After 5-year hiatus... Hello again!
Oct 31, 2018 20:08:30 GMT
Post by sonix on Oct 31, 2018 20:08:30 GMT
(not a newbie but pls don't delete )
10 years ago I took my good old Saturn out of the closet and started a new journey that went well beyond the mere 6 (albeit all great) games I owned years before.
At the same time I found this place and joined the community full of great and passionate people, which help me discover a lot of new stuff about the system and its games, making the whole experience much more enjoyable.
Years have passed but I never actually participated on any other Internet message boards on the same level as here. I mean almost 1,000 posts and various contributions in form of reviews, price guides or manual translations - that never (again) happened. This forum definitely helped me improve my English writing skills back then, thanks to almost daily posting. There were also those that helped me in a big way - I remember that literally on the day of registering someone offered me to send a free copy of Panzer Dragoon just because I mentioned it was one of the 6 games I used to own as a kid. Or a friendly user from Japan who helped me with purchasing imports from the Suruga-ya store, which saved me a lot of money.
But after 5 years I guess I had some sort of Saturn fatigue, and at the same time felt that I should finally join the contemporary gaming scene again - so I decided to sell all my Saturn games to fund the purchase of PS3. Only games, cause obviously I saved the hardware in case someday I might return to 32-bit path (and even if not, I would never sell it anyway). Though I actually thought it might have been a point of no return, since I saw first-hard how the "retro game inflation" hit Saturn titles, especially the non-japanese releases (which is what eventually forced me to get into imports).
And it's been 5 years since then. So when I thought recently that I might go back to Saturn gaming, I was actually afraid to look it up. There was also some anxiety when I dug out my Sat to check if it still works - last time I did that after a long break it resulted in a blown fuse which had to be replaced. No worries though, the almost 25 years old machine is still going strong, I love it
Now I see that the EU/US releases have certainly became almost prohibitevly expensive - even basic stuff like Daytona USA, a 1 quid game, is sold (and bought) for ten times that. Fortunately the imports are still affordable - some definitely have higher value now, especially the ones that already had insane prices. Thus, I went on a slight binge today and spend almost a 100 quid on the Action Replay cart and 12 games from eBay - and now we play the waiting game...
So after this wordy introduction I just wanted to say hello. I see that the traffic on forums is not what it used to be but I'm glad the community is still alive. When I came back to visit, I kind of anticipated to find out the page might be gone or abandonded. It's good to see some people from the "old" crew still hang around too.
Reading through the boards and my post history I remembered there's some unfinished business - I did not complete my "List of japanese exclusives" back then, I guess I might as well try to finish it this time, even if it may be of hardly any use. There was also this plan to translate the japanese manuals and have them available to anyone - well, I still study Japanese (I actually managed to pass the N2 JLPT exam this year, although barely) so I'm definitely going to try this out again since it's a good way to learn and give something back to the community (and if anyone has some translation request, not necessarily Saturn or video games related, you can alway PM me and I will try to help - gotta put this "ad" in my sig). Slightly bummed though that the two manuals I completed years ago are gone now (both from my Google Drive and PC), but I might bring them back some day.
Oh, and I also fixed the link in my singature - so now you can conveniently download all of Sega Saturn Magazine issues again (though who didn't at this point? ).
Thanks for reading Now go play some Saturn games before Segata beats you up for wasting your time!
10 years ago I took my good old Saturn out of the closet and started a new journey that went well beyond the mere 6 (albeit all great) games I owned years before.
At the same time I found this place and joined the community full of great and passionate people, which help me discover a lot of new stuff about the system and its games, making the whole experience much more enjoyable.
Years have passed but I never actually participated on any other Internet message boards on the same level as here. I mean almost 1,000 posts and various contributions in form of reviews, price guides or manual translations - that never (again) happened. This forum definitely helped me improve my English writing skills back then, thanks to almost daily posting. There were also those that helped me in a big way - I remember that literally on the day of registering someone offered me to send a free copy of Panzer Dragoon just because I mentioned it was one of the 6 games I used to own as a kid. Or a friendly user from Japan who helped me with purchasing imports from the Suruga-ya store, which saved me a lot of money.
But after 5 years I guess I had some sort of Saturn fatigue, and at the same time felt that I should finally join the contemporary gaming scene again - so I decided to sell all my Saturn games to fund the purchase of PS3. Only games, cause obviously I saved the hardware in case someday I might return to 32-bit path (and even if not, I would never sell it anyway). Though I actually thought it might have been a point of no return, since I saw first-hard how the "retro game inflation" hit Saturn titles, especially the non-japanese releases (which is what eventually forced me to get into imports).
And it's been 5 years since then. So when I thought recently that I might go back to Saturn gaming, I was actually afraid to look it up. There was also some anxiety when I dug out my Sat to check if it still works - last time I did that after a long break it resulted in a blown fuse which had to be replaced. No worries though, the almost 25 years old machine is still going strong, I love it
Now I see that the EU/US releases have certainly became almost prohibitevly expensive - even basic stuff like Daytona USA, a 1 quid game, is sold (and bought) for ten times that. Fortunately the imports are still affordable - some definitely have higher value now, especially the ones that already had insane prices. Thus, I went on a slight binge today and spend almost a 100 quid on the Action Replay cart and 12 games from eBay - and now we play the waiting game...
So after this wordy introduction I just wanted to say hello. I see that the traffic on forums is not what it used to be but I'm glad the community is still alive. When I came back to visit, I kind of anticipated to find out the page might be gone or abandonded. It's good to see some people from the "old" crew still hang around too.
Reading through the boards and my post history I remembered there's some unfinished business - I did not complete my "List of japanese exclusives" back then, I guess I might as well try to finish it this time, even if it may be of hardly any use. There was also this plan to translate the japanese manuals and have them available to anyone - well, I still study Japanese (I actually managed to pass the N2 JLPT exam this year, although barely) so I'm definitely going to try this out again since it's a good way to learn and give something back to the community (and if anyone has some translation request, not necessarily Saturn or video games related, you can alway PM me and I will try to help - gotta put this "ad" in my sig). Slightly bummed though that the two manuals I completed years ago are gone now (both from my Google Drive and PC), but I might bring them back some day.
Oh, and I also fixed the link in my singature - so now you can conveniently download all of Sega Saturn Magazine issues again (though who didn't at this point? ).
Thanks for reading Now go play some Saturn games before Segata beats you up for wasting your time!