I think it's up to you to find the files; as I believe emulation sites that discuss emulation and or make emulators that don't host room files, avoid directly linking to bios files to avoid the same problems hosting game roms causes.
Dude, thank you, since the version of retro arch that I have is through Steam and not through the developers themselves and it has been updated since this video upload, I was able to add the bios files in as you instructed and now I can also play the Saturn port for Sonic 3d blast, it works well for me since I am using a W10 tower with upper-middle specs
Very nice guide, however, i've been trying to get it set up and Retroarch keeps not getting the Sega Saturn as a playlist, not playing the games. I can load the content manually now that I've found the bios, however, I still don't get a list but instead get a Wii playlist that says "Genesis Plus GX"
Your timing couldn't be better. I was searching for a guide to play Saturn this weekend! Thanks! Just a quick question, why you use Beetle instead of Kronos?
Perfect! I've stuck with Beetle Saturn as that's what I've been familiar with and have not had many issues with it, it seems pretty robust, granted there aren't quite as much config options with Beetle Saturn, but I've gone for tried and tested from personal experience rather than anything else. I'll definitely give Kronos a look though as though as I hear it's come on a long way.
@@HowtoRetro I will give both a try. I remember using Kronos a while back, it worked well. Will try Beetle this time. Just have to decide which games to grab. Here in Brazil, Sega was so dominant. I played on my cousin's Master System, than I got a Genesis for myself but switched to a Playstation later in 99 ~ 2000. But I remember seeing all those fighting games arcade perfect running on the Saturn and being impressed. But compete twith the PSX 3D library made Sega loose traction even here.
@@nukedoom I've always been amazed when I read about the stamina of Sega systems in Brazil, particularly the Master System. But yes, the Saturn really was underappreciated at the time, 3D games were the new thing and it just didn't get the support it perhaps deserved due to the PlayStations quickly established dominance. Some great fighting games as you say though!
Awesome video! But I seem to have encountered a problem with the emulation as I tested sega rally championship and it often dipped a bit when playing the game. Which is odd given that my pc has some powerful stats (10th gen i7 and rtx 2060). Are there some settings I can tweak to improve the performance or do I have to wait for more beetle saturn optimization?
I have followed every step, to the T. It doesn't create a playlist for the Saturn games for me. So I tried something. I already had the cores downloaded, so I loaded the Beetle core, then from the RA main menu (not desktop menu) I clicked Load Content, browsed to the Saturn file I wanted (I wasn't sure whether to load the iso or bin. So I tried both just to be sure.) and lo and behold, *it didn't work* . So I tried it with all my diff games, to make sure it wasn't just the 1, and it stopped prompting me to use Beetle (took it off the menu altogether), and crashed when other cores were selected. So I gave up. Overall just a very unreliable emulator (my opinion,as this is not my first experience with RA), would like suggestions for a direct emulator? If you know any.
Sorry to hear you have not had much luck with Retroarch. I used to use Mednafen for Sega Saturn, it is recommended you use a front end for Mednafen too as Mednafen is command line driven without a front end. Ive recently seen Mednaffe as a front end for Mednafen which looks pretty good. Hooe this helps.
working on trying to get some saturn emulation working on my install of retro arch. I have installed the bios and downloaded each core available in retro arch to try. only sanshiro and yabusa show up when setting the core association for each game and so far every game either does nothing or is completely broken some help would be greatly appreciated
First thing to check are that the bios files detailed in the guide are named correctly and in the correct folder. Also what file format are your games in, are your using cue/bin files?
This was super helpful. I got the bios and now my Saturn games load... But I only get to the Saturn screen and they won't go any further. I can't find anything about this online so of you know anything about this that would be awesome!
There are only some file types that Retroarch runs for each console, or that each core does. *.cue and *.chd seem to work in my expercience; but You might have some problems with others, you could find info on that. Hope this is helpful.
I ran everything as you did, including downloading the bios file, but it's running at an appallingly slow speed. I must have tried four emulators now and they've all got issues, either too slow, way too fast, or won't load at all. I think I'm going have to give up on Saturn emulation. I'm totally gutted, because although I've got the console still, the games are far too rare and expensive.
Dude I'm in the same boat. Done everything step by step, I have the bios files, tried all the cores, but the results are always the same: Scratchy audio with various slowdown issues. Ok so my set up ain't powerful, a £500 Lenuvo ryzen 5 laptop. But considering the ps1 and dreamcast emulation is pretty good/great on it, I expected the Saturn to run with little issues 😕 Did you solve the issue?
