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Why is a Sega Saturn so expensive? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by GreenCrush@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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And why can't I find it anywhere? I know it wasn't very popular when it was out, but is there really a huge demand for it now? I remember 7 years so, I could walk into a retro game store and see a console for $45.

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[–] thingsiplay@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@GreenCrush At least nowadays Saturn emulation works pretty well. With the right settings, it is like emulating Playstation games. My PC CPU is from 2013 and it works fine (with a GTX 1070). I am using RetroArch, but that is another complicated software suite to get into. But the Saturn core (a plugin in RetroArch) I am using is basically part of the standalone emulator suite Mednafen: https://mednafen.github.io/ . (Edit: Sorry I forgot that I used an additional program called Mednaffe: https://github.com/AmatCoder/mednaffe, that is a GUI for Mednafen.) So if you want get into emulation for Saturn, I would recommend starting with this, if RetroArch isn't your thing.

[–] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Has Mednafen been made more user friendly? Because last time I used it, it very much was not.

[–] thingsiplay@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

@ArugulaZ My bad. I thought the default Mednafen has a GUI. What I used in the past was another program called Mednaffe as a GUI for Mednafen, which I highly recommend if you don't like RetroArch. If you understand commandline applications, then Mednafen is easy to get into. Otherwise, I can see why its not user friendly. I'll edit that part of my previous reply.