Sega Considering Saturn Downloads

[durias]

http://wii.ign.com/articles/110/1102936p1.html

Discuss.

[BulletMagnet]

Off the cuff it sounds like they're talking remakes more than direct ports, but if they pull them off well it could still be nice to see...if it does happen, though, just watch as everyone except Japan is denied most of the best stuff. AGAIN.

[Jockel]

"It's not that we have no intention of porting Saturn titles, so please share you're requests."

intention of porting Saturn titles, so please share you're requests.

so please share you're requests

share you're requests

YOU ARE requests

... fuck you, IGN. (the "I" is for illiterate)

[UnscathedFlyingObject]

Guardian Heroes enhanced port no slow-mo, rebalancing, and four player story mode.

[Phellan Wolf]

Why on Wii???? I don't get it. PSN or even Xbox LIVE are better suited for these things.

[louisg]

Saturn ports would be awesome!

.. hopefully they won't be like Saturn -> Windows 95 -> Wii ports, but they probably will be. Anyway, there's lots of great stuff on Saturn and it'd be neat if more people were able to check 'em out!

[mesh control]

PANZER DRAGOON HD PLZ

[evil_ash_xero]

Panzer Dragoon Zwei and Saga

Man, Burning Rangers needs a remake bad.

[D]

"It's not that we have no intention of porting Saturn titles, so please share you're requests."

intention of porting Saturn titles, so please share you're requests.

so please share you're requests

share you're requests

YOU ARE requests

... fuck you, IGN. (the "I" is for illiterate)

Hi Jockel, do you know of any arcades in Berlin?

[Jockel]

Hi Jockel, do you know of any arcades in Berlin?

Hi D, no.
But there's still geists (Egret 2), CITs (Egret 2) and my place (Astro City) for local arcade action.
If you wanna hook up, you can PM me if you like.

[Specineff]

Bah, what's the point. All the good games will stay in Japan. All we are going to get is Sonic games and Street Fighter The Movie (The Game.)

[linko9]

Yeah, I don't see why they don't do this. There seems to be some ridiculous notion in the US that the Saturn sucked and had no games worth playing; maybe if people with that view actually had access to the games they would change their minds. I'd rather see Dreamcast downloads myself, but there are plenty of great Saturn titles that are still worth playing. Of course, whenever this sort of topic comes up I always have to remind myself that I can just play all these games through emulation, and thus would probably never pay for them twice. The only way I would pay for old console games on a new console is if the prices were extremely low (I'm talking less than $2, and closer to 50 cents for something like an NES game). Sad but true I guess; these games are certainly worth more than that, but I already spend more than I should on videogames, so I'd feel sort of ridiculous spending $150 to download my NES collection onto my Wii.

[Khan]

Guardian Heroes enhanced port no slow-mo, rebalancing, and four player story mode.

oh dear god please make it happen now! I will eat my own shoe and post the video on youtube if it does!

[Ed Oscuro]

Sega considering making money like everybody else, but too lazy to even follow a set trend

More news at 11

[E. Randy Dupre]

Yeah, I don't see why they don't do this.

Because getting the visuals in most Saturn games up to a standard that would be considered by most of today's audience as acceptable would take some effort on Sega's part.

Why didn't the Wii House of the Dead compilation include the original game? Same reason, most likely.

It's a shame, because the Sat had far more decent games than the Dreamcast - and most previously decent DC games have aged badly, quickly.

[BrianC]

Bah, what's the point. All the good games will stay in Japan. All we are going to get is Sonic games and Street Fighter The Movie (The Game.)

I doubt it. I have a feeling that, if or when it happens, it's just going to be games that have been ported already like Panzer Dragoon, Nights, Virtua Cop, and Virtua Cop 2.

[louisg]

It's a shame, because the Sat had far more decent games than the Dreamcast - and most previously decent DC games have aged badly, quickly.

Hmm I'd have to really disagree.. DC's held up better IMO. I was just thinking the other day about how in the late 90s/early 00s, if you wanted to play Metal Slug or many of the 2d fighting games at home, a Saturn with a RAM cart was your best option. Now, you can just fire them up in MAME, or buy one of the many official emulations. It's funny how fast home ports are outmoded. And so many original Saturn games were rushed, and a lot of the good Saturn games have been already rereleased on PS2. Maybe we'll get ports of those.

Or a port of VC2 would be nice so I can finally ditch my CRT =)

[neorichieb1971]

DC was raped when it went under. Most titles there have been converted to at least one other platform.

The Saturn on the other hand has a whole bunch of exclusive content that was never ported elsewhere. If the ports were identical in look and feel to the original I wouldn't bother at all. Sounds like a cash cow to me, which is bad bad bad all round.

[E. Randy Dupre]

Hmm I'd have to really disagree.. DC's held up better IMO. I was just thinking the other day about how in the late 90s/early 00s, if you wanted to play Metal Slug or many of the 2d fighting games at home, a Saturn with a RAM cart was your best option. Now, you can just fire them up in MAME, or buy one of the many official emulations. It's funny how fast home ports are outmoded. And so many original Saturn games were rushed, and a lot of the good Saturn games have been already rereleased on PS2. Maybe we'll get ports of those.

Which Saturn games? I can't really think of any that got a release on PS2, beyond the (limited) Sega Ages range. Whereas the DC, as above, saw most of its important titles taken over to Sony's machine.

