Every Cartridge-Enhanced Saturn Game

[@WalrusFPGA]

These long-form compilations are some of my favorites on the channel. Appreciate all the years of great entertainment and hope the new year has been treating you well so far!

[@truevudderhutz3482]

me too. when my daughter was first born i would sit up and watch them all night over and over while feeding her and stuff

[@davidbringham4869]

​@@truevudderhutz3482hey that's what I'm doing right now with my daughter! Haha

[@worsel555]

Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter is pretty awesome but holy crap it has almost NO loading time outside of when you first start up the game, it impresses me to this day.

[@preamstrikbiz0]

If your using a crappy ram expansion or an action replay without the serial port ontop… you will be met after the Sega lisence screen to tell you it cannot read into the game and that you need 4MB

[@worsel555]

@@preamstrikbiz0 I have heard some people claim that but I have an Action Replay Plus, ST-Key, and a Pseudo Saturn cart; the last two have selector switches and all of them work just fine. The only issue I have seen is if I have a game set for 4MB and it needs 1MB that sometimes it will freak out with the graphics as shown in the video. The big thing as Joe mentioned is make sure the edges of your cart are beveled as the port is SUPER fragile. I wish 1UpCard made a Saturn cleaner just to get into there and help get it super clean and keep it that way, every bit helps.

[@jaymorrison8419]

Its too bad they botched MSH That game has some of CAPCOMs best graphics

[@marccaselle8108]

I used to have X-Men vs Street fighter and marvel super heroes vs Street fighter for my Saturn over 20 years ago. Both games were arcade perfect with no missing animation frames and the tag team modes missing from the PS1 versions.

[@preamstrikbiz0]

@@jaymorrison8419 I think I played my American / japenese copy once of MSH and never played it again due to what you are saying , it’s cruddy 🤦‍♂️

[@ArgusArray]

39:09 I'm in tears laughing at the "Going to crash into a wall? Please let me crash with you!" joke from the Wangan Dead Heat racing game. Joe sure knows how to be romantic!

[@MyRetroLife]

Gosh what a gift for the Retro community your work is Joe. Loved every bit if this. I’ll never forget using the RAM cart on games like X-Mem VS Street Fighter and just loving my Saturn for it

[@jessragan6714]

It took a couple of weeks, but Santy Claus got me exactly what I wanted! An episode of Game Sack with a focus on Sega Saturn add-on cartridges! Christmas dreams really DO come true!

[@johnbewty]

I've watched a lot of videos on the Saturn expansion cart, and yours is eleventy million times better than the rest.

[@ultimateman55]

No doubt. It's honestly quite interesting how Joe always pays such close attention to the audio which most game channels never even mention. I appreciate the attention to detail.

[@Daniel__Nobre]

Man, your videos always make me feel like going back to watching TV Shows about videogames in the 90s. Like that special moment in the afternoon or Saturday morning where you’d get some special news, reviews, etc.. just a bit of a unique moment that was just about videogames. Thanks!

[@Gladson]

It's worth mentioning (or not, if you don't care about this franchise) that Groove on Fight is part of the Power Instinct series. In fact the game cover shows the complete title: "Gouketsuji Ichizoku 3 - Groove on Fight", even though the title screen doesn't.

[@BushidoBrownSama]

I'm impressed by the thoroughness, i didn't expect the mpeg card would be covered

[@BhChicagoTVStationhistoriesand]

New Game Sack!! I’ll watch it before sleeping for sure! This is consistently among the best gaming content on KZbin! Even if the newest episode’s topic isn’t one of your favorite parts of gaming you can’t help but watch it still due to the high quality Joe puts out. I really do enjoy it.

[@ryballs4569]

| Joe puts out. I really do enjoy it. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@RoodyCall]

Best content to watch before going to sleep

[@yuncelluz8709]

Dope content

[@coochie8670]

Best content to watch before getting your sack tickled.

[@ay-tmntxjl]

I thought I was the only one who cared about T. Hawk's back walk animation. I feel blessed.

