Portable Sega Saturn Looks More Like Lunchbox
A modder made the Sega Saturn somewhat portable.
Over on the BenHeck forums, a user is declaring the world's first Sega Saturn portable unit. While that may thrill very little gamers, the console certainly had many decent classic titles in its day including Virtua Cop, SEGA Rally Championship, Panzer Dragoon Saga, NIGHTS into Dreams, Virtua Fighter 2, and more. Accessing these games on a portable device means that Sega fanboys can enjoy them all over again without the need for a stationary spot in front of the TV.
But let's be honest: this portable Sega Saturn player isn't official, and it definitely isn't pretty. In fact, it looks rather clunky, and would rather make a good substitute for a brick or a bottle in a bar fight. Nonetheless, the home-grown device provides a 7-inch view screen, a memory card slot on the back, and a built-in VCD card to allow users to watch video CDs.
On the controller front, the modder added all six buttons to the right of the screen-- the direction button and thumbstick are located to the left. Speakers are embedded in both bottom-hand corners, and the start bottom is centered at the bottom, dressed in blue.
On a whole, it doesn't appear as if the modder could trim the motherboard, leaving the portable device roughly the same size as the original console. Surprisingly the device runs off a 9v battery, however the modder wasn't sure about the actual battery life, stating that he watched Wayne's World 2 while the battery wasn't fully charged.
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WTH... looks like they used a cardboard box
I guess it's cool to see it done but for me, worthless.
Portable?
Joke?
It doesn't look cool.
I've got the perfect joke, but I think we all know the answer.
"But can it play Crysis?"
"stating that he watched Wayne's World 2 while the battery wasn't fully charged. "
lmao. i can just picture the person who builds a portable saturn (why the hell pick a saturn? why not a cd-i or something with even fewer decent games while you're at it) to walk about watching waynes world.
Cut the man some slack
what do you know, it's sega's bid back into the console race!
I've got the perfect joke, but I think we all know the answer."But can it play Crysis?"
that is the lamest joke, get outta here with that crap.
Damn! That's an ugly looking thing...
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HITACHI MADE A PORTABLE SATURN IN 1995!
it was called the Saturn Navi and it has GPS satnav built in, Lmao this guy got owned ^^
I wish someone would make a decent Sega Saturn emulator, there are couple but work with mixed results. I used to own a Saturn back in the day and enjoyed every second of it even though it was a mistake not to get the Playstation.
Shame they had Manx TT on the unit. Okay game, but Tantalus couldn't program Saturn titles if their lives depended on it. At least, not compared to, say, Sonic Team or Team Andromeda.
SSF works fine for me, sure it doesn't play some videos correctly and there's a couple of sound stutters at points, but with a PII X3 710, 2GB of RAM and 4830 512B, things are sweet.
(and before people inevitably jump on me, a) emulators aren't illegal, b) I am using the original CDs and not copies, and c) SSF doesn't require a BIOS to work and as such doesn't come with it, but it's perfectly legal to own the BIOS file for the machine that you own)
I owned both the sega saturn and the PSX when they launched. I used to buy alot of imported japanese games for the saturn. It was a great console imho, I loved playing sega rally, and the jap imports. Alot more fun than the early playstation titles. It only failed because game developers allways port to a platform which has greater graphics capability. It's no different to this day, and why the dreamcast lost out to the ps2. It's all about the graphic fanboys who'd rather look at a pretty screen than play anything with substance to it.
The Sega Saturn was a very under-appreciated system.
I had one when they came out and I loved it. Daytona USA, Virtua Cop, Panzer Dragoon, Die Hard Arcade, alot of great games.
Graphics were decent on many titles as well.
Technically the Saturn was a superior spec system to the PSX and this showed in later games, the problem was it was a LOT harder to code for and Sony put a massive amount of money into PSX advertising and publicity
If you were a game developer would you make games for the more popular and easier to program system or the other one?
having both a Saturn and a PSX was useful because games like Resident Evil and Street Fighter Alpha 3 were much better on the Saturn
Guardian Heroes 6-player FTW
Congrats..........15 years late
I still have a working Sega Saturn.
I don't. The laser seems to have packed up, though this has (sporadically) happened on two machines in my case. May give it another go soon, see if it's cured all of its own accord.
I don't. The laser seems to have packed up, though this has (sporadically) happened on two machines in my case. May give it another go soon, see if it's cured all of its own accord.
You might be able to fix it depending on how handy you are with fixing electronics, I know some web sites sell factory new replacement parts (Can't post links since most of them also seem to sell mod chips.) I was amazed to see some of the parts being sold for older systems.
Not great at it, but it's always an option.
Can't make it any worse, really.
Not great at it, but it's always an option. Can't make it any worse, really.
Thats funny, my electronics teacher said the exact same thing. "If its already broken then you can't break it so if you don't manage to fix it your out nothing more then your time" Was a fun class we got to build radio's and stuff like that.