--- In SaturnEmulation@yahoogroups.com, "Eric" <el_ash@y...> wrote:
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> OK....
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> I've had EVERY emulator for the saturn and can't get ANY of them to
> work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (maybe if they just made the f'n sh*t simple).
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> I "hear" Girigiri can play games if you have the actual CD or ISO,
> thing is I have BOTH the ACTUAL SATURN CD, and an ISO of it....and
> can't get ANY emulator to play my F'n game! no boot-up no nothing,
> can't figure out the emu's....Girigiri gives me some weird japanese
> ERROR! and i can't figure out Satourne or whatever!
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> has anyone gotten to use their ACTUAL CD's or ISO's to work on ANY of
> the emu's or is it some big hoax?
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There is a version of Giri Giri that works but its rather illegal as
its a hack of the version SEGA used for an online "Saturn games on
your PC" rental service in Japan.

I have no had any luck with any other emulator, personally. Even on
that version of Giri Giri, the timings WAY off sometimes. The music
on NiGHTS for example runs totally screwed up, the game itself even is
a bit dodgy especially as the emulator doesnt emulate the Analog
controller only digital. :-(

Also, I only ever got it working with a complicated system of ripping
the CD as a bin/cue set. You then have to run a program to generate a
toc file for the image. You THEN have to put it all together and
cross your fingers as it probably wont work anyway. The Saturn was a
REALLY complicated system to emulate, unfortunately it means nobody
has quite done it properly so we are stuck. Satourne looks like it
might pull it off eventually, but things are progressing painfully slowly.

Alex.