Thankfully, the vast majority of the Saturn’s library will work with the Satiator, including games from different regions in addition to ROM hacks and fan translations, which more than makeup for the incompatibility with a few, mostly obscure titles. What makes the Satiator special, unlike other solutions made for the SEGA Saturn, such as the Fenrir ODE kit, which requires opening the console and replacing the actual drive mechanism with the Fenrir board, the Satiator instead plugs into the VCD-port of the Saturn, without the need to open anything (unless you count a drive bay cover). Thankfully, this is where Professor Abrasive comes in, a retro-enthusiast and electronic guru, and the mad scientist responsible for reverse-engineering the SEGA Saturn, eventually creating the Satiator-a laser-bypass solution that allows loading game image files from SD card media. To make matters worse, the lone game I did own, a Japanese copy of Marvel Super Heroes VS Street Fighter, which I got for its included 4 MB expansion RAM cartridge, failed to boot consistently due to the aging laser of the Saturn. Now I have a new problem, Saturn games, particularly North American releases, are notoriously expensive, not to mention region-locking headaches caused by ordering a Japanese model 1 Saturn.
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