Anyone that remembers or has played Compile’s Zanac will be instantly familiar with what’s referring to as a “rank” system. Unfortunately, the Wayne brothers may have made the Federation’s machines a bit too powerful. The Wayne brothers quickly figure out that they had made an extremely poor decision and use four experimental aircraft to fight against The Federation and destroy the machines they made for them. While the Wayne brothers are counting their riches, The Federation begins a world conquest by destroying everything that opposes them. A mysterious group called the Federation offers them wealth beyond their wildest dreams if they switch manufacturing from cars to weapons, and they agree. The two main characters, Brian and Jason Wayne, own a very productive automobile factory. Motors are all over everything, and factories continuously churn out machines, with tall smokestacks littering the scenery. The storyline takes place in a sort of diesel punk versions of the 1940s. The game was directed by Kazuyuki Nakashima, one of the ex-Compile staff members who left to help form Raizing and programmed Shinobu Yagawa, who previously worked on the manic Famicom shooter Recca and later directed many other subsequent shooters for Raizing and Cave, using the style of Battle Garegga as its base. The general style, in addition to the bomb collection system, was heavily influenced by Taito’s 1990 shooter Gun Frontier, to the point where Battle Garegga could be considered a spiritual successor. Nevertheless, it became one of the most well-known games in Raizing’s output. A number of shoot-em-up fans regard it as one of the best shooters of all time others feel that the cluttered visual style and rank system ruin some pretty cool ideas. Some outstanding issues: saving in-game seems to be broken and there doesn't appear to be any easy way to change disks mid-game so multi-disk games appear to be right out.Battle Garegga is a game with a divisive reputation. Panzer Dragoon (lots of graphical problems).Mega Man X4 (lots of graphical problems).Konami Antiques: MSX Collection Ultra Pack (amazing collection, menu has some graphical issues, but the games seem to work).Akumajou Dracula X (Symphony of the Night and it's different than the Playstation version!).I've only done some initial testing on some games and here's a list of ones I was able to at least get running and played with for a couple minutes: It turns out a great many of the amazing Japan-only 2d shooters and even many of the 3d games will run now!Įven though MAME/MESS warns you that Saturn emulation doesn't work, it does, even thought there's still tons of graphical and audio glitches, and some games, like Sonic-R, run too slowly to be playable. Hint: an example of one of the magic command lines I used to run Japanese games is Not so! It turns out that quite a few games at least boot and start to run if you use the right region's bios with the region the game is from!
So for example, I was frustrated nothing from Japan would run with my USA bios - I thought for almost a day that this was just due to limitations with the Saturn emulation under MESS.
One early problem was that I didn't realize I was trying to run games from one region with the bios from a different one - and the Saturn has region controls.
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It took some fuss to figure out how to run the games. Note: no other emulators can use the CHD files which is a shame since is making it stupid easy to get pretty much the entire library.
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It took a while to download and unzip the absolutely enormous Saturn CHD library (it's north of 600GB!). After a few hours fighting with the Yabause core I decided to give MESS another try. I tried emulating the Saturn years ago with MESS and it was a pretty sad affair. I've been working my way forward through time (2600, 5200, NES and so on) and have finally made it to the Sega Saturn. Recently I decided to set up a Launchbox instance to make some of my favorite games easy to launch and get up and running.