15th September 2011, 1:27 AM
Gamecube
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Luigi's Mansion - $3, complete - Finally, I managed to find a cheap copy of this game... it's one that I've had an interest in playing, but I've never wanted to pay the $15-plus prices it seems to bring everywhere. Now that I finally managed to find it for cheap, I'll definitely have to try it.
There are a fair number of Sega CD games that do support the cart, but as I said it's things like strategy games, RPGs, some sims, racing games, first party platformers, some of the FMV games, adventure games, etc... not the third-party platformers, Genesis ports, or shmups. I have enough saves that the cart is necessary -- I have more saved than could be stored in the internal memory, for sure -- but yes, it is true that not enough games made use of it, certainly. The card holds a lot, it might be tough to actually fill it up...
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Luigi's Mansion - $3, complete - Finally, I managed to find a cheap copy of this game... it's one that I've had an interest in playing, but I've never wanted to pay the $15-plus prices it seems to bring everywhere. Now that I finally managed to find it for cheap, I'll definitely have to try it.
Quote:Yeah I have an official Sega CD memory cart, but half the time I don't even bother plugging it in since the games don't save anyway.
There are a fair number of Sega CD games that do support the cart, but as I said it's things like strategy games, RPGs, some sims, racing games, first party platformers, some of the FMV games, adventure games, etc... not the third-party platformers, Genesis ports, or shmups. I have enough saves that the cart is necessary -- I have more saved than could be stored in the internal memory, for sure -- but yes, it is true that not enough games made use of it, certainly. The card holds a lot, it might be tough to actually fill it up...
Quote:I think I'll get the Saturn version of Earthworm Jim, but it's really pathetic that the Saturn doesn't support transparencies, something the SNES was fully capable of and used in that version of EWJ2.I think there are some techniques that can pull off transparencies on the Saturn, but it's not easy to do and few games managed it. And yeah, it is kind of odd that they'd forget that, but the Saturn wasn't exactly the best thought through hardware design, so it isn't exactly surprising that it has problems.
Quote:The Saturn version of Sonic 3D Blast is pretty nice though. It's missing the little story line exposition cut scene at the start, but is otherwise better looking and sounding. Apparently this was the original version of the game, and the only one released in Japan. They back-ported it to the Genesis later on.No, I'm pretty sure that it's the other way around, and the Genesis version came first. Sega was originally going to release Sonic X-Treme as its Saturn Sonic game for late 1996, remember. (X-Treme had originally started out as a 32X project, but after not too long moved over to Saturn.) However, after illnesses on the team and idiotic decisions by Sega management derailed the game's chances of releasing in 1996, they decided to cancel it instead of delaying it, and added their backup plan in instead, which was a Saturn version of Sonic 3D Blast. Apparently the Saturn version of the game is definitely the best one, but I only have it for PC and Genesis. I do actually like the game though, mostly (beat it on Genesis), so I am interested in trying the Saturn version... it's no replacement for X-Treme though, for sure. That game looks like it'd have been so cool, kind of like Bug! but with Sonic, and faster. That's an awesome concept. (On that note, and I'm sure I've said this before too, but the Bug! games are pretty good.)