Virtua Fighter 3 on Saturn - how was it?

[Megadrive1988]

This was mentioned in another thread, but to talk about it there would be going completely off-topic, so I'm starting a Virtua Fighter 3 Saturn thread.


Sonic said:

Saturn was more powerful than the PSX despite the lack of dedicated 3d hardware. Watching VF3 on the Saturn was surely a beauty back in the day, it's a shame it was never released.

then I asked:

How close was Saturn VF3, to the arcade VF3, say 50% ? -

was it similar graphically to the Dreamcast version released in 1998...?

The DC version didnt even begin to push DC very hard, and used well under 1M polys/sec

Finally, would you say the Saturn Upgrade and its VF3 were more impressive than what we saw from the 3DO M2?

we've all seen Shenmue for Saturn. I believe VF3 on Saturn looked much much better since Shenmue Saturn did not use any sort of upgrade but VF3 Saturn did. (the infamous Saturn VF3 3D Upgrade)....

 

[Sonic]

Pasted from reply to NES5 and Xbox2 thread.

The Saturn upgrade is sort of weird. It went from being a 3dfx graphics chip upgrade to a console known as Black Belt. That's the most I can say on that. There was an early port of it to the upgrade but it was unfinished and only a demo that resembled an updated VF2 more than anything else. The Saturn VF3 wasn't anywhere near as good looking as the Dreamcast VF3tb. The main thing that was focused on were the characters and they looked damn good for what the Saturn could do. The backgrounds were pretty nice also, but had really low res textures and very little geometry.

 

[Megadrive1988]

ahh thanks Sonic.

So, the Saturn Upgrade was 3Dfx-based, then became the Black Belt next gen console

That's interesting. It reminds me of what was in the Oct 1995 EDGE and Nov 1995 Next Generation about Saturn2. The Saturn2 was going to be either an upgrade to the existing Saturn, utilizing the base Saturn as a CD drive, power supply and I/O device -or- Saturn2 would be a seperate stand-alone console.

 

[Nesh]

I ve recently been wondering about the VF3 port on Sega Saturn and begun searching the web for information out of curiosity. I was going to make a new thread but I accidentally found this while I was searching.

A friend of mine has started playing with his Saturn again and visits forum boards to download ISO's and such. One of the forum boards he visited happened to have some people that claimed worked for Sega in the old days and spilled some very limited information regarding some Sega projects.

The project seemed to have been in the work for quite some time, but then canceled in 1998, According to those that claim they worked for Sega, Yu Suzuki was bittered with the fate the VF3 version had and refuses to talk about it since then.

They also said that the game was near completion

I managed to find some images and they look God damn impressive for a Saturn game

http://bp1.blogger.com/_h327jbSGoh0/R179Uy5a50I/AAAAAAAAC1c/MKvyEjO0pu0/s1600-h/1mn7.jpg
http://bp2.blogger.com/_h327jbSGoh0/R179VC5a51I/AAAAAAAAC1k/TJeY1aONEo0/s1600-h/3vy9.jpg
http://bp3.blogger.com/_h327jbSGoh0/R179VS5a52I/AAAAAAAAC1s/iV6C8fzCoU8/s1600-h/5ci8.jpg
http://bp3.blogger.com/_h327jbSGoh0/R179VS5a53I/AAAAAAAAC10/LD90RnAIqOM/s1600-h/6gs0.jpg

 

[jandlecack]

They do, but they may well be running at sub-20FPS, which could be the reason it wasn't finalized after all. Either way it won't change how people think about the Saturn.

 

[TapamN]

Those are screenshots of the Model 3 arcade game being glitchily emulated.

 

[Nesh]

Can we confirm this?

 

[TapamN]

Go run VF3 on MAME.

 

[TapamN]

Or, here. I took two screenshots of MAME emulating VF3:

Pic 1
Pic 2

And... it looks the same.

 

[Nesh]

Ahm...ehm........ahem.....


Oops?



God damn and I thought I found something. I am laughing at myself now

 

[Carl B]

I was going to make a new thread but I accidentally found this while I was searching.

In the future, when the thread you find is five years old, go ahead and make a new one rather than bumping it.