booted. That game is Need for Speed. If you power your Saturn up with the disc in the drive so the game auto boots, it will not display the in-game on screen race map. Yet boot the Saturn with no disc in the drive so the start-up sequence plays all the way through going on to the dash and the put then game in, the in-game map displays properly!
That's one strange example of the Saturn not doing something just because of the way it was booted!
Another game, WipeOut 2097. Play that for a while and then open the CD lid to play something else and your find the CD drive will not work! The only way to fix it is to switch your machine off... So yeah, even a software glitch can make the CD drive look faulty.
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Post by MIK on Sept 7, 2016 12:08:19 GMT
The Saturn works in mysterious ways...
It may of been related to doing a soft reset from the last game you played, something was still in memory that conflicted with VF2?
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Post by MIK on Sept 6, 2016 9:32:48 GMT
Go back a couple of years and it was a dedicated Sega Saturn games website. Mick the webmaster wanted to give the whole site a modern face lift and as a one man army it was always something that would take time as the site had grown massively over the years. It's still on going... After a while Mick ended up reducing the old site in to a single "welcome" page which offered a direct link to here. That's all it was so your not missing out. That page has only been down for about a week so early days to be fair, my guess he hasn't seen it and may of forgot to pay the bill. Hopefully it will be back soon enough. It was good you found your way here without it though.
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Post by MIK on Sept 5, 2016 21:02:02 GMT
GET READY! What you found was a Sega Saturn forum. Welcome any way!
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Post by MIK on Sept 4, 2016 11:20:58 GMT
Derek has already explained how he fixed the loading error, of which I fully understood. That's why I said "failing that," which implies if it happens again in the near future, (at the time it was posted) then try the following. Oh... and I wasn't the one playing Virtuua Fighter 2, a waste of time asking me which version it might of been. Wow... A bit of an over the top reaction to a very simple comment.... Oh... And i wasnt asking you what colour the disc was... I just didnt bother quoting him. Is this the standard sort of response for someone offering others help that have the knowledge to confirm the fault? Make one mistake and you know what happens..., you can always guarantee the second one will be picked up immediately. Two bangs and you get something amusing. Derek is located in the USA aka NTSC, (see under avatar). Your question is a PAL related one so chances are he may not know what your asking... Yes there was a problem with the early PAL versions of VF2 not playing music on Lion's stage, it was later fixed and then printed on blue colour disc's in PAL Land. Unknown to me if the NTSC versions suffered the same problem as us.
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Post by MIK on Sept 3, 2016 7:59:27 GMT
odd... Failing that, check or clean your laser lens on the top side just in case it's dirty and maybe causing a slight loading error. No its not a dirty lens or disc, ive had that same thing before. Tell me though, was this the disc with the black or blue artwork on it? Derek has already explained how he fixed the loading error, of which I fully understood. That's why I said "failing that," which implies if it happens again in the near future, (at the time it was posted) then try the following. Oh... and I wasn't the one playing Virtuua Fighter 2, a waste of time asking me which version it might of been.
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Post by MIK on Aug 13, 2016 9:32:24 GMT
Ha! I long forget as I always use Quake to get it back, that's if I've lost my save files or are messing about with one of my spare Saturn's.
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Post by MIK on Aug 12, 2016 19:54:18 GMT
That video also mentions Death Tank, which was included as an extra with Saturn Exhumed. Yeah, sadly that early version of Death Tank was removed from the PAL version of Exhumed and is only found in the NTSC versions. For us in PAL Land we had to wait until Duke Nukem to play it. It auto unlocks if the game detects a PAL Quake save. Or you shoot every toilet in the game or something a long those lines to unlock it instead. If I remember correct, Saturn Quake was released a week after Duke Nukem in PAL Land so we only had to wait 7 days to get Death Tank the easy way.
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Post by MIK on Aug 12, 2016 14:57:39 GMT
Greetings, Just in case you have not seen it, here is a video covering the history of Lobotomy Software. It's very, very good but note it's 1 hour long! I have both and while the Saturn version is the better one, the PS1 version is just as enjoyable in it's own right! What your get from it more so on Saturn are the changes that you will see! In some areas on PS1 they added walls and stuff, (maybe to help with the frame rate) while on Saturn that same place might be an open space looking into the distance instead. The changes here and there are enough to keep you interest all the way and that's also true if you play the Saturn one first and then go to PS1 Exhumed. From the video your also see Duke Nukem 3D and Quake for Saturn, both were ported to Saturn by Lobo Software and run on updated versions of Saturn Exhumed's graphic engine. If you like your classic first person shooters then add them to your Saturn must haves list as they are also very good!
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Post by MIK on Aug 3, 2016 11:33:10 GMT
So your not as old as I was led to believe which explains a thing or three. While still young in the 1980's you were lucky to of had the pleasure of 8bit home computing, you would of played way more games than kids with say a Gameboy and 2-3 cartridges. I'm a kid of the dark ages, the 1970's when it was better to play outside rather than sit at home with books, jigsaw puzzles, lego and matchbox toy cars lol. Come the 1980's it was like living in Disney Land with computers and electronic games coming of age. Other than Star Wars I guess the first 10 years were very black'n white, I 46 next month... Nice to see your into a bit of everything, including Atari Lynx. Love that machine and often lose hours and sometimes days playing it. Fav game..., might be Slime World but love many more from Road Blasters to Joust and beyond.
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Post by MIK on Aug 2, 2016 12:33:38 GMT
Greetings, It's almost unbelievable you have not bothered with Saturn until now as the DNA of the late 1980's and early 1990's was all about porting arcade machines over to home computers, consoles and hand held's! It was the food for most machines and many were sold because of it. Saturn continued with Sega's arcade heritage from Daytona USA, Sega Rally, Virtua Fighter & even OutRun (1986) to name a few. Sega Rally 2 & Virtua Fighter 3 were the first games made for Dreamcast, not forgetting that Sucd Race Rolling Demo... Better late the never I guess. Also available on Sega Saturn under the Sega AGES label.
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Post by MIK on Jul 20, 2016 15:54:14 GMT
1995-2015 is 20 years. Welcome DJ Gryph, your avatar reminds me a bit of Kenny Everett who was a Radio DJ and Comedian from the 1980's in the UK.
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Post by MIK on Jul 18, 2016 9:13:29 GMT
For me it would be a close call between Sega Rally & Daytona USA as well. I'm sure I've clocked well over 200 hours play time on each one in the last 21 years.
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Post by MIK on Jul 12, 2016 13:02:03 GMT
It's it's own racer that looks more or less look like V.R
Unlike V.R where you could take a lot of high speed corners at full speed and as if on rails when doing so, Saturn V.R you have to let go of the gas to turn, much like you would in most racers if going into a corner too fast... That's the major difference between this and the Arcade & MD versions.
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