![]() There’s an entire chip dedicated to controlling the CD drive, and after some serious reverse engineering work, had it pretty much figured out. ![]() Instead of writing a game or two for the Saturn, got distracted for a few years and developed an optical drive emulator.Īccording to, the design of the Sega Saturn is tremendously complicated. The best method is installing a mod chip and working off of burned CDs. Unlike earlier consoles, where Flash cartridges are readily available, or later consoles, where writing directly to the on-board storage is easy, bringing up a development environment for the Saturn isn’t easy. The Saturn was quickly overshadowed by the Sony Playstation, and soon these devices found themselves unused, unloved, and fetching high prices on the collectors market.Īfter finding a Sega Saturn on a trip to Japan, decided he would like to write some code for this machine. It was a revolutionary device, had incredible (for the time) graphics, and a huge library of IP Sega could draw from. When it was released 20 years ago, the Sega Saturn was by far the most powerful video game console available.
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