Sega Saturn emulation a love and hate relationship

[Duo_R]

Link to the translation patch? Awesome#

Why do you use a Saturn emulator?

Some time ago I wanted to play the semi-translated version of Dragon Force II. This left me with three options for playing it.

Option #1, buy a Saturn mod chip, attempt to install it myself and play the game.

Option #2 (this one was attempted). Play the game on a Saturn emulator.

Option #3 (what I wound up going with) attempt a swap trick with a Saturn to play the game on actual hardware.

Anyway, if I didn't want to modify (in the case of the swap trick I still had to disassemble and tape the door close button down) my Saturn in any way. The only option would have been to use an emulator, and unfortunately Saturn emulation is well behind most other systems in terms of compatibility.

For things like patched games, Saturn emulation would be useful. If it were better.

Added in edit: Just on a side note. For those who haven't played it Dragon Force II is definitely a blast to play, even if the translated version isn't fully in English. Just having all the menus and a little help from online was enough to get me through one of the characters scenarios. I really never gave the game a fair shake having had the Japanese version for over a decade, but having had a chance to play it in English I can highly recommend it.

[DragonmasterDan]

Link to the translation patch? Awesome#

http://www.romhacking.net/translations/1622/

[Duo_R]

Is that one still sketchy or is it working pretty good?

[BigusSchmuck]

Link to the translation patch? Awesome#

http://www.romhacking.net/translations/1622/

I sure hope they keep working on this and don't decide to stop and go do a pokemon translation. Yeah, that is cool though.

[DragonmasterDan]

Is that one still sketchy or is it working pretty good?

The menus, battle commands and such are translated. The story portions are partly translated for some characters.

[Chuplayer]

To the OP. You just have to fiddle a little bit more with SSF. It should work fine even on Win7 x64. It is the best Saturn emulator around.

Yeah, pretty much this. But you also have to essentially max out the emulator, and even then I think there was one more option that I had to manually adjust to get it working up to my level of satisfaction. I'm not saying it's perfect, and I'm not saying every game works, but it was good for me.

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