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| Sickliquid86 - Mar 11, 2003 |
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ExCyber | Mar 12, 2003 | |||||
The biggest work RAM expansion released to consumers was the 4MB one. If I'm not mistaken, CartDev has 32MB of RAM, but that's not something you can take advantage of unless you're programming your own stuff. If you're programming your own stuff and able to design your own hardware, in principle you could add as much RAM as you want as long as you're within the electrical capabilities of the machine. If I remember correctly, only 32MB of that RAM would be accessible at once, but that's not exactly a crippling limitation. I doubt that ever got significantly beyond the proposal stage. There were rumors, but I've seen no indication that serious development took place. According to The Scribe..., VF3 was ported (with poly count scaled down a good bit) to Saturn, but it took so long to finish that it was canned because they didn't want to hurt the Dreamcast launch. | |||||||
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Tony Skyrunner | Mar 12, 2003 | ||
not exactly true my friend....I have in a sega saturn mag (UK..) that AM2 had both the SAT and DC version of VF3 up and runnin'!...tho at the time of print, the DC was less then a month from it's Japanese release...so i guess they thought it would waste time/money releasing both of them..... [/b][/quote] Yep, and VF3 on Saturn run without any expansion cartridges  | ||||
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ExCyber | Mar 12, 2003 | ||
I rather suspect that the unreliability being due to compression is rumor, and that the Interact carts just plain suck. It wouldn't be out of line for them. | ||||
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Taelon | Mar 13, 2003 | |
Yeah Excyber, you're right there, but the compression does make things even worse.  | |||
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Blade_Hunter | Mar 13, 2003 | |
| Sega decided to cancel it because they didn't want two versions of the same game competing each other or a Saturn version existing, giving people another reason to hold off on purchasing a Dreamcast. I've owned an Interact cart for some time now. It works just fine. Perhaps mine's just a magical @$#@ing Interact cart, and everyone else's cart is just a normal, common person's cart. In that case, I'll start the bidding at $150!! | |||
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ExCyber | Mar 13, 2003 | |
| Does it happen to say "Made in England"? | |||
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Nadius | Mar 13, 2003 | ||
Very lucky you are. Smashed mine with a hammer i did. Mad I was. | ||||
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JonnyCasino | Mar 15, 2003 | |
| When I had to buy a new Saturn (as my mate screwed up my original when modding it) I went raking through 2nd hand shops which who would let me open them so I could find a 32pin saturn, when I bought it the guy told me he had something elsewhich I might want, which was a backup cart (id never bought one during the entire time I had my original saturn, dunno why) he said it was mine for £3 so I took it and am damn glad I did as I've needed the save space. What I was wondering is what is this worth, in other words was £3 a good deal and its 8mbs (possibly 8mbits I dunno anyway it said 8 toushand and something to begin with) and its an official sega cart, is this a known common save cart and I'm just asking since Teaelon's post above saying the 8mb (or mbit) cart was made by interact. | |||
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Curtis | Mar 15, 2003 | |
| If it's Sega branded, then it's a good cart. The Sega branded ones are the only ones you can use to save in game. I have one, and it's given me no trouble. | |||
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JonnyCasino | Mar 16, 2003 | |
Yeah its Sega branded and still had the box and sticker for the front of the cart, basically looked like who ever had sold it to the 2nd hand game shop had not wanted it in the first place (unwanted gift) or stolen it  | |||
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Pearl Jammzz | Mar 16, 2003 | |
| Or maybe they just took care of it........¿ | |||
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chakan | Mar 16, 2003 | |
| Actually, now that I think about it, I have a Memory Card Plus made by InterAct. If my memory is correct, I have saved to cart in a game before (I'm remembering one of the Shining games giving me the option and my doing so). I will check on this when I get the chance after I move. All of my Saturn stuff is packed up and secured at the moment. This cart also serves as a territory lockout defeater, allowing me to play games from any region. Like I said, I've had no bad experiences with it so far. My GameShark on the other hand...  GAMESHARK BAAD! GAMESHARK BAD!! | |||
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JonnyCasino | Mar 16, 2003 | |
| I've been wanting a 4mb expansion cart and just looked at lik-sang again and noticed they have the Saturn Action Replay 4M plus... for £17, it can be used as a 4mb expansion, 1mb expansion or 4mb save cart and has the action reply territoy bypassing ability, is this a good price and good cart as I could swear last time I checked they were asking around £35 but not sure. | |||
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chakan | Mar 16, 2003 | ||
You want a 4-in-1 (which is what that cart's commonly called, ignore the people who call them 5-in-1's) in your Saturn library. | ||||
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ExCyber | Mar 17, 2003 | |
| Fair warning: it's not really a save cart (can't be used for in-game saves, only to copy to/from internal save memory) and it'd be a trick getting 4Mb of save space out of it; the internal Flash memory is only 2Mb, and a quarter of that is occupied by the AR firmware. | |||
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Nadius | Mar 17, 2003 | ||
Mine did too, I remember being able save directly to it in Alone in the Dark 2. | ||||