Sega's B-Club

[The Ampersand]

I was reading the frontpage on the Magic Box, and I came across this announcement:

Sega announced a new game rental system called B-CLUB, which allows boardband Internet users to download Sega Saturn and Mega Drive (Genesis) games and play on their PC using Sega's own emulation systems. Sega Saturn and Mega Drive games will be available for download on Sega's game server, and the price of the games varies from 300 to 500 yen, or you can subscribe to the entire game library in a monthly basis. The first titles Sega offers will be Sonic X, NiGHTS, Panzer Dragoon II, Dynamic Deka, Sonic the Hedgehog 5, Jongfon 5, Densha de Go, Ultra Shanghai, Shining Force III Scenario 1 - 3, Puyo Puyo and many more.

So, was Sonic X the incomplete game that Sega was going to release on the Saturn? What about Sonic 5? I'm a bit confused as to what these games are. . .

[Diff-chan]

Yea, I assume Sonic X was the incomplete 3D game... they called it Sonic L33T XTR3MEZ0R!!!1111 though. Dunno what Sonic The Hedgehog 5 is.

This is a cool idea, they should do it for here, too, instead of just giving their games to Real so they can put it on their satanic RealArcade system.

[Dyne]

sonic 5 mebbe being sonic crackers?

[Tracer]

Will this be available to North America/Europe or should I stop caring?

ºTracer

[Aurora]

This is a good because someone will crack the emulators and we'll finally have a good Saturn emu

[Tain]

Saturn emulation on a PC?

I hope it'll run at more than five frames a second.

[OmegaFlareX]

Very neat, but I'm certain that I'll never be able to use it.

[Aurora]

Never underestimate pirates....

[Shinobi128]

Sonic X = Sonic Xtreme?
Sonic 5 = Sonic Crackers?

[raystorm]

Actually I think the emulator Sega is using is from a saturn emulator that was sold a few month ago. I dont remember the name of it (Giri Giri? SSF??). I hope the saturn is emulated one day on pc. I still play my saturn occasionally, but to have the chance to play it in high res with filtering effects to clean up the pixels would be oh so very nice.