[@preamstrikbiz0]

T Hawks backwards animation is certainly a huge deal in Zero 3 compared to other home versions for its time . I mean , damn … I even had to reference it in one of my hip-hop songs a few years ago lol

[@osurpless]

@@preamstrikbiz0 Sounds like a story?

[@preamstrikbiz0]

@@osurpless indeed about the native Americans that were on Long Island where I live even though t hawks in Mexico

[@johnm3907]

Yet he never mentioned the 2 vs 1 battles.

[@mrnicktoyou]

The Sega Saturn and that era is just peak 2D pixel art. The resolution, the colours, it's all just spot on.

[@opaljk4835]

It really is incredible how some of these games looked and sounded. Never fails to impress me

[@Rhiorrha]

It's sprite graphics, not "pixel art".

[@opaljk4835]

@@Rhiorrha that makes no sense. The Saturn did not solely rely on sprites. It had traditional background layers and 3D quadrilateral polygons (if that makes sense) and yes that is indeed pixel art that makes up the background and sprites when it’s using 2D. What an odd thing to say.

[@bobsaget9182]

Not really. The Neo Geo and even the Playstation 1 were actually better at doing 2D games. The Saturn wasn't even capable of doing a 1:1 version of Symphony of the Night. The only thing the Saturn had over the PS1 was more RAM in some cases. The bottom line is that if you're better at 3D, you're basically better at 2D, too.

[@terranceoliver8935]

That's not true Bob.... Back then the Saturn was made to focus on 2d games while the PS excelled at 3d due to how the systems was made. And the castlevina port did not receive the same care the ps1 version got. The Saturn version could have been technically possible but konomi dropped the ball. Unlike xmen vs street fighter was technically impossible due to the ps1 limited RAM pool.

[@Falcnuts]

I want a Saturn SO bad because of you Joe.

[@deadskinmask9997]

Same!

[@projectmayhem6898]

I bought a Sega Saturn last year and finally got the Fenrir ODE installed and working a few days ago. It sure is nifty.

[@stevenewsome5306]

@@projectmayhem6898same here. Love fenrir. Turn it on and entire library at your finger tips plus much much more. Past 2 years I’ve went the everdrive and modded route, couldn’t be happier about it.

[@Zoomy222]

@@projectmayhem6898 ode is so awesome. Have a satiator, but I blew out my ossc by plugging in the wrong ac adaptor... doh

[@SweetBlu]

Buy a Japanese one as it is less than half the price

[@Harperlarp]

'Here's what you get if you don't have one. Yeah, that'll teach ya' Never change, Joe. You always make me chuckle.

[@JohnSmith-or7gh]

First episode of the year! And it's a Saturn one! Thanks, Joe!

[@Breezyacre]

I don't even wait until I have watched your videos at this point, I just automatically press the like button! After all these years It's just habit! Thanks for all the great entertainment!

[@BiffMcSkylark]

This video really highlights a lot of reasons to want a Saturn as well.

[@JomasterTheSecond]

Only the raw RAM expansion power offered by the Sega Saturn RAM cartridges can deliver anime boobies at such a blistering pace!

[@DueNorthGaming]

There seemed to be a lot of those in this episode, not complaining ofc 😎

[@jeffjackson9679]

Ara Ara!

[@Fla5thgenTryMe]

Yup

[@narcolepticchihuahuaproduc1801]

I like video game retro reviews. I have no idea why I just stumbled upon this channel a few days ago. So impressed by the workmanship and the detail. Have NO IDEA why they don’t have over a million subscribers yet!! Great job everytime!!

Great episode! What I miss most about that era of Capcom are the amazingly creative stages, full of animations and different levels and so on. Very rarely have they revisited such zaniness in stage design after that. Also, I find it so funny that in the 90s everybody was fighting for a bit more RAM here and there and, nowadays, most smartphones can emulate those arcades perfectly. Time marches on indeed!