On another forum, when the news about Sega planning to release 24 Dreamcast games via XBLA was heard, I asked people to name 24 worthwhile DC games, regardless of whether Sega hold the publishing rights or not. Nobody could come close. I'm increasingly finding that the 32 bit games have aged very well indeed, retaining a lot of the charm that their 16 bit predecessors possessed and combining it with a real excitement at seeing what could be added to them with the new hardware. The Dreamcast, on the other hand, filled an ugly and uncomfortable void where games were, by and large, PS1-alikes with better textures. Admittedly, Sega themselves were probably more adventurous on the DC than they were on the Sat, but third party releases didn't follow suit at all.

[louisg]

Which Saturn games? I can't really think of any that got a release on PS2, beyond the (limited) Sega Ages range. Whereas the DC, as above, saw most of its important titles taken over to Sony's machine.

Pretty much all of the good Sega arcade ports.. Sega Rally, Virtual On, Dynamite Deka, Nights, Panzer Dragoon, Last Bronx, Virtua Fighter 2, Dragon Force.. and I'll throw in Galaxy Force 2 for the hell of it (Saturn previously had the only good port of that). Granted there's some good stuff which is still Saturn-only, but I'd expect the RPGs to not get ports to new systems. Don't get me wrong, I still play Saturn games all the time, but the games I've listed I consider to be some of the best on the system and are the ones I still consider playing. Not to mention all the SegaSoft PC ports and then the occasional other port of games like Sonic-R or Virtua Cop 2. IMO a lot of the strictly Saturn-only games like Burning Rangers, Powerslave, or Clockwork Knight are pretty junky.

I asked people to name 24 worthwhile DC games, regardless of whether Sega hold the publishing rights or not.

I can list 24 worthwhile DC games if that makes you happy...

[D]

Which Saturn games? I can't really think of any that got a release on PS2, beyond the (limited) Sega Ages range. Whereas the DC, as above, saw most of its important titles taken over to Sony's machine.

Pretty much all of the good Sega arcade ports.. Sega Rally, Virtual On, Dynamite Deka, Nights, Panzer Dragoon, Last Bronx, Virtua Fighter 2, Dragon Force.. and I'll throw in Galaxy Force 2 for the hell of it (Saturn previously had the only good port of that). Granted there's some good stuff which is still Saturn-only, but I'd expect the RPGs to not get ports to new systems. Don't get me wrong, I still play Saturn games all the time, but the games I've listed I consider to be some of the best on the system and are the ones I still consider playing. Not to mention all the SegaSoft PC ports and then the occasional other port of games like Sonic-R or Virtua Cop 2. IMO a lot of the strictly Saturn-only games like Burning Rangers, Powerslave, or Clockwork Knight are pretty junky.

I asked people to name 24 worthwhile DC games, regardless of whether Sega hold the publishing rights or not.

I can list 24 worthwhile DC games if that makes you happy...

Sega Rally, Virtual On, Dynamite Deka, Nights, Panzer Dragoon, Last Bronx, Virtua Fighter 2, Dragon Force.. and I'll throw in Galaxy Force 2
These are all on ps2. You know that, right? So why would you want those as download?
Granted, they will be the first to be available as download. That´s how they do it.
Hmmm, let´s see. Which game already got many ports to many systems.....
OK, let´s make THAT available as digital download then.....
idiots.
what saturn game would I buy as a digital download? tough one!
AH, I know Baku Baku Animal! there´s a racketboy article on it. and when I had my saturn I never even looked in it´s direction.

[xris]

I'll play that Baku Baku Animal game once in awhile. It's actually a rather good colour matching puzzle game, with that semi cute japanese style that's not completely overblown. Fun game!

[jochen]

Astal should be a good choice for a download game -


surely a better choice than Clockwork knight.

[louisg]

Baku Baku and Astal.. I'd forgotten about those! What other underrated non-shmup Saturn games do you guys think deserves a new port? How about some of that other ST-V stuff like Winter Heat or Decathlon (any good?).. Bug? I've been enjoying Sega Touring Car Championship lately myself, but that one's not exactly under the radar.

[xris]

Astal sucks balls.. They would have to redo most of the game play.
Psychic Killer is weird fun, plays like a run and gun Shinobi hybrid, kinda. Very nice graphics.

[ROBOTRON]

Ho-ray for Wii owners like yourself...a work-out/exercise machine for working women ages 16 to 30 (my opinion, no insult to you or other wii owners here). It would probably make the machine's stock go up a little. As for myself and probably others on the board I'll skip Wii ownership and stick with my actual Saturn and DC consoles.

[louisg]

Ho-ray for Wii owners like yourself...a work-out/exercise machine for working women ages 16 to 30 (my opinion, no insult to you or other wii owners here). It would probably make the machine's stock go up a little. As for myself and probably others on the board I'll skip Wii ownership and stick with my actual Saturn and DC consoles.

Why are you trying to derail a perfectly good thread with this console wars nonsense?

[ROBOTRON]

Ho-ray for Wii owners like yourself...a work-out/exercise machine for working women ages 16 to 30 (my opinion, no insult to you or other wii owners here). It would probably make the machine's stock go up a little. As for myself and probably others on the board I'll skip Wii ownership and stick with my actual Saturn and DC consoles.

Why are you trying to derail a perfectly good thread with this console wars nonsense?

I'm not, It was an opinion thrown in with my reply. I give a thumbs up to the idea for Wii owners.

[dave4shmups]

Cool news, but Sega Saturns (and Dreamcasts, for that matter) are pretty cheap to buy complete, in good condition, and sometimes with a game or two thrown in.

[louisg]

Cool news, but Sega Saturns (and Dreamcasts, for that matter) are pretty cheap to buy complete, in good condition, and sometimes with a game or two thrown in.

Yeah I'm expecting them to be enhanced ports, considering how badly Saturn graphics have aged.