@@jamesbevan4479 not with laptop emulation. I bought an ODE mod for my existing Saturn console, enabling me to upload game files onto an SD card. It's cost me about £180, which includes the cost of a 400GB SD card, but it's been worth it. Certainly a far cheaper option than buying the physical games, although obviously not as cheap as an emulator. At least I can use the original hardware and controllers this way!
@@Nightopian1982 I've seen other youtubers using sd card modded consoles, looks and runs great. Nothings gonna beat the original hardware at the end of the day, not unless I use a high powered pc. I'm happy with what my laptop can do, 8bit+16bit is perfect and ps1 is fine. The saturn roms can wait until I get a super saiyon pc 😏
@@jamesbevan4479 For full speed Saturn emulation use Mednafen (The Standalone) and Mednaffee front end. It takes some setting up but it works really well. The Retrobit Saturn Controllers even work with it.
![[PC/ROG Ally] Retroarch Sega Saturn Emulation Setup Guide - 2023 Edition](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/sG2OUtcZt6I/mqdefault.jpg)
Please I’m slow can some one lead me to where I can download these files I went to the page but could not download help
Thank you! Easy to follow and no messing around.
How do you even download the the BIOS files when it there's no download option?
I think it's up to you to find the files; as I believe emulation sites that discuss emulation and or make emulators that don't host room files, avoid directly linking to bios files to avoid the same problems hosting game roms causes.
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Thank you so much!!! Very clear and easy!!!!
It works!!!!
I'll watch for sure other your videos for n64 and ps3.
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Nice, detailed and clear guide. Thank you! It helped me alot
Straight forward and to the point. Thank you!
Dude, thank you, since the version of retro arch that I have is through Steam and not through the developers themselves and it has been updated since this video upload, I was able to add the bios files in as you instructed and now I can also play the Saturn port for Sonic 3d blast, it works well for me since I am using a W10 tower with upper-middle specs
Very nice guide, however, i've been trying to get it set up and Retroarch keeps not getting the Sega Saturn as a playlist, not playing the games. I can load the content manually now that I've found the bios, however, I still don't get a list but instead get a Wii playlist that says "Genesis Plus GX"
this is great. simple, to the point. Love it
Thanks for the guide btw, really easy to follow
Glad you found it useful! :)
Your timing couldn't be better. I was searching for a guide to play Saturn this weekend! Thanks!
Just a quick question, why you use Beetle instead of Kronos?
Perfect! I've stuck with Beetle Saturn as that's what I've been familiar with and have not had many issues with it, it seems pretty robust, granted there aren't quite as much config options with Beetle Saturn, but I've gone for tried and tested from personal experience rather than anything else.
I'll definitely give Kronos a look though as though as I hear it's come on a long way.
@@HowtoRetro I will give both a try. I remember using Kronos a while back, it worked well. Will try Beetle this time. Just have to decide which games to grab. Here in Brazil, Sega was so dominant. I played on my cousin's Master System, than I got a Genesis for myself but switched to a Playstation later in 99 ~ 2000. But I remember seeing all those fighting games arcade perfect running on the Saturn and being impressed. But compete twith the PSX 3D library made Sega loose traction even here.
@@nukedoom I've always been amazed when I read about the stamina of Sega systems in Brazil, particularly the Master System.
But yes, the Saturn really was underappreciated at the time, 3D games were the new thing and it just didn't get the support it perhaps deserved due to the PlayStations quickly established dominance. Some great fighting games as you say though!
which exact file for games is it because im confused on games part
failed to load content ?
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Awesome video! But I seem to have encountered a problem with the emulation as I tested sega rally championship and it often dipped a bit when playing the game. Which is odd given that my pc has some powerful stats (10th gen i7 and rtx 2060). Are there some settings I can tweak to improve the performance or do I have to wait for more beetle saturn optimization?
Why is when I tried playing sonic 3d blast it only runs if the retro arch menu is up and when I close the menu it’s extremely choppy? Help?
I have followed every step, to the T. It doesn't create a playlist for the Saturn games for me. So I tried something.
I already had the cores downloaded, so I loaded the Beetle core, then from the RA main menu (not desktop menu) I clicked Load Content, browsed to the Saturn file I wanted (I wasn't sure whether to load the iso or bin. So I tried both just to be sure.) and lo and behold, *it didn't work* .
So I tried it with all my diff games, to make sure it wasn't just the 1, and it stopped prompting me to use Beetle (took it off the menu altogether), and crashed when other cores were selected. So I gave up.
Overall just a very unreliable emulator (my opinion,as this is not my first experience with RA), would like suggestions for a direct emulator? If you know any.