[@MagmaMKII]

That screen change thing in Vampire Savior is basically an install super which gives the character a timed passive buff which varies depending on the character. Like, some characters get a shadow trailing them for multiple hits, some small helper which acts on his own or just enhanced offense/defense.

[@Rhiorrha]

In the "sequels" it's does WAY more useful things, like turning Gallon's Moment Slice super from a stab, then a slice into a grab, then hyper-combo attack like Sabretooth's Wild Fang super in XMVSF and MVC2.

[@rlacombe]

Your Saturn capture quality is phenomenal

[@bobsaget9182]

Uh anyone could load up the games in an emulator and get better quality. Stop being a rube.

[@rlacombe]

@@bobsaget9182 shut up

[@Bloodreign1]

The PS2 Alpha Anthology is the only other version of Alpha 3 (Upper) to have all of T-Hawk's backwards walking animations.

[@preamstrikbiz0]

And what I love about the Saturn / PS2 versions is they have their own unique extra modes of game play , like the Saturn version has many dramatic battle and survival modes exclusive to its version where as the PS2 version you can wind up unlocking the beloved ( and not well known ) Hyper Street Fighter Alpha

[@AceTrainerX3]

Was about to say this, myself

[@drakabeko5145]

I first had the crappy Pro Action Replay (when it worked) that gave me access to the huge Japanese Saturn library, but it occupied the ram slot. I later had to modify my Saturn with a switch that allowed you to play Japanese games and freed up the ram slot. First game I bought was Groove on Fight. A really really underrated fighter. Really fun, crazy, and awesome art from Range Murata. Really loved that Saturn and I still have it! I even enjoyed it more than my Dreamcast!

[@ssfn1_]

I don't think it was crappy, it also had the ram you needed to play that game, so to me it makes no sense to mod my Saturn just to free the cart slot

[@Gladson]

@@ssfn1_ the very first pro Action Replay models didn't include the RAM cart functionality so that's probably the one he used to own

[@ssfn1_]

@@Gladson oh I didn't know that, in that case modding is the solution. But I still wouldn't do it to my Saturn, I don't like to change original hardware

[@Gladson]

@@ssfn1_ I would never cut, drill holes or remove components from any console but the region switching was a very simple and clean mod, I did it myself back then and it as simple as adding a switch that routes the signal to some different pins as that's what determine the console's region. Of course. It was useful when there were no carts that had both RAM expansion and region switching but quickly became obsolete with 4-in-carts around.

[@drakabeko5145]

@@Gladson yup exactly. the PAR I had only provided the ability to play Japanese games and cheats, but had no RAM. It was crappy because it simply did not work often. it was worse than the days of the NES where you had to keep blowing into the back of the cartridge. The modifications work was probably the only way to resolve it back then, and it still works today.

[@alex64gaming]

Seeing the expansion pack put in the slot on the Saturn is hilarious 😂

[@kennymetz187]

Dam it joe it's 3:43am and I was just about to fall asleep, now I have to watch your amazingly detailed beautiful video. Keep up the incredible work man, you just keep getting better and better, and I love your humor

[@tommynelson8674]

Bro same 😂

[@fakeshemp9599]

I think he's doing it on purpose!!

[@dwood78part23]

The 1s Game Sack video of 2023! Let's get it on!

[@pointedspider]

What the hell kinda world do we live in where u can get a Sega Saturn Tshirt in 2023. You couldn't get a Sega Saturn Tshirt 1995

[@jkemp6791]

I would say that since the Saturn has games that are still playable today and the N64 doesn’t, the 1 & 4MB RAM carts win by default.

[@maroon9273]

All of the n64 ram paks are all 3D games

[@jkemp6791]

@@maroon9273 That suck. “All of the n64 Ram paks are all 3D games that suck.” Finished it for you.

[@ZakkHung]

I will never stop playing my Saturn. Love this episode.

[@LinG-of8fk]

Vampire Savior?? I thought that was Dark Stalkers... Anyway, I LOVE this channel!

