That seems way above market, this specific model goes on sale for about 400.000₩ in Seoul (so about USD 340$) unless you want it complete in box. Even with a finder markup fee and export fee, you should not have to pay for more than at worst 600$~800$ in North America with a decent local contact. Koreans don’t care that much about this hardware. I agree with the video that the bigger issue is finding it.
Basically SEGA imitated the deal 3DO offered to them a few years before, SEGA did lots of hardware license since the Genesis, saturn and they might have though doing it with the dreamcast too, imagine if Epic makes it´s own version of the Ps5.... or Tencent..... mmm....., also the current "gamepass" stuff was already in sega Channel yes but Trip Hawkins wanted to do the same thing, one of the business deals he offered to the ones that wanted to invest and be partners of the 3DO project was to have special deals with cable networks to offer through the cable box "3DO gaming services", also he talked about internet gaming through deals with AT&T, all of this he said in a conference in 1993, sega channel came in 1994, so SEGA kinda copied the sega Channel idea from 3DO too
Sega is a weird game company, especially when they were still making hardware. I'm still trying to get over the 50 million versions of the Genesis that they made and here I am learning about certain versions of the Saturn that were released, as well.
It's insane how expensive the Samsung Saturn games are on ebay. I can't wait until someone can perfectly replicate these games/boxes and they work as good, if not better, then the original disc. I get it when you collect AND you play but when you only collect or just flips for the cash, these people are just pains in the ass for those who genuinely would pay the money if it wasn't so astronomical.
I bet it would be possible once we have discs that work the exact same as the original discs, however I don’t think that people are trying to do that, & instead are just making sure we have dumps of these discs preserved so that people can play it off an SD card rather than wear out their own lasers
This was pretty neat to see. I used to collect Korean games (particularly for the PS2) and it was a real nightmare. Very few games were actually listed on western sites like eBay and when they were, they would sometimes have insanely inflated prices. It seems to be easier to find games today but prices are just ludicrous now. South Korea just does not want the outside world getting hold of their games so unless you have connections with someone in Korea, collecting Korean games is no easy task. I think Samsung also released the Master System and Genesis in South Korea.
Special variants of consoles for smaller markets are always really interesting. Like the Indian NES Variants or how in Brazil there were eventually „official“ releases from third parties for famiclones. Famiclones in itself are wild especially when they expand upon the famicoms capabilities like the famiclone computers by subor wich had 3.5“ Floppy drives, extended Ram and an actual OS with installable applications etc. The Subor SB2000 in particular is a very interesting beast.
Just a theory but this is a reason why they didn’t include Korean language. South Korea is one of the few countries were just about everyone can speak 2 languages; that being English and Korean. Along with Germany it’s one of the few places where many people learn almost fluent English. It could also be that since they were only making 3000 they didn’t want to waste the resources in translating languages, a lot of times in coding changing or adding a single letter can have a cascading effect on the code and break functionality, so it wasn’t worth it until they knew the saturn would perform well; which it didn’t. Anyways great vid as always
the majority of Koreans CANNOT read OR speak English fluently. Not even close. A lot of people, from old to young, even hate and fear English as it's forced onto them by the educational system there (which isn't useful IRL as the level of English that gets taught is pitiful). Most people only know one language, which is Korean. What most likely happened is that they couldn't be bothered with translating and modifying the BIOS and all of that for a product with such limited reach (this is what happened with the Nintendo GameCube in South Korea, distributed by Daewon CI, which had a Japanese BIOS. The console and the games being translated into Korean all had a Japanese region code, and you can actually run Japanese games on a Korean GameCube).
Here's a funny story Adam: about a week ago, I texted my mother one of your videos [The Nintendo 64 Retrospective video] & believe it or not, She said "He's that bearded video game geek who travels the world, right?" I was floored.
Thanks for the video Adam. I have realized over the years I love the Saturn as much as you love the dreamcast. Wish new games would come out for it like the dreamcast
Those designs and price choices they made have me going "Why?" so much. That has to be one of the strongest consoles I've ever seen. These things being ungodly rare I wonder if anyone has compiled a complete list of which games work and which ones don't? I'm going to assume there isn't one but that would be crazy if there was one.
10:10 yeah sure enough usually you'd see 'nihongo' in Japanese down in the lower corner but it's strangely just ... absent?! I was wondering if the action replay/pseudo saturn cart would work on that model, good to know you can at least get more use out of it! what a bizarre console.
