it's a nice collectible nothing more nothing less. I assure you, if you want to play master system games don't waste your money on a powerbase converter.

Yes allot of games work, but allot of good games don't work, seems to me that the 16 bit genesis lacks something even with the power base converter.

I'm talking games that never work and the lists for these seem non existent since power base converters are so rare. Your only talking about the games with controller issues those boot up normally but just won't control well withouth a master system controller. On a master system console works perfectly every time, doesn't matter what controller is inserted if where talking powerbase, wich I naturally have tried since I'm aware of that list I've seen this across multiple of the same copies of great games with multiple power base converters. No they won't allot of games don't even boot up or crash pretty early. Japanese Saturn is fine but you have to figure out 2 things: Quote from: tripredacus on October 02, 2020, 10:08:34 am Dreamcast and US Saturn have a large financial hurdle to climb if you want to play anything besides sports games. As for which model, that is usually up to debate, but I tend to prefer the Model 1. Genesis games are a lot easier to find in the secondary market than Saturn or Dreamcast, and usually at lower prices. The Genesis is the best bet for compatibility, if you want to be able to play Master System games then you'll need a Power Base Converter. However, if you aren't concerned with having to hunt down physical games, you can get a Saturn or Dreamcast (any model) and then TerraOnion's MODE, which is an ODE that installs to either console and can play any region games. One example is that if you can't read Hiragana, and have not played the English version of Magic Knight Rayearth, you won't be able to play the Japanese version because of the menus. Some games you are doing to need to know Hiragana and the other one. Anything beyond that, such as RPGs or anything more complex, you won't be able to get by with just Katakana knowledge. You can get away with Fighting games because the menus are wasy to figure out. These are typically the sports games that had US/EU releases. Finding a working Japanese Saturn and then the various required accessories for it.įor the language issue, there are some games you can get away with not knowing how to read Japanese as the menus are in English.

Japanese Saturn is fine but you have to figure out 2 things:ġ. Dreamcast and US Saturn have a large financial hurdle to climb if you want to play anything besides sports games.

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