[@theartcrusader759]

Darkstalkers 3 is called Vampire Savior in Japan

[@mistkeyblade]

Yes! More Game Sack! Can't get enough of it.

[@MarcoMazziniYT]

Just bought a Japanese Saturn with an ST-Key cartridge, and you come out with this video.

[@Aragorn7884]

Thanks for 4K60FPS 👍😄

[@johndd9140]

It appears that Capcom were the only third party company that knew how to work wonders on thd Saturn. And SNK, to a small extent. Thanks for a great video, Joe! 👍👍👍

[@robertdanker6193]

I agree Fighters History on the Saturn is a solid title! I would say Final Fight Revenge is bad, but dips into that so bad it's good territory. Back in the day I had alot of these games with an action replay/ram cart and had a blast!!

[@JessicaZane4realz]

So much good stuff in that sack of yours.

[@brandonbrimer6554]

Provocative

[@joshuadeaton9018]

Great idea for an episode. There’s a lot of confusion in the community about this subject.

[@gregswaney6329]

This is the best retro channel!! Thank you for all you do! I look forward to your every other Saturday videos! Really entertaining and well done!

[@MagisterHamid]

Would be cool if you made an episode with all games that use the link cable for PS1 and Saturn!

[@supernintendochalmers3811]

Game Sack is one of the best channels on KZbin. Thank you for not giving up and and making "Toy Sack" videos.

[@bigdeagle1331]

Hands down! The greatest video game channel on KZbin! You remind me of myself back in the day!

[@ravagingwolverine666]

What a fantastic string of games in this video from King of Fighters '95 through Metal Slug. You can even add Groove On Fight which is pretty good and was my first proper RAM cart game(I had Marvel Super Heroes before the cart). One neat feature of Groove on Fight is the ability to use the downed fighters as weapons. Metal Slug on Saturn was also my introduction to the series. I didn't know what to think for a while since I hadn't played a 2D action game like that in a while due to the 3D craze. The one-hit deaths were harsh too, but I got into it because it was impressive. I loved King of Fighters '97 and it was my favorite fighting game on the Saturn. I instantly fell in love with it seeing it in a comic shop, even though it was right next to a Street Fighter 3 cabinet. KOF just appealed to me more. The limited amount of music in KOF'97 is an issue and I point that out. Still, the rest of the presentation, including the sound effects are so strong that it was less of an issue than I expected. That was definitely one of the main improvements for KOF'98, though much of the gameplay carries over from 97 so they were almost there with that edition and I suspect it was just limited development time more than anything. I've been playing a combination of Marvel Super Heroes, Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter, and X-Men vs. Street Fighter in recent weeks(just played some XMvsSF last night) and can appreciate them more now than I could in 1997 and 1998 for various reasons. I had never played MSHvsSF before. There were more changes to the game than I expected including many background updates. The game also feels a tad looser than XMvsSF, not in a bad way. It feels just a bit smoother in its control. XMvsSF feels slightly more intense as a result. I have issues with both rosters, but I think I prefer XMvsSF's roster. Great games though, both of them. Lastly, good observation regarding the flashing on KOF. I've noticed that it can bother me, at least some of the time. Capcom used flashing as well, though not red like SNK. Depending on other factors like sleep, it can be pretty bad for me. This reminded me to look up that infamous Pokemon episode to see when it aired(December 1997) because I noticed both Capcom and SNK added options to their fighting games to toggle the flashing and that started for their 1998 games(as I recall, KOF98, Last Blade 2, Marvel vs. Capcom are the ones I checked), so it does support my theory that it was due to the Pokemon episode.

[@EpicLebaneseNerd]

I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT RAY SAYS ''BAKED POTATO....DYNOMITE'' when he shot his fireball.

[@awesomereviews1561]

There is a mistake in the video. Samurai Shodown 3 was released before SS4 on Saturn. I know because I bought all the SNK games when they released and I had it before number 4. A simple wiki search confirmed it. SS3 released on November 8th 1996 and SS4 on October 2nd 1997…

[@AnimeFrankReynolds]

I recently got a Satiator, and having a new video on Saturn games show up is always nice to see.