The Samsung Saturn. A rare sight to see these days. Thank you to Saturn HST for selling this to you so you can make a video on it for us to enjoy. Man the South Koreans really got screwed with how this thing was built didn't they. I mean you clearly didn't really put a decent effort in putting out games for it, didn't put Korean language support in, etc, etc... Why not just make it region free?
Rabbit was developed by Aorn for the ST-V (which I assume everyone watching this video knows is the arcade board sharing the Saturn architecture). The home version was published by Electronic Arts Victor when Sameshima Yasuhiko, who was well connected to several smaller arcade peeps back then, briefly became its president. Same connection that got us unexpected Electronic Arts titles such as Sōkyūgurentai and Battle Garegga from Eighting on the Saturn. Sameshima only lasted one fiscal year or so at the head of EAV. Surely by a complete coincidence, Sameshima is currently the president of Eighting.
9:06 The word "Sega" is on this cover 6 times, "rally" 3 times, "championship" and "netlink" two times. They really wanted you to know what was up with this game. If you take the front cover literally, the full title of this game is "Sega Rally Championship Sega Sega Rally Championship Plus International Rally Netlink Edition"
Ohhhh boy... I've been waiting for this Rare Variant ever since you mentioned this console in [I believe] your SEGA Variants Video! EDIT: I just realized that I wrote this comment on my SAMSUNG Phone... what a coincidence!
Samsung Saturn, just 1000 more to go! I love SEGA! But not as much as PlayStation tho, still love SEGA Just a few more things to point out, a 3DO that looks like a PSOne! And an Huyndai Nintendo!!! Boy my day just got better!!!
SATURN RELATED CONTENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (I just fainted in excitement)
Haha what a weird version of the Saturn. I thought I needed an action replay for my north American console you really need one for that version of the Saturn
Some fun facts : Hyundai Electronics(distributor of NES, SNES, N64 in Korea) is now SK Hynix, which is known as SSDs. There are very few Samsung Saturn models which are Region-lock Free models(BIOS code is NTSC-2-V1.02a) that can run all region Sega Saturn games, but they are super rare. There was a company called Wooyoung System who released few localized Sega Saturn games, but ironically they worked on JP region so Samsung Saturn can't run their games. Kama(or Karma, Idk) Entertainment, who imported Sony Playstation in Korea, also released Sega Saturn(Japanese Region w/ 220V Power Supply).
3DO in South Korea was distributed by LG but in the US GoldStar which they merged with Lucky to create the company we know now as LG made their own 3DO
9:25 Samsung doesn't need to include hangul or hanja in their custom made bios because Korean citizens are already fluent in Deutsch, Español, François, and Italiano. They just include English there for the weird American tourists who buy their old junk and think it's the greatest thing since Franklin, a 🐢 who pretends to be the 🐐
2:25 WWII-era trade restrictions between Japan & South Korea were lifted in 1998, which opened the floodgates for K-pop to crossover to J-pop, not that you entirely care about music or anything
I have 2 of these one sealed new and one that’s used bought each for $170 they were both bought new the regular price was $170 then I bought later the video Cd that you can play movies on to watch Japan had a lot of Sega saturns the real reason why I was buying these is cause I needed to play import games I was done buying ST key cartridges and 4mb ram they break I don’t play a lot on my Saturn anymore the Xbox PlayStation are a beast I’m bust with game pass if no ones playing on game pass still playing on the old generations their missing the best games the Sega Saturn was great at its time it beat the PS1 for sure that had the arcade games play stupid to why I bought the Japanese Saturn over the American Saturn
Oddwere. PS to the old freemcboot video you what to updated version. Freedvdboot is an newer way to run burned ps2 games on an unmolded PS2 since it makes the system think the burned game is an DVD-Video disk so runs. PS The rseone apps like sawp magic can wrok with apps like freemcboot with on issues is that their only like 0.5MB in size. By repalceing the code that makes it look for the dummy data that makes the system think it's like 1GB so it runs mod free after the wobull check.
20 games were released in Samsung format for the console until 1997 and the boycott was over (Saturn will be distributed by Kama afterwards) I think there are more than 2000 units made.
I’ve been wanting to add one to my Saturn collection. I’m currently at 7 Saturns. Only 2 of them are kinda rare, (HiSaturn and V.Saturn ), both are model 1’s.
