RetroMichel | 106 Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 (edited) Here is a thread in which we can express our passion for the magnificent Sega Saturn console by completing its NTSC-U/C library. This thread is based on Splain's wonderful work on his numerous threads in the Site-run Events & Contests forums. Huge thanks to him for his templates and already written rules, which I edited for the Sega Saturn library. Each game will be worth one point, so the points will be added up as "games completed" in the leaderboard. Feel free to comment as much as you'd like about the games you've completed (or not). Here are the rules: We're beating these games, starting now. All games must be started no earlier than the posting of this thread. (April 28th, 2022) There will be no "resets" at the end of the year; this is a focus on completing the entire library. Photos are not required but highly encouraged. Emulation is OK, but no cheat devices, cheat codes, looking up passwords, etc. Legitimate runs only. If you have questions about what constitutes "beating" a game, bring it up and we'll figure it out. (Typical requirements are to get an ending screen or credit roll, on the middle or default difficulty. Or beat the high score. Or win the tournament.) Some games are more obvious than others. Please respect these rules, but more importantly, have fun! Important: Every PAL or NTSC-J exclusive will count for one point, but will not count towards beating the entire NTSC-U/C game library. IF YOU NOTICE A TYPO OR A GAME LACKING, PLEASE WRITE BELOW. Thanks ! Title Beaten By Notes/Requirements 3D Baseball Albert Odyssey: Legend of Eldean Alien Trilogy All-Star Baseball '97 Featuring Frank Thomas Alone in the Dark: One Eyed Jack's Revenge AMOK Andretti Racing Area 51 Astal Baku Baku Bases Loaded '96: Double Header Batman Forever: The Arcade Game Battle Arena Toshinden: Remix LastCat Battle Arena Toshinden URA (Ultimate Revenge Attack) Battle Monsters LastCat Battle Stations BattleSport Black Dawn BlackFire Blast Chamber Blazing Dragons Blazing Heroes/Mystaria: The Realms of Lore Bottom of the 9th Brain Dead 13 Break Point Tennis Bubble Bobble also featuring Rainbow Islands Bug Too! Bug! Andykin Skysk8r Burning Rangers Bust-A-Move 2: Arcade Edition Bust-A-Move 3 Casper Center Ring Boxing Clockwork Knight Clockwork Knight 2 College Slam Command & Conquer CONGO: The Movie - The Lost City of Zinj Contra: Legacy of War Corpse Killer: Graveyard Edition Courier Crisis Creature Shock: Special Edition Crimewave Criticom Croc: Legend of the Gobbos Crusader: No Remorse Crypt Killer Cyber Speedway Cyberia D Darius Gaiden Dark Legend LastCat Dark Savior Darklight Conflict Daytona USA Andykin Skysk8r Daytona USA: Championship Circuit Edition Decathlete Defcon 5 Die Hard Arcade Die Hard Trilogy Doom Double Switch Dragon Force DragonHeart: Fire & Steel Duke Nukem 3D Earthworm Jim 2 Enemy Zero F1 Challenge FIFA: Road to World Cup 98 FIFA Soccer 96 FIFA Soccer 97 Fighters Megamix Fighting Vipers Frank Thomas Big Hurt Baseball Galactic Attack Galaxy Fight Gex Ghen War Golden Axe: The Duel Grand Slam Grid Runner Guardian Heroes Andykin Skysk8r Gungriffon Hang-On GP Heir of Zendor: The Legend and the Land Herc's Adventures Hexen: Beyond Heretic Hi-Octane: The Track Fights Back! High Velocity: Mountain Racing Challenge Highway 2000 Hyper 3-D Pinball Red Impact Racing In the Hunt Gloves Independance Day Iron Man/X-O Manowar in Heavy Metal Iron Storm Johnny Bazookastone Last Bronx Last Gladiators: Digital Pinball Loaded Lunacy Machine Head Madden NFL 97 Madden NFL 98 Magic Carpet Magic Knight Rayearth ManX TT Super Bike Marvel Super Heroes Mass Destruction Maximum Force MechWarrior 2 Mega Man 8: Anniversary Collector's Edition Mega Man X4 Midway Presents Arcade's Greatest Hits Midway Presents Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 1 Minnesota Fats: Pool Legend Mortal Kombat II Mortal Kombat Trilogy Mr. Bones Myst NASCAR 98 NBA Action NBA Action 98 NBA Jam Extreme NBA Jam: Tournament Edition NBA Live 97 NBA Live 98 NFL '97 NFL Quarterback Club '96 NFL Quarterback Club '97 NHL 97 NHL 98 NHL All-Star Hockey NHL All-Star Hockey 98 NHL Powerplay '96 Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge Nights Into Dreams... LastCat Norse by Norsewest: The Return of the Lost Vikings Off-World Interceptor Extreme Olympic Soccer P.T.O. II: Pacific Theater of Operations II Pandemonium! Panzer Dragoon Andykin Skysk8r Panzer Dragoon II: Zwei Panzer Dragoon Saga Pebble Beach Golf Links PGA Tour 97 Powerslave Gloves Primal Rage Pro-Pinball Quake Quarterback Attack Rampage World Tour Rayman Resident Evil Resurrection: Rise 2 Revolution X: Music is the Weapon Road & Track Presents The Need For Speed Road Rash Robo Pit LastCat Robotica Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV: Wall of Fire Saturn Bomberman RetroMichel Scorcher Scud: The Disposable Assassin Sega Ages Sega Rally Championship Sega Touring Car Championship Sega Worldwide Soccer '97 Shanghai: Triple-Threat ShellShock Shining Force III Shining the Holy Ark Shining Wisdom Shinobi Legions Shockwave Assault Sim City 2000 Skeleton Warriors Sky Target Slam 'n Jam '96 featuring Magic & Kareem: Signature Edition Solar Eclipse Sonic 3D Blast Sonic Jam Sonic R RetroMichel Soviet Strike Space Hulk: Vengeance of the Blood Angels Space Jam Spot Goes to Hollywood Star Fighter Steep Slope Sliders Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams Street Fighter Alpha 2 Street Fighter Collection Street Fighter: The Movie Striker '96 Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo Tempest 2000 Ten Pin Alley Tetris Plus The Crow: City of Angels The Horde The House of the Dead Gloves The Legend of Oasis The Lost World: Jurassic Park The Mansion of Hidden Souls Theme Park Three Dirty Dwarves Thunderstrike 2 Time Warner Interactive's V.R.: Virtua Racing TNN Motor Sports Hardcore 4X4 Tomb Raider True Pinball Tunnel B1 Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 Valora Valley Golf Virtua Cop Virtua Cop 2 Virtua Fighter Virtua Fighter 2 Virtua Fighter Kids Virtua Fighter Remix Virtual Casino Virtual Hydlide Virtual Open Tennis Virtual-On: Cyber Troopers VR Golf '97 VR Soccer Warcraft II: The Dark Saga Wing Arms Winning Post Winter Heat Wipeout World Cup Golf: Professional Edition World Series Baseball World Series Baseball '98 World Series Baseball II Worldwide Soccer: Sega International Victory Goal Edition Worldwide Soccer '98 Worms Gloves WWF In Your House WWF Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game X-Men: Children of the Atom NTSC-J/PAL EXCLUSIVES COMPLETED: Advanced V.G. - Gloves Arcade Gears Vol. 1: Pu-Li-Ru-La - Gloves Donpachi - Andykin Skysk8r Guardian Force - Gloves Gunbird - Andykin Skysk8r Hyper Duel - Gloves Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story I: Blue Fear - Gloves Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story II: Heir to the Blue - Gloves Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story III: The Condemned - Gloves Ultraman: Legendary Giant of Light - Gloves Yumimi Mix Remix - Gloves Leaderboard User # of games completed Gloves 13 Andykin Skysk8r 6 LastCat 5 RetroMichel 2 Red 1 Edited March 26 by RetroMichel 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange | 1,700 Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 Gonna try to get a few of these done! Gives me an excuse to play more Baku Baku and Bust-a-move at the very least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mega Tank | 956 Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 @LastCatcan probably beat all of these games in his sleep. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CodysGameRoom | 2,008 Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 I might be down to contribute to this. I was just looking at my Saturn yesterday and thinking I should give it some playtime soon, and I've got almost a complete US library minus 30 or so games. I need to finish up my Pokemon Legends Arceus stuff but after that I'll check back here and try to dive in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagusSmurf | 577 Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 I can probably do Clockwork Knight 2 and Magic Knight Rayearth sometime this year. Since I've beaten the NES game and consider it "rather bad but way overhated," then assuming I can get the emulation to cooperate I'll volunteer to suffer through Virtual Hydlide if this project gets close to completion and nobody else has done it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LastCat | 246 Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 Count me in! I love me some Battle Monsters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RetroMichel | 106 Posted May 1, 2022 Author Share Posted May 1, 2022 (edited) To start things off, I've completed the infamous Sonic R. This game is well-known for its poor controls and its soundtrack. I will be completely honest and admit that I actually had a lot of fun playing this colorful game. The soundtrack is stellar, composed by Richard Jacques with Teresa Jane Davis singing. TJ Davis has a wonderful voice and the songs are all "bops": they are very catchy and memorable. There are five race tracks in the game, which is the most disappointing feature about it. There are many hidden pathways, so they are quite complex maps, but still, five is nothing compared to games like Mario Kart 64, Crash Team Racing and Diddy Kong Racing on the rival consoles at the time. As for the controls, I did get used to it and it did not seem to bother too much my experience with the game. Only at the beginning, it was annoying to realize that I was always bumping into walls, but you just need to master the jumps and find the ideal pathways so that you can fly through the stages without any problem. I used Knuckles, who is a character that's considered one of the best in the game (if you do not consider some of the unlockable characters). Talking about the unlockable characters, four of them can be obtained by getting all the coins on the first four race tracks and then finish at least in third place. As for the fifth obtainable character, Super Sonic, you need to collect Chaos Emeralds in the four initial races and also finish first. This was harder, but then, Super Sonic is highly regarded as the best character in the game. People told me so many bad things about this game. As a French speaker living in Québec, I used to watch videos by a YouTuber named "Joueur du Grenier" (translates to "The Attic Gamer"), which is pretty much a French-speaking AVGN without all the curse words. He bashed Sonic R in a video about the first 3D games, then many people did so without playing the game. Pretty much the same situation that occurs when AVGN reviews a game, talks bad things about it, and then everybody dislikes it without having played it. As for my personal experience, I did have fun with it and it is such a joyful game, with bright colors and motivational music. I will definitely play it again for fun. It's not the best game on the system (far from