New Sega Saturn Games for 2023 and How They Are Made 

Links to everything mentioned in the video can be found in the video description. This video was originally only intended for my Chinese channel, as there isn't much about Saturn homebrew in that language (and you can still spot a place in the video where I forgot to change the language to English!). However, since I had already gone to the effort of editing the video I thought it would be worth doing an English narrated version too. Hopefully it'll inspire some people to get into Saturn dev! Anyway, that really is my last video until late October. Enjoy the rest of the summer and I'll see you all then!

It’s nice to see the Sega Saturn getting some love too from talented people from our community including you too and can’t wait to see more from some of theses games 👍 great video

When I see Unreal or even Shenmue running on the Saturn - I get floored. I can’t imagine the fresh hell it was getting them going, but with the right talent, it speaks to just how powerful the hardware was respectively.

Thank you for the video showcase on the community's 3D efforts. I'd like to invite everyone interested in trying out their own Saturn homebrew to compete in this year's annual game competition hosted on the Sega Xtreme forums and my website. I'll link the previous year's results in a reply. There are cash and physical prizes for ranking projects and multiple categories to compete in.

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They actually have a homebrew competition every year for this kind of stuff

What a pity that RE2 and Tomb Raider 2 aren't going to be full games. Here's me hoping that changes in the future! Excellent video, as ALWAYS!

The Sega Saturn was always underrated.

Amazing achievements! Long Live Sega Saturn!

couple of them remind me of ninpen manmaru which i just started playing and shows off the Saturn really well, the infinte planes really add to the feeling of presence.

That unreal port absolutely blew me away. It's so great to see new life being breathed into this criminally underrated console.

I really like the lack of texture wobble on the Saturn but the Playstation had superior lighting effects. Many of these lack the dark moody atmosphere the PSone could achieve.

I would at least assume that the RE2 tech demo (and probably a whole lot of other ones too) on Saturn could be updated to support the official 1M/4M RAM cartridges or at least the Action Replay 4M Plus cartridge.

Great job with the video. It's always cool to see a homebrew/indie scene start up for old systems. Personally though I'm still more interested in Genesis stuff, and would also love to see Sega CD get supported in SGDK. Best of luck working on SotN!

Awesome video, I love seeing what people are doing with the Saturn as someone who’s currently building an engine for Dreamcast, Vita, and PC

Jo engine is pretty cool. I made an astroids clone with it once with rotating sprites, sfx and some cd music and it was rather easy to use and a fun experience. The most diffucult part was setting everything up on a vm and not trippin' over the typos in SEGAs documentation.

Great news for the Saturn! Who knows, we might not see a CAPCOM VS MARVEL showing the potential of CP2 once again converted into the Saturn. I would also really like someone to create an Engine to develop games on the Neo geo CD, so we could port all the games that came out on the MVS to the console.

using the 4M Cartridge like Action replay should be not a stopper. it is basically a must have for the system

excelente video Pigsy! un abrazo grande :)

Someone should port the ps1 version of sotn to Saturn

Also, Bulk Slash is the most impressive localization I've ever seen. Amazing that they found not one nor two but _seven_ voice actresses willing to work in/for such a small niche market, too.

Yes but RE2 doesn't seem very demanding in terms of polygonal load... Wouldn't one SH2 be sufficient for that, and dedicate the second one to decoding compressed images? It doesn't much matter for homebrew, I guess. Especially if you're not releasing RE2 primarily as a technical showcase, but rather demonstrating an engine for homebrew games (doesn't even have to be horror genre, could be exploration/puzzle games that use a lot of 2D backgrounds for various angle shots with polygonal characters). Oh, with homebrew games in mind one thing you could improve over this straight RE2 style engine (especially if you're using the RAM cart) would be adding support for high-res mode and realtime panning and zooming of higher resolution images. Zooming and panning higher-res images would actually eliminate the need for quite so many shots as well... so background RAM usage wouldn't necessarily skyrocket by a factor of 4, so the 4MB RAM card could probably get the job done. Actually... even without the RAM cart, there are a lot of times where using a single higher-pixel-count image (taller or wider or both) and panning while running at standard res could be more efficient vs using multiple images, both in terms of appearance and RAM usage. It's a different approach though, so not necessarily applicable to RE2, as it subtly changes the game.

I really feel like Sonic on the SEGA Saturn should have gone down the chase camera racing game route, rather than try and figure out how to make 3d platforming work. Deep down, it's a racing game that happens to have obstacles. If they had taken the basic idea of Sonic R, ripped out the Mario Kart theme, made it a long straight course instead of a circuit, and added some danger and mayhem, they could have had one of the earliest 'infinite runner' style games that people get hooked on

Does anybody else notice how Saturn graphics are FAR more solid than PSX graphics thanks to its perspective corrected quads? It just needed texture filtering to be perfect

I always wanted to see Metal Gear Solid, Tenchu Stealth Assassins, and FF7 attempted on the saturn. So much so, that i would throw money at the projects. I'd also love to see some type of shenmue build running on it.

