General Emulation Discussion

I gave standalone mednafen a go as well and it dumps you to the bios.

I've got the PC version working and it doesn't seem to be an issue with any other games. The issue with Enemy Zero is there's no save at the disc swap. In most games there is a save so being booted to the bios just means you load the new disc from there no issues. Enemy Zero doesn't have those disc change saves because the game as a feature actually limits the amount of times you can save so probably didn't want to force it on players.

There's very few multi disc saturn games really and any I've read allow disc changes.

At least disc changes work on PS1. I know from personal experience Koudelka is the same. I tried playing a pirated copy and there was no disc change save but when you changed the disc it would do a piracy test which ended my game at disc 1! I had to..... buy a legit copy of the game 😱

That shouldn't be an issue with PS1 emulation now. But I'd also recommend not to play Koudelka because it's not good!

Easiest and quickest way to check is to boot up disc 0 which is just a cinematic disc with a training mode. You can skip the opening cinematic and when you select start it will go to the disc prompt.

Yeah disc swap games can override that behaviour but it's just not implemented yet. Still I think enemy zero is the only game affected but the PC version works really well so there's that at least.

I'm near the end. It's more interesting than good. It's kind of a mix of D and a horror fps.

The adventure sections are decent but a bit slow but it's a game that relies on the player activating triggers to progress and it can be frustrating when you are stuck.

The fps parts are a lot better. Basically you have a gun with maybe 2 or 3 shots and are being hunted by invisible enemies. You can only tell their position from the sounds from a proximity locator you have. Also the gun isn't effective unless you are at point blank range. It's genuinely tense and terrifying. Also you can save and load your game only a set number of times but I found even on normal mode you have plenty saves.

The story is really dated. It's kind of trying to be cinematic but it's badly written and just rips off the aliens games. The cgi is really good, probably the best at the time until ff7 came out a month later.

The soundtrack is gorgeous. Kenji Eno managed to get Michael nymen to do the soundtrack by locking him in is own hotel room and not letting him leave until he agreed to do it. It's a pity the soundtrack isnt attached to a better game.

Anyway it's interesting enough to give it a try and have a walkthrough handy for when you get stuck. It's short enough.

Just a follow up on this, it's been found that the saturn emulator for these games is just SSF. This also explains the excessive input lag as it's a big issue with at that emulator.

Well the author pulled a branch from github recently, the first time in ages so they were probably working with him. They say they are trying to fix the lag issue but since it seems to be inherent to SSF it might not happen. I think SSF is the only decent fast saturn emulator with open source so maybe why mednafen was a no go.

Yep but as I said it looked like they were working with the SSF author for this one so it would have been above board.

Preaching to the choir but here's another good example I saw on twitter:

Damn that's sexy.