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7/20/2025, 7:38:39 AM
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This is somewhat a sequel to my tribute last year (a short loop of Himawari Mark o Sagase on Mega Drive/Genesis hardware). There are a lot less limitations in what you can do on Saturn, but still a ton of them. Getting video that will playback without desyncing on a Sega Saturn without the VCD add-on has some limitations. There is a hard limit of 300KB/s for total bitrate. Encoding anything with movement like an idol MV at less than 250KB/s in Cinepak is a total disaster, so audio quality had to suffer. The hardware will also only play uncompressed audio streams, so there's no hope there either. Because of this we're limited to about 48KB/s 8-bit audio with a 22050 sample rate. That said, the goal was fullscreen video at 24 FPS with no major desync or slowdown, and this was accomplished. I tried 30, but the bitrate just had to be too high for that. So you might want to turn your audio down first.
I'm providing a link to the .cue/.iso. They should work fine in an emulator, and you can run them on hardware if you have a region unlock cart. I'm well aware 95% of the thread has no intention of downloading the command-line only Saturn emulator (the only one really worth using) and configuring its bios to watch one single blocky-1994-compressed idol MV. So I will also provide a video of the entire thing running in the Mednafen Saturn emulator. Picrel is the title screen.
The Saturn .iso:
https://files.catbox.moe/2rwhq8.zip
The webm:
https://files.catbox.moe/o2cbdh.webm
As previously mentioned, I coded nothing here. I did this as an alternative to drawing because I haven't had time to practice since last year's tribute and I'm still just as bad at it as always. The Kaoru drawing is recycled from last year. Special thanks to TrekkiesUnite118, the guy who wrote all the tools/libraries for getting video to play on Saturn, this was only possible with like 4 of his utilities. It's not like I have time to learn SuperH Assembler with everything going on.
This is somewhat a sequel to my tribute last year (a short loop of Himawari Mark o Sagase on Mega Drive/Genesis hardware). There are a lot less limitations in what you can do on Saturn, but still a ton of them. Getting video that will playback without desyncing on a Sega Saturn without the VCD add-on has some limitations. There is a hard limit of 300KB/s for total bitrate. Encoding anything with movement like an idol MV at less than 250KB/s in Cinepak is a total disaster, so audio quality had to suffer. The hardware will also only play uncompressed audio streams, so there's no hope there either. Because of this we're limited to about 48KB/s 8-bit audio with a 22050 sample rate. That said, the goal was fullscreen video at 24 FPS with no major desync or slowdown, and this was accomplished. I tried 30, but the bitrate just had to be too high for that. So you might want to turn your audio down first.
I'm providing a link to the .cue/.iso. They should work fine in an emulator, and you can run them on hardware if you have a region unlock cart. I'm well aware 95% of the thread has no intention of downloading the command-line only Saturn emulator (the only one really worth using) and configuring its bios to watch one single blocky-1994-compressed idol MV. So I will also provide a video of the entire thing running in the Mednafen Saturn emulator. Picrel is the title screen.
The Saturn .iso:
https://files.catbox.moe/2rwhq8.zip
The webm:
https://files.catbox.moe/o2cbdh.webm
As previously mentioned, I coded nothing here. I did this as an alternative to drawing because I haven't had time to practice since last year's tribute and I'm still just as bad at it as always. The Kaoru drawing is recycled from last year. Special thanks to TrekkiesUnite118, the guy who wrote all the tools/libraries for getting video to play on Saturn, this was only possible with like 4 of his utilities. It's not like I have time to learn SuperH Assembler with everything going on.
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