What is the Best Saturn Emulator?

Huamaru · May 6, 2005

Yeah I read the whole compatability list sticky, but I still wanna know what Saturn Emulator is the best? I am especially interested in which emulator can support Dragon Force if anyone knows? But yeah, what is the best emulator because I know alot of these are in beta and/or still debugging it.
peace

Talbain · May 6, 2005

There aren't any. Some emulate some games better than others. It's a crapshoot.

Kane · May 6, 2005

Well there was that segaB club version of GiriGiri, but that's discontinued, and was Japan only.
Of the other 2, Satourne is French and so what news and updates we do get from it tends to not get posted in a language most people here get. The same is true of SSF, except Japanese instead of French.
Essentialy I havent got a clue how well these two run or even if they are still in development.

Chrono Archangel · May 7, 2005

Kane said:
Well there was that segaB club version of GiriGiri, but that's discontinued, and was Japan only.
Of the other 2, Satourne is French and so what news and updates we do get from it tends to not get posted in a language most people here get. The same is true of SSF, except Japanese instead of French.
Essentialy I havent got a clue how well these two run or even if they are still in development.

just to add to what Kane just said...
basicly try them all. Satourne and SSF are still in development.
you can try those two and you can also try Saturnin.

and finally theres Yabause which seems to have made alot of progress, so check from time to time for its next release.
basicly we have no clue on what emus run what games

Huamaru · May 7, 2005

Aww dang that sucks. I guess there just isnt as big as a demand as the PS emulators and PS2 ones? Saturn was a good system that was overlooked too often. LOL

Thnx for the advice.

Norbi · May 7, 2005

Well from all emus i have tried, SFF works the best and runs the biggest amount of games. So far, SSF is the only Saturn Emu with i got Virtua Cop running. Depending on your system, you can reach near full speed on SFF. Worth trying.

Badaro · May 7, 2005

SSF seems to be the best free emu at the moment.

[]s Badaro

Samor · May 7, 2005

Satourne beta shots look good. I believe ckemu is a betatester for it.

SSF I haven't tried. Sounds like a good one to try.

*edit - apparantly my cpu isn't supported :/ (amdxp2500+) *

*edit2 - seems that release 0.07 prototype R11 is the last one to support older processors - it's downloadable from ngemu: http://www.ngemu.com/saturn/ssf.php?action=download&req=emu&id=364
Of course, people with a processor that supports SSE2 should just get the latest one

cloudvii · May 9, 2005

There is a working emulator for Saturn (Totally working and running full speed too)
It's a hack of Girigiri . But I can't send any links for it here, since it's a hack.
Unless I get the green light

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Kane · May 9, 2005

Yes, I did mention that in my post, Cloud

cloudvii · May 9, 2005

Sega club project wasn't the only project. I'm talking about Barnitos Girigiri hack.

Kane · May 9, 2005

Which is like saying Emurayden isn't VGS. It's jsut a hack of the emu I'm talking about.

Samor · May 9, 2005

the hack doesn't seem to differ a lot from the original one anyway, just like with emurayden...

AlphaCrush · May 10, 2005

the latest versin of ssf runs these games perfectly for me, with sound and everything. These are the only games i own and therefor have tested.

Street fighter Alpha (american)

Street Figher Alpha 2 (american)

Street Fighter Zero 3 (japanese)

Pocket fighter (japanese)

Fighters Mega mix (american)

Megaman 8 (american)

Super Puzzle fighter (american)

Burning Rangers (american)

Norbi · May 11, 2005

SSF runs nearly everything i have tried. Only one which didn't want to run is Shining Widsom and Shining Force 3 s1.

MaZa · May 11, 2005

SSF runs nearly everything i have tried. Only one which didn't want to run is Shining Widsom and Shining Force 3 s1.

Well god damn... And those were two games which i hoped would run...

Norbi · May 11, 2005

It should run with the next verison if not maybe second one. I remember i tried Virtua Cop on R12. Reached the loading screen at most. R13 made it run like it should. The emulator with every version runs more and more games which is very good.

Samor · May 11, 2005

too bad the old non-sse2 one doesnt have sound. :/
oh, and it's rather slow on an amdxp2500 anyway.
But I'm not in an upgrade mood

Badaro · May 11, 2005

Samor said:
too bad the old non-sse2 one doesnt have sound. :/
oh, and it's rather slow on an amdxp2500 anyway.
But I'm not in an upgrade mood

The lastest one runs perfectly on my P4 3.0GHz. Well, at least Panzer Dragoon does, it's the only Saturn game I have access to at the moment.

[]s Badaro

Samor · May 11, 2005

Badaro said:
The lastest one runs perfectly on my P4 3.0GHz. Well, at least Panzer Dragoon does, it's the only Saturn game I have access to at the moment.

[]s Badaro

but that processor supports SSE2, I guess.

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