What is the best Sega Saturn emulator? Uncovering the Secret to the Ultimate SEGA SATURN Experience!

[@AlexwpiGame]

Thanks to channel patreons / youtube members: Rashidinho Q, Ray Tracer, Lao90

[@ZX81v2]

Nice vid, I just was wondering which saturn emulator to go with. One question, does Yaba Sanshiro 2 support cue/bin or is it all chd? Thanks for this

[@AlexwpiGame]

@@ZX81v2 Yes, it supports most of the currently used formats, as well as the old ones.

[@ZX81v2]

@@AlexwpiGame Thanks :)

[@darpmosh6601]

​@@AlexwpiGame But perhaps that brings up the question: Can we extract and learn about the OpenEmu's Mednafen Configuration and apply it to the Mednafen emulator?

[@nerdodragonnerdpl4167]

I downloaded last one but games dosen't wanna run...is this about installing bioses or something like that? I appreachiet any sort of information I wanna play symphony of the night

[@ThrackerZ0d]

thank you so much for this video! i have been having a lot of trouble trying to find a decent Saturn emulator.

[@NightSkeptic]

Thank you for this video. I didn't realize how far Saturn emulation had come! SEGA created the Devil's Triangle of emulation - insane architechture, small library of games, limited fanbase

[@jonathansoko1085]

SEga fanbase is not limited dude. Its only rivled by nintendo

[@heilong79]

The library was not that small if you also take into consideration the Japanese games.

[@obinator9065]

...but dedicated fanbase!

[@cookieface80]

The Saturn library is way bigger than N64.

[@Mchenrygames]

Saturn emulation has come a long way, I remember when it was just a pipe dream in the late 90s early 2000's. My go to emu recently has been Kronos, Ill give Yaba Sanshiro a shot

[@tenkai-k3w]

i'm giving it a shot right now

[@AndruComedy]

Kronos is good on windows. It is related to yaba sanshiro originally

[@ethanphilpot7643]

This is such a great video! Straight to the point, very time efficient, detailed and clear presentation of what each emulator offers. Honestly I think this should be the standard for these types of videos

[@AlexwpiGame]

Thx bro

[@zerocal76]

Hey man, I've commented on here before saying thanks for the thorough video. I came back with a tip/thanks. Its content like yours that keeps the retro gaming community goin strong 🙏🙏😉

[@AlexwpiGame]

Thank you for your comment and tip! When I made this video, I tried to pour all the love I have for the Sega Saturn into it. It was one of the consoles from my childhood and the second-best in my life. I definitely need to update this video, including adding the RetroArch cores, so there might be another video coming out soon.

[@Rhyzak]

Beautiful video. Just what I was lookin for :)

[@AlexwpiGame]

Thx bro

[@loftypancake]

Thanks for this, very good and detailed and informative

[@rockhyde7775]

I wish Sega would release an emulated compilation in an official capacity. I know, there’s Saturn Tribute games (I think Cotton 2 was the first one but it launched with a major flaw that thankfully was later patched, there’s also a bunch of Taito games, Batsugun and the upcoming Assault Suit Leynos 2) but I want Sega or M2 themselves to release something like it as they did with the Mega Drive. I hope a Saturn Mini happens someday.

[@FiggsNeughton]

It's insane that game companies do almost nothing to support their old games, and yet it's "illegal" to download ROMs. It's even more crazy when you consider that ROMs are the only way to truly preserve old games.

[@PhilipMarcYT]

Exactly, I'd buy a Saturn Mini!

[@meecob]

I don't get the issues you talk about with SSF. I love it

[@whiteye9899]

In Yaba Sanshiro 2 when I try to run games in fullscreen they stutter a lot and audio gets all crinkly, but when I run the games windowed everything runs fine, is there any way fix this issue?

[@flink1231]

Mednafen does have an option to desinterlace... you just need to read the documentation.

[@AlexwpiGame]

I searched again, found the option to deinterlace, thanks for your correction.

[@SzymonSaysStuff]

This moght honestly be the most helpful video in all of emulation. Subscribed and about to binge the entire series. Could you do one for PS1?

