Pictured above: A Japanese Model 1 Sega Saturn in Ryo’s room in Shenmue on the television, and a black North American Model 1 Sega Saturn I have.
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Damn dude leave some ladies for the rest of us
I loved all of the Sega-related Easter eggs in the Shenmue games, it made them the perfect sendoff for Sega’s hardware.
I had the JVC variant. I loved that thing.
God I love Sega consoles. They all aged like fine wine and have some excellent games.
Agreed. I’m sort of biased towards them myself.
I beat Nights into Dreams once on my Saturn.
But I use a North American model as well for that.
What is the back slot for ?
Memory cartridges, Game Sharks, and NetLink adapters that work if you use a DreamPi.
I use mine for an Action Reply (basically a Game Shark) and it lets me play North American games on my Japanese console.
I’ll just stick with my NA model, but that’s me.
Do people prefer the Japanese models better?
The model doesn’t really matter. The Japanese ones tend to be a bit easier to get for a good deal.
Then I’m lucky to have an NA model myself.
These days you can use it with a flashed 4MB action replay cartridge to play burned discs
It always bothered me that Ryo has a Saturn in a story set before the Megadrive had come out. Even the Mark III (later to be rebranded as the Master System) was released a mere 13 months prior to the murder of Ryo’s father.
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