Saturn Action Replay cart question...

[dave4shmups]

Will this cartridge allow you to play PAL Saturn games on a Japanese Saturn?

[Das Muel]

Yeah. I use the ACTION REPLAY 4M AUTO PLUS. PAL optimised games will be screwed up to varying degrees if you run them in 60hz though. You'll also need to enter a code if you want to run PAL Panzer Dragoon Saga.

[Koop]

You can also rewrite these carts to run Psudo Saturn which is basically like a softmod for your Saturn.

[Turom]

Yeah. I use the ACTION REPLAY 4M AUTO PLUS. PAL optimised games will be screwed up to varying degrees if you run them in 60hz though. You'll also need to enter a code if you want to run PAL Panzer Dragoon Saga.

In the particular case of PAL Panzer Dragoon Saga it's fine though since what's burned on these discs is the NTSC-US ROM with a PAL region lock, no optimization at all, that's why PAL version is so slow. When running it on a NTSC machine after entering the code it's simply as if you were using the US version.

[Das Muel]

Yeah. I use the ACTION REPLAY 4M AUTO PLUS. PAL optimised games will be screwed up to varying degrees if you run them in 60hz though. You'll also need to enter a code if you want to run PAL Panzer Dragoon Saga.

In the particular case of PAL Panzer Dragoon Saga it's fine though since what's burned on these discs is the NTSC-US ROM with a PAL region lock, no optimization at all, that's why PAL version is so slow. When running it on a NTSC machine after entering the code it's simply as if you were using the US version.

Yeah. As a general rule, it's the big first party titles (excluding Panzer Saga) that were PAL-optimised (Sega Rally, Virtua Fighter/2, Fighting Vipers, Panzer Dragoon/Zwei, Last Bronx, Fighter Megamix etc). Fortunately, Japanese copies of these titles are common and cheap. I just replaced my PAL copies with NTSC versions when I bought my Japanese Saturn.

This is a (mostly) accurate list:http://www.segasaturn.co.uk/games/sega_saturn_pal.html