it), but it's not as bad as people say. Edited May 1, 2022 by RetroMichel 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RetroMichel | 106 Posted May 2, 2022 Author Share Posted May 2, 2022 Saturn Bomberman is completed. This game is such a must-have for any Sega Saturn owner. Even if the North American version can be very expensive, you can get the Japanese version for not too much and still be able to play it: Bomberman games can still be played without any major language barrier. Saturn Bomberman is widely recognized as one of the best games for the system and often, as the best Bomberman game ever. I do think it is a real candidate for such names, but I did also love the Bomberman games on the N64, which are very solid titles too. The soundtrack goes very well with the different themes presented in each level. My favorite world has to be the Wild West world, since it is in that world that you start to obtain the most interesting upgrades for your character and the music is simply the best there. At least, according to me. Also, the game has a great learning curve and becomes gradually harder, especially with the boss fights. The last few levels and bosses in Mr. Meanie's Future World can be a real challenge, so it was satisfying to complete the game today without too much trouble. If you have a Sega Saturn and a lot of money to spend, buy this game. If you have a Sega Saturn and not a lot of money right now to spend, buy this game's Japanese version. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LastCat | 246 Posted May 18, 2022 Share Posted May 18, 2022 Battle Monsters is now completed. (Kuuja Playthru) Quite the "Kusoge" fighter and generally bashed for being janky and what not however it's far from being the worst fighter out there. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LastCat | 246 Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 Robo Pit is now complete. The Sega Saturn plays very differently from it's PSX counterpart. Weapon progression feels much more slower and the AI is very annoying following one singular pattern. On top of that the weapon's have very wonky collision detection, sometimes long range weapons clip thru your opponents. Stun locking is less apparent than the PSX version. Other differences are the "Boss" robots. On the Saturn version there's 3 while on the PSX there's "Special Robots", most if not all weapons on the SAT version are considered normal while the other version treats some of them as "special". There's a lot of differences to list but that's for another time. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LastCat | 246 Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 Battle Arena Toshinden / Toushinden S is now complete. (Ellis Story Mode Run, 1CC No loss) Despite how people critique the game's floaty jumps it has it's charms plus the Saturn version has welcoming features like the addition of two characters and a story mode as well which the original PSX version lacked. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LastCat | 246 Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 Dark Legend is now complete. (Lu Zhi Shen run) Great game overall and an awesome soundtrack as well although it feels less fast paced than it's pesudo sequel Suiko Enbu Fuuunsaiki. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LastCat | 246 Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 NiGHTS Into Dreams... is completed. (Claris and Elliot's Dreams All Complete) Not much to say other than one of the best Sega Saturn games out there with a banger OST too. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RetroMichel | 106 Posted May 31, 2022 Author Share Posted May 31, 2022 Great progress @LastCat ! BTW, I'm currently on Street Fighter Collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andykin Skysk8r | 49 Posted April 14, 2023 Share Posted April 14, 2023 Wow did this really die after 1 month? lol I beat Panzer Dragoon and Daytona earlier this year if that counts. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andykin Skysk8r | 49 Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 I beat Bug, Guardian Heroes, and Gunbird since my last post. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andykin Skysk8r | 49 Posted October 11, 2023 Share Posted October 11, 2023 (edited) Not sure what the win conditions are for Donpachi, but if struggling through it with 19 credits counts as a win Ill take it lol Edit: Improved that to 16 credits. Edited October 16, 2023 by Andykin Skysk8r 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red | 435 Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 I beat the high scores in all the tables of Hyper 3-D Pinball, so consider it done. Not on the same level as Necronomicon and Last Gladiators, but pretty good overall. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 11,761 Administrator · Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 Oh, this is a thread! I've beaten the following since February: Ultraman: Legendary Giant of Light Yumimi Mix Remix Powerslave The House of the Dead Hyper Duel Guardian Force In the Hunt Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story I: Blue Fear Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story II: Heir to the Blue Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story III: The Condemned Worms (I beat every team at least once) Advanced V.G. Arcade Gears Vol. 1: Pu-Li-Ru-La 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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