Oh and if you REALLY wanted to take advantage of the RAM cart... toss in VCD card support as well. Stream compressed frames to the VCD in realtime, so the backgrounds can be animated. Doesn't have to be extremely high framerate, whatever you can stuff into RAM at the time. Some scenes could get more animation, but less camera angles, and vice versa. If you can feed the decoded image back to VDP2 you could potentially still pan and zoom.

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Tomb Raider 2 looks amazing on the Saturn. I hope the game gets completed.

I miss Sega Saturn , it took me two paper routes to buy it in 1994 lol

Now we need new Dreamcast games released in 2023 while we're at it.

It’s a pity most developers are focusing on 3D platformers. I understand the appeal of that challenge on the Saturn, but the genre is essentially a clunky, unfun mess.

why does it look like crap, dont. you have scart rgb?

What sega should of done was make Dreamcast backwards compatible with Saturn and sera cd

Cool to see TR2 and RE2 on the Saturn! Did you see the Open Laura port to the 32X that was being developed by Xproger?

It's kinda cool to see what can be done on the Saturn 25 years after SEGA discontinued the release of new games outside of Japan (I think the last commercial game on the Saturn in Japan was after the Dreamcast). It would be nice if a small handful of licenced games were released, like how the PlayStation has games released from companies like Square Enix that can be purchased to this day.

Would be nice to know if they’re planning to make Dino crisis and Silent Hill on sega Saturn if it didn’t died

Cool video 😎 Saturn scene looks healthy

I wish someone could port or make a brand new racing game for the saturn. Maybe something in the same veins as the original Gran Turismo.

I enjoy these new games being made on older hardware like the Saturn and N64.

Saturn is/was the best

I wish for tekken 1, tekken 2, tekken 3, and soul blade comes to sega saturn With gameshark codes.

coding for this hardware separates the chaff from the wheat.

I would like to see Diablo and it's Hellfire expansion be put on Saturn someday. :3

lmao never thought i would see gm_construct on the sega Saturn

Lol at around 3 minutes I was like hey that looks a little bit like unreal for some reason. Seconds later U mention the port of the first two unreal levels. 😂

Thank you so much for the shout out at the end of your video. It means the world to us! 😊

They're doing FFVII for Saturn

Sad to hear TR 2 won’t be a full project

A console that never reached its true potential.

Imagine half life 1 on the saturn I wonder how that would look like

pretty soon were gonna get fixes for all the games we hate with AI.......Superman 64 with great graphics and game play ;)

ı know best c and ı have saturn. trying some new 3d homebrew ones tempting.. after seeing steallar assoult english translation wonder 3d star wars game just on space can be great projet for saturn. that game run fast. waiting tomb raider 2 and resident evil 2 ones. hoping protaypes but nothing found. others want to see descent fade to black. and mayne games like nfs2 diablo 1 baldurs gate 1. fallout 1. and of course virtua fighter 3 and shenmue early one if they exist.

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yes!

Thanks so much for this roundup of Saturn homebrew/inde development. I hadn't heard of JRTombRaider's work porting Tomb Raider 2 content to the Saturn Tomb Raider 1 engine until your video, so thanks very much!

Great video, always good to see the fantastic work being done by the Sega Saturn homebrew community being celebrated. Also Thank you for recommending my channel 👍

What's this Sea-Gah?

Im glad that the Saturn is starting to get rom hacks now,I can't wait to see what port or projects that'll come to the system. :) I hope everyone keeps up the great work. 👍

Fantastic video, as usual. It's nice to see the Saturn community get some more exposure. Also: it's a bummer that the Resident Evil 2 demo isn't available for download.

awesome video thanks

This only proves how strong could sega saturn be on that era... PSX being the rival but comon... look how good this console is...

That Mazda 323 was very well done! Would LOVE to see Gran Turismo ported to the Saturn.

9:17 They did have that handstand flip in the PlayStation version of the first Tomb Raider. But not on the Saturn port. I never understood why it wasn't on both.

I've honestly wondered if there are any private collections of full video games people have made for systems. Or even just private pc games that are only allowed to be played withing a certain group of people. I know if I had infinite resources I'd make a lot of GBA game.

Saturn had better graphics than the Playstation

The Saturn was the PS3 of its time with a crappy GPU with multiple CPU's making it hard to code for if you wanna maximize performance.

V Saturn(1995 JP) became Sega® Saturn. Sonic Adventure™(Saturn ver.)...not sure if anyone works on it...

