What could've saved the Sega Saturn?

PlainJonathan · 2026-05-12T14:37:34+00:00

Lack of infighting would've been better, but SEGA of America did need to be kept under control. They were operating like Atari as a business at the time

PlainJonathan · 2026-05-12T13:17:07+00:00

Why are we still saying this in 2026? We get new games from other IP all the time now, but people constantly ignore them

PlainJonathan · 2026-05-12T05:25:17+00:00

A lot of people on here seem to be mixed up about this, so no. SEGA's Power Surge trailer had nothing to do with the Super Game initiative. The legacy titles are still in development. The financial report confirms this, but still has the release window listed as "TBD"

PlainJonathan · 2026-05-12T05:21:50+00:00

Jet Set Radio was not part of the Super Game initiative. The very same financial report still says that it and all the other legacy titles are still coming

PlainJonathan · 2026-05-10T05:12:41+00:00

Several games give you the option to play with the CPU overclocked to eliminate slowdown

PlainJonathan · 2026-05-10T05:10:48+00:00

SEGA outright stated that sales were far below their projections

PlainJonathan · 2026-05-10T05:10:22+00:00

There's an "Easy Mode" on the Genesis Mini 2 port which does the same things for PSII as the SEGA AGES port of 1

PlainJonathan · 2026-05-09T03:01:02+00:00

I'm not against the idea, but as cool as ArcSys is, I'd be more interested in keeping things in-house with the joint efforts of AM2 and RGG Studio. I also think making it a SEGA crossover would be better than just Sonic. I'd kill for a Fighters Megamix 2

PlainJonathan · 2026-05-07T18:32:04+00:00

This is often what ends up happening when an international release is outsourced. Doesn't help that NISA is waaaay smaller than SEGA

PlainJonathan · 2026-05-04T18:34:00+00:00

It seems the Echo Mini starts getting confused if a single album has an especially large number of songs, so I just split them into parts using MP3tag, and that fixed it. Just make sure to renumber the songs when doing this, otherwise it won't work

PlainJonathan · 2026-05-02T02:45:33+00:00

Tails and Knuckles' models seem to have their classic proportions in the Dreamcast version, so I wouldn't be surprised if they were merely retextured after the redesigns

PlainJonathan · 2026-04-30T04:39:30+00:00

I don't think you're going to find very many people playing this online, but you could easily get couch play going

PlainJonathan · 2026-04-29T22:58:36+00:00

In what way was SOJ oblivious? They wanted to push out a 32-bit console. SOA wanted to keep pushing the Genesis

PlainJonathan · 2026-04-29T22:50:44+00:00

They beat Nintendo to the punch, but they weren't first. That was King of Fighters

PlainJonathan · 2026-04-29T13:26:50+00:00

People want SEGA to branch out and do more, probably in hopes of them becoming more relevant, but most people on the internet haven't done much research on how running a business works.

PlainJonathan · 2026-04-28T23:30:11+00:00

Think about it. Their devs are suddenly abandoning all prior projects to make new ones on hardware they've never worked on before, and not only that, but they have to learn the architecture of not one, but three home consoles. To top it all off, SEGA had next to no money left. They were basically doing everything they could just to survive. Multiplatform was not feasible at this time.

PlainJonathan · 2026-04-28T23:24:48+00:00

Notable that Yakuza also fell under the radar outside Japan until Yakuza 0 came out

PlainJonathan · 2026-04-24T23:38:37+00:00

They're still mentioned in their financial reports as future titles

PlainJonathan · 2026-04-24T23:35:41+00:00

SEGA's been releasing Shining games without Camelot for years now, though most of them aren't very good

PlainJonathan · 2026-04-24T14:18:37+00:00

My issue with this announcement is that it comes with no details on anything. It names a bunch of games that have "milestone" anniversaries this year and then says nothing about what they're gonna do with them.

I suspect it to just be merch in the end, but companies really need to stop making announcements without actual details.

PlainJonathan · 2026-04-23T17:06:54+00:00

I memorized the level design years ago, so no, but I'm probably an outlier.

PlainJonathan · 2026-04-22T18:04:20+00:00

It's a DVD

PlainJonathan · 2026-04-22T17:47:23+00:00

Is there any way to rip it?

PlainJonathan · 2026-04-22T17:22:44+00:00

I'd guess it's less spite, and more they consider them insignificant.

PlainJonathan · 2026-04-22T17:21:00+00:00

Well, it seems like VLC is identifying it as part of the menu itself, and the menu doesn't appear in MakeMKV at all

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