Articles tagged “Sega Saturn”
Light Gun Commando: LCD-compatible light gun support for original console hardware?
As the previous entries on this site might indicate, I do enjoy a good light gun game. Unfortunately, when it comes to playing them on home consoles you usually need to use a CRT television for the gun controllers to work. I have a CRT or two at my disposal but I'm well aware they won't last forever and they're not really the most convenient devices even when they are working at their best. Bearing this in mind I decided to try to find a way to get light guns working on LCD TVs. My experiments back in early 2015 – called DC-LiGuE, the "Dreamcast Light Gun Emulator" – never amounted to much.
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Cheats for the PAL version of Quake on the Sega Saturn
I recently picked up a Sega Saturn and a copy of the technical marvel that is Quake for it. The Saturn is not renowned for being a particularly capable 3D machine and so the fact that Quake runs at all is quite remarkable, let alone as well as it does in Lobotomy Software's version. Rather than port the Quake engine to the Saturn the game uses the SlaveDriver engine, and includes conversions of 28 of the original 32 levels with some minor tweaks to improve performance. It certainly captures the atmosphere of Quake far more faithfully than most console ports of DOOM did to that game, leaving the sound and music intact and retaining the gritty aesthetic of Quake's software renderer.