The greatest console ever turns 10

jp · Post by jp » Thu May 12, 2005 3:24 am

Today was the Saturn's 10th Anniversary for the US.

Happy B'Day to my fav. console ever. Maybe I should buy 10 Saturn games out of respect.

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Thu May 12, 2005 3:35 am

I should fire up some fighters and dust off the 4 MB cart. Saturn, you sex-ay beast. You look hot tonight.

roushimsx · Post by **roushimsx** » Thu May 12, 2005 5:27 am

How fitting that my friend and I just finished playing a good 2 1/2 hours of Saturn Bomberman.

judesalmon · Post by **judesalmon** » Thu May 12, 2005 11:26 am

jp wrote:Happy B'Day to my fav. console ever.

You and me both.

FatCobra · Post by **FatCobra** » Thu May 12, 2005 2:56 pm

If my Saturn ever gets here, my PS2 may be spending some time in the closet.

Nei First · Post by **Nei First** » Thu May 12, 2005 3:15 pm

Cool! I got alot of work to do, but I think later I'll get my saturn out, why not.

It's been awhile since I played Doomsday zone for Sonic3&knuckles.

Hmmm, now where's sonic Jam.....

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Thu May 12, 2005 6:31 pm

Excellent, one of my fave consoles by far. Glad it's massive staple of Jap shooters, excellent titles and fan following have outlived its past. I have been playing a lot of Batsugun the past month, after I finally 1CC it I am gonna borrow Panzer Dragoon from a friend again. Is Burning Rangers worth owning? I hear it's good but very short.

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Thu May 12, 2005 7:24 pm

great even though i replaced my american system with a sexier japanese model. not sure where the Saturn places in my "most used" console list, but it is by far the favorite.

Neon · Post by **Neon** » Thu May 12, 2005 8:30 pm

Is Burning Rangers worth owning?

Absolutely not.

I haven't played my Saturn in a few days, all my shit is packed up to move back home...I don't typically celebrate the birthdays of pieces of hardware, thoe

shadowstar · Post by **shadowstar** » Thu May 12, 2005 9:14 pm

I usually celebrate the anniversary of the end of the world (as foretold in Crystalis on the NES; October 1st, 1997)

I'm seeing this thread a day late, but uhh... *fires party popper thingie*

roushimsx · Post by **roushimsx** » Thu May 12, 2005 9:31 pm

captain ahar wrote:great even though i replaced my american system with a sexier japanese model.

You must be talking about the US Rev 2 Saturn. the US Rev 1 saturn was oh-so-sexy.. i can't stand those huge ass round buttons on the Rev 2

I also don't much care for the white color of my japanese saturns. I should have picked up the skeletal one when I had the chance.

LoneSage · Post by **LoneSage** » Fri May 13, 2005 1:49 am

I played Garegga and Asuka; the Saturn sho is a beast.

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Fri May 13, 2005 3:25 am

*bum-ba-baBUMM-bum*

*sha-da-da....* nah, forget it, I already spent this one.

Come to think of it, it's been around a year since I bought my own Saturn...hopefully I'll be able to celebrate by finally being able to play stuff in tate when my RGB cable arrives.

roushimsx · Post by **roushimsx** » Fri May 13, 2005 3:33 am

BulletMagnet wrote:.hopefully I'll be able to celebrate by finally being able to play stuff in tate when my RGB cable arrives.

Where are you getting your cables from? All I've got are composite cables (which aren't that bad normally but kinda blow when I'm trying to capture video)

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Fri May 13, 2005 4:36 am

From member "matt" on this forum, he's made similar cables for others here too, I believe. Try PMing him and see if he's able to make one for you.

llabnip · Post by **llabnip** » Fri May 13, 2005 12:43 pm

roushimsx wrote:You must be talking about the US Rev 2 Saturn. the US Rev 1 saturn was oh-so-sexy.. i can't stand those huge ass round buttons on the Rev 2

I wouldn't recommend a US rev 1 Saturn (with the non-round buttons on the console). The first generation lasers had a very high failure rate - and were replaced with better lasers in the US 2nd edition. Much like the 2nd edition US Saturn pads (roughly equivilent to the amazing Japanese Saturn pads), the 2nd edition US console is the one to seek out (assuming you want a US console... though changing it to a Japanese console is trivial: a converter cart works great as does a simple cut and jumper on the main board).

icepick · Post by **icepick** » Fri May 13, 2005 5:41 pm

Ah! I missed this... and I thought that I should post, since the Saturn was my first new store-bought console.

