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Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 3:10 pm

Just checking in case I might have missed it, but did we ever get any scans of the Japanese Chaotix manual that don't suck? Browsing through my own shit, I see that I have one good page with the enemies on it, and some illegible pages with the story and characters. What I am seeking at the moment is a list of the Item Box power-ups...

Post by **big_smile** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 3:32 pm

Green Gibbon! wrote:Just checking in case I might have missed it, but did we ever get any scans of the Japanese Chaotix manual that don't suck? Browsing through my own shit, I see that I have one good page with the enemies on it, and some illegible pages with the story and characters. What I am seeking at the moment is a list of the Item Box power-ups...

Bulk from Sonic Dimension transcribed the text from the character pages so they would be easier to read. The scans that you have are all what exist.

^_^

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 4:15 pm

Boy, you'd think one of us would own such a thing. Some lousy fanboys we are.

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 5:53 pm

This topic makes me want to boogie.

Post by **Esrever** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 7:03 pm

I know I am a lousy fanboy. Man, I am only now getting around to purchasing a Sega Saturn.

(I couldn't find one in town so I am resorting to ebay. Please tell me if there is anything I should know before buying.)

Frieza2000 · Post by **Frieza2000** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 7:41 pm

Saturns use VMU batteries to save data, so make sure you have one if your's isn't coming with one. When I bought mine (from the net), it wouldn't save. It took me quite a while to learn about the batteries. Then I learned that the battery wasn't dead, the guy who sold it to me had shoved it in upsidedown.

Post by **Segaholic2** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 8:03 pm

Forget the batteries and get a memory card.

Frieza2000 · Post by **Frieza2000** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 9:03 pm

Make sure it's a memory card though. I got a 'ram' card. That just boosts the processing power.

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 1:31 pm

They make those?

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 3:13 pm

Only in Japan. They were required to play certain games, such as Capcom's fighters.

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 4:29 pm

The fighters required more RAM? Seems like they would be the least intensive genre for a console.

Dache · Post by **Dache** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 4:37 pm

The Saturn needed more RAM to store all the animation frames in order to be arcade perfect, so Capcom made a 4MB RAM cart that was bundled in with some of the fighters.

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 4:47 pm

Ohhh, 4MB, woohoo.

Dache · Post by **Dache** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 4:51 pm

It made all the difference!

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 5:28 pm

Wasn't there also some additional MPEG sort of device that some games took advantage of to have higher quality FMV? I remember hearing something about this in reference to the Lunar games...

Dache · Post by **Dache** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 6:41 pm

The Video CD card? Yeah, played those and MPEG1 video. There was a version of Lunar on the Saturn with better FMV and all that. Only in Japan, of course.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 7:18 pm

Who made those? Sega? What was the going price for such an add-on?

Dache · Post by **Dache** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 8:28 pm

Sega, JVC and Hitachi all made them, and then there's the pirate ones that suck. Read this. Fuck knows about price; I'd guess $LOTS.

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