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--- eop:video_game_consoles-home:5th_generation:sega_saturn [2022/04/13 18:52] – io55admin
+++ eop:video_game_consoles-home:5th_generation:sega_saturn [2024/06/06 19:11] (current) – [“VA12-14” (1997/98?)] io55admin
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 ====== Sega Saturn ======
+Sega's catastrophically messy followup to their greatly successful Genesis/Mega Drive. Releasing on May 11th, 1995 in North America, the Saturn's 2x SH-2 CPUs, 4 MB RAM (across 3 purposes), and up to 16.77 million colors between 320x224 and 704x224 was a quite powerful piece of hardware, but too deeply complex to be easily leveraged by programmers. As Sega also sabotaged their own development and relationships with retailers, the system's sales figure of 9.26 million is widely regarded as a failure which may have directly led to Sega exiting the hardware business.
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Saturn
 ===== Operating Systems (Hitachi SH-2) =====
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 Whether these emulators support operating systems for these consoles is unknown; it must be looked into further. Consoles without meaningful OSes are not included.
-http://www.rockin-b.de/saturn-emulators.html
+[[https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Emulators_on_Saturn|Emulation wiki summary]]
-Nintendo Game Boy (Color) – saturn-gnuboy
-Nintendo Entertainment System – saturn_nes
-http://vberthelot.free.fr/SATURN%20DEV%20PAGE/saturn_nes.html
+Nintendo Game Boy (Color) – [[http://www.rockin-b.de/saturn-gnuboy.html|saturn-gnuboy]]
-Super Nintendo Entertainment System – saturn-snes9x
+Nintendo Entertainment System – [[http://vberthelot.free.fr/SATURN%20DEV%20PAGE/saturn_nes.html|saturn_nes]]
-Sega Master System – SMS Plus/FBA for Saturn
+Super Nintendo Entertainment System – [[http://www.rockin-b.de/saturn-snes9x.html|saturn-snes9x]]
-http://vberthelot.free.fr/fba_beta3/
+Sega Master System – [[http://vberthelot.free.fr/fba_beta3/|SMS Plus/FBA for Saturn]]
-WonderSwan Color - OSwan
+WonderSwan Color - [[http://www.rockin-b.de/saturn-oswan.html|OSwan]]
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 === “VA8” (1996) ===
-//DO NOT PURCHASE//
+Reports of video interference with these models are seemingly too anecdotal to confirm - https://old.reddit.com/r/SegaSaturn/comments/195en3y/saturn_manufactured_dates/. We will look into this in time and supply tests for the sake of independent comparison. Take the information below as unlikely to be verifiable.
 These boards have only one change from the 4-7s, but it is significant. There are reports that these consoles experience noticeable video interference issues, and they also appear to be a common revision for Model 2s. Because of this seemingly high frequency, this revision may be to blame for the Model 2’s reputation of supposedly poorer video. Thus, it is best to avoid these. Identified with an 8 in the 3rd or 4th spot of the serial.
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 === “VA10-11” (1997/98?) ===
-//DO NOT PURCHASE//
-These boards don’t have the video output issues of the VA8, but they do however, have certain 68k code issues which lead to incompatibility in several games. For this reason, it is also worthwhile to avoid these boards. Identified by a letter A or B in the 3rd or 4th spot of the serial.
+These boards don’t have the video output issues of the VA8, but they do however, have certain 68k code issues which lead to incompatibility in several games such as OutRun's earlier revisions. For this reason, it can be worthwhile to avoid these boards. Identified by a letter A or B in the 3rd or 4th spot of the serial.
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-//All recommendations couldn’t be assigned. Best answer is any Model 1, plus a 4-7/12-14 Model 2.//
+//All recommendations couldn’t be assigned.//
 https://segaretro.org/Sega_Saturn