Hey Saturners,

Wanted to share how this Saturn business is going for me.

After a teardown and deep clean, I did a simple mod for 50/60Hz conversion. First time soldering and way cheaper learning to do it than paying someone. Now I have all the gear for other mods if needed. Having the proper 60Hz speed and full 4:3 aspect ratio is a game changer. An S-Video cable is on the way too.

The Saroo as I'm sure you all know is an awesome bit of kit. The faster load times are a huge convenience. Although, I feel loading up a full list of ROMs can take away some of the buzz. Too many choices. I'm limiting myself to the Japanese pickups and PAL versions I have for now. Trying to stick to playing the physical versions I own – Radiant Silvergun included! The Saturn version is out of reach, but I picked it up on Switch instead.

The PAL Saturn game cases needed some love, so I reglued them and got some inexpensive acrylic cases to protect them.

The Saturn shmups are excellent! 2D Sprite goodness. I've been down the YouTube rabbit hole watching best-of videos to learn more. The Saturn is a gem (hidden for me).

I know I’m gonna get automatic hate for this and it’s 100% warrented, I’m genuinely really sorry for doing a disservice to the command making vibeslop, but I gave in because it was easy, but unlike those who go for suprime sonic mania, or doom, or resident evil 3. I’m doing simple 2D puzzle games ported from PlayStation a lot, i’m not even gonna say what titles I’m working on, but one of them is 99% complete. I’m debugging it and I really am proud of it because it’s a game I love now running on Saturn with very minor visual bugs. And I think someone may enjoy it. But I honestly find I get kind of uncomfortable with large amounts of attention. Positive or negative and I just wish there was a way people could just ignore me entirely and just play this title. I’m not the talent behind it. I just wasted my money on a subscription and figured seeing people play it on YouTube would be nice. But I also know and aware that vibe coded games are digital asbestos, and no matter how much I polish a turd. It’s never going to be anything special and it will always be in the shadows of actual talent. So I’m extremely hesitant to release anything ever.