RISC = Reduced Instruction Set, so yes, higher clock don't always help. You have pretty fast instructions, but they are more basic than from CISC CPUs. A popular example would be (has nothing to do with RISC itself) the MOS 6510 of the Commodore 64. It lacks division in hardware completely. So it was not slow for divisions, they was absent. They have to be built in software (today often part of a compiler or framework), what caused more work and resulted in more instruction. So a RISC instruction is always at of fixed cycle amount (short) but often takes multiple instructions to get the same result. For simple tasks that's great, for more complex tasks it could be a downside. On a console, where for sure the compiler libraries are missing or limited, companies had to build their own libraries and code to run a specific action. And this has to be optimized and updated over months or years, to find the best solution. After all this "nonsense" I have to say, that the PS1 design is just a masterpiece, seen from the perspective, that it was "gen1". Would be interesting from where they go the deep knowledge of the used hardware and how to scale it well. It doesn't look like there were bottlenecks for programmers at the beginning, like it was on the PS3. Even earlier games ran very well and looked already solid.

The system that dragged me away from the PC Master Race 😉

Great channel and videos 😃 sub!

tekken 2 intro fmv music instantly choked me up. Still my favorite intro fmv ever.

I've seen the instruction set of PSX and its hardware layout and the only thing i took out clear is that it severely lacked a floating point unit.

Great video. Really surprised you didn’t talk more and make more comparisons to Namco System 11. Great videos, looking forward to more. Would love to see a video on Tom and Jerry from the Atari Jaguar and how great it handled Doom compared to everything else at the time, except for the music lol

The front end of the saturn was actually about twice as powerful as the playstation: 144? MIPS vs 90 MIPS. yet the playstation obviously had much more developed rendering hardware, performing more rendering features per second--RFS.

ps1 has one of the, if not the best RPG libraries of all time

Man thank the holy YT algorithm for bringing up your video. That Tekken 2 opening ost busted my nostalgia wide open. Great upload, gladly subbed. Will you be making a video on PS's 30th anniversary?

We all throught that the ps1 was sony’s first entry into gaming but that’s not the case because back in 1984 sony had their but most popular variant of the msx system wich was a hybrid game console and computer system in 1. Sony also came up with many accessoires for it including many different controlers for it. Heck sony did even made some games for the msx. So the msx deserves it’s place in history as part of sony’s experience into video gamong😁

Saturn's sh-2s can't perform more then one instruction per clock..

Another interesting video, thanks! About this raw horsepower of both consoles, Doom port is good example since it was running without GPU acceleration and Saturn was struggling much more there, PSX also had huge slowdowns to single digit frames per second but overal it was much smoother than on Sega console.

Engaged for the Al Gore rhythm.

Excited to watch this one! I had a Saturn 2 years before I got a Playstation, was excited to have some actual transparency in games but the first thing I noticed was how dithered everything look. On an s-video cable connected to a CRT you could still see the patterns and it reminded me of how the genesis used dithering to fake transparency, for a while I thought the Playstation was kinda faking its colors haha

Yess! Been looking forward to this one!! Sitting down with my tea to watch now 😁😁

I liked the simple breakdown of each section, but if you're framing the video as "how the whole console works" and invoking statements about it being allegedly weaker than one system or the other (says who?) then you should really cover the whole thing. I know you've said you don't want to make the videos too long but I'd be happy to watch a half hour or even hour long video, if it means being more comprehensive. I also concur with the other comment complaining about the mouth noises, definitely try and cut around those in future videos cos it's not pleasant to hear. Still enjoyed the vid though!

Hard to believe the system is 30 years old now! It may not have had a lot of games compared to PSX, but its library, especially for Japanese games, was incredible!

This channel is amazing! I'd love to see you do one of these videos for the 3DO console!

Can't understand your pronunciation of... "Gamehood"? Looking around KZbin I can't find his channel. Links?

Might be wrong but sure I heard somewhere that the Saturn didn’t use the normal polygon based graphics and that the quads were actually sprites rotated in 3d space

Sega Model 3 supported both quads and triangles. Early Model 3 games used quad, whereas later Model 3 games used triangles.

