How can anyone not think they were horribly uncomfortable? They have pointy corners which dig into your hands after a while.

True, they were okay if you wren't using the d-pad and buttons. Particularly those games that turned the unit sideways. There should have been more of that.

Nice.

Which model of JP Saturn? There are several.

Nice looking console. I have the white model.

It's the baseball game. Not too fussed, as an RPG in Japanese would be next to useless anyway, and it'll be nice to have an obscure Japanese sports game.

I think it's a baseball cooking game.



Japan you so crazy.

The Saturn arrived to work today, and was waiting for me when I got in.

The transformer has a two prong European style plug, and nobody has an adapter, so will have to wait until I'm home to test it.

All works fine.

Only have a composite cable, and it's going into a flat screen TV so doesn't look great.

The baseball game was just a wall of text until it finally got to a match, and then it just simulated the score.

Think it's a management sim.

I'd never played Nights before, and not really sure what to make of it.

Was hard to control, and I wasn't quite sure what I was supposed to be doing.

The boss battle was fairly random if I hit or got hit, with no real indication what I was to do.

Looking forward to picking up some of the classics, and need to replace the battery as it keeps asking to set the date and time every time it's powered on.

Nights is very much an acquired taste. It's essentially on-rails collecting interspersed with boss fights and is very much a score attack game. I like it but it wouldn't be a big favourite of mine. It controls better with the 3D controller and its analogue stick.

Oh.



If you want another game that makes good use of it then Manx TT is a good shout. Should be cheap. It's light on content but what's there is very good.

Sega Rally uses it too but to be honest the control with the dpad is so good it isn't necessary. I know it works with the PAL version (which is a superb conversion - indistinguishable from the 60Hz version as far as I'm concerned - my times on both versions are the same) but would need to check the JPN version as it was released earlier.

Sega Rally really is a great game. It has got a bit rough looking but the control is silky smooth and the track design is inspired. Only 3 cars and 4 tracks but they are made to be caned until you get them perfect.

Here's me beating it 

NiGHTS really is one of a kind, it's worth going deeper if you can.  As Mark says it's a score attack game - the real aim is to git gud rather than git it dun.  It's the type of game where most of the fans say merely finishing it is less than half the experience, like Vanquish or Bayonetta maybe (says the guy who never revisited either of those after the credits).  

Grab the blues spheres, and as soon as you've got 20 take the shortest route to the cage.  The rest will turn gold (iirc), and the scores increase.  Rather than finishing the course immediately, trying to ramp up your score and timing your finish to the last couple of seconds is key.  You have to go round in a 2.5D loop, so if you've not halfway it'll probably be quicker to head back the way you came if you're low on time, so you have to be mindful of not pushing it too far.  It has combo chains for collecting items, known as links, where you'll have maybe another second to collect an item to keep the counter going.  Some courses have complete links, so with practice you can keep a link going from the moment you pick up your first gold orb to the moment you finish the course.  The boss multiplier is speed based too.  

In hindsight some stages are far better designed than others, and imo there really should be a complete link available on all of the first courses.  It's a very good game though, I thought they did a great job of offering something entirely original rather than a full 3D platformer that would've been a disappointing Mario 64 counter attack.

Moot_Geeza wrote:

NiGHTS really is one of a kind, it's worth going deeper if you can.  As Mark says it's a score attack game - the real aim is to git gud rather than git it dun.  It's the type of game where most of the fans say merely finishing it is less than half the experience, like Vanquish or Bayonetta maybe (says the guy who never revisited either of those after the credits).  

Grab the blues spheres, and as soon as you've got 20 take the shortest route to the cage.  The rest will turn gold (iirc), and the scores increase.  Rather than finishing the course immediately, trying to ramp up your score and timing your finish to the last couple of seconds is key.  You have to go round in a 2.5D loop, so if you've not halfway it'll probably be quicker to head back the way you came if you're low on time, so you have to be mindful of not pushing it too far.  It has combo chains for collecting items, known as links, where you'll have maybe another second to collect an item to keep the counter going.  Some courses have complete links, so with practice you can keep a link going from the moment you pick up your first gold orb to the moment you finish the course.  The boss multiplier is speed based too.  

In hindsight some stages are far better designed than others, and imo there really should be a complete link available on all of the first courses.  It's a very good game though, I thought they did a great job of offering something entirely original rather than a full 3D platformer that would've been a disappointing Mario 64 counter attack.

That’s a much better explanation than I managed. I always mentally compose nice long posts on this place but they always seem to lose something by the time I’ve typed it out.

optimark_prime wrote:

That’s a much better explanation than I managed. I always mentally compose nice long posts on this place but they always seem to lose something by the time I’ve typed it out.

Yours was more concise but still contained the key points. 

Enjoy PD Saga, it's quite short but the battle system is underrated imo, even in articles championing the experience.  Zwei was a bit special at the time too, probably still my favourite rails shooter, or at least vying for top spot with Lylatt Wars and Sin & Punishment 2.

Now that's a satisfying way to start the weekend davy!

retroking1981 wrote:

Picked this up in the week:



Should come in handy for 2D games on the Wii/U, Switch and PS3/4. 

Nice bonus of working on an actual SNES too!

edit: Maybe even the Pi as well.

So I finally got around to setting this up.

Piece of piss with the Switch, haven't tried it on the SNES or Wii yet.

But how the fuck do you get it to work with the PS3/4?