Why the Sega Saturn Needs to Be Represented on the Virtual Console

Ninji - 55 days 2 hours ago

Dreamcast games for PS3
Saturn games for Wii
Genesis games for 360

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Godmars290 - 55 days 1 hour ago

Go with the Panzer Dragoon series, update their graphics, forget all else.

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PLAYSTATIONGENRATION - 55 days 1 hour ago

i had a dbz game for it that was so fun

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Eddy Raja - 55 days 1 hour ago

I only opened this article just too look @ that pick...if only my GF would wait for me @ home like that after a hard day @ work.

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Glamis - 55 days ago

No idea why this story hasn't recieved more approvals yet.

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mrnintendo96 - 55 days ago

Though more consoles would definently be nice, I really want to see more N64 games on the VC!

A really good article. Definently approving it.

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jpymai - 55 days ago

Man, I feel like I've not heard about Sega in a LONG time. Great article: got my approval!

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ZombieAutopsy - 54 days 23 hours ago

I wish more people would have supported Sega throughout the years, who knows if they did maybe we would have the DreamCast 2 right now. Then again since sega has become a dev/publisher they have brought out many games for all consoles that i really enjoy. VC and Yakuza being some of my favs

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cheapndirty - 54 days 23 hours ago

I have a Saturn. And I have about 65 games for it. Iron Storm was pretty awesome. A 2d turn based WW2 strategy game.

Hopefully one of the consoles will pick up these games for download.

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PELVIC THRUST ACTION - 54 days 21 hours ago

The Wii doesn't have anywhere near the power required for a Sega Saturn emulator. Do you have any idea how damn complex that thing is? The thing had several sets of ram ALL at different speeds, two processors for the cpu itself, a processor for the GPU which was a god damn mess by adding on 3d at the very last minute, a processor for the sound processor itself "It's superior to the playstation soundchip surprisingly" and the fact that it's still not perfect on the PC and requires one hell of a processor to run it at good speed is telling. For it's time it was powerful, but it's incredibly hard to emulate due to being something akin to the PS3 cell in overall complexity.

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hatchimatchi - 54 days 21 hours ago

i'd love to see saturn games for download. I loved my saturn, i wish i wouldn't have sold it.

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Alex_Mexico - 54 days 21 hours ago

This will never happen for one obvious thing: Storage.

Saturn's games came on CDs. CD games were upwards to 650MBs in size. Of course many are much smaller but they still take a heavy toll on the Wii's measly 250MBs of internal flash memory. It even takes a toll on those 2GB SD cards.
Just look at some downlodable PS1 games from the PSN. Any given game can weight 300MBs while the big mammoths like MGS1 and FFVII weight for a whopping 800mb and 1.3GBs respectively.

Sega Saturn on the Wii's VC will NEVER happen.

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gumgum99 - 54 days 17 hours ago

*looks at avatar*

*nods*

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LIVE_FR0M_NY - 54 days 14 hours ago

full size picture of that chick up top^^

http://blogs.ign.com/Shisho...

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lizard81288 - 54 days 11 hours ago

now whats this article about?

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Handhelds_FTW - 54 days 10 hours ago

Nights: In To Dreams, one of the Saturn's greatest games.

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Roper316 - 54 days 10 hours ago

I really enjoyed the Panzer Dragoon games and also loved a game called Lunacy. I still have my Saturn and games but maybe checking out some titles I may have missed would be cool.

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Mahr - 54 days 9 hours ago

Personally, I say that Radiant Silvergun alone would be more than enough to justify bringing the Saturn to the current-generation consoles.

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deno - 54 days 8 hours ago

Saturn is a masterpiece console. when you want the best shmups and the best 2d fighters saturn is the place to be. I love my sega saturn. House of the dead, radiant silvergun, fighting vipers, shinobi legions, xmen vs streetfighter, nights into dreams, rainbow cotton, sega rally.

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The Kingslayer - 54 days 7 hours ago

Collection dwindled a bit over the years for various reasons. Somehow though I still have Guardian Heroes, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Virtual On, Import versions of Xmen vs Street Fighter, Fighters Megamix, King of Fighters 94, Panzer Dragoon, and some other titles. Loved playing Dark Savior. Game was tedious at times, but fun exploration. I wanted to dig out ThunderForce 4 the other day. May still do that...Great article guys.

Be a gamer...Not a hater

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neogeo - 54 days 1 hour ago

I got all the Saturn games on my computer VIA rapid share and I love the games! I also would re buy them on PSN

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john master lee - 54 days 1 hour ago

Both the SATURN and the DREAMCAST needs to be on the Virtual Console. It's already been proven that these sort of games can be compressed and emulated (Turbo Grafx CD games are already available.), and still look like the original. There are way too many exclusive games on those systems that haven't seen the light of day in a long time.

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