Sega Saturn

[bartre]

in my experience, the only memory cards that could be seen by the games themselves were the official sega ones.
every other card i've ever tried required a save, reset to the system menu, and then copy the data to the memory card.

[whisper2053]

in my experience, the only memory cards that could be seen by the games themselves were the official sega ones.
every other card i've ever tried required a save, reset to the system menu, and then copy the data to the memory card.

The Innovation 8meg cart can be saved to directly in-game (and, conveniently, functions as an import enabler as well...)



http://classicgameroom.com/vaultpages/vaultpage/sega-saturn-innovation-8-meg-memory-card/

[DragonmasterDan]

in my experience, the only memory cards that could be seen by the games themselves were the official sega ones.
every other card i've ever tried required a save, reset to the system menu, and then copy the data to the memory card.

The Innovation 8meg cart can be saved to directly in-game (and, conveniently, functions as an import enabler as well...)



http://classicgameroom.com/vaultpages/vaultpage/sega-saturn-innovation-8-meg-memory-card/

I have a pair of third party cards that the internal memory manager can see and that can save directly. With that said one of the two is an Interact brand card and I have a seemingly identical card from the outside that requires all saving via a menu that pops up when turning the machine on. The other one I have with direct saving capaibility is an EMS brand card.

[Digi.k]

someone's top 50 shmup list

[HailingTheThings]

someone's top 50 shmup list

f*ck yeah! futurematt5 = best!

[xelement5x]

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f*ck yeah! futurematt5 = best!

I really don't like lists that are in videos, I would much rather see an actual written out list so I can pick out ones I may have never heard of to look into.

[synbiosfan]

We've been going off topic in teh "what did you buy today"-thread so I'm bumping this

The Saturn's cart slot is made poorly so this is common.  Not many options,  clean everything and try again repeatedly. There's a multi region bios you can have installed too. Or buy JP Saturn with cart issues.

Tell me more of this multi region bios. Where might I buy one??

Give me a second, walking the dog.

Here's 26 pages on ASSEMbler about it

https://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?33602-Sega-Saturn-Region-Free-BIOS

Some of the guys are  Bad_Ad84, Zer0-2k11, and APE who I'd contact. You might see if any of them are doing a battery mod & modchip while your at it.

APE is in California iirc.

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So besides the poorly made/designed cart slot, the other main gripe about the Saturn is the CR 2032 battery use.

I hate linking to other sites but once again, ASSEMbler has info

https://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?9053-Sega-Saturn-long-life-battery&highlight=sega+saturn+battery+mod

EDIT Looking for the fix guide as the link I posted doesn't have it.

Here's adding sram instead of the battery

http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?34265-Modifying-the-SEGA-SATURN-to-use-standard-SRAM-backup-disable-RTC

Contacting one of the modders there is your best bet as I'm having trouble finding things.

[xelement5x]

Db_elec also did a mod and writeup about changing the save memory so that it doesn't die when the battery does. 
http://www.db-elec.com/home/lab-posts/segasaturninternalmemorymodwithfram-nobatteryrequired

Though I think he said he was unsure if it was the save or the real time clock that drains the battery.

[SignOfZeta]

PS1.

EDIT: dang, there I go again. I need to figure out the thing I keep falling for...