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Post by digichan on May 23, 2018 1:32:19 GMT
Does everyone know about this project ? "Hello! I'm James a.k.a Professor Abrasive: creator of the Drag'n'Derp Gameboy cart, and the device du jour: the Saturn Satiator. The Satiator is a plug-in card for the Sega Saturn which can boot games from a USB thumb drive or hard drive". "I've been working on this project in my spare time since 2014. There have been a lot of breaks when life got busy - but now I've decided it's time to bring this project home! The ultimate goal is to release the Satiator: a card that brings USB booting to the Sega Saturn. This will be something you can buy and hold and plug in and use to keep your game archive alive through disc rot and laser aging - or even develop new homebrew software". www.patreon.com/prof_abrasive/overview |
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Post by sych on May 23, 2018 1:52:57 GMT
Yes. You're behind by about 2 years!  It was discussed to death. Still a few years away though for this to be viable. |
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Post by digichan on May 23, 2018 1:54:50 GMT
ah sorry :/. I'm always late to these thing
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He did mention that an update should be coming
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Post by sych on May 23, 2018 2:02:02 GMT
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Post by barryburton on May 23, 2018 14:23:56 GMT
The CD drive dying on the Saturn seems an exaggerated risk to me. Even if it does break... I replaced mine earlier this year and it was easy to buy and install the replacement laser assembly. Really no big deal at all, if you can do Lego Technic, you can replace a Saturn laser. Or am I missing something? |
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Post by darkman01 on May 23, 2018 14:38:59 GMT
The CD drive dying on the Saturn seems an exaggerated risk to me. Even if it does break... I replaced mine earlier this year and it was easy to buy and install the replacement laser assembly. Really no big deal at all, if you can do Lego Technic, you can replace a Saturn laser. Or am I missing something? You can replace it of course, but the supply is ultimately finite, not to mention things like disc rot which is starting to happen to some games.
From what Ive seen , alot of replacement lasers you can find on Ebay aren't original OEM products, but 3rd party stuff which tends to be cheaply made.
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Post by zyrobs on May 24, 2018 3:40:10 GMT
Or am I missing something? Many people don't have the mental capacity to use a screwdriver; installing a modchip or replacing (and calibrating!) an optical pickup is like a 5th dimensional epsilon level quantum equation to them. Sliding in an everdrive cartridge and playing vidya games is something far easier to comprehend. It's why everyone considered Pseudosaturn a super breakthrough in Saturn piracy too. |
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Post by buckoa51 on May 24, 2018 8:45:17 GMT
Not to mention the fact that CDs don't last as long as we were led to believe and of course having one of these and all your games ready to go is a lot more convenient than having to rummage through a shelf/cupboard of games.
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Post by bultje112 on May 24, 2018 19:31:17 GMT
saturn cd's and systems are awesome. they still work perfect. dreamcast however is a total fucking mess. almost no systems work and half my games don't work anymore and getting a gdemu is harder than getting a japanese passport.
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Post by huntrrose on May 24, 2018 20:21:35 GMT
that has not been my experience with the Dreamcast console..
youre right about the gdemu.. better chance of winning the lottery.. lol
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Post by barryburton on May 24, 2018 21:14:59 GMT
Not to mention the fact that CDs don't last as long as we were led to believe and of course having one of these and all your games ready to go is a lot more convenient than having to rummage through a shelf/cupboard of games. Well yes, to my mind it will be the convenience that's the big improvement. |
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Post by zyrobs on May 24, 2018 21:26:11 GMT
ORIGINAL CDs are holding up just fine. They only die if you
- play frisbee with them
- leave them out in the sun too much
- they suffer manufacturing defects (this, unfortunately, is impossible to tell in advance or to detect simply by look, you need to analyse the disc manually).
Manufacturing defects are a problem though, but as far as I know they don't affect Saturn titles.
CD-Rs are a different animal of course.
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Post by atolm on May 25, 2018 20:08:30 GMT
better chance of winning the lottery.. lol If that were true, I should be retired by now with millions of dollars. I've got all of GDEMU's products, minus the latest one for the FM Towns. You peeps just need to plan, that's all. |
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Post by mick_aka on May 26, 2018 17:16:29 GMT
ORIGINAL CDs are holding up just fine. They only die if you - play frisbee with them - leave them out in the sun too much - they suffer manufacturing defects (this, unfortunately, is impossible to tell in advance or to detect simply by look, you need to analyse the disc manually). Manufacturing defects are a problem though, but as far as I know they don't affect Saturn titles. CD-Rs are a different animal of course. I've only experienced laser rot once, on a certain laserdisc thats pretty notorious in laserdisc circles for rot. I've got CD's going back to the mid-80's that are absolutely fine so I think stored correctly the saturn's CD-ROM discs have plenty of life in them yet. |
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Post by zyrobs on May 26, 2018 17:33:42 GMT
I have one CD from Mercury that for absolutely no reason started deteriorating over the years. The first time I dumped it, it had no issues. Many years later I dumped it again, and it still read fine, but the last two tracks took a lot of time to read. A few months later the last two tracks refused to dump completely. It is a 1999 CD (according to discogs - a 1999 repress of a 1991 CD to be exact).
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It was discussed to death. Still a few years away though for this to be viable.
