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Omg, this method is insane. So much margin for error, and you have to sacrifice a game for it too. What a wild time. I wonder what the most popular cheap game to use for this was? Probably some kinda sports game?
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Seems like a good guess–the disc shown there is Nihon Daihyou Team no Kantoku ni Narou! Sekaihatsu, Soccer RPG:
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i made matching discs for all my saturn-owning friends using a copy of panzer dragoon saga
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The original Japanese version of Digital Pinball: Last Gladiators comes in a case with a clear rather than the usual black hinge front, and a white rather than the usual black CD tray:
– https://www.ebay.com/itm/306038557530
Sega Worldwide Soccer '98 (J) has an all clear case:
– https://www.ebay.com/itm/396977056026
And apparently List of japanese Sega Saturn games that came packaged in a Medium CD Case - Satakore.com it’s a slightly thicker (~12mm) “medium” CD jewel case rather than the 10.4mm “standard” CD jewel case.
World Cup '98 France ~Road to Win~ (J) looks the same way:
– https://www.ebay.com/itm/305622850602
Are there any other Japanese Saturn games in these kinds of cases rather than the usual black plastic ones?
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Several. I’d have to pull down and check my entire 100+ disc collection though.
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Nice! Oh yeah I have VF Remix, it was the first or second Saturn game I got so I didn’t yet realize the clear case was unusual. ^ _^
Fascinating. Answers a lot of questions about what was the deal with Time Warner Interactive Japan (A: they were just Tengen)
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Fallout from Masaya Nakamura’s failed bid to break Nintendo’s hold on the North American market. ; )
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I just didn’t see how the same company could make stuff like Tama: Adventurous ball in giddy labyrinth. I can see it now. Kinda.
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