Saturn lives!

this does not look too great for saturn fans ... while all the games listed in this video are, overall, a positive achievement for one reason or another, the important part is what saturn fans will get from it at the end of the day - so what do we REALLY have, apart from translations and rom hacks? we have ... ... ports of pre-32bit era classics that have been played to death already: Final Fantasy Wolf 3D ... ports of 32bit era classics that probably will never see completion: Unreal - a nice tech demo with no intention from the developers to port the rest of the game. Resident Evil 2 - like unreal, this port will most likely never be completed. Tomb Raider 2 - looks the most promising, but don't hold your breath. ... visions of a 32bit era classic that never existed: Sonic x-treme/z-treme - the 3D sonic the saturn never got - I'll be happy when it happens. IF it happens. ... original games that look like a typical "single guy in his basement" homebrew game: Sky blaster - no comment Fly vs fly - what is this even? a port of a flash game from 1999? ... finally, we have some original games that look interesting and like someone put in some effort: Hellslave - AFAIK, this is more of a tech demo, not a full game. Impressive none the less. Blue skies - need to see more gameplay or play it myself to say something about it Zygo & Zygo 3d - looks interesting but it also looks like both games still have a LONG way to go. Last upload on JBerettas channel was 5 months ago - I hope this project is still going. BTW, the link you put to that channel just throws me a 404 - the channel seems to be called /@jberetta6236 now. Bridget bishop - might be an interesting game if it gets proper sound and some polish on the gameplay. Any progress happening here? The video you linked is from 06/2022 and the google drive links posted there are all dead. Cubecat - looks the most "done" - or in different wording - it feels less like a cobbled together tech demo and more like an actual game. It has a few levels you can walk around in and actually do stuff ... there are signs to read, switches to activate ... The music needs a bit more variety tho - When you spend 15 minutes in a level, that 2 minute loop is getting old at some point

I think the best kind of game to make to the Sega Saturn are Fighting games to take advantage of the 6 Face Buttons on the Controller (A, B, C, X, Y, Z) and the 2 Trigger buttons (L, R) for a total of 8 Buttons for Fighting and Combos and have Start as the menu button and the Dpad for walking

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Am I just seeing it wrong? It looks to me like developers for lazy with transparency effects. Was the Saturn much better than we thought? Resident Evil had horrible transparency effects where they're in the greenhouse putting the poison in the tank, it was REALLY pixelated and looked bad, but unless my eyes are deceiving me, or wishful thinking, this looks much better with devs with more skill

Saturn emulation isn't THAT BAD.. it's not even "sketchy" it's quite good if you know where to look. SSF still gets updated for instance. I follow the developer on Twitter/X. And it's still the best Saturn emulator out there. I'm even able to run Saturn games rather well on Retro Arch. People keep acting like Saturn emulation is out of reach... why? Because of Yabause doesn't run worth squat? It's not the only game in town and it doesn't represent SEGA Saturn emulation as a whole.

Call me old fashioned but I I think that the Sonic Sprite looks way way better than the 3D polygon Sonic Sprite not saying it's bad work I think this is actually phenomenal that's just my opinion that's why it's better in my eyes

It's nice there are some developers working for Saturn games but they shouldn't make a 3D games because it looks really bad. Saturn hardware isn't suitable it. It's great for such as full animation games, or 2D games, adventure games.

Guys i do not want to ruin your dreams, but all of them are just slightly more than tech demos... I loved Sega Saturn at his time, and i saw awesome works for almost all Systems in homebrew... But i dont think the most of those demos could ever been completed...

Saturn done very well in Japan outselling the N64 at the time. I don't know why people think that cos it didn't sell well in America it didn't do well globally.

The unreal port looks cool

I'd love to see the cancelled Saturn port of Sonic the Fighters finally see the light of day.

-Some dude randomly makes a Sonic game for the Saturn for fun -Its also the best looking and highest quality Sonic game on Saturn Wtf Sega

MIND = BLOWN

Loved my Saturn. Always felt it was underrated

I've been trying to find a drive I can use to burn backups, All the ones I have are too slow; I do have some IDE ones I need to get adapters for to test if they even work, however if anyone knows a modern one I can get that will burn a disc slow enough to read on a saturn I'd appreciate it

Cool which homebew has truly maxed out the power of the Saturn? God bless.

I didn’t know about saturn few years ago and mannn is that my favorite 5th gen console

Where can I get Resident evil 2 and tomb raider 2 for Saturn? Where can I download it?

Would be cool if Sega acknowledged someone like the guy who made the Sonic Homebrew game and like paid him for and put the game on a Saturn mini if they ever made one.

This is so awesome. Is there a Voxels editor for these engines. Because I would like to make a Crysis style demo game for Saturn.

>Ponut 😂 Oh dear, someone named themselves after their MLP kink?

Did he use the same pink flowers texture for metal Sonic that was used for Metal Mario on N64? 4:45

This is wonderful i really is we had gotten an eternal champions for Saturn

I saw a video of that translated game near the end sometime ago. It was nice of them to translate it, but I wish they had just stuck to the text, given that they weren't able to get real VAs.

The witch frog game looks the best but isn’t Bridget B. a porn star?

What were tools that were used back in the day? are they lost to time? or is it that no one has really cared about making games on Saturn till now

Could a super skilled programmer make software that can use all chips at the same time?

Yeah that backflip was in the original tomb raider.

Is anyone working on porting Sonic Mania to the Sega Saturn? 🤔

is there a playstation one equivalent to these?

You have too many simultaneous accents.

Is there a port of golden axe revenge of death adda