Happy 10th!

(It's funny, because I felt as though the 11th was special for some reason, but couldn't figure out why. I don't think that I knew that it was the Saturn's birthday, though. Maybe I did? Now, I'll remember!)

roushimsx · Post by **roushimsx** » Fri May 13, 2005 5:50 pm

llabnip wrote:I wouldn't recommend a US rev 1 Saturn (with the non-round buttons on the console). The first generation lasers had a very high failure rate - and were replaced with better lasers in the US 2nd edition.

I never knew about those problems with the lasers, but I guess any info on them at the time was drowned out by the Playstation's hardware problems. As much as I liked the layout of the japanese saturn pads, I never much cared for the color. Thank god those US Rev2 Saturn Pads came out...

on a sidenote, it was my love for the design of the japanese saturn pad that lead me to my first unfortunate experience with Mad Katz.. they had a saturn pad out that was just like the japanese style but black and it was cheaper than the xbox controller that the Saturn initially shipped with, so i decided to pick it up so that me and my friends could play Virtua Fighter 2 together. That worthless piece of shit pad was dead within a month (like pretty much all Mad Katz hardware, it seems)

Still have the original pad that came with my Saturn though and it works well when it's needed (which is normally only during large Saturn Bomberman games)

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Fri May 13, 2005 6:01 pm

US model 1 systems look weird, the face design is very unpleasant.. i didn't even know that they had different hardware revisions in the states.

sethsez · Post by **sethsez** » Fri May 13, 2005 7:46 pm

...the SNES turned 10 a while ago, though.

ryosnk · Post by **ryosnk** » Fri May 13, 2005 7:52 pm

Saturn is still the best hardcore system ever

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llabnip · Post by **llabnip** » Fri May 13, 2005 8:05 pm

sethsez wrote:...the SNES turned 10 a while ago, though.

Yep... like 5 years ago! The SNES turns 15 on November 21 (born in 1990).

99pence · Post by **99pence** » Fri May 13, 2005 9:12 pm

Best ever console? Thats a bit controversial.

But please, lets not mass debate about the Saturn.

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Fri May 13, 2005 11:07 pm

The PS1 should be turning 10 this year.

But, even though I don't own one, the Saturn is a great console that's done a lot for the genre we all love on here. I'm just not into import shmupping anymore; after I get a Cube, I think I'll be done with it for good.

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Fri May 13, 2005 11:09 pm

Dylan1CC wrote:Excellent, one of my fave consoles by far. Glad it's massive staple of Jap shooters, excellent titles and fan following have outlived its past. I have been playing a lot of Batsugun the past month, after I finally 1CC it I am gonna borrow Panzer Dragoon from a friend again. Is Burning Rangers worth owning? I hear it's good but very short.

I've heard that Burning Rangers is great, but I've also heard that it's best played with the Saturn 3D controller. Anyway, it was done by Sonic Team, so it couldn't be that bad.

FRO · Post by **FRO** » Sat May 14, 2005 2:17 pm

Hmmm....I just replaced the battery in my Saturn and I forgot about the whole 10th b-day thing....time to go play some more DonPachi, then break out Galactic Attack!

FatCobra · Post by **FatCobra** » Sat May 14, 2005 3:29 pm

I just got mine yesterday. I spent the whole day playing Strikers 1945 and Daytona USA.

Neon · Post by **Neon** » Sun May 15, 2005 1:46 am

Anyway, it was done by Sonic Team, so it couldn't be that bad.

Billy Hatcher, Sonic Adventure, Sonic Heroes...

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Sun May 15, 2005 2:44 am

Sonic Adventure was a return to form. SA2 a major misstep and Sonic Heroes was falling down the stairs, but there was that moment.

sethsez · Post by **sethsez** » Sun May 15, 2005 2:54 am

Rob wrote:Sonic Adventure was a return to form.

Eh...

The Sonic levels were okay (though not as good as I remember... I went through it again a couple weeks ago and they're really not that interesting anymore), but the rest of the game (Big, the adventure areas, etc) ranged from mediocre to awful.

It was easy to overlook the flaws when it came out, but it hasn't aged very well.

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