Oh, these are making me drool, fantastic shots! These 2d fighters have such a timeless look.
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Favourite Sega Saturn Fighting Game?
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Oh, these are making me drool, fantastic shots! These 2d fighters have such a timeless look.
You forgot the best one.
Golden Axe the Dual as aged pretty well imo. I still play it fairly regularly, think Samurai Shodown X Street Fighter.
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My goodness this game brings back a lot of memories. I loved this game to bits. I still have it some where but I haven't set up my Saturn yet. I loved the soundtrack for this game so much. Thanks for posting this.
Not only that, they had to change gameplay on the PS1, Real Bout Special being one of the worst offenders.
Damn those feels, as a pal gamer who was pretty young and got a Saturn late in its lifetime it wasn't until I started using the internet regularly I saw all these amazing Saturn games. Drooling over Vampire Hunter and SFA3 as a teen, knowing theres some bloke posting on the scene about all his amazing retro finds and wishing I was him or older and had a job to do a massive eBay blowout in the early 00's and get everything I wanted.
VF2 was legit tho, I remember seeing a demo for it on an old Sega Flash disc before I got into VF2 years later and wondering what the hell it was and what voodoo made it look so good, my only point of comparison being my cousins PS1 and Tekken.
VF2 was legit tho, I remember seeing a demo for it on an old Sega Flash disc before I got into VF2 years later and wondering what the hell it was and what voodoo made it look so good, my only point of comparison being my cousins PS1 and Tekken.
Saturn was probably my heyday of importing, sent my PAL system away to get a 60hz switch modded on the back. Capcom and SNK heaven!
What's the difference with Alpha 3 and why is this one better ?
Alpha 3 is an example of too many cooks in the kitchen. 2 is a more pure, more focused game with less "systems" and a cleaner interface.
I still love and play:
- VF2,
- Last Bronx,
- Anarchy in the NIPPON,,
- Zero Divide The Final Conflict,
- Street Fighter Zero 2 gold,
- Vampire Savior,
- Real Bout Special,
- World Hereos Perfect,
- Dragon Ball Z
- kof96
And for the lol/fun Virtua Fighter 1 and Remix, FV, and FMegamix.
- VF2,
- Last Bronx,
- Anarchy in the NIPPON,,
- Zero Divide The Final Conflict,
- Street Fighter Zero 2 gold,
- Vampire Savior,
- Real Bout Special,
- World Hereos Perfect,
- Dragon Ball Z
- kof96
And for the lol/fun Virtua Fighter 1 and Remix, FV, and FMegamix.
I also didn't like the character designs of FV. I bought FV2 for Dreamcast and the characters seemed even worse, so I sold it. But FV gameplay is solid if you learn, it is similar to VF but with a different timing and feel, more combos, and it has walls and armor which can be broken. On Saturn, FV also introduced dynamic light sourcing, which the magazines kept focusing on, in the console wars. But FMM is better.
You mentioned MSH - it is a very good Capcom fighter, it isn't as manic as the VS games, and it is the only Capcom fighter with the Infinity Gems concept which greatly distinguishes the game. However ... it's a bit on the slow side.
Sunsoft's third and final fighter, Astra Superstars. It's my favorite because it was very unique, rare to obtain and all of your characters are fighting in mid-air, like in Dragon Ball Z. In spite of that kind of dynamic, the gameplay is quite similar to Waku Waku 7.
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I might as well resurrect these old pics from their graves..
Awesome shots. The pseudo 3D backgrounds in Last Bronx were impressive for the time. Shame that game didn't get more attention.
Oh my god. I forgot about this game.
It's amazing. It's another Virtua Fighter 3 on the saturn. The game plays almost identical to VF3 but with flat arenas. The character design is pure shit but the gameplay and movesets are very good and it's 60 fps. I wonder if rogue AM2 developers have worked on this game.
Edit: everybody should check it out:
Hell yeah ! The versus mode is unbalanced but soooo fun.
I would add Kof 96 and SFA2.(such a special atmosphere)
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VF2 had better production values imo. It was 480i when most games of that era were 240p.
I'd still take Megamix over it overall though.
Been itching to pull out the Saturn hardware and games from storage...
EDIT; not great pics but they screen grabs which have been blown up
Fighters Megamix
Fighting Vipers
You forgot the best one.
Golden Axe the Dual as aged pretty well imo. I still play it fairly regularly, think Samurai Shodown X Street Fighter.
I was going to post this. I remember really enjoying this game back in the day. Great art style.
Oh man! that brings back memories, CEX used to be my go to spot for import gaming back before the internet and eBay was prevalent.
Had my PS1 and Saturn modded by them to play imports too.
What the fuck happened to them? Gone downhill since.
Was talking about this years ago on another forum and someone who used to work there mentioned CEX got into trouble with importing especially DVDs so they stopped trading with imports...
I remember waiting patiently one afternoon for their courier to deliver the Japanese imports of Marvel Super Heroes on Saturn.
this brought back something from the olden days of game mag reviews...
I hope Black Tiger from superpcenginefx.net don't mind me using these
I remember the CVG review mentioning the super shadows looking different for Alpha too. Kinda funny to remember how the PSX version of Alpha 1 was better in some ways than the Saturn port considering the machine goes on to get a reputation for being a beast when it comes to 2D games. I actually choose the PSX over the Saturn at the time solely based on me randomly picking up a PSX magazine in a supermarket and catching glimpse of a preview for X-MEN: COTA! Oh how I waited for its release haha
The weird thing with the Saturn port of SFA is the shadows can be reverted back to the original arcade look in the options menu under the sound option; remixed or original..
My most disappointed Capcom saturn ports were Marvel Super Heroes since the gameplay felt a little laggy in some spots and some sprite flicker in Blackhearts level and their Super Street Fighter II X had a slight cheap cash in feel to me....
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and Wake Waku 7. I just adore the character designs and art style in this game but those backgrounds were just so low res. Astra Superstars was great I wished I kept that but I had no idea how valuable it was in those early saturn years
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I did not know that about the option in the menu, how did everyone miss that haha. I have it on Saturn for the cool disc art but don't think I've ever played it but might boot it up to try the shadow options.
I've heard the X-MEN: COTA Saturn port was a little rushed too and compared to the CPS2 is a little lacking, would have been nice if they had used the 4mb ram cart but I'm not sure it was a thing then. Didn't know that about the MSH port, I guess it's still better than the PSX port?
Ah Waku Waku 7, never played it much but loved the art style too, pretty much thanks to the rabbit/cat thing that looks like it came straight from My Neighbour Totoro. It's not a perfect port, right? I learned it featured in the PS2 Sunsoft collection recently, kinda want to pick that up. Yeah, that sucks selling Astra Superstars, if it makes you feel any better I let my cousin borrow my Saturn and he had then lent it to his friend, without permission, who "misplaced" a lot of the rare games I had, like Guardian Heroes along with some expensive Capcom titles :/
Saturn was the king of fighting games.
So many great titles especially with the RAM cart.
Fighters Megamix is probably my fave
followed by Virtua Fighter 2, SF Alpha 2, All the vs games and Neo Geo titles. So so good.
So many great titles especially with the RAM cart.
Fighters Megamix is probably my fave
followed by Virtua Fighter 2, SF Alpha 2, All the vs games and Neo Geo titles. So so good.
You know that GIF of the kid going "What's an Xbox". Saturn is that for me, it's the only major system that I never played in any capacity. Regardless of that, i'll go with MSF vs SF since I know I played that in some form at one point.