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Post by Colonel Kurtz on Sept 5, 2014 1:54:24 GMT -5
always liked this design*g Jokes aside, the Mega Drive's design only gets trumped if you add an MCD to it. So hi-tech looking...(it's also great that the MD1/MCD2 combo fits exactly in our TV rack^^) It is slick, and hi-tech looking; but you know what? It looks a bit too much like what it is, i.e an extern cd-rom drive. Just misses somes striking design choice. But cd-rom was marketed as hi-tech anyway, so... It's eons beyond the american one, that's for sure.
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Post by llj on Sept 5, 2014 9:13:08 GMT -5
It is clearly the Mega Drive, when taking into consideration software library, console design and competitive hardware power in comparison to its peers.
The Saturn is actually my favorite console *design*--I love the marriage of cart and CD, I love its chunky yet smooth look, the controller is great, and the machine just PURRs like a cat when turned on--but its pathetic US software library and increasingly obsolete arcade ports leave it as a console to be admired more than used. The Saturn to me is like a 1985 Corvette you keep stashed in your garage to show off once in a while but you rarely take it for a drive.
The Dreamcast is probably the least appealing looking console from a design standpoint (It's basically a circle drawn inside a white square--boring!) and the thing is as quiet as a buzzsaw, but I love its versatility. Like the Saturn, though, your library is better off being mostly made up of Japanese imports.
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Post by thoothan on Sept 5, 2014 9:20:40 GMT -5
When I first saw the saturn I assumed the cartridge slot was for genesis games to this day it kills me that it is not
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Post by Colonel Kurtz on Sept 5, 2014 9:22:08 GMT -5
When I first saw the saturn I assumed the cartridge slot was for genesis games to this day it kills me that it is not You were either the smartest or the most naive. It coulda been...
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Post by llj on Sept 5, 2014 9:57:50 GMT -5
That's what those Retron-5 guys should be making instead.
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Post by loempiavreter on Sept 5, 2014 19:17:59 GMT -5
I never thought we'd see Panzer Dragoon Saga emulated past the title screen, but you can play it in its entirety now, which is just awesome. Gives me hope that Sega will be inspired by that and rerelease it themselves. Impossible, like the first HOTD, SEGA lost the source code.
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Post by AfroRyan on Sept 5, 2014 21:45:49 GMT -5
Impossible, like the first HOTD, SEGA lost the source code. I meant they could emulate it and release it that way. That kind of fixes the whole lost source code issue.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2014 22:11:01 GMT -5
This is the first I've heard of the source code for HotD being lost, but didn't they port the first three games to Wii, anyway? If the source really is lost, they seem to have found a way around that issue.
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Post by Allie on Sept 5, 2014 22:14:21 GMT -5
This is the first I've heard of the source code for HotD being lost, but didn't they port the first three games to Wii, anyway? If the source really is lost, they seem to have found a way around that issue. 2 and 3 to Wii; 3 and 4 to PS3. The only home version of 1 is the Saturn version, I think, unless Sega did one of their typical half-ass Windows ports from that era...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2014 22:18:39 GMT -5
Ah, that's right. Guess I was misremembering. I'm sure someone could rip the info out of an arcade unit, but it's not like this is a high priority for anyone, especially Sega themselves.
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Post by r0ck3rz on Sept 5, 2014 22:57:04 GMT -5
The only home version of 1 is the Saturn version, I think, unless Sega did one of their typical half-ass Windows ports from that era... Which they did. The first 3 games in the series got PC ports. You use the mouse if you don't have a light gun, like in emulation.
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Post by kal on Sept 5, 2014 23:04:07 GMT -5
This is the first I've heard of the source code for HotD being lost, but didn't they port the first three games to Wii, anyway? If the source really is lost, they seem to have found a way around that issue. 2 and 3 to Wii; 3 and 4 to PS3. The only home version of 1 is the Saturn version, I think, unless Sega did one of their typical half-ass Windows ports from that era... They did indeed do a PC port of mediocre but playable quality..
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2014 0:43:04 GMT -5
I somewhat doubt that Sega actually lost the source code for all these games if the Guardian Heroes code was preserved for Treasure to do the XBLA port. They had to retrieve it off an obsolete archival data tape format and it was a pain in the ass to put together a working machine that could read it, though. That's probably the real issue.
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Post by PooshhMao on Sept 7, 2014 15:31:09 GMT -5
That's most likely it, yeah. I've done several years of systems administration for various companies and you wouldn't believe the archaic backup tech some were using.
Retrieving files from it was hell.
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Post by Colonel Kurtz on Sept 10, 2014 1:07:24 GMT -5
Oh, to answer my own question: it´s the MegaDrive. And the Dreamcast is the love I could not save. It still hurts!
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