Well inflation doesn't work too well for electronics typically especially when converting one type of money to another so the $800 isn't as accurate as most would think
I first tout that samsung got a license from sega to make their saturn but if this not the case then sega should,ve used a lawsuit against samsung,btw if sumsang never produced those chip for the saturn then i wonder how the hack they could,ve released their version so quick during reverse engineering it? And lastly it’s stupid that those unsold samsung saturns were destroyed rather then putting them sealed in a marketed landfill instead,so we could excevade them later on,hah🤣
Samsung sold Sega console for a long time. They sold them since 1989, master system and named it Gameboy(겜보이) or Aladdinboy(알라딘보이) after failure of Samsung saturn they gave up their gameing business.
but also since rise of the internet south Korea like china is very pc master race and very mmo heavy and still is xD so honestly i would put it past alot of south korea to just yeet there stuff when new things come
Hey Adam, how do you get the best picture out of a PS2? *Use a PS3* Hey Adam, how do you get the best picture out of a Samsung Saturn? *Use a VM Labs NuOn* Hey Adam, how do you get the best picture out of a Pippin? *Use a Loopy* Hey Adam, how do you get the best picture out of a Jag Wire? *Use an Imagin Dental Mold*
Wouldn't it be for Samsung, I'm certain people would call this a bootleg console. Too bad they didn't tinker properly with the European-60Hz-whatever BIOS because this is really what makes the system tick.
I feel sorry for those South Korean teenagers back in the 90s, not having a chance to get original Japanese SEGA stuff because of that bad blood with Japan. Or having Segata Sanshiro sneak in a visit to their place, telling them to 'must play Sega Saturn!'. I have yet to see some Korean mum hit her son or daughter and smash their Sega Saturn/Hi-Saturn/V-Saturn to bits before giving them a Samsung Saturn. PS. The Korean War's long over, stop hating on Japanese stuff! Let your teenagers play what version of Sega Saturn they like, even the so-called 'bad for Korean politics' Sega Saturns! And also, let your sons/daughters wear kimonos and stuff, cosplay, dress up as Japanese girl groups as well as the guys from BTS (Bangtan Boys), etc.
What should I do if I'm already subscribed? Japan was creating friction all over the world. Not getting into who did what or when and who started what and where, but ultimately they were prideful, perhaps moreso than their bald eagle fellow human. they've turned into an amazing, beautiful and extremely apologetic society. They always had their manners, but I think things got extreme after the back and forth. I think it's the fact that they had superior production might for a country back then and they still have some crazy production companies, but ultimately they swung and when the world swung back, they realized that they better behave and take care of their own. People living there wanted it to end, too. It got so bad that a large family would get maybe a bowl of rice to share among them. The Japanese people were NOT happy with their would be leaders. Anyway, back to the console: I imagine it would do fine in a modern market. Game developers are all over. It may have been harder to get people to make region specific games mid cycle, too. Like, why would a dev care suddenly about producing disks for South Korea? I'm not saying they're undeserving, but if a company produced and licensed a game for say 3 different regions, I'm not sure they're care about adding a 4th. The market would have to exist for it. Sales move the market.
Samsung Saturn is a unicorn. Wish they put a Samsung boot up screen instead of Sega just like Hitachi and Victor/JVC did. This Samsung Saturn is made in Korea or Japan?
I thought of some other names for this one. The KoreaSaturn, the Seoul Saturn, the Hot Import Saturn (uses NA case), the Saturn with No Sega, and the Korean Man’s Hentai Console.
This reminds me of Daewoo. They made great speakers, but also made cars. When General Motors bought the automotive division, they sold existing models of Daewoo cars in Europe, but they simply slapped the Chevrolet name on them.
9:21 English - Deutsch - Francais - Espanol - Italiano. Where could that be from... Hm.... Could that actually be a European/PAL Saturn??? It also makes sense as its 230VAC too - like Korea - though they might have used NTSC, so thats weird...
@@AdamKoralik Interesting. I didn't expect that. I thought that for American Systems you'd have English, French would be fine and needed for French Canada, Spanish (Mexican) and Portuguese instead of German.
I think Panzer Dragoon II Zweii, the USA/CAN version, is one of those games that has two boot sequences. It boots in both NTSC-U/C and NTSC-J for whatever reason. I wonder if its one of those games that are theoretically compatible with the Samsung Saturn
Fun facts from being active on Korean marketplaces : Yes, you are correct, they are rare and very hard to come by nowadays, but they were not in 2017. There were about 5 sold in 2021 and 6 in 2020. Most are swiped up within 1 or 2 seconds by the first person to leave a comment... it is a shitty system. SEGA had a massive presence in SK... SMS (model 1 and 2) aladdinboy/gamboy, Genesis (Model 1 and 2) super aladdinboy/gamboy, SS (Samsung and Kama), samsung made a game gear too.