[@AlexwpiGame]

Thank you for the compliment and for subscribing to the channel. Yes, I would like to make that type of video for PlayStation 1. I'll do it in the near future.

[@zerocal76]

There's no other Saturn emulator video like this 👌 The Saturn deserves more love! Thank you sir! 🙏

[@AlexwpiGame]

thx for feedback

[@Alianger]

So I had to reinstall windows and accidentally didn't back up this particular emulator: SSF test ver. 2018/12/17 I managed to find it but it doesn't seem to have the audio debug window (which shows each audio channel and if it's playing as well as the kHz value of the sample being played), and I can't find any toggle for it in the menus. Do you know if it's the wrong version of where the toggle is? I've also used yabause 0.9.15 for this but some games only boot in ssf. Maybe there is a better, more recent alternative though? I use it to check and document audio formats used in Saturn games (scsp/chip music, streaming audio, redbook)

[@McGamaStuff]

how did you get fighters megamix to look that clean? can you show the settings you used?

[@satokazuma344]

Very good! Thanks!

[@AlexwpiGame]

you are welcome, friend.

[@MysterionLL-]

qual deles é melhor no quesito desempenho pra PC com GPU integrada e processador fraco (i3)? Tipo, graficamente pode ser o mais zuado possível, desde que consiga segurar o fps em 60 ou algo próximo. Qual tu recomenda? // Edit: Nevermind, já achei, o Yaba Sanshiro é exatamente o q eu procurava.

[@AlexwpiGame]

Yaba é o melhor mesmo, em todos os casos

[@MysterionLL-]

@@AlexwpiGame a propósito, tem como criar atalhos dos jogos do Yaba na area de trabalho pra jogar com 1 clique? Tipo, com snes, mega drive, etc eu configuro pro emulador abrir aquela extensão e com isso sempre que eu clico 2x na rom ela ja abre no emulador. No Mame eu já tenho que criar um atalho e meter o comando { "C:/[pasta onde tá o mame]/mame.exe" "C:/[pasta onde tá o romset]/jogo.7z" } No Retroarch eu crio um atalho com o comando: { "C:/[pasta onde tá o retroarch]/retroarch.exe" -L "[pasta onde tá o libretro core]/libretro.dll" "[pasta onde tá a rom]/jogo.chd" } Nenhum desses pega no Yaba, sabe de algo q eu possa fazer no yaba pra poder criar atalho dos jogos?

[@nthnglsn]

great video. thanks!!!

[@rface0]

Definitely needed this video. Thanks!

[@LitoralGamer013]

Parabéns pelo conteúdo, belo trampo e alias valeu pelas orientações!

[@AlexwpiGame]

Obrigado irmãozinho

[@MadeosXD]

I'm having some trouble using Kronos, I wanted to play Burning Rangers, but the part at the training room is extremely glitched, I changed everything on the emulator configs and still doesn't works :(

[@augustinehoffman1911]

Same I just switched to yaba

[@ironmaskofhell1877]

Kronos just got a huge update. Maybe it might work now.

[@ГригорийБуров-м1ъ]

When it comes to gamelibrary compatibility, is bizhawk on a par with mednafen or falling behind?

[@AlexwpiGame]

it's hard to know the compatibility of multi-system emulators.

[@yankeesamillion]

I have a preloaded retro NVIDIA shield. For the most part it’s pretty good but the emulation for sega Saturn is spotty. Sometimes it freezes or just doesn’t come on at all. Any chance would you know of someone who can upgrade an NVIDIA shield and improve the sega Saturn emulation?

[@UnabridgedGamer]

I really appreciate the effort, but I'd strongly recommend having some kind of voiceover. Plenty people are happy to do volunteer VO. There's whole forums for it.

[@wlb277]

Looks like we still don't have a more definitive emulator like Duckstation for Saturn emulation for now sadly, but hopefully at some point very soon we'll see one get to that point finally.

[@wlb277]

@@ryanvetter5852 Mednafen is fine if you don't mind not upscaling or other enhancements and playing the games at their native resolutions, but for people who want to make them look better then other emulators would be preferable over Mednafen.

