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Sega Saturn Powered Bartop
Bauley:
@knohbody
The Saturn will be stored in the top behind the marquee. I plan on making a "trap door" that gives easy access to the Saturn to turn it on/off and to change discs. I haven't decided yet what I'll do about controller ports. I will probably just drill a hole in the side to feed the controller in if need be.
Anyways...I spent about 8 hours yesterday getting the buttons wired up.
HOWEVER...it never mentioned the back of the pad. There are 4 contacts in the middle of the pad for the "slow motion mode" which basically pauses and unpauses the game rapidly. Probably the dumbest feature ever made. You have to solder the two on the right together (for slow motion mode off), otherwise the start button won't work. For some reason, the SuperPad 8 activates the start button when you hold back+two of the buttons during gameplay. I think it is a glitch that has to do with the slow motion mode that's built in. So, I wired the two contacts to a switch so that I can kill the start button if I need to.
BurgerKingDiamond:
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--- Quote from: pinballjim on March 23, 2011, 09:28:44 am ---I think 25% of the love for Sega Saturn was for the control pad (which was admittedly very nice). If you switch it over to an arcade setup, you're just left with the ports and all of those have been done better elsewhere.
:dunno
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Ports were done on other consoles, but "better" is a stretch. Seriously Jim, what console had the best port of Street Fighter Alpha 2? Yeah, the Saturn port. Im not even talking about the amazing import titles. Dunno why youre trying to ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- on this project when somewhere out there someone is making an N64 bartop.
I think its a great idea, I have a spare Saturn, I might do one too.
Some Saturn games that would work well with this:
Dragon Force, Fighting Vipers, Fighters Megamix, Asuka 120% Burning Fest Limited, Guardian Heroes, DoDonPachi, All the Virtua Fighters, Battle Garegga, Saturn Bomberman, Shinobi Legions, Radiant Silvergun, Batsugun, the aformentioned SFA2 and all the other CPS2 and NeoGeo ports.
OP: if you're lookin for any particular games, lemme know
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Yeah. The Saturn had a ton of good arcade ports. Just for the shmups alone is reason enough to build this thing. Some of them like Soukyugorentai (most likely not spelled right...), and Radiant Silvergun are emulated, but not perfectly and you need a powerful computer to run them at full speed. Also, Batsugun is finally emulated with full sound in MAME I think, but that's very recent. Anyway, I really think it's a sweet idea, and cheap too. Saturn's go for like $30 or less at my local used game store.
Bauley:
Controller shorted out...don't know what I did wrong
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It died?
Bauley:
Yeah it shorted out...I think it might have been because of the toggle switch I made for the start button. I'm trying to decide if I should hack the second super pad 8 or if I should attempt to hack one of the two genuine sega controllers that I have...