Every Cartridge-Enhanced Saturn Game 

39:09 I'm in tears laughing at the "Going to crash into a wall? Please let me crash with you!" joke from the Wangan Dead Heat racing game. Joe sure knows how to be romantic!

These long-form compilations are some of my favorites on the channel. Appreciate all the years of great entertainment and hope the new year has been treating you well so far!

Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter is pretty awesome but holy crap it has almost NO loading time outside of when you first start up the game, it impresses me to this day.

It's worth mentioning (or not, if you don't care about this franchise) that Groove on Fight is part of the Power Instinct series. In fact the game cover shows the complete title: "Gouketsuji Ichizoku 3 - Groove on Fight", even though the title screen doesn't.

I thought I was the only one who cared about T. Hawk's back walk animation. I feel blessed.

I've watched a lot of videos on the Saturn expansion cart, and yours is eleventy million times better than the rest.

It took a couple of weeks, but Santy Claus got me exactly what I wanted! An episode of Game Sack with a focus on Sega Saturn add-on cartridges! Christmas dreams really DO come true!

Man, your videos always make me feel like going back to watching TV Shows about videogames in the 90s. Like that special moment in the afternoon or Saturday morning where you’d get some special news, reviews, etc.. just a bit of a unique moment that was just about videogames. Thanks!

Gosh what a gift for the Retro community your work is Joe. Loved every bit if this. I’ll never forget using the RAM cart on games like X-Mem VS Street Fighter and just loving my Saturn for it

The Sega Saturn and that era is just peak 2D pixel art. The resolution, the colours, it's all just spot on.

New Game Sack!! I’ll watch it before sleeping for sure! This is consistently among the best gaming content on RU-vid! Even if the newest episode’s topic isn’t one of your favorite parts of gaming you can’t help but watch it still due to the high quality Joe puts out. I really do enjoy it.

I'm impressed by the thoroughness, i didn't expect the mpeg card would be covered

'Here's what you get if you don't have one. Yeah, that'll teach ya' Never change, Joe. You always make me chuckle.

I want a Saturn SO bad because of you Joe.

I remember u n Dave talked briefly about the RAM expansion Packs. So happy you now going into detail on this.

Seeing the expansion pack put in the slot on the Saturn is hilarious 😂

This video really highlights a lot of reasons to want a Saturn as well.

Only the raw RAM expansion power offered by the Sega Saturn RAM cartridges can deliver anime boobies at such a blistering pace!

The 1s Game Sack video of 2023! Let's get it on!

I don't even wait until I have watched your videos at this point, I just automatically press the like button! After all these years It's just habit! Thanks for all the great entertainment!

First episode of the year! And it's a Saturn one! Thanks, Joe!

I first had the crappy Pro Action Replay (when it worked) that gave me access to the huge Japanese Saturn library, but it occupied the ram slot. I later had to modify my Saturn with a switch that allowed you to play Japanese games and freed up the ram slot. First game I bought was Groove on Fight. A really really underrated fighter. Really fun, crazy, and awesome art from Range Murata. Really loved that Saturn and I still have it! I even enjoyed it more than my Dreamcast!

That screen change thing in Vampire Savior is basically an install super which gives the character a timed passive buff which varies depending on the character. Like, some characters get a shadow trailing them for multiple hits, some small helper which acts on his own or just enhanced offense/defense.

Your Saturn capture quality is phenomenal

I like video game retro reviews. I have no idea why I just stumbled upon this channel a few days ago. So impressed by the workmanship and the detail. Have NO IDEA why they don’t have over a million subscribers yet!! Great job everytime!!

So much good stuff in that sack of yours.

I would say that since the Saturn has games that are still playable today and the N64 doesn’t, the 1 & 4MB RAM carts win by default.

Understandable, have a nice day.

I will never stop playing my Saturn. Love this episode.