[@vicman3122]

@@wlb277 I need an emulator to play Saturn games on a crt television, I don't want any improvements so.... is Mednafen my best option?

[@liev5214]

@@ryanvetter5852its doesn’t support cheats in retroarch, so it isn’t flawless

[@Lao90902]

Mano esse tipo de video é sensacional

[@AlexwpiGame]

Opa, obrigado, me diverti bastante fazendo ele, mesmo que tenha demorado uma noite inteira para capturar e um dia inteiro para editar.

[@Catanofheaven]

my personal charts: 3rd mednafen great compatibility/emulator but the miss of upscaling feature is a bad point. 2nd Yabasanshiro best performances, upscaling maybe better over arm archidecture instead a x86 (pc archidecture), yabasanshiro2 is the best emulator on a rpi5. 1st Kronos, it take the best of yabasanshiro (upscaling and so on) but with the possibility to remove the "hole mesh" with realmesh (so no more hole on glass over car game, no more hole in shadows or effect) but is is a little bit demanding by this point of view. Basically the background upscaling (call rotate background) is the thing that crash performances over yabasanshiro and kronos. A good point of yabasanshiro is that the model upscaling and backgroun upscaling have 2 different and separate setting , so you could upscale at 720 or even 1080 and more the poligon model, and sligly reduce the background upscaling (ie with panzer dragoon saga i can upscale poligon mode to 1080p and background set at 720p). Kronos have this parameter locked so if you upscale poligon models to a 720p even the background will be upscaled as well. So sometime kronos lack of flexibility , but the possibility to add real mesh on game is realy a game changer...even a small 2x upscaling (from 320p to 640p) with real mesh is a sweet instead an upscaling to 1080p and still have "holes" everywhere

[@lucianokiller1]

Qual vc recomenda para jogar somente jogos 2d de luta como Xmen x Street Fighter e outros?

[@lostsektor]

n é mais facil so jogar a versão de arcade?

[@lucianokiller1]

@@lostsektor sim mas a versão Saturn tem alguns pequenos extras e os ports no quesito desempenho são praticamente iguais ao arcade, sendo assim a versão Saturn seria a definitiva.

[@ghosthostghostrammch]

question, for the yaba sanshiro emulator for windows, where can I find the games to add on the emulator?

[@K-Fa00]

Gostei muito do video, me inscrevi no canal, sucesso, tudo do bom e melhor sempre pra vc.

[@AlexwpiGame]

Muito obrigado

[@cookieface80]

I've been using Retroarch's Beetle core (which is Mednafen), with a NTSC CRT shader, and I find that to look and play well. It's also compatible with CHD files.

[@mrbanks456]

I thought I was downloading Kronos, why do the files say it's Yabause???

[@whopoder]

Bem, eu uso emuladores de Saturn, desde os primeiros (Giri-giri, Sturnin, SSF, etc). Os citados como ruins, Yabause e SSF, foram descontinuados e têm suas imperfeições. Mas rodam com pouco hardware e windows 7+. Infelizmente, muitos emuladores atualizados (UoYabause, Yaba SanShiro e Kronos) só rodam com um monte de bibliotecas que só estão presentes partir do windows 10. Mednafen e Bizhawk só ficam bons com máquina muito boa. Com hardware básico o áudio picota muito. Porém, os dois trabalham bem os layers do Saturn. Quanto aos filtros e "melhorias". Eu sou do tipo que não gosta de modificar. Gosto de jogar como no original. Então, não importo com essas coisas. O Vídeo foi bom e objetivo. Grato por ele.

[@PhilipMarcYT]

So it's still not great for emulating. Kind of an odd video as I expected narration and instead there were subtitles.

[@lumenights96]

mednafen has an option for integer scaling built in to make the pixels not blurry

[@Thegreat12353]

Finally, an emulator thats easy to bind keyboard controls into

[@pmcfarlin7]

I like running yabasanshiro on xbox. I beat games like hyper duel on it, and it ran really smooth.

[@Real_The_Goof]

I never experience ANY freaking bugs or issue with SSF.. so this is bizarre to me. Also, hope you realize SSF is constantly updated. The creator constantly posts updates on Twitter. Yaba Sanshiro runs the worst for me.. so i'm even more confused.. Also NONE of these emulators have decent CRT filters.. which is sad.. they all just have half baked scan line overlays..

