robio said:

http://www.amazon.com/Monster-Hunter-Classic-Controller-Nintendo-Wii/dp/B0036KRP3Q/ref=pd_ts_vg_54?ie=UTF8&s=videogames

Monster Hunter Tri with the Classic Controller is $30 on Amazon. It's just about the cheapest way I've seen to ever get the classic controller. Hell it's basically getting the controller and then paying $10 for the controller.

I checked, and it also ships to Canada, which is rare for games from Amazon.com.

Segata Sanshiro is back for that piece of shit. Yu Suzuki had something to do with it? Is this some evil joke by Sega.

eggmiester said:

aspro said:

It's a good, but not great system.  I have around 40 games for it, and while there are some gems few hold up.  I think it suffered mostly for having to deal with the developer learning curve on what to do with polygonal graphics and the CD.

In this day and age would I reccomend buying one and hunting down games for it? No, just wait for it to hit some form of virtual console.

from what i have been hearing is that  there's a problem in working out the saturn games coming to make them into VC form thats why sega went from  genesis to dreamcast

The Saturn was kind of a disaster as far as the hardware went. It was planned to be an incredible 2-D gaming system but halfway through the development Sega caught wind that Sony and Nintendo were buildng their systems to be 3-D systems, so they decided to change the design midway. The end result was a system with two CPU's. If I understand everything correctly, that is what makes the games for the system so hard to emulate.

eggmiester said:

aspro said:

It's a good, but not great system.  I have around 40 games for it, and while there are some gems few hold up.  I think it suffered mostly for having to deal with the developer learning curve on what to do with polygonal graphics and the CD.

In this day and age would I reccomend buying one and hunting down games for it? No, just wait for it to hit some form of virtual console.

from what i have been hearing is that  there's a problem in working out the saturn games coming to make them into VC form thats why sega went from  genesis to dreamcast

For the record there are several other good deals on Amazon at the moment. $15 for Little King's Story, $16 for Red Steel 2, $14.68 for Muramasa, RE4 for $13.00, and Okami for $15.

Dvader said:

Segata Sanshiro is back for that piece of shit. Yu Suzuki had something to do with it? Is this some evil joke by Sega.

Something to do with it? His studio is developing it, initially without permission from SEGA who was convinced to adopt it later when it was actually revealed to them. Well, the last half I can't bother to double check but I saw it mentioned elsewhere. It's definitely YsNet who is developing it though. As for if it's a piece of shit or not, I'll wait to actually see it before I comment since no details shown so far tell if it's Yokosukaville or an actual game. And I don't think Segata is back, he's just invited there, maybe he did some more voice work too? He was used sparringly for other SEGA promotions in the past but not as the Segata persona, like for that Rambo arcade.

robio said:

The Saturn was kind of a disaster as far as the hardware went. It was planned to be an incredible 2-D gaming system but halfway through the development Sega caught wind that Sony and Nintendo were buildng their systems to be 3-D systems, so they decided to change the design midway. The end result was a system with two CPU's. If I understand everything correctly, that is what makes the games for the system so hard to emulate.

More like ahead of its time. It just had multiple processors (2 cpus, 2 graphics chips, 1 sound chip, whatever else), which is pretty much a standard nowadays. Although it did have the drawback that it used squares instead of triangles for 3D, it wasn't exactly a huge drawback at the time when 3D was quite new so there were no actual standards, with developers having to learn it all for the first time anyway. And it was king in 2D. Well, the Neo-Geo was the 2D king but it was too pricy and only got SNK games so, yeah, it was more like a system for people who wanted an arcade at home rather than something to compete in the normal home console space. SNK made many great Saturn ports also (GAROUUU!!!!). Anyway, being hard to develop for didn't exactly stop the PS2 so it was many other factors that killed the Saturn. I mostly blame SOA personally, although SOJ made many mistakes.

You should try Saturn emulators like SSF, they have high compatibility nowadays, I was just playing Legend of Oasis the other day after playing the Genesis prequel on VC and it's flawless so far. Although SSF doesn't have any graphical enhancement options so you may find the 3D games too ugly (I thought SEGA Rally is fine but Nights hasn't aged well, mostly due to frame rate). I'm sure that if SEGA wanted they could do an even better job than some homebrewers, perhaps by even hiring them and giving them access to more tools and information. They did work with Giri Giri's developers at one point to provide a service for Saturn games on PC in Japan. If I'm not mistaken, one of the DD platforms like D2D also offered a very limited selection of Saturn games for a time. Although Giri Giri wasn't as good then as SSF seems now, I think it offered options for higher resolution etc.

robio said:

For the record there are several other good deals on Amazon at the moment. $15 for Little King's Story, $16 for Red Steel 2, $14.68 for Muramasa, RE4 for $13.00, and Okami for $15.

Man if I had money I would make a killing. Sonic comes first though.

Dvader said:

robio said:

For the record there are several other good deals on Amazon at the moment. $15 for Little King's Story, $16 for Red Steel 2, $14.68 for Muramasa, RE4 for $13.00, and Okami for $15.

Man if I had money I would make a killing. Sonic comes first though.

FOR GOD'S SAKE MAN! JUST GET MURAMASA!

Nice weather we're having today Vader, isn't it?

You know I did it just cause I saw you on, right?