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no but seriously panzer dragoon saga is incredibly good. I'm in actual disbelief that this came out contemporarily with FF7. It's so unique and absurdly confident about it. I can't believe this hasn't had some sort of contemporary cultural revival


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afaik it was nearly impossible to play until pretty recently? Emulation was still super unreliable last I checked (several years ago), and the disc drive on the console itself wasn't actually cracked until something like 2018 IIRC. Basically like, until shortly before covid you needed a working saturn and a legit copy of the game, which was going for like $700 before the 2020s price gouging lol

Yeah, it was very easy to emulate psx and physical copies of ff7 are still pretty cheap bc it sold a bazillion copies. Saturn emulation was still really janky until recently and getting a copy of the game and a working Saturn was a big investment. Even in the mid 2000s Saga was a couple hundred for a complete copy and there weren't many around.

It's been really easy to play burned games on the Saturn for a long time. When people say it was cracked ca 2018, they just mean that public information about the protection became available. There have been Saturn mod chips since the 90s, and it's also very easy to do the swap trick without a mod chip. I had a playable burned copy of PDS in 1999.

PDS has also emulated pretty well for awhile - the Saturn's a hard system to emulate, but it's been playable in some or other form since the mid-00s at least.

The fun part is one of my favorite XBOX games was directed by the same person who directed the Panzer Dragoon games and he wants to make a sequel still: Yukio Futatsugi and Phantom Dust. (Do NOT get me started on that E3 trailer 10 years ago)