Saturn Ports

I am interested in the samurai showdown 4 port on the saturn, but was wondering how good the port is. I was just curious how well it played against the original. I looked through the saturn reviews and did not see one for the showdown/spirits series.

Thanks in advance.

I had the saturn post years ago and I seem to remember it being pretty bad, it had missinganimation and loads of slow down. The SS3 port was alot more faithful.

You're better off getting the anthology for the PS2.

That really depends on your standing of ports. The lower the system the better the reason to play it. While I am not saying playing Street fighter original on NES is any better then the SNES game I am just saying the more earlier the port the more official the home version is.


In my book any arcade port of any game on the saturn is visable. Even MK4 ( the one in 3d where you can walk around rooms ) would be decent on the saturn.


In short if it does the job while being diffrent at the same time then I say it is a go.
I would get the port of Saturn anyways since I know it is the underdog the same with the SNES game.

for the PS2.

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Well that would be nice but why bother on a system that overkills on power and usage. That is like all the people hunting for Marvel Vs Capcom for the X-box.
I mean all that power and I could play the same thing on my PC for free.

The Saturn ports and any other early almost direct ports is special for the reason this is the closet thing to owning the real arcade. While most of us are adults and do own cabinets these ports allowed us to play something that was like a treat in our own homes.

RegalSin said:

I am just saying the more earlier the port the more official the home version is.

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So then the Atari 2600 version of Pac Man is the best home version?

That is such bullshit. The majority of first home releases back then were sub par compared to the ports of the same games today.

I appreciate the responses. I gotta be honest, I bought a saturn strictly to play the import VS series. My buddy and I used to play them all the time and when the local arcade closed, there was nothing left in the area. I read that due to power and memory limitations, the psx version was shit. So I purchased the import vs series and eventually picked up MSlug. This was before the anthology and before it had releases on other systems here in the states. At any rate, I was just curious on how faithful the port was.

Thanks all for the responses.

Variety is the spice of life.

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Back then we had two versions. The home realease and the arcade game. Now the home release is the arcade game. remember variety is the spice of life. If every home version was like there arcade ports then the arcade industries would have been completely fubared.

Systems like the dreamcast did such thing. No diffrence meant bored players. I liked how one game featured an entirely diffrent set of characters while others had the original but with a whole new set of rules.