Sorry to hear you have not had much luck with Retroarch. I used to use Mednafen for Sega Saturn, it is recommended you use a front end for Mednafen too as Mednafen is command line driven without a front end.
Ive recently seen Mednaffe as a front end for Mednafen which looks pretty good.
Hooe this helps.
@@HowtoRetro I'll check into it. Certainly couldn't hurt.
i keep getting mixer for audio game wont load
Did you figure it out? Im getting the same on emudeck
how i can download the bios files.?.. where is the link?. i cannot find it
I need the link also
ruclips.net/video/v-GXSPLuXdM/видео.html
I did all the steps, when I clicked run game, Retroarch closed and nothing happeed.
it crashed if it closes by its self
it looks nothing like it, it changed
It doesn't create a Sega Saturn Playlist for me at all
is there a Saturn core that has upscaling features ? this works fine, but looks pretty bad
the emulator support ps3 controller or not
i followed every single step and the emulator still very laggy, practically unplayable. i need a good computer to boot saturn games?
Thanks for the guide :-)
A pleasure!
When I try to load a rom . It says failed to load
same problem
This emulator is the best sega saturn emulator ive used, a lot better than mednafen
Absolute hero!
Did they remove the cores on ps Vita ?
Does this work properly on an og Xbox yet?
I’m only getting around 50fps emulating Saturn games on a pretty powerful PC. Any idea what I could do?
The games you load are PAL region? PAL games runs at 50fps
Thanks so much! 🎉
working on trying to get some saturn emulation working on my install of retro arch. I have installed the bios and downloaded each core available in retro arch to try. only sanshiro and yabusa show up when setting the core association for each game and so far every game either does nothing or is completely broken some help would be greatly appreciated
Hey! OK, so first of all are you using the PC version of RetroArch?
@@HowtoRetro having the same problem..followed every step and then the emulator just goes to the audio player screen
does this work with Yabause too?
I'm trying to load up a rom, but it keeps booting me into the Saturn menu and I have no idea how to start a game. Any solutions?
First thing to check are that the bios files detailed in the guide are named correctly and in the correct folder.
Also what file format are your games in, are your using cue/bin files?
@@HowtoRetro They were in .cue and .iso format and they also came with mp3 tracks for whatever reason.
This was super helpful. I got the bios and now my Saturn games load... But I only get to the Saturn screen and they won't go any further. I can't find anything about this online so of you know anything about this that would be awesome!
There are only some file types that Retroarch runs for each console, or that each core does. *.cue and *.chd seem to work in my expercience; but You might have some problems with others, you could find info on that. Hope this is helpful.
i have buttons missing, jump etc I'm using retroarch in android, any help?
cant find the bios files anywhere?? doesnt anyone have a link that would have been helpful.
ruclips.net/video/v-GXSPLuXdM/видео.html bios files for everything...
Do the setup Work on Wii u?
I'm not sure to he honest as I've not used RetroArch on the Wii U.
I ran everything as you did, including downloading the bios file, but it's running at an appallingly slow speed. I must have tried four emulators now and they've all got issues, either too slow, way too fast, or won't load at all.
I think I'm going have to give up on Saturn emulation. I'm totally gutted, because although I've got the console still, the games are far too rare and expensive.
its no link to download the bios where did you find them
Dude I'm in the same boat. Done everything step by step, I have the bios files, tried all the cores, but the results are always the same:
Scratchy audio with various slowdown issues.
Ok so my set up ain't powerful, a £500 Lenuvo ryzen 5 laptop. But considering the ps1 and dreamcast emulation is pretty good/great on it, I expected the Saturn to run with little issues 😕
Did you solve the issue?
@@jamesbevan4479 not with laptop emulation. I bought an ODE mod for my existing Saturn console, enabling me to upload game files onto an SD card. It's cost me about £180, which includes the cost of a 400GB SD card, but it's been worth it. Certainly a far cheaper option than buying the physical games, although obviously not as cheap as an emulator.
At least I can use the original hardware and controllers this way!
@@Nightopian1982 I've seen other youtubers using sd card modded consoles, looks and runs great. Nothings gonna beat the original hardware at the end of the day, not unless I use a high powered pc.
I'm happy with what my laptop can do, 8bit+16bit is perfect and ps1 is fine.
The saturn roms can wait until I get a super saiyon pc 😏
@@jamesbevan4479 For full speed Saturn emulation use Mednafen (The Standalone) and Mednaffee front end. It takes some setting up but it works really well. The Retrobit Saturn Controllers even work with it.
thanks mam
Too bad i dont have a controller
You can use your keyboard if you really have no other option!