A couple SegaCD questions

[DefaultGen]

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[clarkkr79]

In my opinion.... is snatcher worth $100 (in terms of fun and gameplay) no...But it's rare for a sega cd game, thus the $100.00 and $70 for a backup cart seems high, sega CD back up ram carts can be found for much less....

Sonic CD framerate - I have this on my copy.. granted has a few scratches but nothing really deep or bad, so I was surprised it ran so "choppy"...

[Daria]

Keep in mind that the Sega CD plays burns naturally. You may want to try Snatcher out before spending that kind of money on it.

Also $70 for a backup cart does seem really high. It was a few years ago but I bought mine on Ebay for $25.

[Gabriel]

The SegaCD has internal save memory. It isn't much. I imagine you should be able to save one game of Snatcher to it. Beyond that, I don't know if you'll have any space left. Some games were save hogs. Shining Force CD took up the most memory of the games I saw, requiring ALL the internal save space for a single game.

As for Sonic CD, I don't recall it's framerate. I do know the game doesn't age well at all. I remember thinking it was awesome back in the day, but just a couple of years later it seemed pretty lame. It's definitely overrated nowadays.

[DefaultGen]

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[Contrabassoon86]

It sounds like your internal memory's battery is fried. It would be cheaper to just buy a new sega cd player than purchase a back-up memory card.

[DefaultGen]

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[shopkins]

You don't need the ram cart. Unless you want to play several games at a time or play Shining Force CD and carry your characters over to the third scenario (IIRC), then it's just a handy thing to have. Don't pay $70 for it, anyway. I got mine for around $20.

I don't think it's cheaper to buy a new Sega Cd just because the battery is dead. Those batteries are easy to find at Radio Shack for like $2. Maybe your Ground Zero save is just corrupted?

http://www.digitpress.com/livefaq/index.php?sid=44497&lang=en&action=artikel&cat=73&id=14&artlang=en

[Blitzwing256]

snatcher uses an insignificant amount of save space (very little data needs to be saved for it) you won't need the backupram cart for it at all.

[DefaultGen]

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[Icarus Moonsight]

Yup, but Harry gives him to ya very early in the game. :)

[RugalSizzler]

Snatcher is a old old game from the not even DOS era and does not require alot of space. No my Sega CD is working fine and I could not careless unless I need it bad. Also some games might upgrade there need of space.

[veronica_marsfan]

Snatcher is a old old game from the not even DOS era.....

Huh?

Please translate what "from the not even DOS era" means.

[PsychedelicShaman]

You might not need the backup cart, but if you are going to invest $70 in it, you may as well get the tototek sega cd cart for a few bucks more.

http://products.genny4ever.net/megacart_v1x.html

[blue lander]

Huh?

Please translate what "from the not even DOS era" means.

I assume he's referring to the fact that Snatcher was originally a PC-88 game, which didn't run DOS.