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I remember some old magazines saying that Capcom claimed Resident Evil 2 was "impossible" on the Sega Saturn. The same thing happened with Tomb Raider II. What will be the next myth to fall? Was Resident Evil 2 on the Saturn really canceled because of technical difficulties?

If you watch the two versions side by side, you'll probably notice that the original Saturn version gives you a much stronger sense of speed.

Interestingly, though, the actual dimensions of the game world are very similar between the two versions. So why does the Saturn version feel faster?

The reason is the magic of the Saturn's VDP2.

In Panzer Dragoon II Zwei, the ground is rendered by the VDP2, independently from the rest of the scene. This allows the game to scroll the ground texture at roughly twice the speed of the rest of the environment.

The result is a much stronger sensation of forward movement, even though the actual game speed and dimensions are very similar.

It's kind of like Mario and Sonic on the 16-bit consoles. Both characters can be moving at comparable speeds, but Sonic's use of fast parallax scrolling makes the game feel much faster than Mario.

That's one of the really clever things about the Saturn's VDP2: it could create the illusion of speed without necessarily having to move the entire 3D scene faster.

As the name suggests, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 isn't a Sony game. It's an Xbox/Microsoft title. Do you think Sony requested or even paid Microsoft to add PSVR2 support to the PS5 version, or was that decision made entirely by Microsoft to make the game more appealing and increase sales?

After all, it's a niche game with a relatively high price, so every additional sale is valuable. Many people buy Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 on PS5 specifically because it supports PSVR2.

If the decision was entirely Microsoft's, then what do you think the chances are that Microsoft will also add PSVR2 support to Forza Horizon 6 if and when it launches on PS5?

One of the things I liked most about PSVR1 was that many games allowed you to play with the regular PS4 controller. But on PSVR2 for PS5, the games kind of force you to use the PSVR2 controllers and don’t let you play with the regular PS5 controller. For example, on PSVR1 you can play RE7 with the regular PS4 controller, but on PSVR2 you can’t play RE8 or RE4 with the regular PS5 controller, and that doesn’t make any sense.

People keep saying that SEGA is copying Capcom, but many of the things seen in Street Fighter 6 actually appeared first in Virtua Fighter or other SEGA games.

Need proof?

One of Street Fighter 6's so-called "innovations" is the dynamic commentator that narrates fights during matches and replays. However, this feature first appeared in the gaming world with Virtua Fighter 5 back in 2006.

Another "innovation" often mentioned is SF6's World Tour mode. But it's essentially a simplified version of the kind of experience found in RGG Studio games like Yakuza, which debuted in 2005 on the PS2.

So why are people accusing SEGA of copying Capcom?

It's not as if Virtua Fighter Crossroads suddenly abandoned its traditional three-button gameplay and switched to six buttons. In fact, isn't Street Fighter 6's Modern Controls mode basically a three-button control scheme?

Just something to think about.

As for the old claims that Akira is Ryu, Pai is Chun-Li, Sarah is Cammy, and so on... those comparisons don't really make much sense either. For starters, Akira doesn't even practice karate.

First of all, who is Jon Burton? In short, Jon Burton is the developer who made Sonic R for the Sega Saturn. He said that the PS1 wouldn't have been capable of reproducing Sonic R.

A custom game engine was developed to take full advantage of the Sega Saturn hardware,^([12]) and a graphical technique, described as "12 layer transparency", was used to make distant textures somewhat transparent to conceal the Sega Saturn's limited draw distance.^([32]) Burton claimed that Sonic R could not have been replicated on other consoles during the timeframe, such as the PlayStation console, due to the technique developed specifically for the Sega Saturn hardware.^([12]) 

People say the Saturn is bad at 3D, but how can it have the best-looking 3D fighting game of its generation?

I can't remember any Nintendo 64 fighting game that looks as impressive as Virtua Fighter 2 on the Saturn. On the PS1, some games come close in terms of quality, but not enough to surpass it, especially since they run at lower resolutions.

As a result, fans created a Virtua Fighter 4 tech demo running on the Dreamcast, and I used that tech demo to compare it with the PlayStation 2 version.

It's a real shame that SEGA didn't let Yu Suzuki and his team bring the game to the Dreamcast. In 2001, SEGA announced that it would stop manufacturing the console, that no more games would be released for it, and that from then on, SEGA's games would be released on the PlayStation 2, GameCube, and Xbox.

I hope Virtua Fighter Crossroads' story includes a tournament like this, where fighters from different countries face off against each other.

Vanessa's introduction could be just like in this movie, with the Brazilian flag being raised as she enters the arena for her fight.

Although many people are asking for these two kick-focused martial arts, the truth is that I have no idea how Virtua Fighter would adapt them when the game only has two attack buttons: one for punches and one for kicks.

How would these two martial arts fit into Virtua Fighter's system? Would both attack buttons end up being dedicated to kicks?