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Totally missed this, but yeah, Scenario II was translated in November of 2007.
ftp://ftp.shiningforcecentral.com/pub/sf3translation/
Apparently it's almost entirely done save for some editing/tweaking. Totally playable.
As an aside, it's weird seeing a fan translation running on real hardware. My desktop doesn't have SSE2, lol.
Uh, wow. Awesome. I had no clue this was going on! If my Saturn was chipped I would be checking this out ASAP.
You don't have to chip it if you got balls/fast hands. And some tape.
I thought the Saturn needed some kind of special chip/board to play cd-r's?
I'm not sure what's going on here. I put the tape on my balls?
IIRC:
1. Put normal Saturn game into drive
2. Put tape over thingamabobber that tells the system the lid is closed.
3. Power on and wait for gay "Sega Saturn" screen to load
4. Watch CD start to slow down
5.Make like the flash and swap that shit.
6. Enjoy!
Doing that often kind of burns out the motor I think. But yeah it definitely works.
I remember doing the swap trick back in high school. Don't forget to use satconv (or whatever the hell they use nowadays) to change the disc's region coding before you burn the disc (if the patch doesn't already do that).
Just use SSF to emulate if your computer can run it?
Patch already does it.
More detailed overview:
Unscrew your Saturn.
Tape down the switch thing that tells the lid it's closed (it's kinda sticking up off the board, iirc).
Turn it on with your burn in, with the tray open.
Listen for the laser to move from the inside area to the outside area (very audible).
Swap with a real game while it reads the outer security ring.
Listen for it to move back to the inner area.
Swap back to the CDR.
It sounds crazy, but it's easy enough. I'm sure the swap process can't be all sunshine on the motor, but I don't care much given how rarely I do it.
That's terrifying.
For reals. Sounds like it requires much more dexterity than I'm willing to expend if I want to play a game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grave
Lol. That's how I played most of my PS1 imports. Good ol' disc swapping. :D
Does a 4-in-1 cart work for this? I loved SFIII part 1.
4-in-1 only works for imports. You either need to swap or have a chip for burnt games.
I was the master of the saturn and ps1 disc swaps back in the day.
We went through two of my buddies saturns from us playing so much x-men vs. street fighter. :D
I always wanted to play scenario 2 btw, good thread.
So do I have to have the original disc for this, or do I just download both files?
You have the translation on one disk and the game on the other, and you swap both out really, really quickly whenever you get to a part that has text. It also requires that you alternate jamming the Japanese 4 meg cart, 4-Meg Mega Cheat (Euro version only, the US doesn't work for some reason), and 1 meg carts in the slot over and over, in the order of 4, 1, 4, 4, 1, 1, 1, 4, 1, 4-Meg MEGA CHEAT, 1, 1, 1, 4.
actually it's the 4 meg cart and the kof 95 rom cart finch
I guess you can do it that way too, and combined with rapid removing and reinserting of the mpeg card, there's less of a chance you'll burn down your house.
It should work on an iso acquired in less than legit ways.Quote:
Originally Posted by Melf
Usual places.
GOtta get the iso to try this, maybe in a few more years we will have part 3. That would be dreamy.
Coincidentally, I've been at the last battle of part I for the past 3-4 weeks.
Not that I've been playing it constantly.
But fuck, the last battle requires over 2 hours, and without the ability to suspend, it is quite a chore.
...didn't have the "for hire" recruits on my first 2 attempts, washed away by the flood once as I went to the shore and not toward the castle on my 3rd attempt, and twice had to retreat from the second part of the last battle.
So in what way do the characters and items carry over into part II?
My strategy was send one person at a time to the boss and kill him until each one was dead. I don't remember the specifics, just that i won.
an hour and 1/2 in, and the Colossus washed away, along with Hayward and Obright, so I might be screwed already, but I'll try that "one at a time till they're dead" routine. I think I figured that out last go around, but didn't have my archers so the Sorcerers kicked all kinds of ass from around behind some pillars.Quote:
Originally Posted by Finch
holy fuck. 3&1/2 hours later the credits and epilogue and plot summation have wrapped up.
That shit seriously took 3 hours!
So, it looks like you continue right along as Synbios?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shooting Love
For some reason I thought the different installments were from the perspectives of the various factions. Or is that the case?
oh, right.