After more than a year of work, a team of fans has finished a Saturn port of the 1998 PC expansion to Tomb Raider, Unfinished Business.
RetroRaiderJohn, the team's lead developer, uploaded a launch trailer for the port today.
You can download the release by checking the video's description for a Mega.nz link. There, you'll find Japanese, PAL and North American region versions as separate downloads as well as "expert" versions of the game for North America and PAL.
The video's description says the expert edition has "Atlantis levels first and inventory reset for Egypt levels, based on how it was originally intended by the developer."
The link also has a folder for Fenrir-compatible versions — players found that the Fenrir optical drive emulator doesn't play nicely with the BIN and CUE files that Unfinished Business is being distributed in, but Derek Pascarella found that refactoring the game as CCD, IMG and SUB files worked, so RetroRaiderJohn added those to the Mega link.
Unfinished Business, also known as Tomb Raider Gold in North America, was a PC-only expanded edition of the original Tomb Raider. It added four bonus levels across two chapters. The first sends Lara Croft back to Egypt several months after the events of the base game, sending Lara Croft back to Egypt and then Atlantis.
The bonus levels were never officially released for consoles, but fans did it unofficially for the PlayStation in both 2014 and 2021. Today marks the first time it's appeared on the Saturn.
The port is technically a heavily modified version of the original Tomb Raider that released on the Saturn in 1996. RetroRaiderJohn and his team, which included Retro Dad, RoS, Spyros, Troye, Cyblitzer and Dominik, wrote tools to convert PC data into something the Saturn could use, essentially transferring level assets from the PC port into the Saturn base game.
Their work began in early 2022, and things soon turned sticky.