[@ssfn1_]

Does the Satiator provide the video features of a mpeg card? I never bought a Satiator because it occupies the video slot...

[@AnimeFrankReynolds]

@@ssfn1_ I haven't tried any games that ask for the mpeg card, but my guess would be no.

[@drspod]

@@ssfn1_ It doesn't provide video decoding, but as you can see from this video there are very few games that use it. And the great thing about the Satiator is that you keep your original CD drive so you can still just pop out the card and put in a video card and CD if you want to play a game that uses it.

[@ClassicDOOM]

The Gungriffon games were great! If they had at least double the resolution and draw-distances, they'd be awesome. In any case, they could really use an official re-release on modern platforms. 🙏

[@kurisuchiinathecrocodile333]

there is good freeware fanmade inspired by them, it is called "High-Macs Simulator". Check it out!

[@ClassicDOOM]

@@kurisuchiinathecrocodile333 Very cool, thanks!

[@metroidmayhem8463]

Ole saturn was a tank and when the devs actually got down with it. Things got amazing. Love the unique look of the Saturn's graphics the same way I love the unique graphics of the dreamcast. Something just hits different.

[@bobsaget9182]

There was nothing unique about the graphics. The CPS2 and original Neo Geo versions of virtually every one of those games is better.

[@bobsaget9182]

(the CPS2 games in particular are all squatty because the aspect ratio is wrong)

[@flink1231]

Thanks for another great episode! These complete lists are great!!

[@Agju]

Samurai Shodown 3 doesn't have the best reputation but it gave us one of my all-time favorite game characters (Shizumaru) so for that i am always grateful

[@ArgusArray]

Man, the Saturn kicked ass left and right. Those arcade conversions are unbelievable.

[@Jutrzen]

PSX had Darkstalkers 3 and Capcom vs. SNK Pro without any expansion and they dwarf the Saturn.

[@bobsaget9182]

And now that everyone can play the best versions of them (the original arcades) in emulators for free, every Saturn port is worthless. Yay!

[@larsadam1154]

Great Video, thanks for that. I´m a Saturn User from the first day on and i still love it.

[@MickMacklerack]

Big thanks to whoever did the rom to ram cart patches.

[@romainpascaud3735]

As always I love your videos. They're very comprehensive and clear. perfect to as a background or to watch normally.

[@randy7719]

I'm actually playing Shining the Holy Ark tonight on the Sega Saturn for the 2nd time. It's the first time I've played my Saturn in a long time. That's the one thing I wish I would have got for my Saturn was the RAM cartridge. I know those fighting games especially had fantastic animation when the Ram cartridge was used. The only thing I have for my Saturn that uses the cartridge slot is the Netlink modem, and the Saturn gameshark. And I've only used the gameshark for it once, back in the 1990's or whenever it was when I first got it. I don't even know if there still coming out with new codes for it, I'll have to check sometime. I have a gameshark for my Dreamcast to but I have it stored away and haven't used it in forever too. I think the Dreamcast one was on a disk if I remember right.

[@8bitsnkboy472]

Amazing Video!! Nice to learn some new things about my Saturn collection too - I had no idea a couple of my Japanese games were using the Video card OR that the Stereo on Metal Slug actually worked (by switching to mono and back). Cheers Joe! btw. The Rom cart for Kof'95 isn't region locked, so the Japanese cart works with the European version of the game and Vice Versa.

[@liamdaniel993]

On facts, your drops have pushed me through for the past 3 years bros. Your videos have let me know life is beautiful

[@RetroReef]

I love that you covered this topic. This is fantastic!

[@perpetualcollapse]

Understandable, have a nice day.

[@_gorezone_]

sega machine broke

[@DeadliftDarrell]

I love Game Sack! I look forward to your video every Sunday morning

[@tolindaniel]

Falcom Classics on the Saturn are to this day my favourite versions of Ys I and II. I adore the visuals and music for that version, and the FMV was just gravy. The 8-way movement feels a lot better in my opinion, too. I actually tracked down those versions back when I first watched your original Ys video, Joe, so thank you for that!!!

