Showing posts with label SSF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SSF. Show all posts

Saturday, 18 April 2009

SSF Saturn Emulator guide


There's a rather excellent article now on Racketboy regarding Saturn emulation. This is an interesting subject, since for many, many years gamers thought that emulating a Saturn would be impossible, due to its unique and complex architecture, but alas, they were proven wrong, and nowadays we already have some good examples of Saturn emulators. The best of all is, arguably, SSF, but it is as great as it is obscure, programmed by some unknown Japanese guy, and with an official webpage all in Japanese. So, for some of us, just getting the emulator to work may not be an easy task.

That's when this article comes in. Not only can you learn a bit about the emu's history, but there's also some rather great guides regarding everything related to it, from compatibility lists to set-up guides. Of course, for most of us, proud Saturn owners, this may seem somewhat irrelevant, since so far there's no real advantage in using the emu over a real console, but for those curious readers who follow us without even owning a Saturn, to the older fans who along the way lost their Saturns and want to relive the old days without having to invest on a new one, or even for us, hardcore Saturn fans, who want to try out betas and the like without the hassle of having to burn a cd and making it run on the console, SSF is a must.

Wednesday, 18 July 2007

There's a Sonic X-Treme for everyone!

Since apparently I'm the only one here that has played Sonic X-Treme, I decided to spread the love. For all of you out there that don't want to modchip or swap-trick your saturn, and for the people that don't even have a Saturn (*points at gnome*), here's the Sonic X-Treme Pack for the Saturn Junkyard!

This is a pack made by your's truly containing a release of Sonic X-Treme, along with a lot of cover art, and two versions of my favourite Saturn emulator for the PC: SSF. I haven't used it for quite some time, so I decided to include the version I had, 007, and the latest, 008. The older version runs quite fast but with a lot of graphical issues. The newer version on the other hand is quite the opposite, graphically perfect but with a terrible framerate. This, I believe, is just a matter of tweaking the emulator, something I wasn't able to do but that shouldn't be that hard.

If you have any questions on how to work with the emulator feel free to ask, and you can always try girigiri too, another Saturn emulator that supposedly also works with Sonic X-Treme.

Sonic says: "If you don't try it right now, you'll definitely get some!"

Better do what the hedgehog says...