Welcome to the new version of Satakore.com - The Ultimate Sega Saturn Source
The site is still in beta, but it is now online for all of you, after so much work and so much time spent on it
First of all, really thanks to all of our beta testers: DemonKN, gilles_sat, infernalcombustion, pxl, Shaolinsoul, sheath, sonix, Stuart36, synbiosfan and Yart (registered) plus Drury and rorirub (not registered).
So, among the innovations:
•whole site coded in UTF-8
•whole site recoded for better optimisation
•New host for better experience in browsing
•The Host is now fully compatible with IPv6
•Privacy Policy + Terms and Conditions added (links at the bottom). Please read them as you need to accept them to use Satakore.com
•Each page has now its own counter (on the right)
•QR Code added for our Smartphone addicts
•The Database has been updated:
•Some new games added (more than 24)
•Some new demos added (more than 9)
•Ability to search by Japanese and Korean titles
•Displaying alternate Serial Numbers in the search results
•Displaying alternate Japanese and Korean titles in the search results
•Better overall presentation
•All the Japanese titles have been checked and revised if necessary
•Sega Saturn "Best of Games" modified and now maintained by Murazame
•Adding some new information to each entry:
•Revised Hepburn (Hebon-shiki) romanization for every Japanese titles (if different than WordPro romanization)
•Nippon-shiki romanization for every Japanese titles (if different than WordPro romanization)
•Kunrei-shiki romanization for every Japanese titles (if different than WordPro romanization)
•Alternate Titles for some Japanese titles
•Translated Titles for some Japanese titles
•Languages found on the back cover, especially for European games
•Languages found in the manual, especially for European games
•"Alt. Versions" revised
•"From the Same Series" added
•Data Collection added: list of every items found on each games/demos (manual, back cover, case, spincard, regcard, goodies,...) + their serial numbers if available (like for games released by Sega). That was a HUGE work to do!
•List of Revisions (v1.000, v1.001, v2.000,...) with all the data to identify them (header data, cd data,...)
•List of Minor Revisions (cover variations, goodies variations, cd artwork variations,...)
•List of games with available Promo Sleeves
•And many more...
•MySatakore.com is online:
•Register as a member
•Manage your profile
•Change the background color of the site (maybe you will be able to have complete new templates in the future)
•Manage your collection for each game/demo in Standard Mode: just manage your games and demos easily. You will have to define the completion of the game/demo as a whole.
•Manage your collection for each game/demo in Full Mode: if you want to manage all the items in your collection. You will have to define the completion of your game/demo for EVERY items that make the game/demo complete, like CD, Manual, Case, Back Cover, Spincard, Regcard, etc.
•We are the only Sega Saturn website, and probably the only videogame website on all the Internet, that let you manage your collection with so much details: you can manage EVERY items of every games. This is not just a list of cover/manual/disc computed automatically but a list made by me by checking manually every games and demos. Right now, there are more than 14 300 items and their associated serial numbers listed on satakore.com, just for the Sega Saturn.
•Manage your collection: check the state of your collection directly on the search result
•Manage your collection: check your stats directly on the database
•Check who has which game
•Manage your collection of Revisions and check who have them
•Manage your collection of Minor Revisions and check who have them
•Manage your collection of Promo Sleeves and check who have them
•Check other members' collection (if they let you see them) and their stats
•See the Stats of all the members on a special page
•And many more...
Some works need to be completed, like adding a lot of new pictures, infos and other things. This will be for future updates
Enough talk, have fun with this new version!