Weekend loot

When I woke up on Friday morning, even with the blinds down; I could tell that we had some snow fall. I looked out of the window.... bugger. I thought all the weather reports where just hype, but apparently not. It was not too bad, but it was still snowing a little.

My plan was to go into town, sort out some finances and hit the games shops. But with the snow I was going to leave it.... but then decided to pop out and back while the bus was still running. Called a buddy to come with, and we set out.

Sorted my finances, then we hit the game shop (playtime multimedia). There sitting in the glass case of cool stuff, was a Gray Sega Saturn. I already have a black UK version, so at £80 I thought well.... I don't really need a Japanese Saturn as I have a 4-in-1 cart that lets me play imports on my black one. Then my friend said "hey it says it comes with 27 games!". This caught my interest, so I went over to the counter and asked if I could see what the games where.

So it turns out that most of these games are bootlegs, and the console is fitted with a mod chip to play backups.

"I'll take it!"

This is the JVC 'V-Saturn' so it is a bit more rarer than the standard versions. Looking on eBay, just one person is selling one of these at £100, un-modded. So at £80 I got a great deal here. With mod chip + my 4-in-1 cart, I can play games from all regions, with backups from all regions. NICE! I discovered I can just patch the disc images to any region anyway so I don't even need the cart unless I am using cheat codes, or using the 4MB extra ram that some games need.

Here is some other stuff I got that day (from the same place!)

'Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance' a top down (ish) RPG, I already have the second one so was looking out for this. You do quests, hacking and slashing along with a running story with cut scenes and bad voice acting. Actually the cut scenes themselves are pretty badly put together. Well this is just going on the second one, some guy talking about building a tower. Fun.

'Downforce' is an arcade racing game that just happens to have formular-1 cars in. Non of the tracks seem to be actual F1 tracks, just generic arcade racing tracks, which is nice. controls are ok, but nothing to to get all giddy about.

'Wipe3out' or 'Wipeout 3' if you prefer. I have the special edition of this which is better as it includes tracks from the previous game. But at £3, why not? I am a collector after all.

'Rayman' is a nice 2D platformer, featuring a dude with floating limbs. Yeah they are not attached. It is good fun, run and jump and punch through levels. That is it really. Great stuff.


I now need to find a way to use my PlayStation based arcade stick on my Sega Saturn. adapters are hard to find ugh....what ever will I do?