[@risingrevolt]

Yeah Yaba Sanshiro kept flickering for me

[@damn5987]

I use a custom combination of filters via reshade, works on most games\emulators.

[@DiscreteWise]

It varies from person to person, but ssf is probably the best choice boasting the biggest compatibility

[@Giovani_Avelar_BR]

O Mednafen parece ser de longe o emulador mais preciso de Sega Saturn, o único contra é que ele não possui uma interface gráfica (GUI) própria, ou você configura tudo no bloco de notas, no prompt ou usa uma interface gráfica de terceiros, o que acaba gerando certos transtornos, porque dificilmente uma interface feita por outra pessoa vai estar alinhada (em sincronia) com a data de lançamento de uma nova versão do emulador, e isso acaba gerando bugs e inconsistências entre a GUI e o emulador, fazendo com que algumas opções dos menus não funcionem corretamente ou simplesmente parem de funcionar.

[@risingrevolt]

How do I build the latest verisons of Kronos?

[@FiggsNeughton]

Has anybody tried running Magic Knight Rayearth on Yaba Sanshiro 2? I've tried it on several other emulators and I always run into problems.

[@quas3728]

SSF is so good on my low spec laptop. It's way more faster and less cpu consuming compared to mednafen. it's game changer to me!

[@philg8556]

How do these compare to the emulator used with the Polymega console?

[@AlexwpiGame]

Polymega is not that project that was never released?

[@philg8556]

@@AlexwpiGame it was released. I preordered and have my system as do most others. The company has certainly dropped the ball many times with the hardware, but the software is solid. My understanding is that they talked a old Saturn emulation dev into updating their Saturn emulator and greatly improved it, but it's hard to find comparisons.

[@GameOfficeCanal]

Turn off Bilinear Filter on Mednafen to solve the embass.

[@yankeesamillion]

I have an NVIDIA shield and the Saturn runs on the sanshiro. It has trouble with nba jam and others.

[@uneterostardust8233]

Qual deles seria melhor especificamente pra jogos 2D? Eu to tentando jogar Castlevania Simphony of the night, q e 2d mesmo, tem alguns elementos 3D no cenários mas é de menos

[@AlexwpiGame]

vai de Yaba Sanshiro

[@uneterostardust8233]

@@AlexwpiGame vlw

[@epicmetalwarrior5476]

Não consigo rodar Bulk Slash, alguma dica?

[@Kig_Ama]

I know Yaba Sanshiro, but what is Yaba Sanshiro 2?

[@geneticainferior2494]

Muito útil, obrigado pela informação!

[@AlexwpiGame]

Disponha!

[@robomen123]

I tried to use Yaba Sanshiro 2, but it doesn't support very well! I was so excited to play Saturn games with my Hori Fighting Commander 6-button Fightpad, but i can't set up the controls! What a bummer...

[@jeffreypeters5578]

Why cant you?

[@robomen123]

@@jeffreypeters5578 i simply cannot map R2 as C button for authentic layout

[@pinkie723]

You could try using JoyToKey! I don't know how Yaba Sanshiro 2 button mapping works, but if you can set just the C button to keyboard key, then you can use JoyToKey to make R2 emulate that keyboard key. If you can't mix inputs JoyToKey would still work if you can at least set the whole controller to keyboard keys, but if you can't have the analog stick mapped to your controller with other buttons mapped to keyboard keys at the same time then you'd loose full analog control which wouldn't be great, but it'd still work fine for any game that doesn't use the analog stick anyway Alternatively you might be able to add the emulator to Steam as a non-Steam game and use Steam's input settings to remap R2 to L1 or something, because I'm guessing specifically R2 wouldn't work because they'd want to reserve the analog triggers for the Saturn's L and R buttons, so making your R2 button register as a digital button would probably make it work

[@debeb5148]

Yaba Sanshiro is ok, but damn is the slow down on virtua fighter 2 and Megaman X4 noticeable. Must be a compatibility thing or something. Panzer Dragoon Saga and Clockwork knight run way better though. So I am very happy that I can at least dabble into some games. But damn for me besides Sanshiro I have had zero luck. Yabuse's new west download doesn't work. Kronos wouldn't work. Bizhawk worked but had bad performance and I couldn't fix it or find out how. SSF wasn't even worth the time, and retroarch was always too complicated and kinda not worth it anyway since I already have emulators for every console I wanted besides saturn. Is it something i'm doing wrong? I don't understand how it's so hard for me to get like really good performance.

