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The SEGA Saturn is famously hard to emulate, due to how the console was originally designed. It's why you don't see too many working emulators for the system out there. But that may change as reportedly SEGA's own Saturn emulator has been leaked onto the internet. Called Giri Giri, the software was apparently developed by a SEGA enthusiast before the company hired them to formally work on it for their latest commercial efforts. The Giri Giri emulator is technically now an "official" SEGA Saturn emulator and it's being used for the company's new B-Club pay-to-play gaming service in Japan, where a number of Saturn classics are available to launch. In the wild, Giri Giri can play ISOs from backed up Saturn games - and if you're running Windows 98, it can even help run Saturn game discs themselves!If you're curious about it, you can download the emu by following the steps in this TSSZNews article. No idea if you can run Sonic 3D Blast, Sonic Jam or any of the other Sonic Team classics on this thing, or if it is just limited to the games that were supported on the Japanese B-Club service, but it's an interesting find nonetheless. Via TSSZ -
One of the most sought-after Sonic series games can now be played via emulation, as the latest update to popular Mega Drive/Genesis emulator GENS includes 32X support for the first time. With GENS version 2.00, anyone who has a copy of Knuckles' Chaotix that they have dumped themselves (we do not advocate or condone piracy on this site!) can continue to play it on their computer, without fear of ageing hardware locking them out. Knuckles Chaotix is one of the rarer Sonic the Hedgehog games out there, simply because SEGA's 32X Mega Drive add-on wasn't very popular at all. So anyone who manages to get a copy (usually on eBay these days) can rest safe in the knowledge that the money they spent won't go to waste if they've backed up the cartridge and something bad happens to their equipment. You can download the latest version of GENS from their website here. Via Sonic HQ -
SEGASonic the Hedgehog (Arcade) 'SEGASonic the Hedgehog' Arcade Game Discovered and Dumped
Dreadknux posted a story in Games
A rather nice discovery has been made, amidst all the console doom and gloom. It turns out that a rather crafty member of the Sonic community has got his hands on a working ROM of a long-lost Sonic game called 'SEGASonic the Hedgehog'. The title, originally released in Japanese arcades in limited numbers, has been difficult to emulate due to its unique trackball control scheme. But now, someone's played it on a computer! Well, we say 'played'... when we say it's a 'working' ROM, that's a pretty liberal use of the phrase. But it does load! And it's a legit copy of the game! And we never knew it really existed before now. That counts for something. Green Gibbon of website The GHZ was the man who played the ROM, stating that, "you can only see about half the graphics at any given time (the blank spaces being represented by flashing gibberish and pure whiteness), it's slow as a sloth on Prozac, and the music is choppy." If you want to play it yourself, the ROM can be found on the Hidden Palace Forum. The ROM is known to work with an emulator called 'Modeler'. -
The SEGA Saturn is famously hard to emulate, due to how the console was originally designed. It's why you don't see too many working emulators for the system out there. But that may change as reportedly SEGA's own Saturn emulator has been leaked onto the internet. Called Giri Giri, the software was apparently developed by a SEGA enthusiast before the company hired them to formally work on it for their latest commercial efforts. The Giri Giri emulator is technically now an "official" SEGA Saturn emulator and it's being used for the company's new B-Club pay-to-play gaming service in Japan, where a number of Saturn classics are available to launch. In the wild, Giri Giri can play ISOs from backed up Saturn games - and if you're running Windows 98, it can even help run Saturn game discs themselves!If you're curious about it, you can download the emu by following the steps in this TSSZNews article. No idea if you can run Sonic 3D Blast, Sonic Jam or any of the other Sonic Team classics on this thing, or if it is just limited to the games that were supported on the Japanese B-Club service, but it's an interesting find nonetheless. Via TSSZ View full story
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One of the most sought-after Sonic series games can now be played via emulation, as the latest update to popular Mega Drive/Genesis emulator GENS includes 32X support for the first time. With GENS version 2.00, anyone who has a copy of Knuckles' Chaotix that they have dumped themselves (we do not advocate or condone piracy on this site!) can continue to play it on their computer, without fear of ageing hardware locking them out. Knuckles Chaotix is one of the rarer Sonic the Hedgehog games out there, simply because SEGA's 32X Mega Drive add-on wasn't very popular at all. So anyone who manages to get a copy (usually on eBay these days) can rest safe in the knowledge that the money they spent won't go to waste if they've backed up the cartridge and something bad happens to their equipment. You can download the latest version of GENS from their website here. Via Sonic HQ View full story
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SEGASonic the Hedgehog (Arcade) 'SEGASonic the Hedgehog' Arcade Game Discovered and Dumped
Dreadknux posted a topic in Games
A rather nice discovery has been made, amidst all the console doom and gloom. It turns out that a rather crafty member of the Sonic community has got his hands on a working ROM of a long-lost Sonic game called 'SEGASonic the Hedgehog'. The title, originally released in Japanese arcades in limited numbers, has been difficult to emulate due to its unique trackball control scheme. But now, someone's played it on a computer! Well, we say 'played'... when we say it's a 'working' ROM, that's a pretty liberal use of the phrase. But it does load! And it's a legit copy of the game! And we never knew it really existed before now. That counts for something. Green Gibbon of website The GHZ was the man who played the ROM, stating that, "you can only see about half the graphics at any given time (the blank spaces being represented by flashing gibberish and pure whiteness), it's slow as a sloth on Prozac, and the music is choppy." If you want to play it yourself, the ROM can be found on the Hidden Palace Forum. The ROM is known to work with an emulator called 'Modeler'. View full story