Running my Sega Saturn.

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• finthechat@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Careful. That is an old system. Maybe consider walking it instead.

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• GunValkyrie@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Look up Sega Saturn Action Replay cart. It works better than the official cart.

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  • MudMan@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, fortunately softmodding acts as a backdoor to make that part of the system have a healthy afterrmarket replacement. Which is useful because man, that thing had less storage than I remembered.

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• sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Get yourself a crt tv

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  • VanHalbgott@lemmus.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thank you, but I prefer my LED TV so I can use my Blu-Ray Player, Nintendo Switch, and also all my other consoles that have AV output anyway.

    I bet CRT televisions would be nice though.

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    • altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Get a crt TV and a GBS-C with HDMI inputs

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    • sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They are pretty cheap, no harm in having one on the side for your older consoles and games; they really improve the visuals. Plus the retro look goes crazy if you integrate it into your setup properly

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• trucy@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ah yes, finally something other than nintendo consoles!

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• AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One of the consoles I really wanna get some day. They totally shafted themselves by not putting more Sonic games on it.

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  • VanHalbgott@lemmus.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s because Sega of Japan was jealous of Sega of America making Sonic the Hedgehog popular worldwide through America, so they went and developed the Saturn independently of them and the two companies got mixed up.

    That was how Sega stopped making hardware and became another third-party publisher.

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    • torvusbogpod@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah Sega of Japan, particularly Sonic Team, actively refused to provide STI (American dev team) with source code necessary to build the game

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• Jaysyn@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I've got one of these somewhere.

  Need to break it out for some Panzer Dragoon.

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• rodolfo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  wish you to feel like the first time you played it

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  • VanHalbgott@lemmus.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why thanks! Segasatan, Shiro!

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  • MudMan@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That's vanilla VF1, right? So... disappointed and mildly concerned?

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    • rodolfo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      you were disappointed and mildly concerned at the sight of the very first 3d fighting game? wow…

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• Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you can get a copy of an RPG called Silver, I remember it being very fun.

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  • MudMan@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I very specifically remember it not being very fun at all, but then at the time they were pushing it as a FF7 competitor and it is extremely not that.

    Silver was on the Dreamcast, though. And PC, which is where I got disappointed with it.

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    • Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Actually you’re right. Was Dreamcast… I am very old.

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• SinningStromgald@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sega Saturn was the console I rented the most from Blockbuster back in the day. It’s the second system after an Atari Jaguar I want.

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  • VanHalbgott@lemmus.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh my gosh, I really wish I had more Atari consoles where I live. But I do have a VCS now.

    The new Atari VCS that I got on sale last year.

    Much affordable than a PS5 or Xbox Series X/S.

    But the Switch is a good console too.

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• dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How is it running on LCD? A lot of older games were designed for CRT.

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  • AnonTwo@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean maybe you'd need an adapter, but these things will generally work on whatever TV you plug them into. TV manufacturers obviously didn't want to have to tell consumers that their products would stop working moving to LCD.

    But a common factor is the console doesn't know the difference so the screen size will usually be stretched. But thats about it.

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    • JudahBenHur@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      theres a bit more to it- these older systems look nowhere near as good on an LCD display than they do on CRTs. The graphics were optimized for the RGB electron gun outputs, so those pixels look blurred, and illusions of gradients and shading work where on an LCD it looks way granier.

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    • MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This. I recently hooked my steam deck up to a CRT (I’ve been playing a lot of games that were made for a 4:3 ratio). All it takes is an active adapter (in my case, active hdmi-to-vga) and setting the deck to output to a 4:3 aspect ratio.

      That said, if that was a smart TV then OP would probably have a lot more issues. My parents have a (Samsung) smart TV and I’ve had nothing but headaches trying to get my deck to work with that, and they’re both modern devices. Some days it takes one try, some days it takes five tries, some days I just give up.

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• yeather@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nice, what a fun machine.

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  • KingJalopy@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In theory

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