[@franciscopinheiro3483]

Ótimo vídeo

[@AlexwpiGame]

Que bom que gostou

[@FunBunChuck]

I need to upgrade my PC. Current system specs: Motherboard: MSI B550 MPG Gaming Plus AM4 CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5500 6 core 12 threads at 3.6Ghz RAM: 32GB (2×16GB) Patriot Viper Steel DDR4 3,200Mhz in dual channel GPU: XFX Radeon RX 6700XT Speedster Swift309 12GB GDDR6 SSD: SanDisk Ultra 3D NVMe M.2 SSD 1TB OS: Windows 11 Most likely my machine can't even touch Sega Saturn emulation. Need to get a real graphics card,... Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090Ti 32GB GDDR6X 512bit bus Titan class. Yeah! Probably need 2 of them! And a new motherboard and CPU,... Intel Core i9 13900KS MB,... MSI MEG Z790 GODLIKE LGA 1700 RAM,... Corsair VENGEANCE (4×48GB) 192GB DDR5 5,200Mhz C38 memory kit PSU,... Cooler Master M2000 PLATINUM 80 Plus Platinum Rating 2,000 watt fully modular power supply SSD,... 2× SABRENT 8TB Rocket 4 Plus NVMe 4.0 Gen4 PCIe M.2 internal SSD's ... There,... now that should be able to run a Sega Saturn emulator,... by sheer utter raw brute force alone,.... the power,... the ARROGANCE of TWO GeForce RTX 4090Ti graphics cards in SLI,.... let's see a Sega Saturn emulator argue with THAT PC setup! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MrMartellSincere]

Wish there more Sega Saturn emulations for Android

[@AlexwpiGame]

I need to buy a new device, I really wanted to get a rog phone, but right now I need a new GPU to continue with the channel.

[@legaiaflame]

In my opinion RetroArch Kronos is the best. And Yabause 0.9.15 unlike what this video says, does have Bilinear Filtering which upscales and smooths out the graphics and 1080p resolution (although there are slight sound issues for certain games, but Panzer Dragoon Saga and NiGHTS into Dreams can be played from start to finish with little to no issues. Yaba Shanshiro 2 sucks because there is going to be absolutely no PC support in the future and what they have now has terrible sound issues. And not everyone wants to play the games on a small phone screen.

[@Stoonk]

Good vid

[@AlexwpiGame]

Thx bro

[@yeonakim858]

I just really want to play Shining Force 3😢

[@THE_MAQ355]

I’d pick saturn over n64 any day any place..

[@slingshotdon]

I just wanna play panza dragoon saga and an improved burning rangers

[@hongkaiyuan]

Could you do Saturn emulation on Android?

[@stevenbatier6974]

Yaba sanshiro Android version is very impressive if you have a good device

[@Real_The_Goof]

The link to Yaba Sanshiro 2 is of course broken

[@vicegamer6944]

Will this work good for Sonic 3D blast?

[@chozo69]

is this still relevant?

[@SR_Croft]

A única coisa que não gosto do YS de android é o controle touch, vc não pode nem mover os botões e nem escolher qual aumentar (o msm vale pro Redream, mas pelo menos esse posso mexer a posição dos botões)

[@AlexwpiGame]

Obrigado por sua adição, eu realmente não testei as versões de android, se tivesse um cel melhor faria vídeos específicos para android tb.

[@Guillaume-ek2mq]

SSF *does* have deinterlacing.

[@Chayliss]

Looking for saturn emu for pi400 Anyone?

[@javiervargas6366]

SSF Emulator

[@johnbeal839]

That was extremely hard to follow and the lead up was unnecessarily long.

[@mogtholin]

Very good! Thank you