Dam it joe it's 3:43am and I was just about to fall asleep, now I have to watch your amazingly detailed beautiful video. Keep up the incredible work man, you just keep getting better and better, and I love your humor

Great episode! What I miss most about that era of Capcom are the amazingly creative stages, full of animations and different levels and so on. Very rarely have they revisited such zaniness in stage design after that. Also, I find it so funny that in the 90s everybody was fighting for a bit more RAM here and there and, nowadays, most smartphones can emulate those arcades perfectly. Time marches on indeed!

The PS2 Alpha Anthology is the only other version of Alpha 3 (Upper) to have all of T-Hawk's backwards walking animations.

Just bought a Japanese Saturn with an ST-Key cartridge, and you come out with this video.

On facts, your drops have pushed me through for the past 3 years bros. Your videos have let me know life is beautiful

27:41 those crucified Ultramen on the background really stood out to me in this episode lol wtf 🤣

Thanks for 4K60FPS 👍😄

Game Sack is one of the best channels on RU-vid. Thank you for not giving up and and making "Toy Sack" videos.

Yes! More Game Sack! Can't get enough of it.

Man, the Saturn kicked ass left and right. Those arcade conversions are unbelievable.

New Year....fresh new Sack!

What a fantastic string of games in this video from King of Fighters '95 through Metal Slug. You can even add Groove On Fight which is pretty good and was my first proper RAM cart game(I had Marvel Super Heroes before the cart). One neat feature of Groove on Fight is the ability to use the downed fighters as weapons. Metal Slug on Saturn was also my introduction to the series. I didn't know what to think for a while since I hadn't played a 2D action game like that in a while due to the 3D craze. The one-hit deaths were harsh too, but I got into it because it was impressive. I loved King of Fighters '97 and it was my favorite fighting game on the Saturn. I instantly fell in love with it seeing it in a comic shop, even though it was right next to a Street Fighter 3 cabinet. KOF just appealed to me more. The limited amount of music in KOF'97 is an issue and I point that out. Still, the rest of the presentation, including the sound effects are so strong that it was less of an issue than I expected. That was definitely one of the main improvements for KOF'98, though much of the gameplay carries over from 97 so they were almost there with that edition and I suspect it was just limited development time more than anything. I've been playing a combination of Marvel Super Heroes, Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter, and X-Men vs. Street Fighter in recent weeks(just played some XMvsSF last night) and can appreciate them more now than I could in 1997 and 1998 for various reasons. I had never played MSHvsSF before. There were more changes to the game than I expected including many background updates. The game also feels a tad looser than XMvsSF, not in a bad way. It feels just a bit smoother in its control. XMvsSF feels slightly more intense as a result. I have issues with both rosters, but I think I prefer XMvsSF's roster. Great games though, both of them. Lastly, good observation regarding the flashing on KOF. I've noticed that it can bother me, at least some of the time. Capcom used flashing as well, though not red like SNK. Depending on other factors like sleep, it can be pretty bad for me. This reminded me to look up that infamous Pokemon episode to see when it aired(December 1997) because I noticed both Capcom and SNK added options to their fighting games to toggle the flashing and that started for their 1998 games(as I recall, KOF98, Last Blade 2, Marvel vs. Capcom are the ones I checked), so it does support my theory that it was due to the Pokemon episode.

Great idea for an episode. There’s a lot of confusion in the community about this subject.

Hands down! The greatest video game channel on RU-vid! You remind me of myself back in the day!

This is the best retro channel!! Thank you for all you do! I look forward to your every other Saturday videos! Really entertaining and well done!

It appears that Capcom were the only third party company that knew how to work wonders on thd Saturn. And SNK, to a small extent. Thanks for a great video, Joe! 👍👍👍

I'm actually playing Shining the Holy Ark tonight on the Sega Saturn for the 2nd time. It's the first time I've played my Saturn in a long time. That's the one thing I wish I would have got for my Saturn was the RAM cartridge. I know those fighting games especially had fantastic animation when the Ram cartridge was used. The only thing I have for my Saturn that uses the cartridge slot is the Netlink modem, and the Saturn gameshark. And I've only used the gameshark for it once, back in the 1990's or whenever it was when I first got it. I don't even know if there still coming out with new codes for it, I'll have to check sometime. I have a gameshark for my Dreamcast to but I have it stored away and haven't used it in forever too. I think the Dreamcast one was on a disk if I remember right.

