Thread 12022254

Are Sega Saturn emulators good yet?

>>12022254 (OP)
Sega Saturn games aren't good yet :(

>>12022254 (OP)
dunno about standalone but mednafen works just fine

>>12022254 (OP)

The real question is why are so many people trading in or selling their sega saturn's? I'm seeing them pop up everywhere at vintage stock or goodwill lately. Emulation is getting pretty darn close to cycle accurate, but we're not quite there. The problem is that most of the library is kind of mediocre, though there are some really solid titles.

>>12022296
What are some good games for the Saturn? Even the super-mainstream "Everyone has heard of this" titles, I have no idea what there is on the saturn

>>12022309
NiGHTS
Clockwork Knight 1&2
Die Hard Arcade
Panzer Dragoon 1&2 and Saga
Virtua Fighter 2 and Remix
Baku Baku
Sega Rally
Dragon Force
Super Robot Wars F/F Final
Street Fighter Alpha trilogy
Vampire Hunter/Savior
Virtua Cop 1&2
Radiant Silvergun

>>12022350
>NiGHTS
more like yikes

>>12022254 (OP)
>Are Sega Saturn emulators good yet?
Yes
If you want maximum accuracy, use Mednafen/Beetle Saturn

>>12022373
Revisionism. The game was always well liked.

>>12022254 (OP)
They're good... the main question is, do they run on weaker hardware like PS1 emulators yet?

>>12023643
SSF was running fine way back on my Phenom 2, and it can play all the good games.

it may have problems with shit like Saturn Doom or NBA Live 98 but who the fuck wants to play those.

>>12023661
>what it can't play isn't good anyway
Maximum sour grapes
>>12023643
There's a new emulator in development called Ymir and so far it's promising:
https://github.com/StrikerX3/Ymir

>>12022254 (OP)
Not yet.
Unfortunately, they all share design flaw that only allows them to play Sega Saturn games.

I wouldn't know, probably for the same reason you don't

>>12022373
Cry some more furfag

Mednafen/Beetle have been good for a while now. I've beaten close to 40 games this way

>>12022309
>>12022350

and...

Dark Savior
Virtual On
Duke Nukem 3D
Exhumed
Fighters Megamix
Guardian Heroes
Saturn Bomber man
Burning Rangers

>>12024394
dohohohoho!

>>12022267
fpbp

>>12022254 (OP)
Mednafen/Beetle is the best emulator. Mednaffe is the best frontend, while the emulation wiki might lead you to believe MedGUI Reborn is better I can speak from experience that it is not. Or you can just use Beetle if you're insistent on using Retroarch.

Yaba Sanshiro and Kronos are good for the games they're compatible with but still inherit a lot of the same old problems Yabause always had.

SSF has been good for a long time, just hampered with a very shitty user interface that doesn't support normal ISO mounting and it's a picky bastard about the disc image format compatibility on top of that.

Ymir seems like a promising new emulator but it can't rival Mednafen or SSF yet.

>>12027587
>Ymir seems like a promising new emulator but it can't rival Mednafen or SSF yet.
Hoping it'll get good
Literally my only problem with Mednafen is that it doesn't have any sort of deinterlacing for 480i games. I know I can use deinterlacing shaders but they make the image blurrier

works on my machine

>>12022296
US Saturns are worthless, they can't play half of the library.

>>12027690
It's really easy to bypass region lock

Are there options to render at higher resolutions or will 3D games look like shit?

let's not turn this nights into dreams

>>12022254 (OP)
Mednafen works well if you are tech literate

>>12028224
You need to learn that native res is always better

>>12027587
I'm never touching SSF again but as soon as Ymir gets good I will switch to it solely because it can also do this

>>12028251
It looks like shit and did so even back in the day on a TV. Especially 5th gen at 240p. It was pure cope.

>>12028256
You weren't sentient in 1995 so stop lying.

>>12028263
More sentient than you are now.

>>12022350
>Super Robot Wars F/F Final
Also on PS1

>Street Fighter Alpha trilogy
>Vampire Hunter/Savior
Any reason to not just play the arcade originals?

>>12022254 (OP)
Yes they've been good for more than 10 years

>>12022267
Lol, got 'em good.