*RUMOR* Sega Saturn games coming to VC?

***wraggster*** · March 16th, 2007, 19:58

via ninevolved

Alot of rumor has been floating around recently, most of it being some new hit games coming to the VC, or possibly even a new console being added. Well now the guys over a Rumor Reporters come up with this story!

The rumor comes from fellow reader Fei34 who claims that a fellow DigiPen employee told him that Sega Saturn games would indeed be making an appearance on the Wii. Although this could still be wells away from becoming true, the fact that DigiPen, a highly respected video-game school in Redmond Washington, has this sort of knowledge is pretty intriguing. Especially by the fact that both Nintendo of America’s offices and DigiPen’s campus actually interconnects by a simple hallway. Could Fei34’s DigiPen source have even closer access to NOA’s employees in which he/she may have gotten the information?

The only thing that Fei34 left me was a confirmation that a “big game was coming.” Whether that’s a Sega Saturn game (like Panzer Dragoon Saga) or not, only time will tell. So don’t dismiss Nintendo’s systems on the Virtual Console as being cemented just yet.

So what do you guys think of this latest rumor? Personally I would be thrilled if it happened, due to the fact I have never play a Sega Saturn!

**Broonale** · March 16th, 2007, 20:10

I think it would take too long to download and too much space to save on VC.

So I vote FALSE.

They may come out on anthology discs though.

**Elven6** · March 16th, 2007, 20:14

How would you be able to fit all that stuff onto the wii? Does wii have a harddrive?

**ICE** · March 16th, 2007, 20:55

yes it has internal memory. no this wont happen.

**Gold Line** · March 16th, 2007, 21:05

im thinking of getting mario kart 64 but how much space will n64 game take because the internal memory is very small

**iniquitous_beast** · March 16th, 2007, 21:39

The wii stores VC games on its internal 512mb of flash storage. Saturn games were on 700mb cd's. Perhaps some of the smallest Saturn games would fit, but even they would probably take up over 100mbs of space. Clearly, there is no way this would be practical. Further, the Wii can not access VC games directly from its SD slot. This could be possible via firmware update, but it would still be far too much work to appeal to Nintendo's mainstream target audience. Thus, I also vote FALSE.

**JKKDARK** · March 16th, 2007, 23:24

Small Saturn games have 300 MB

**brainpan** · March 17th, 2007, 00:58

You could compress games to make them smaller. I mean seriously, how many Saturn titles used all that availble space? Most of those titles used it for FMV and audio...both of which can be easily compressed. We might not see Panzer Dragoon Saga but Nights, Virtua Fighter, or "hopefully" Virtua Cop could easily be released. In fact if a Saturn title is released I would bet that the first one is either Virtua Fighter or Virtua Cop.

**octaviusxx** · March 17th, 2007, 01:32

fake!

**JKKDARK** · March 17th, 2007, 01:56

Originally Posted by brainpan

You could compress games to make them smaller. I mean seriously, how many Saturn titles used all that availble space? Most of those titles used it for FMV and audio...both of which can be easily compressed. We might not see Panzer Dragoon Saga but Nights, Virtua Fighter, or "hopefully" Virtua Cop could easily be released. In fact if a Saturn title is released I would bet that the first one is either Virtua Fighter or Virtua Cop.

Man, you never played any Saturn shooter or arcade port, right?