N64 de-compilation is old news. When are we getting saturn de-compilation and people sitting down and squeezing 60fps out of that?
as cool as it would be i presume you'd need to sacrifice a goat or two to even do it given how the saturn's hardware is batshit insane
This IS true. The Saturn's hardware is absolutely stupid.
However, it's important to remember, so is the N64's. Both of these consoles are awkward as hell to deal with.
The problem with the SATURN, is that no one in the West gives a shit. The N64 decompilation project could TOTALLY be possible with the Saturn, it's just that it'd be difficult and require someone REALLY dedicated to the Saturn, and I dunno if that person exists.
I was looking at Retro Achievements' stats last night regarding the amount of players for the gen 5 consoles, and it was pretty telling about this topic. The PS1's top game had 28k players, and then they hovered in the high numbers for quite a while. The N64's top game had around 28k too, though that console fell off much harder. N64 fans are just rabid, even if the console itself actually lost that generational war compared to the PS1, on average.
And then there's the Saturn. Its top played game has 1.4k players. And it's just a port of a popular Playstation game. :/ (not even a good port, mind you) Hell, even its #3 and #4 games are ALSO ports of games you could easily play on the Genesis.
Panzer Dragoon Saga, one of the best games EVER made, only has 600 players. And a lot of that IS how bad the emulation tools are for it, mind you, the games are not nearly as accessible. But the emulation tools for the N64 are almost worse right now. People will put up with plugin-in based emulation that BARELY works to play N64 games. I had a LOT of trouble getting an emulator to play Pokemon Snap without errors. But people won't put in as much effort, or any really, to play Saturn games lol
