Your favorite Sega Saturn imports?

[Mathius]

It's not going anywhere.

[DragonmasterDan]

It's not going anywhere.

Have you tried any RAM expansion games?

[Mathius]

It's not going anywhere.

Have you tried any RAM expansion games?

I don't have any yet because I just go my Saturn last month. I plan to in the future. For now I am just collecting Japanese shooters.

[SignOfZeta]

My white Saturn kicked me out of my game back to the CD player once when I was trying to find the sweet spot with my memory cart....

Um...you did this when the unit was running?

[SignOfZeta]

I don't agree with this. My current main Saturn, a white one with a switch, has never seen a 3rd party cart in its life and the cart slot is still craparoo.

I wasn't saying it was the SOLE reason, just a reason. Just using a first party memory card and a netlink and yanking one out and putting in another may have screwed up the cart slot on my first Saturn. It's just that third party carts do a better job of ruining it.

I swapped carts a lot during the Netlink days when I was running a black US model, the original PAR, the 4-in-1 (when It was released), the official 4MB, and the back-up cart. I got my white Saturn after the Netlink was over. It hasn't seen anywhere near the cart slot action my original US model did and its always had a mod switch, so its only ever seen the 4MB and the back-up cart...and if anything the cart slot started acting up even worse, and even sooner than it did with my original model.

It always sucks, and there is nothing that can be done with it short of hardwiring the carts into place...which I've certainly put some thought into.

[DragonmasterDan]

I swapped carts a lot during the Netlink days when I was running a black US model, the original PAR, the 4-in-1 (when It was released), the official 4MB, and the back-up cart. I got my white Saturn after the Netlink was over. It hasn't seen anywhere near the cart slot action my original US model did and its always had a mod switch, so its only ever seen the 4MB and the back-up cart...and if anything the cart slot started acting up even worse, and even sooner than it did with my original model.

It always sucks, and there is nothing that can be done with it short of hardwiring the carts into place...which I've certainly put some thought into.

I kept buying replacement Saturns until their cart slots quit working. Eventually I bought one Japanese one (mine is the Gray color original model rather than the white) and have one US one I use (I have the others still), and leave official memory cards in and hope they stay in the sweet spot while I play and save games.

[SignOfZeta]

I just mess with the slot a lot. I've never known one to stop crop out completely, they just take a while to get working.

[DragonmasterDan]

I just mess with the slot a lot. I've never known one to stop crop out completely, they just take a while to get working.

I've known them to crap out completely, or take 30+ minutes to get working at which point I give up.

Added in edit: I spent about 15 minutes tinkering with one that has a particularly bad cart slot. I tried the following.
Netlink
First Party Sega Memory Card
Third party Interact Memory Card
Action Replay 4 in 1

I put in each cart 15 times in various levels of how far I put it in, the only cart to get any sort of a read (IE the All rights by Sega Screen pops up before it goes to the main menu) was the third party interact card, and when I went to the memory menu it still couldn't see it.

Further edits:
After a few tests in my Japanese Saturn, the third party, first party card and the netlink were all read within 5 tries. The action replay was not successful. So the problem is the slot, not the carts (well, maybe the action replay).

[Digi.k]

My goal is to play around with this Saturn for a while until I can afford to get a Japanese Victor Saturn.

Why the Victor Saturn out of curiosity?

It looks puurty

go with sexy parodius and try and get the previous one too  Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius but its got japanese menus so might be a little tricky navigating.

can also try cotton 2 and cotton boomerang

plus Princess Crown which is an action RPG but you can get by without knowing japanese

[Mathius]

My goal is to play around with this Saturn for a while until I can afford to get a Japanese Victor Saturn.

Why the Victor Saturn out of curiosity?

It looks puurty

go with sexy parodius and try and get the previous one too  Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius but its got japanese menus so might be a little tricky navigating.

can also try cotton 2 and cotton boomerang

plus Princess Crown which is an action RPG but you can get by without knowing japanese

Sexy Parodius came today! I am going to have to get a model 2 Saturn controller because the original just doesn't cut it for this game. For some reason the button placement throws me off.

[DragonmasterDan]

Sexy Parodius came today! I am going to have to get a model 2 Saturn controller because the original just doesn't cut it for this game. For some reason the button placement throws me off.

Do you have a model 3 UFO analog or a model 1 (similar to model 2, but slightly bigger and weird triggers at the top)?

[SignOfZeta]

I think he must be talking about the US-only early Saturn pad. I don't really think of it as a "model 1" because it isn't an evolutionary thing. All Japanese Saturns (which pre-dated the US Saturn by...I don't know, 7 months at least) came with the same pad, its only the US ones, and only the early US ones, that have that f-ed up thing with the shiny d-pad. When the US models went to round buttons then the basic design was standard world wide.

At the time we all complained about how shitty the US Saturn pad was, but honesty is not that bad at all. Its just mysterious that they bothered to design such a thing when they already had what was at the time, and still is, the best digital pad ever made.

[Mathius]

Yeah it's the original Saturn pad with the weird d-pad and shoulder buttons. Honestly, the pad works great with In The Hunt and Rayforce, but for some reason it just feels weird playing Sexy Parodius with it.

[Mathius]

go with sexy parodius and try and get the previous one too  Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius but its got japanese menus so might be a little tricky navigating.

can also try cotton 2 and cotton boomerang

plus Princess Crown which is an action RPG but you can get by without knowing japanese

Is Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius the same as the Deluxe Pack? I wonder why they went with all Japanese menus this time around?

I would really love to play one of the Cotton games eventually. Of course, the Turbo-CD version would be my preferable first in that regard.

I really do love Odin Sphere on the PS2, and as for Princess Crown (made by the same developer) I heard it had a lot of frustrating aspects to the game. We'll see.

[Joe Redifer]

Is Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius the same as the Deluxe Pack?

No.  The former is otherwise known as Parodius Forever With You or even Chatting Parodius.  It's very good and often overlooked because all anyone ever talks about is Sexy Parodius (which is inferior, in my opinion).