I recently got a Satiator, and having a new video on Saturn games show up is always nice to see.

Thanks for another great episode! These complete lists are great!!

As always I love your videos. They're very comprehensive and clear. perfect to as a background or to watch normally.

I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT RAY SAYS ''BAKED POTATO....DYNOMITE'' when he shot his fireball.

Real Bout Special ❤ The most entertaining fighting game I‘ve ever played ^^

I love that you covered this topic. This is fantastic!

You have no idea how many shifts at work these videos get me through

Putting my Offspring cd in the Saturn and watching the space ship fly around to the tracks

I love Game Sack! I look forward to your video every Sunday morning

Hey what a great idea for a video! I always enjoy these library looks. Hope you had an enjoyable end of year break, Joe.

Would be cool if you made an episode with all games that use the link cable for PS1 and Saturn!

Great Video, thanks for that. I´m a Saturn User from the first day on and i still love it.

Big thanks to whoever did the rom to ram cart patches.

Was that guy saying "baked potato" when tossing hadokens in Karnov's Revenge?!?! Joe - we need a 'Misheard Audio' vid! I swear the announcer says "drops his pants" when passing in Blades of Steel on the NES

Ole saturn was a tank and when the devs actually got down with it. Things got amazing. Love the unique look of the Saturn's graphics the same way I love the unique graphics of the dreamcast. Something just hits different.

"Pack-In Video packed in some great looking video" LOOOOL

Playing as Mai...it's almost a running gag now. Kudos.

Amazing Video!! Nice to learn some new things about my Saturn collection too - I had no idea a couple of my Japanese games were using the Video card OR that the Stereo on Metal Slug actually worked (by switching to mono and back). Cheers Joe! btw. The Rom cart for Kof'95 isn't region locked, so the Japanese cart works with the European version of the game and Vice Versa.

Back in 1996-7, when my older brother brought the Saturn home, we were coming from a SNES then, one of the first series we were eager to try was KOF 95, 96 and 97, some of them wouldn't boot as we didn't know about the cart thing at first, but when we got to finally play these in arcade perfect form, it's a moment printed in my mind. We were into arcades since the late 80's and it was the first time uncompromised versions were available at home. It was also the console which introduced us to new genres, Mystaria, Shining Force III, Duke 3D, Hexen, Resident Evil, Tomb Raider and many, many more, when we migrated to the PS1 as the Saturn wasn't going to get new games then, the transition wasn't as impressive, it has amazing exclusives and very decent arcade ports too, I still find SFA3 a miracle on Sony's console, while it has tons of loading and we played the Saturn before that, at least the playability is perfect for me, but we were already spoiled by the better versions, the Saturn was the right choice for us. To this day it's a shame it didn't receive many of what was planned, magazines were already giving many signs about a year before and the games I played on the Saturn were only getting sequels on Sony's machine.

No wonder fighting games no longer hold my attention. There were so many back in the 90's.

The Gungriffon games were great! If they had at least double the resolution and draw-distances, they'd be awesome. In any case, they could really use an official re-release on modern platforms. 🙏

I enjoyed your foray into creating the opening sequence of Crash 2 at the end.

Samurai Shodown 3 doesn't have the best reputation but it gave us one of my all-time favorite game characters (Shizumaru) so for that i am always grateful

A lot of games getting high praise from Joe here, so you know they're worth playing. Also, I want to thank you, Joe, for years of clean entertainment. So many channels curse incessantly; it's a major turnoff and an indication of a lack of creativity by my estimation. And wouldn't you know it, RU-vid's latest rules are causing many gaming channels to get their videos demonetized for that very reason. So you retroactively dodged that bullet. Good on you, Joe. We all love you, brother.