[@spockhozzer7207]

Hey what a great idea for a video! I always enjoy these library looks. Hope you had an enjoyable end of year break, Joe.

[@roberto1519]

Back in 1996-7, when my older brother brought the Saturn home, we were coming from a SNES then, one of the first series we were eager to try was KOF 95, 96 and 97, some of them wouldn't boot as we didn't know about the cart thing at first, but when we got to finally play these in arcade perfect form, it's a moment printed in my mind. We were into arcades since the late 80's and it was the first time uncompromised versions were available at home. It was also the console which introduced us to new genres, Mystaria, Shining Force III, Duke 3D, Hexen, Resident Evil, Tomb Raider and many, many more, when we migrated to the PS1 as the Saturn wasn't going to get new games then, the transition wasn't as impressive, it has amazing exclusives and very decent arcade ports too, I still find SFA3 a miracle on Sony's console, while it has tons of loading and we played the Saturn before that, at least the playability is perfect for me, but we were already spoiled by the better versions, the Saturn was the right choice for us. To this day it's a shame it didn't receive many of what was planned, magazines were already giving many signs about a year before and the games I played on the Saturn were only getting sequels on Sony's machine.

[@SNKBossSyndrom]

Real Bout Special ❤ The most entertaining fighting game I‘ve ever played ^^

[@an_ancient_gamer]

Was that guy saying "baked potato" when tossing hadokens in Karnov's Revenge?!?! Joe - we need a 'Misheard Audio' vid! I swear the announcer says "drops his pants" when passing in Blades of Steel on the NES

[@RealAlphaDrum]

Playing as Mai...it's almost a running gag now. Kudos.

[@BrickTamlandOfficial]

i hope we get a gamesack episode for all the cringe 'girlfriend simulator' type games that joe has in his collection.

[@jonniefast]

konami @ love plus ds was a masterpiece honestly

[@carlosaugustodinizgarcia3526]

And that "other type of simulator " like Bible Black.

[@lucsilvas]

Maybe some fan translated of that specific genre?

[@BrickTamlandOfficial]

@@carlosaugustodinizgarcia3526 hail satan yayyyyy

[@stevesteve0521]

6 inch my darling for the Saturn is a classic

[@FastTquick]

I can already guess that the next episodes would be every Dreamcast game that uses the VMU and every PC-Engine/TG-16 Super CD-ROM game.

[@BushidoBrownSama]

Every dreamcast game that uses the Broadband Adapter or Modem

[@djpookie2000]

No wonder fighting games no longer hold my attention. There were so many back in the 90's.

[@marccaselle8108]

Fighting games were a dime a dozen back then and not all of them were good. Looking at you street combat.

[@Sega90s]

That issue you have with Real Bout Fatal Fury is without a doubt the cart pins . I had the same problem with mine after using an action replay standard cart( the one without the 4meg expansion). The only solution I found was to manually bend the pins out slightly to tighten the connector. The pins on that connector are really cheap and not even gold plated.

[@bobsaget9182]

Or use Mednafen and never have a problem like that again.

[@Sega90s]

Ahh and there it is!

[@fiskburk2908]

Real Bout Fatal Fury Special is my fav on the sega saturn, the sprite work is amazing (at least for me) and is fun to play.

[@bobsaget9182]

Better on a real Neo Geo.

[@smallspacearcade8158]

New Year....fresh new Sack!

[@vallaurianv6024]

Amazing video Joe. Super helpful thank you. Watching this reminds me how awesome my Saturn is. Street Fighter Zero 3 and Xmen vs Streetfighter on Saturn are my favourite one on one fighters of all time on any system. They’re incredible. Wish Konami had used the RAM cards for Symphony of the Night - might have improved it?

