Are you seeing what I'm seeing!?!?

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/playpanda/21-018433/?scid=af_pc_etc&sc2id=247567789

Just wow. 40 bucks in Japan gets you ALL that. It must rain Saturn over there!!

 

Actually Saturn is rising in price. The shit stuff is cheap but anything of quality is going up fast.

 

lolwut? Games like Sega Rally, Nights, Virtua Fighter 2, Radiant Silvergun, Fighters Megamix, Decathlete etc. have sure as hell aged very well, far better than stuff like Resident Evil and Tomb Raider.

Anyway, that set isn't anything special...some cheap-ass games and a couple of steering wheels that are most likely only in there because nobody would buy them separately.

 

I agree! the 3D games has aged pretty well imo as like Zap! Snowboarding Trix '97 (or was it '98?) and also Mobile Suit Gundam Side Stories 1, 2 & 3, GunGriffion 1 & 2, Virtual Cop 1 & 2, etc..

 

@ 7Force.
^^ matter of opinion.
i have the ps2 version, it has the original game in saturn form, and the ps2 'cleaned up' version...plus saturn hasn't got a harddisk...yet!
there's a clear difference, sharper textures, wider palettes etc...
the game is identical in play and content to the saturn, just a bit cleaner.
there's christmas nights game on the disk also, but that has to be unlocked first. (shame the USA and EUR never got official relz of the ps2 compilation.)
...
there's a lot of truth to saturn price rising, i can't find anything saturn...
only got lucky with this console because i put feelers out and got the call.
not had anymore saturn related calls since, asked for anything, including mpeg cards and any upper socket cartridges, nada to date! (twenty GBP for an excellent condition console with full basics, came with three pads, none official but good in their own way. two interact eclipse pads and one quantum floating point dpad. all pads have autofire of some kind, the interact pads have key-macro too.)
was given a loose disk of virtua fighter 2 in good condition, plays great.

but it's showing it's age a bit ingame, at least the saturn has a crisp resolution for it's resources.
only have three retail games to my name, NEVER see saturn stuff, NEVER! (it's thanks to good guys working in sweat/pawn shops i got the drop in advance)
my view on the console, it's befits those at 'NG'...
i'm saying, OVERHYPED, but great in it's own way! :smile-new: (how many times was the word 'saturn' used here? :witless: )
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corrected for direction.

 

Too bad getting it shipped to the States would be probably over $100.

I've noticed that in the US the Saturn has gone up in the past 10 years. It used to be $40 could easily get you a system and a few games, now that's a price for an untested or broken one a lot of the time.

 

I bought a grey saturn with cables and 2 controllers last year for 36$ on ebay and the shipping was listed as 37$. I ended up bundling it with other stuff I needed from the same seller to make the deal nicer, but overall it isn't so bad I think.

In the OP "deal", the shipping killers would be the wheel controllers.

 

It includes a boxed console.


Either way you guys put it, its not a bad price. Yeah, shipping's a handful, but if you get a Japan proxy, they cut down on shipping instead of the seller shipping it with full price.


And Familyguy, I got a Japan Saturn for 26 bucks flat on Amazon, but mine didn't include anything except the console. You got a good deal!

 

Lol wut!? A loose saturn over here sells for (well people try to sell them) like $200+!

 

Poor Aussies.

Poor, poor Aussies

 

I can sell my Saturn to Aussies for the low, low price of $175


j/k won't sell mine though.

 

Cane Toads

 

I got a good deal on a Japanese Saturn several years ago. The guy who was selling it was in New York, and he didn't even know that it was a Japanese system. It had a faulty disc drive, but I was able to fix it by replacing the entire drive unit. I also had a US Saturn that worked fine for a while, until I had been using the swap trick for a while, and then it started having trouble reading discs. Similarly, I replaced the drive unit on that Saturn, and it works fine now.

I have no desire to sell either of those systems any time soon. I still need to get Radiant Silvergun. Funny that you can buy Radiant Silvergun for less than a Saturn in Australia, apparently.

 

Not surprised saturn did well in japan and it's a lot more common over there. But yes saturn stuff is going on the rise. Games that were $2 are now going towards $10. Even systems are starting to get pricey. Dreamcast on the other hand is getting harder to find games for now. Shenmue usually goes for $30 now. Most game stores in my area have about maybe 15 dreamcast games to choose from. More common to find games loose than complete.

 

Not surprised saturn did well in japan and it's a lot more common over there. But yes saturn stuff is going on the rise. Games that were $2 are now going towards $10. Even systems are starting to get pricey. Dreamcast on the other hand is getting harder to find games for now. Shenmue usually goes for $30 now. Most game stores in my area have about maybe 15 dreamcast games to choose from. More common to find games loose than complete.

 

Deadly bugs?

Poisonous things?

I know, kind of a bummer. I think a lot of people are trying to get complete sets and leaving them. Too bad, because now I can try and get a complete set, and someone was selling a Skies of Arcadia case and manual (aka everything but the discs) for $25.

 

yikes! :concern:
the pain is too much to endure.
due to the obvious pointed out above, and possible 'long-term' rom/image playback solution in the future, one half-measure at avoiding fiscal suicide, look into, STOP KILLING YOURSELVES hunting the impossible, paying extortionate prices for a media known for issues and GET A TOSEC/REDUMP set.
a window to the past in true 1/1 data form to the retail so when a 'spoof' is completed, you still get to enjoy the machine. (without having to miss out, dunno about converting gdi to iso/cdi, can't be arsed, fuvk optics)
when and if the day comes a fully polished spoof for the dreamcast is relzed, i sell my retail game collection, already backed up and verified my stash, of over hundred strong, small chips really! :wink-new: (keeping hardwares, will get shut of light-pistol, no uses)
sad that skies of arcadia PAL-EUR doesn't support SVGA/dvi output natively. (not zazzing my gdi assembly on a rebuild, even if it's NTSC-U + SVGA/dvi support, just bad for lens all-round, NOT a slate on the software, just the fuckin medias)
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cheap hdds good pipes/private tracker = preserving history one person at a time, but fun doing it! :witless: (and doesn't cost the marrow out your bones and won't put cancer in the pants)
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and if a spoof for saturn gets out there, well...fun stuff all-round! :smile-new:

 

Dreamcast does not support "SVGA" or DVI. SVGA is not really a video format; it usually just refers to a resolution, specifically 800x600 - which is a resolution that the DC is not capable of. DVI has nothing to do with SVGA. DVI is a digital video format, which is the same as what HDMI uses for video - and again, the Dreamcast does not support that kind of output.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_video_graphics_array
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVI

I think what you actually mean is VGA - which refers to both a connector (15-pin d-sub connector) and a resolution (640x480) that the Dreamcast is capable of outputting.