I agree Fighters History on the Saturn is a solid title! I would say Final Fight Revenge is bad, but dips into that so bad it's good territory. Back in the day I had alot of these games with an action replay/ram cart and had a blast!!

Falcom Classics on the Saturn are to this day my favourite versions of Ys I and II. I adore the visuals and music for that version, and the FMV was just gravy. The 8-way movement feels a lot better in my opinion, too. I actually tracked down those versions back when I first watched your original Ys video, Joe, so thank you for that!!!

There is a mistake in the video. Samurai Shodown 3 was released before SS4 on Saturn. I know because I bought all the SNK games when they released and I had it before number 4. A simple wiki search confirmed it. SS3 released on November 8th 1996 and SS4 on October 2nd 1997…

Another great episode! Thanks.

Best Sega Saturn capture I've ever seen, great job!

Awesome video game play through keep up the good work!

I can already guess that the next episodes would be every Dreamcast game that uses the VMU and every PC-Engine/TG-16 Super CD-ROM game.

Great video! Glad someone made a video on this topic!

Real Bout Fatal Fury Special is my fav on the sega saturn, the sprite work is amazing (at least for me) and is fun to play.

Goddamn, when you showed that T.Hawk walking backwards animation on Saturn, I had to try it on Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max on the PSP and it's not there, so it really _is_ Saturn-exclusive.

And now my week is complete. Thanks for the video!

Thanks Joe. Great video 😍

Sentimental Graffiti's one of my favorite Saturn games. I didn't know it had anything to do with the movie card.

Awesome and very helpful episode!

Happy Everytime I see a new video from ya, there always great!!!

Sundays are the best day of the week. Sack in the morning and then My Life in Gaming at night.

Those subtitles in Wangan Dead Heat feel 100% accurate.

X-Ism: Street Fighter 2 mode. do more damage, have the most guard bar, have one super. Z-Ism (also known as A-ism in the west): Street FIghter Alpha style controls. Multiple supers, Air blocking, Alpha Counter, Taunts, average stuff. V-Ism: Low guard meter, lower damage, has all of the universal mechancis of Z/A-ism, but the super meter gets replaced with the custom combo meter. at 50% you can activate it and flash invincible for a moment before enjoying all your moves being faster and anything canceling into anything. obviously, the more meter before activating,t he longer you'll have this custom combo state.

Amazing video Joe. Super helpful thank you. Watching this reminds me how awesome my Saturn is. Street Fighter Zero 3 and Xmen vs Streetfighter on Saturn are my favourite one on one fighters of all time on any system. They’re incredible. Wish Konami had used the RAM cards for Symphony of the Night - might have improved it?

Excellent vidéo on a very interesting subject ! 👍

Positive sentiment comment for the algo. Great video as always.

I wish ram and rom carts were also used for 3D (better texture details, enhanced framebuffer color depth, dithering removal and framerate) Saturn games (including lighting/full alpha blending transperiacies, maybe a rectangle sprite/triangle polygon support cach ram cart/action replay variants) and western 2D games. Also, more rom carts for action/fighting/arcade games. Great creation accessories sega ever made. With the 4MB saturn it rivals the n64 pak which is 4 MB. Only edge n64 has is its flexible unified ram. However, it is better utilize than the n64 expansion paks. Can you also do video on the pce cd ram cards especially arcade card?

Great episode, Joe! I'd never heard of the video cd card.

Outstanding video as usual! Is that a paradox? I mean it's excellent, great work.

Great video! Thanks for that

I LOVE THIS THANK YOU JOE

Great episode!

36:24 even LGR would be proud of your puns in there, nice job

Show! Muito obrigado pelo excelente vídeo. 👏

It's impressive how many of these games looked better on the Saturn than the PlayStation. If it weren't for the fact that I, and everyone else in the entire world, were literally more than ten times more likely to have owned a PlayStation I would have totally purchased the Saturn versions. Seriously though, I really do appreciate Joe making so much Saturn based content as I never owned this console nor did I know anyone who did, and it's fun to learn about Sega's 5th gen system.