[@Write-Stuff]

A lot of games getting high praise from Joe here, so you know they're worth playing. Also, I want to thank you, Joe, for years of clean entertainment. So many channels curse incessantly; it's a major turnoff and an indication of a lack of creativity by my estimation. And wouldn't you know it, KZbin's latest rules are causing many gaming channels to get their videos demonetized for that very reason. So you retroactively dodged that bullet. Good on you, Joe. We all love you, brother.

[@MzuMzu-nx1em]

Happy New year. Pocket fighters is the first cute'm'up and still the best one . Tons of references to every capcom franchise and traditional Japanese culture via transformations of the characters and stage . If you look closely with a proper guide can find out tons of references

[@punk_rock_music_teacher]

Putting my Offspring cd in the Saturn and watching the space ship fly around to the tracks

[@rodrigomarcondes5857]

27:41 those crucified Ultramen on the background really stood out to me in this episode lol wtf 🤣

[@GustavoValdiviesso]

Very informative. I specially loved the added subtitles on some Japanese sentences 😉 Spot on (on comedy at least)

[@TheChestnutBowl]

Sentimental Graffiti's one of my favorite Saturn games. I didn't know it had anything to do with the movie card.

[@HerculesMays]

Fun fact for everyone: the Saturn modding community has been modding games like Dracula X and others to wotk with the 4MB expansion pack, and it's really cool to see what that extra ram can do for 2d games. I'd love to see many of the Saturn's best games modded to work with the 4MB Expansion cart

[@bobsaget9182]

Or, you know, you could just play the best version of SOTN (the PS1 version). Geezus

[@Supersayainpikmin]

@@bobsaget9182 The Saturn version has some additions, so having a better playing version of it is definetly worth while.

[@maroon9273]

I wish ram and rom carts were also used for 3D (better texture details, enhanced framebuffer color depth, dithering removal and framerate) Saturn games (including lighting/full alpha blending transperiacies, maybe a rectangle sprite/triangle polygon support cach ram cart/action replay variants) and western 2D games. Also, more rom carts for action/fighting/arcade games. Great creation accessories sega ever made. With the 4MB saturn it rivals the n64 pak which is 4 MB. Only edge n64 has is its flexible unified ram. However, it is better utilize than the n64 expansion paks. Can you also do video on the pce cd ram cards especially arcade card?

[@ClexYoshi]

X-Ism: Street Fighter 2 mode. do more damage, have the most guard bar, have one super. Z-Ism (also known as A-ism in the west): Street FIghter Alpha style controls. Multiple supers, Air blocking, Alpha Counter, Taunts, average stuff. V-Ism: Low guard meter, lower damage, has all of the universal mechancis of Z/A-ism, but the super meter gets replaced with the custom combo meter. at 50% you can activate it and flash invincible for a moment before enjoying all your moves being faster and anything canceling into anything. obviously, the more meter before activating,t he longer you'll have this custom combo state.

[@lyteedge]

Samurai Shodown III did come out in the Saturn before IV did- maybe it was a re-release of III that caused some confusion? There was also some speculation back then that SNK did not want to use the 4MB ram cart because they wanted their NeoGeo CD games to look better by comparison.

[@TalesBarros]

Yes, the Saturn port was released almost a full year before Samurai IV. I'm surprised no one besides you mentioned this. Heck, I have gaming mags from the time which reviewed both ports. III in late 96 and IV in late 97.

[@lyteedge]

@@TalesBarros I got it at release so I definitely remember! The Saturn port followed the incredibly bad PS1 version and was really good for the time.

[@dbzeh6837]

I wish you could check the evolution of the Vs series on the ps1, I had bad memories of the 1st one bc I had already played the arcade one to death and the lack of tag was a huge letdown, years later I got the Saturn one. I bought all 3 Vs for my Osx collection recently, and I was shocked aeeing how bad the animation is, it's choppy and way worse than on previous Marvel/Capcom games on the system, but the last one looks way better. Being a HUGE fan of the SS and its japanese library, I was delighted by this episode. It brought me a lot of memories! Superb work as always. Thanks!

