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[iidesuyo]

Bug Too! actually does have some benefits when going to an HD resolution. Not as much of a pixelated mess as one would imagine.

Yes, I am very pleasantly surprised. It does make some difference. One can actually read what's on the gravestone in the background.

Here is another platformer, Pandemonium...

Ah, Pandemonium. It was quite popular back in the day but has been completely forgotten. With the internal resolution the character looks like a 2D sprite.


Thanks for your effort!

 

[Xbudz]

And a non-platformer, Road Rash:

The menu's are really bugged, sometimes I will get black screens and other times the game will freeze. But the actual in game racing works fine.

Ahh yes, Road Rash!
I was curious how this would scale... not bad!
I wasn't able to get this to work myself. Always with the black screen.

BTW, it makes it more difficult to include a shared image when replying to a post if you wrap them in quotes themselves.

I want to cut my eyes on the fullscreen polygons and pixels!!!

 

[afternoon delight]

Pandemonium! You really are digging in the archives.

Loved me some Saturn back in the day, its Quake and Duke Nukem ports were my first owned versions of the games. (Neighbors had PC, we didn't.)

Please keep the images coming! I'm installing Quake now...

 

[Subaru]

Here you go....

OMFG she looks like Michael Jackson

 

[iidesuyo]

OMFG she looks like Michael Jackson

lol, I thought exactly the same but wouldn't say it.

 

[Xbudz]

OMFG she looks like Michael Jackson

It's time to wake up, Claris!

 

[iidesuyo]

It's time to wake up, Claris!

STOP IT

 

[Xbudz]

Tried this yesterday. It gives me missing .dll files error. Anything you know a solution for?

What was the exact .dll error you had?

 

[Subaru]

It's time to wake up, Claris!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHA
That's amazing.

 

[Greg_le_Casual]

It's time to wake up, Claris!

That's nightmare fuel.

 

[IronicSonic]

It's time to wake up, Claris!

Destroying a classic

Spoiler

Love it <3

 

[Arcane0ne]

Some HD (not 4k Sorry) Screenshots.

Panzer dragoon Saga running on Xperia Z2 at "1080p" (croped)

http://i.imgur.com/vvuSz7S

http://i.imgur.com/xmMuWzz


Some more from my PC running at "1280x1024" or something.

Hang On GP 95

http://i.imgur.com/nAVCkV7

http://i.imgur.com/moelnVM

http://i.imgur.com/PBOZkbe

http://i.imgur.com/xhqMQBd


Fighters Megamix

http://i.imgur.com/19UTBFf

http://i.imgur.com/Rf0n9DQ

http://i.imgur.com/ec8fnyk

http://i.imgur.com/1PtIefr


Sonic Jam

http://i.imgur.com/ByYxdPN

http://i.imgur.com/uNDmmGb

http://i.imgur.com/Nuk7KMi

http://i.imgur.com/ABatdf9

 

[Xbudz]

Hang On GP 95

Fighters Megamix

Sonic Jam

These look great!!! I love that stage in Megamix.

 

[Arcane0ne]

Thanks i dont know why i have problems to post images.

And now works... haha has no sense.

 

[Xbudz]

Thanks i dont know why i have problems to post images.

And now works... haha has no sense.

Thanks for sharing!
You just have to make sure to use the

 

[masq]

I will stick to CRT goodness for Saturn

 

[TLZ]

Damn... Saturn games look way worse than N64 ones in HD resolutions.

For me these consoles are only bearable with CRT resolutions and shaders.

I'm currently playing through Paper Mario N64 using M64Py in 1080p on my TV and it looks fabulous imo. Looks so beautiful I almost forget it's a 90's game. Looks like the N64 was a beast for it's time. I didn't have one, had a PS1 and now I wish I had a N64 then If only Nintendo took the CD route back then, it would've pwned everything around it.

 

[MurderOfPoes]

Try Deep Fear next, so we can see if these fingers were truly modeled separately.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m9tD8bsqpc&t=935

 

[Beer Monkey]

I will stick to CRT goodness for Saturn

All of these pics make me want to play real hardware on CRT.

 

[PolyEsther]

Sonic Jam

You should try uoYabause; it's an Android port with new features but it also has a Windows version. The best thing about it is that it uses tessellation for better distorted sprite drawing (for instance, compare Sonic's eyes):

 

[dock]

It's pretty fascinating that VF2 and FM have high-res character models and a low-res arena.

It was common for Saturn coders to run the characters and the background through different processors, so they wouldn't interact at all before ending up on the screen. Shining Force 3 IIRC re-purposes the sound processor (!) for the fight scene backgrounds freeing up the main processor for the 3D models.

 

[dogen]

It was common for Saturn coders to run the characters and the background through different processors, so they wouldn't interact at all before ending up on the screen. Shining Force 3 IIRC re-purposes the sound processor (!) for the fight scene backgrounds freeing up the main processor for the 3D models.

