Sega's best console

[GUTS]

I also really like Master System and early Genesis game boxes.  The TTI released Duo games had cool art on the cases too, I liked how they used the Japanese art back when everybody else was still using awful western art.

[Joe Redifer]

Ha ha I remember the first boss (I think) in Vigilante saying what sounded like "Heya f*cker!" again and again.  Space Harrier on the TG-16 is also pretty bad.  I agree that there are a lot of bad voices on the Genesis, with the Street Fighter games being the prime offenders.  It's like they were routing the voices through the FM channels.  It's too bad, too... because the Genesis is capable of http://pixelcraze.film-tech.net/crap/GenesisVoiceExamples.mp3
.

[MrFulci]

ruin,

It's been quite a while since I've loaded any of those games. Bravoman is impossible for me to forget. When it comes to speech on the TG-16, Bravoman does plenty of it, hahha. Bravo, Bravo, Bravo, Bravo, etc, etc, etc.

Nice genesis MP3. It was hit and miss with the speech on that system. The genesis always stuck out with me with speech, because it seemed to offer speech in more games than the SNES or TG-16. Sometimes the system pulled it off pretty well, other times it had the, "huh?" factor.

[Digi.k]

Joe, I can't think of too many examples of speech on the TG-16 chips, allt hat really comes to mind is Bravoman, haha. Genesis, at times the speech was alright, the other half of the time it was scratchy and garbled so much that I wondered why they had left it in the game. Then again, speech was "new" at the time, so even if it was a bit scratchy, I can see why they would have left it in there.

ya you're right there.  but then the tg-16 wasn't really much supported in the west by 3rd parties so you'll never gonna get the top talented people doing their magic on this machine..

Only game I think has some sampled speech is on Ys games.

The best way you gonna hear stuff like loads of sampled speech is to look to the japanese market.. only game I can think of that uses a LOT more so than maybe any genesis game is download 2 which uses a lot of sampled speech during its cut scenes..

[FM-77]

The games you mentioned are CD games. It isn't much of a problem to include lots of high quality adpcm speech in those games due to the unlimited size of the disc. Cart based games fare a lot worse.

Star Ocean though.... awesome.

[Digi.k]

well the American cover for guardian heroes is one of THE WORST!!!!

[SuperDeadite]

Is it something like this:

Yup thats it alright.  I just did a quick google search and usually YouTube vids pop right up, strange.  Oh well never been good at
these kinds of things.

Here's a nice pic of a Model 1 HiSaturn like I have.  Most people don't seem to know these exist.  Even the Saturn wiki only mentions
the Model 2 (Circle Button) HiSaturn and the HiSaturnNavi.
http://page2.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/b75703240

[FM-77]

What's the meaning of the Hi Saturn?

[Necromancer]

What's the meaning of the Hi Saturn?

Saturn - Built by Sega
Hi-Saturn - Built by Hitachi
V-Saturn - Built by JVC / Victor

[Hobo Xiphas]

well the American cover for guardian heroes is one of THE WORST!!!!

They are both crap in my opinion, but whatever. 

[Keranu]

I agree with Joe complelely about the boxes he mentioned: Master System and early Genesis ones ruled, the later red Genesis cases (especially the paper) sucked.

EDIT: And oh yeah, I prefer the USA cover art for Guardian Heroes .

[FM-77]

While still incredibly ugly, I think the European artwork looks best:

[termis]

^^ Agreed, though I don't think it's ugly (though it's nothing exceptional either).

Did European Saturn releases get those retarded U.S. plastic shells that always broke & cracked at the slightest nudge?

[nodtveidt]

Ugh. ALL those "Guardian Heroes" cover arts are crap.

[FM-77]

Did European Saturn releases get those retarded U.S. plastic shells that always broke & cracked at the slightest nudge?

Nah, we got something pretty similiar to DVD cases. Sturdy. Really cool-looking, too.