n00b Questions - SEGA Saturn:

[VampDude]

Ok, well as some may know I'm actually excited about my modified Saturn which may arrive either today (Thursday) or tomorrow (Friday)... Which has led me to think many things, which I should possibly know.

(1)

Is it possible to change the CD tracks on a game such as Daytona CCE, where the soundtrack is a bit repetitive and boring?

- And yes I own (http://s115.photobucket.com/albums/n304/vampdude/DCEmu/?action=view&current=SatWiiDC-DaytonaCCE-VampDude.png) Daytona CCE, just incase anyone gets the wrong idea and thinks "ILLEGAL COPY" or something.

(2)

To save CD-R's for homebrew, is it possible to have more than one homebrew game on a single CD-R like on Dezaemon (which Christuserloeser mentioned and I downloaded) where there are many games on a single disc? And please can someone point me in the right direction of a tutorial and downloads?

- It can be done on the Dreamcast, so possibly the Saturn too because some homebrew titles are somewhere between 1-20MB leaving 680MB unaccounted for.

(3)

Also, is it possible to run VCD's on a modified Saturn?

- There is a card, but I'm presuming that a mod-chip can "possibly" bypass and allow them.

[Christuserloeser]

Is it possible to change the CD tracks on a game such as Daytona CCE, where the soundtrack is a bit repetitive and boring?

- And yes I own (http://s115.photobucket.com/albums/n304/vampdude/DCEmu/?action=view&current=SatWiiDC-DaytonaCCE-VampDude.png) Daytona CCE, just incase anyone gets the wrong idea and thinks "ILLEGAL COPY" or something.

Yeah, it is.


To save CD-R's for homebrew, is it possible to have more than one homebrew game on a single CD-R like on Dezaemon where there are many games on a single disc? And please can someone point me in the right direction of a tutorial and downloads?

- It can be done on the Dreamcast, so possibly the Saturn too because some homebrew titles are somewhere between 1-20MB leaving 680MB unaccounted for.

When I mentioned Dezaemon, I meant this:
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=82793

...which I assume you've downloaded.


Anyway, to answer your question, you could try the ATLAS Game Pack Repository:

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=21756
http://www.rockin-b.de/saturn-atlasgamepacks.html


Rockin' B hosts many cool homebrew, and some compilations from the C4 contests: http://www.rockin-b.de/c4.html

Browse our Saturn News forum for the latest 2007 package which isn't listed at Rockin' B's site yet.


Another interesting thing might be the Game Basic Database, but I am not sure if there's a compilation yet:
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=66109
http://www.satakore.com/sega-saturn-complete-game-basic,,1,,0.html




(3)

Also, is it possible to run VCD's on a modified Saturn?

- There is a card, but I'm presuming that a mod-chip can "possibly" bypass and allow them.

Nope. VCDs require an MPEG decoder which Saturn doesn't have out of the box. You'd need one of the VCD cards for VCD playback (which are not too expensive btw).