should i buy Sonic Jam...

Uhhh... lemme think...
OF COURSE YOU SHOULD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dude, not just uk, it's rare in the U.S. too
and you can find a really cheap saturn at amazon

 

Dude, never ask a question as simple as that! Of course you should get it! That's almost like being young, still believing in Santa, and telling your parents you don't want Santa to bring you presents. Go out and that game now!

 

Yes, you must go buy it now! I own it and it rulz man! No really, it's a great game. I should get another copy because mine is all scratched up.

 

*hugs his Saturn* My preciousssssss...

 

I bought it for less than €10 even though I don't own a Saturn... It's a nice thing to have since you can get a couple of wallpapers, take a look at the scanned manuals, watch all those funny commercials as well as the Sonic Ride (BonanzaBrothers-ish Eggman included), and even listen to some of the low quality in-game music if you're bored enough.

 

*takes a "LOTR Dialogue Converter", records quickman's saying, and hear a loud "MY PRECIOUS!*

Seriously though, BUY IT! You never know what might happen.

 

If for no other reason, perhaps you could find a way to get a saturn emu going? *wink wink*

 

AFAIK there are no Saturn emulators yet that run Sonic Jam without glitches. The conversions of the Genesis games are really slow, and Sonic World is so glitchy it's unbelievable.

But still, I think you should get it even if you don't have a Saturn. What if you get a Saturn later? You could also extract the Sonic Museum files and Digital Manuals directly off the disc with your PC!

A word of warning - handle the disc as if it were made of platinum! The smallest scratch on the surface or back of the disc will affect the game. Mine no longer plays the Sonic 3 Special and Bonus Stage music, it just plays the first 1/4 second over and over. I've also heard other people have got problems such as certain games not loading, or it freezing when you enter one of Sonic World's buildings.

Edit: You can view the Digital Manuals on PC with a standard image editor (such as Photoshop) that can handle TIFF files. If you want to view the History of Sonic images, and the Character House images, you'll either need to fiddle around with RAW image settings, or get a program called Suzie which can extract them in color.

 

Yea but I like how the CD is built up. Instead of having ROMs, there are data files seperated from the code files, and that makes Sonic Jam so exclusive when compared to Sonic Mega Collection

 

So the ROMs are actually recompiled to run on a Saturn?! :shocked:
Surely that could help answer some questions about how files are stored in ROMs?

 

The data is the exact same format as the Genesis games, but the code is appearing in another machine code than M68k. Still the layout of the code is the same... or at least close to. Also the game is running almost identically as the Genesis versions, so I'm a little bit confused about how it was ported.

 

In fact, only some of the Sonic 2 2-player level music is stored in AIFF format. The rest are stored in ADP format, and so far I haven't been able to find a player that can play Saturn-encoded ADP files.
I've tried renaming them to AIFF, dragging them into an AIFF player, opening them as RAW - no luck.

 

The engine works the same, but the hardware is so different that it may feel different. The HBlank is working way different. And the 32 tile mode which you can see in Sonic 2's special stage are stretched so the text is in non-aspect resolution