Your assessment about how the developer needs to stick mostly/entirely to assembler when it comes to maintaining performance isn't correct. *The Hitachi SH-2's RISC assembly was designed specifically in mind for the C programming language. It even states as much in Hitachi's SH-2 spec.* While it is true that coding in hand-optimized assembler _(key word here: hand-optimized)_ will always be faster than equally optimized C code, that doesn't mean C-compiled code is several orders slower. Michael Abrash, a colleague of John Carmack and probably the greatest assembler wiz of all time, stated as much in just about every volume he's ever written, and he even demonstrated this fact many times. And he proved this fact using the incredibly obtuse 16/32-bit Intel chipsets, whose CISC instructions were decidedly not optimized for C compilers. You can produce an executable using pure C that will rival (but never outdo in terms of clock cycle performance) pure assembler. Again, my source is Abrash. And when you're in the breakneck environment of video game production for the console market, it makes no sense to stick entirely to piecemeal assembler. Now, when it comes to the Saturn's DSP, that's a completely different matter. The only way to effectively work with that powerful but obtuse beast is in pure assembler and with matrix mathematics no less. This is because you have to pipeline every instruction by hand and it's painful. Programming for the SH-2 itself is easy and straightforward, but adding that DSP into the mix changes everything.

Newcomer here. I found your first Saturn video genuinely interesting and appreciate this follow up one (I'll be checking out your other ones at the weekend as I'm sure they'll be as interesting). That you're doing it because you want to speaks volumes - Keep doing it as long as you're enjoying it. :)

*works, for as long as there are still working Saturns.

Super lagtendo😂 love both snes and genesis but genesis games had way less lag lol

Do the pc-engine please

It would be extremely useful to have a video explaining how the color limitations actually influence the art design in Mega Drive games in depth. The fact that you have to use them in sets of 16 is incredibly important. For example, in Streets of Rage 2, the game uses the same palette for all 4 main characters, as well as some of the enemies, only one for the backgrounds (I'm pretty sure) and the others when it's time to palette-swap enemies. In Sonic, the monitors use the same shades as Sonic's shoes, and so do the springs, etc etc etc. This obviously influenced art and character design, because you had to know what colors your objects would be sharing with other objects. Knowing this is much more important than knowing about the supposed limit of 64 on-screen colors, in my opinion. If you made a video explaining this, I would be very grateful, and I think it would move the discourse regarding color limitations in a much more productive direction. Cheers.

I'm still confused 🤪

Nobody wanted a sega Saturn 🪐 the only console that everyone wanted after the genesis was a PlayStation at the time I know because I was there.

666th like 🤣I loved this console even though I never owned one when I was a kid (I visited my friend's house way too much so I could play SONIC).

Thanks!

only flaw on the SNES was the 8:7 aspect ratio. thats why it couldn't do 4:3 at full resolution they faked it by streching the 8:7.

what if the saturn got 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂

Not going to lie. When I saw the title of the video, I thought it was gonna about the Saturn being used in prisons and an offices...lol 😂

blast processing!! ✊️

Excellent review Chris. I've still only played the tutorial of the campaign.....plenty of fun sessions on the Operations mode though👍👍

If you like complicated game consoles, try looking at the Atari Jaguar. That thing is a whole mess to understand, complete with crippling hardware bugs that severely limited developers' options when making games for it since they had to figure out workarounds. Luckily these days the Jaguar is an open-source platform.

Great video, I really enjoyed and Shree with a lot of what you say. You say Anniversary lost a lot of that magic (which I agree with, TRA was trash), did you see Core Designs cancelled Tomb Raider 10th anniversary edition?

You have mad painting skills mate, just incredible. The game looks stunning, great that the universe has been properly captured within a game. I'm so impressed I shall fire up spacecrusade on the speccy 🤣

Also the Work Ram is split in 2. 1 meg slow ram and 1 meg fast ram. Low score boy has great video on this. Burning rangers used trick by rendering transparency on vdp 2 and transfer over check out low score boy video it's awesome

2:32 "...and it holds most of the core design elements" Heh

Can you make one of these for the PS1?

First Tomb Raider On Saturn is the best game in the franchise. Is has this magical lighting going on which really captures the claustrophobia of going deeper and deeper into the uncanny Tombs.

Both Saturn videos were excellent. Such a good explanation on the difference between programming effort vs difficulty

Super Mario Kart uses a DSP chip to accomplish that, so it wasn’t simply doing it with Mode 7 on the console.

I can feel your passion for the greatest console of all time. Would like to have a new video on the Megadrive sound.

Good video. The SNES was 8 bit console. Only players and few magazines called it 16-bit console (generation), not Nintendo. But, le last 35 games using a 16-bit CPU / ROM inside the cartridge could be considered as it.

Last great ff game? 12 is better.

I bought Sega Saturn in 1996 mainly for Sega Rally and Panzer Dragoon Zwei but quickly became my fav gaming system. Virual On, Fighters Megamix, Alien Trilogy, Virtua Cop, Daytona USA I and II, Command and Conquer

What was the game you showed at the end? With the comic book panels?