Saturn Must Haves

[Duddyroar]

Princess Crown (debatable if its perfectly playable in JP, but this game is SO good..)

Glad someone else is a fan of this game, totally amazing title. The graphics are simply stunning, and there's plenty to keep you entertained too. As you state, getting through it without the help of an FAQ is pretty hard, but with a decent guide the game is bags of fun. I wish this had been translated into English.

[Ratso]

Thats how I kind of felt with Daytona USA 2001. I was addicted to Daytona 2 Battle on the Edge in the arcade and wot do we get on DC? The age old daytona with the most ****ed up controls of all :/

But with the steering wheel, Daytona USA 2001 is just purrrrrfect.


On the subject of essential Saturn titles - two more must have PAL releases are Saturn BomberMan (the finest BomberMan game, probably never to be surpassed now) and Exhumed, which though will doubtless look rough now, has a solid, swift engine, fantastic audio but most importantly some awesome level design.

[sj33]

Thats how I kind of felt with Daytona USA 2001. I was addicted to Daytona 2 Battle on the Edge in the arcade and wot do we get on DC? The age old daytona with the most ****ed up controls of all :/

That said, I used to play the US game online, and I gotta say, it was damn awesome fun. Some of the best fun I've had online in fact.

[saturn-gamer]

Glad someone else is a fan of this game, totally amazing title. The graphics are simply stunning, and there's plenty to keep you entertained too. As you state, getting through it without the help of an FAQ is pretty hard, but with a decent guide the game is bags of fun. I wish this had been translated into English.

The only thing you can hope for is that Sony will pick up the upcoming PSP version for the English market if that version will not turn out to be radically different that is. But even in Japanese on the Saturn this game oozes style and quality.

[IcePak]

everyone speculating on how Daytona would have turned out if they'd have let the chaps who converted Sega Rally have a bash.

Actually, they are the team who made Daytona CCE.

I like Daytona CCE - it's a damn fine racer. Sure, it's not true the arcade original, apart from the three tracks pulled from that game, but it's still very playable and enjoyable nonetheless. It's worth owning both Saturn versions of Daytona IMHO - the original for the arcade-perfect gameplay, and CCE because it's one of the few racers on the Saturn that is really fun.

All this talk about the game has made me want to fire it up after I'm done browsing through the boards here.

[sj33]

On the subject of CCE, what of the extras that the JPN game featured that the UK game did not have? I'm tempted to pick it up now it's bound to be pretty cheap.

[IcePak]

You could play at different times of day (ie night and day) and you could select whether you wanted the original Daytona soundtrack (redone, but it still had the vocals) or the one that ended up in CCE. I believe the cars handled better as well. The graphics were a little more fine tuned as well. This is what I have read anyway.

I want to pick up a JAP copy when I can afford to get into importing.

[sj33]

Sounds like a worthy purchase.

It's the same as the US Netlink edition isn't it? Does the JPN game also feature Netlink?

[IcePak]

Not sure.

[Mofoman]

I think in this day and age, you should buy a Dreamcast for the definitive version of Daytona if that is the game that you are after.

As foe saturn must haves....

NIGHTS into Dreams( best game ever made)
Radiant Silvergun
Street Fighter Zero series.
Vampire Hunter,saviour.
Dungeons and Dragons games.
Marvel vs Capcom.
Virtua Fighter one and two.
Outrun.
Gale Racer

Many, many more the japanese catologue of games is superb.

[Team Andromeda]

You could play at different times of day (ie night and day) and you could select whether you wanted the original Daytona soundtrack (redone, but it still had the vocals) or the one that ended up in CCE. I believe the cars handled better as well. The graphics were a little more fine tuned as well. This is what I have read anyway.

I want to pick up a JAP copy when I can afford to get into importing.

Yep you could select both remixes or the original Arcade tunes (not the AM#2 Saturn ones),a new operning and ending track for MR Bigs Eric Martin, link up and Netlink modes.
Graphics and handling were a bit better too.
In the same way JP/Pal Sega Rally had a new Cliff Bitmap graphic put in, over that of the USA version. The Spaceship was redone in the Jp version.

You could't race in night or day though.

[saturn-gamer]

Sounds like a worthy purchase.

It's the same as the US Netlink edition isn't it? Does the JPN game also feature Netlink?

I believe it has some sort of netlink feature added too..

Also note that there is a Sega Rally Plus netlink edition too and so far I can tell that game is also improved. Its graphics seem to be better. Anyone else think so too?

[mash]

Booted up my Saturn for the first time in a while yesterday. Apart from the battery being completely and utterly ****oed it was still in great nick. Fired up VF2, surprise, surpise it still holds up today. I thought the graphics would look really primitive but it really does hold up IMO. Prefer it to Tekken 5.

[saturn-gamer]

I fired up DoA 1 on the saturn and its also pretty impressive still. Great fps and cool gameplay. I think I slightly prefer this to VF2 for it being more fun against other people (easier to get into).