Saturn Compatibility list

[Borisz]

Japanese region, not bios. The bios has no protection like for the Sega CD, so any bios will work with any game.

[RockmanForte]

Oops, that's what I mean. Sorry.

[JKKDARK]

Originally Posted by R2works

castlevania X not working, any1 get this to work?

Make a new thread next time

[Revenant612]

Anyone know if panzer dragoon saga works?

[JKKDARK]

Yes, it works

[linlhutz]

Originally Posted by Revenant612

Anyone know if panzer dragoon saga works?

Sure it works....... Just not after 0.07 Beta R5

Certain to be fixed in a later version. But if you want to play PDS, for now, make sure to use SSF 0.07 Beta R5.



linlhutz

[Chaykin]

Originally Posted by rockmangames

You mean Akumajo Dracula X - Gekka no Yasoukyoku and yes, it is fully playable to me just fine. Make sure you set it to Japanese bios.

Are you sure? I have SSF 0.07 R7 and image of the game in bin/cue. I'm using the japanese 1.01 bios and latest Dameon Tools. The game starts just fine but on the title screen in place of "Press Start Button" I get a strange text in japanese - click - and the game stops to react. Any clues what's wrong? Maybe I should use some older version of SSF or it's just a matter of SSF configuration. Please help.

[JKKDARK]

Tru using a older version

[Borisz]

Or a newer one =)

[RockmanForte]

Originally Posted by JkKdArK

Tru using a older version

nooooo! A newer one! That's what Borisz said! :P

[Chaykin]

Tried on SSF 0.07 beta R8 - same effect.
Works fine on R5 though :D - click. Notice that the logo looks much better on R8 (I used same screen options in R5 and R8 - scanlines off, auto field skip on, vsynch off, dd on). I wonder what Shima broke that Castlevania doesn't work in new releases of SSF...

[JKKDARK]

Originally Posted by rockmangames

nooooo! A newer one! That's what Borisz said! :P

Hehe, but I'm right :P

[Borisz]

Originally Posted by Chaykin

Tried on SSF 0.07 beta R8 - same effect.
Works fine on R5 though - click. Notice that the logo looks much better on R8 (I used same screen options in R5 and R8 - scanlines off, auto field skip on, vsynch off, dd on). I wonder what Shima broke that Castlevania doesn't work in new releases of SSF...

It's not the emulator being broken. The game works perfectly fine on every recent version. That title screen you get prompts you to clear the backup memory in the Memory Manager of the Sega Saturn. (or in other words, to format the memory cart before it can be used)

To do that, press and hold A (on the Saturn - its mapped to "y" by default) while the Saturn boot screen comes up. Move the cursor to System Settings (the arrow pointing up, in the top row), select "Memory Manager", "Clear" and "Yes".

Or just enable "Hook Backup Library" in the emulator (Program3 tab) for infinite save space, without the need to format the backup ram...


The reason why this happens, is that older versions of the emulator came with preformatted backup memory files (InternalBackupRAM.bin and ExternalBackupRAM.bin). But from 0.07 Beta R6 and upwards, these were dropped from the emulators zipfile. SSF can just generate these files so its unnecessary to include them with the emulator.

The generated files, however, only have empty 00s inside, so they need to be formatted by clearing the backup RAM manually inside the BIOS.

[Chaykin]

Originally Posted by Borisz

something very useful

You're a genius! :) Thanks! Everything works fine now on R8.

[heatblazer]

Reporting Fighter Megamix working, but still bad palettes and bad sprites (All SSF RCs)

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[oliwek]

here's another one

.WACHENRÖDER (バッケンローダー), strategic RPG
.J
.cat. GS-9183
.SSF 0.10 prototype
.seems to run perfectly

http://www.segagagadomain.com/saturn2/wachenroder-f.jpg

[leox001]

I tried burning rangers, it ran slow, but it worked!!
In SSF, but it was so long ago that I don't remember the version of the emulator nor if the region was E or U nor the config I used.

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