Playing Japanese Multi-Disc Games on US Saturn?

[VenomMacbeth]

I wanna get Macross DYRL, but it's a two-disc game & I'm not sure it'll work with the Action Replay cartridge.  So...will it?

[SignOfZeta]

Yep.

[VenomMacbeth]

Sweet!  Mods, feel free to delete this.

[Bernie]

Mods?  Surely you kid....

[ProfessorProfessorson]

Once upon a time......

[kazekirifx]

Saturn handles multi-disc games by putting a temporary save file in backup RAM, doesn't it?

[PunkicCyborg]

Great game. The cinematics are even better with the video cart. You can do a region mod really easily if you have a soldering iron. You could probably do it with the most basic skills, it's like 3 wires soldered to the board and to a switch so you wont need that cart anymore. The soldering points are even labeled what region they are.

[VenomMacbeth]

Great game. The cinematics are even better with the video cart. You can do a region mod really easily if you have a soldering iron. You could probably do it with the most basic skills, it's like 3 wires soldered to the board and to a switch so you wont need that cart anymore. The soldering points are even labeled what region they are.

I played it all the way through on my PSP a couple days ago (before my damn memory stick died -_- unbelievably pissed about that...) and I LOVED it!  I don't see why everyone hates this game so much.  Sure your character sprite is large, but your hitbox is pretty forgiving.  It helps if you look at the game as more of a side-scrolling action game, rather than a shmup.  However, I'm a huge Macross fan, so I may be a bit biased.

I may give that mod a shot, as I've yet to get into soldering/modding consoles & I've been meaning to for some time.

[PunkicCyborg]

its funny people rag on macross for sat but praise 2036 on pce when they play so similar.

[SignOfZeta]

Great game. The cinematics are even better with the video cart.

I'm pretty sure that's not true. Some other games do this though.

Saturn handles multi-disc games by putting a temporary save file in backup RAM, doesn't it?

Yeah, you boot Disc 2 like any disc.

Sweet!  Mods, feel free to delete this.

...why?

[DragonmasterDan]

Some games make you put in disc 2 from the game and redo the region check without creating a save file between discs. One that does this is Gulliver Boy which basically makes it only playable through the first disc using an ST key, action replay, etc.

[Black Tiger]

Tengai Makyou The Apocalypse IV can't progress to disc two using the ST Key. Panzer Draggon Saga/Azel can't be played at all using the Action Replay.

[DragonmasterDan]

Tengai Makyou The Apocalypse IV can't progress to disc two using the ST Key. Panzer Draggon Saga/Azel can't be played at all using the Action Replay.

Yep, I recall the PDS message that shows up when you boot it with an action replay in it.

[SignOfZeta]

Tengai Makyou The Apocalypse IV can't progress to disc two using the ST Key. Panzer Draggon Saga/Azel can't be played at all using the Action Replay.

That's funny because at least one of my Saturn games is region free, I think it's Panzer 1 or 2. I think Baku Baku Animal also ignores region. Somehow during the end of the system's run they came up with some kind if super copy protection for Panzer Saga.

[DragonmasterDan]

Tengai Makyou The Apocalypse IV can't progress to disc two using the ST Key. Panzer Draggon Saga/Azel can't be played at all using the Action Replay.

That's funny because at least one of my Saturn games is region free, I think it's Panzer 1 or 2. I think Baku Baku Animal also ignores region. Somehow during the end of the system's run they came up with some kind if super copy protection for Panzer Saga.

It wasn't copy protection, none of those action replay carts that I'm aware of bypassed the CDR detection. It was cheat device/region skip protection.

PDS also ignored third party memory carts even if they were recognized in the system menu. Put an original Sega one in and it sees it, put in an Interact or EMS brand backup cart and it's grayed out.