+RenovatioJuris Must've been down in Dublin was it? Think there was very few of the R-360s in Ireland!

+Lagahan Yep it was Dr Quirkys on O'Connell street. They used to keep it in the window just inside the main door on the left so everyone could see it. It was one hell of an impressive unit and I'd say it cost a fortune. Sadly for that guy it made his reunion with his last meal (probably from Supermacs) that much more of a public spectacle. Try apologizing to the girlfriend for that one the next day. Not an easy win. He must have had an end-of-level boss moment coming face to face with her after :)

+RenovatioJuris ha ha this combines two of my loves. Sega and my home country. Great story!!

+RenovatioJuris hahhahhaha lol

+RenovatioJuris A drunk Irishman? No, who would have thought.... impossible!

that would have been epic beyond Space Jam!

Space harrier is on 32x but not outrun

STAXONDECK1 Yeah... that was the point.

+Gameplay and Talk oh, agreed

Its all on the Saturn (and better than on the 32x)

+SoftAsABaboonAss "Terminator 2: Judgement Day?" :D

Did you ever buy one? I just bought a 32X at my local retro game store for $140.00. Works Great.

What's A Game.Com?

+Videogameapprentice Something to beat Derek with

+El Critico Molesto I think Mark's favorite console of all time is the Hyperscan :v

+J.J. L. Well maybe on opposite day.

+J.J. L. Or the Tiger R-Zone!

+MrDreamcastx It would beat what we have now!

well hello there Rich

Yep. Arcade perfect with extra features. (AfterBurner even has an extra that basically turns it into AfterBurner Climax which is no longer available which is a nice "forgive us" feature.) SEGA should definitely keep M2 as they're excellent at what they do.

+Richard Allen Sega's 3-D rereleases of their older games on the 3DS are incredible. The 3DS version of Fantasy Zone is how I first played that game, and I fell in love since. Judging from what I've seen of at least footage of other versions (since the other releases, especially the arcade machine, seem really hard to come by), it seems like as impeccable of a port as it gets. I really wish I wasn't so terrible at that game, though.

To be specific developer M2 are the ones doing the 3D ports of their classic games...and they are FANTASTIC. M2 also did Contra Rebirth, Castlevania Rebirth, and Gradius Rebirth on Wii which were also great. They've come a long way since starting out as a mobile developer.

Yes. Yes you can.

+Ali Robins unfortunately this port didn't turned out to be arcade perfect as the saturn did. also later super scaler games would have been even further scaled down like power drift, galaxy force II etc. which even couldn't shine in their fully glory on the saturn due to limitations.

tatsujincorp I think that was due to the limited RAM in the Saturn and the early CD tech. The 32X did not have those limitations. If developers actually had more time to develop for the 32X I think those arcade ports would have been possible. I think all the games on the 32X are first gen because the system did not last long and there are some pretty impressive games for a first effort.

Your right. The Saturn did have more RAM coming in at 16 Mbit (plus the Memory Expansion Cart as you mentioned) over the 32x's 4 but in the 32X developers had an opportunity to combine the RAM of the 32X with that of the Sega Genesis & that of the Sega CD. I don't think any developer did. I was a proud owner of a Sega Saturn when it first came out. What I was thinking was because the 32X was a cart based system it had access to gaming information faster than a disc based system with its inherit load times.

Those numbers sound better than the numbers I saw online. Well done! I do have to say good developers can make up the difference in weak hardware like the Sega CD. Sewer Shark, Tomcat Alley and even Sonic CD to name a few do a great job of hiding the load times.

32x version of After Burner is not arcade perfect. It runs at 30fps. The 1987 arcade version was 60fps. The Saturn version was 60fps.

@@greatamericanf15estrikeeag41 That's technically correct, but in practice the difference isn't noticeable imo, unless if you watch the versions running side by side. I didn't notice the difference back in 1994 and only read about it afterwards. In that pre-DF era I don't think reviewers noticed a difference either. What was immediately noticeable to everyone however, was that the 32X version had all of the arcade game's visual detail, unlike the previous home versions such as the Genesis version.. All the home versions obviously also lacked the arcade version's force feedback joystick, so i guess none of them were really 100% arcade perfect.

The MD port is not anywhere near this level. The scaling effects are very sparse and choppy looking but at least it does run smoothly. It could've been much better, but Sega half-assed it by outsourcing the porting job to another company. The PC-Engine port that was coded by NEC Avenue (the first party PC-Engine developer) is actually much better than the MD version in the graphics department but does run choppier. The 32X port here is pretty much the arcade version running at half the frame rate.

Enemy of the State/ VCD King because saturn has better clocked chips and two additional GPU processors (which did most of the heavy lifting in Saturn games)

The 32X basically had no hardware graphics acceleration. Effects like scaling and rotation or even the basic stuff like scrolling and background layering, all had to be painstakingly done in software using up CPU cycles. In comparison, the Saturn had two VDPs (primitive GPUs) that had every 2D effect you can imagine "built-in" and easily utilized by the devs. It was a 2D graphics beast. Too bad that the 3D features were not nearly as comprehensive or easily implemented though.

I think so 30 fps for 32x and 60 for Saturn and arcarde.

Or What's a Paladin...

+Sac077 or what`s a atari jaguar