[@jeffreako7411]

And now my week is complete. Thanks for the video!

[@sega-re-trop-vieux]

Great video, I have done a small video about those cards. Don’t forget that the terminator cartridge is able to save directly to the cartridge

[@smetal22]

Loved it. You should do a series of games that run at 60 fps on original hardware, like fzero-x for n64 and tekken 4 for ps1. You can do an episode for each console. Excellent work!

[@NotABot55]

Fighting game, fighting game, fighting game, Metal Slug, fighting game... this seems awfully familiar... oh, and Cotton, some RPGs, visual novels, a mech game, and a racing game. That Noel entry kinda feels like the game Hacknet (not to be confused with NetHack.) As for getting the ladies naked in Pia Carrot 2, that's not happening on a yellow label Saturn game.

[@Sixfortyfive]

You're right to gloss over the save cartridge functionality since it's 99% redundant between games, but it is worth mentioning that there are at least some games out there with *some* specific functionality that can only be used with an actual save cartridge. The only one I've personally played though is Dragon Force. With a save cartridge, you get the option to store more save files at once and also get access to a Suspend feature that lets you quicksave at any time. Without a cartridge (or with 3rd party cartridges that don't support direct save), you don't get the Suspend function and IIRC are restricted to one save file at a time. It's an extremely marginal improvement in the grand scheme of things, but it's worth at least a footnote.

[@ssfn1_]

Great video, I love all your SS content. Still waiting for a surprise Dave appearance, last one was in 2020...

[@ryandann9362]

I bought the cart that let's me play Japanese games and back ups so I could play Deep Fear. I also ended up getting a cart for saved data. Haven't used either in many years as I was underwhelmed by Deep Fear.

[@beauleidig8670]

It's impressive how many of these games looked better on the Saturn than the PlayStation. If it weren't for the fact that I, and everyone else in the entire world, were literally more than ten times more likely to have owned a PlayStation I would have totally purchased the Saturn versions. Seriously though, I really do appreciate Joe making so much Saturn based content as I never owned this console nor did I know anyone who did, and it's fun to learn about Sega's 5th gen system.

[@James-fo8rf]

Thanks Joe. Great video 😍

[@Aberusugi]

Best Sega Saturn capture I've ever seen, great job!

[@triple_lei]

Goddamn, when you showed that T.Hawk walking backwards animation on Saturn, I had to try it on Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max on the PSP and it's not there, so it really _is_ Saturn-exclusive.

[@CDages]

Playing MSH with the optional 3MB mode most definitely makes the game run with more slowdown and I'm rather surprised you made no mention of it increasing the games loadtimes by a rather considerable amount. Damn shame the conversion wasn't handled with more care since its one one of my favorite Capcom games. Also Xmen Vs SF has a hidden audio option that improves the games audio quality considerably. Rather surprised not many people make any mention of it.

[@GameSack]

Does it? I mean it's not like the audio's bad in any way, even compared with the arcade machine. Why would they hide the audio option?

[@CDages]

@@GameSack Yep. Just go into options menu, highlight the Audio option (Stereo/Mono) and hit the left shoulder button on the controller. If you did it right you'll see a (Sharp S.E.) text on screen accompanied with crisper sounding audio effect chime. Give it a try and lemme know if it worked for ya. Haven't played XvsSF on Saturn for a while a now, but I used to play it ALOT!

[@ultimateman55]

@@CDages That's crazy. I've played the Saturn port many times and I never knew about this audio option. I'll be trying that out...right now! Thanks for the info!

[@CDages]

@@ultimateman55 Nice. Hopefully you dig it.

[@brothercannon]

Positive sentiment comment for the algo. Great video as always.

[@HansBoopie]

Another great episode! Thanks.

[@kristophermann6528]

THX Joe, had no idea Fighter's History Dynamite was available on Saturn -- just picked up a copy on eBay.

[@nocturnalag7695]

Gamesack now has Extra MSG? You hear that uncle roger?