They most likely used the SCU(stands for saturn control unit) DSP, which was not really intended for sound uses. The sound chip itself had it's own dsp.

 

[Neptonic]

God I love super low res textures in high definition. Drift Stage is nailing this aesthetic.

 

[MaverickHunterX]

Quake was amazing.

I'd love to see Resident Evil or House of the Dead in this...

 

[Crayon]

This is awesome. Thanks. I have multiple saturns. It's my favorite sega system. Maybe favorite. Maybe tied with Genesis.

 

[Omnii-chan]

Some of the games with high resolution (for the time) models look pretty great like Virtua Fighter, and the racing games. Others have so much going on in the game every model is low and everything kind of blends together, its hard to tell whats going on in the game haha.

My last Saturn stopped reading discs and I sold it off. Cool niche little console for collecting. Wish Sega would sell some emulated Saturn games or something. Sega has done literally nothing with games from that console I think. Every other console has had at least some games brought back.

 

[dogen]

Wish Sega would sell some emulated Saturn games or something. Sega has done literally nothing with games from that console I think. Every other console has had at least some games brought back.

They're not exactly easily portable, and probably wouldn't be popular enough to develop an emulator.

 

[Protome]

Oh gee, I really need an HD version of Steep Slope Sliders.

 

[c0de]

So one year later, mednafen offers almost perfect emulation of Saturn and Yabause is still the only emulator being able to render through opengl and there are no apparent efforts to make yabause better with the work that went into mednafen

 

[MetalKnick]

Yabause has a Patreon, but I don't think many people know about it. It's a shame that it's not really going anywhere.

 

[Dwayne]

My last Saturn stopped reading discs and I sold it off. Cool niche little console for collecting. Wish Sega would sell some emulated Saturn games or something.

They used to on GameTap, but that's shut down now

 

[KC-Slater]

They used to on GameTap, but that's shut down now

Was GameTap running the PC-ports of Saturn games, or using an emulator?

 

[Shadow Hog]

Was GameTap running the PC-ports of Saturn games, or using an emulator?

Emulator. It had Panzer Dragoon Zwei on it, which never received a PC port (only the first game ever did).

 

[KC-Slater]

Emulator. It had Panzer Dragoon Zwei on it, which never received a PC port (only the first game ever did).

The only one I recall seeing was Bug! (Which got a PC-port.) I wonder what ever happened to that emulator?...

 

[BigEmil]

The unaffected effects and GUI etc is way too distracting

Terrible inconsistency which i hate about emulators and not to mention bad accuracy in visuals and audio too

 

[Jack The Nipper]

I'd rather just play them on a crt and saturn honestly, they don't look right to me.

 

[Tain]

The unaffected effects and GUI etc is way too distracting

Terrible inconsistency which i hate about emulators and not to mention bad accuracy in visuals and audio too

While I agree that I wouldn't want to play through entire games this way, I do like getting a glimpse of what they look like at higher native resolutions now and then.

 

[MrCunningham]

You should try uoYabause; it's an Android port with new features but it also has a Windows version. The best thing about it is that it uses tessellation for better distorted sprite drawing (for instance, compare Sonic's eyes):

I didn't see this post earlier. I gave uoYabause a try, and the perspective correction actually fixes the horrible BioHazard faces when viewed in HD. This isn't 4k, it is only 1920x1440, but here is the comparison...

No perspective correction:

Perspective Correction:

The vertices still "swim" but now the polygons in Jill's face aren't completely broken.

 

[Seik]

I thought Yabause wasn't up to snuff compared to SSF, is that still the case?

For some reason, those screeshots in OP reminds me of DS emulation in HD. :lol

 

[cj_iwakura]

Gorgeous OP, but yeah, sign me up for some Dragon Force. It's the pinnacle of Saturn power.

PS2 version, also:

(From the PS3 PSN, hence in HD, sorta.)

 

[MrCunningham]

I thought Yabause wasn't up to snuff compared to SSF, is that still the case?

For some reason, those screeshots in OP reminds me of DS emulation in HD. :lol

Yabause compatibility is still all over the place. There are still a lot of bugs in working games, and quite a few titles still don't work right at all.

 

[Fularu]

4K saturn screens are nightmare fuel

 

[gelf]

I think (uo)Yabause is the best emulation option when a game is actually compatible but your milage will vary a lot depending on what you want to play.

I do know the entire Panzer Dragoon series is playable in Yabause with just some graphical glitches in select areas in Saga. I've beaten them all in the emulator.

 

[McCHitman]

Does anyone have any video of these running in 4k?

I've looked through the thread and didn't see anything, would love to see Virtua Fighter 1 in motion at this resolution.

 

[iidesuyo]

Sorry for the late bump, but are there any high resolution pics of the Sega Rally splitscreen mode? I would love to see the difference in the 3D models of the cars and environment.