This game:
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While I have never tried any, I donât believe any of the Saturn cores have the the Video CD card implemented. Looking through the docs for Beetle Saturn, I do not see any mention of it. Not even sure any standalone emulators do either.
Looks like the list of games that were compatible with the cards is pretty small, and only Lunar required it.
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Like what Neofuuma said, there does not seem to be anyone working on tools to emulate Video CD cards or the Hi-Saturn required to run this game. This may be the best version of Lunar 1, and it will be lost to time. (melodrama)
Are you sure about this ? The yabause-based cores seem to have a driver for mpeg card emulation : https://github.com/libretro/yabause/blob/master/yabause/src/mpeg_card.c
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LOL Itâs not that big a deal,
the PSX version is better and itâs in English.
Although Iâm always surprised to find unemulated and lost stuff, like the Mega Drive LaserDisc.
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This made me too funny, it reminded me of a memeâŠ
All the emulation sites, all the forums, all the youtubers, absolutely all the internet community:
âLunar Complete canât be emulated, only original hardwareâ.
KRONOS:
Edit:
I think I got excited before my time, the game gets stuck when loading a video, it stays on black screen.
I loaded the game by skipping videos with Start until I got to this first scene and I thought it worked.
Now that I try to try again leaving the animations, it stays in black and does not advance. You canât go beyond that scene because the video that follows canât be skipped.
Something curious, if Force HLE BIOS is activated, the game starts directly on the screen that needs the video card.
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There is this emulator called Nova (v0.70) that can emulate this game beautifully, Lunar Silver Star Story Complete - Sega Saturn
You need a Video CD Card ROM though, but itâs basically perfect.
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Beetle Saturn apparently added MPEG support
Seems it expects a file called âmpeg_card.binâ in the system folder which (I think) is just the file âmpr-17773e-t.ic303â renamed -itself found in the MAME set hivcd2d.zip, itself found in the MAME softlist âsat_vccartâ. This is just based off what I found right now however and the expected file could be something else. The core doesnât tell you if you have the right file when you go into âcore infoâ.
So far, had no success getting Lunar Saturn to work (just gets the no video card found message at boot). If anyone has any luck getting MPEG card to work with the beetle core let me know in the thread.
What you need is firmware for a Saturn MPEG card. I found 7 different firmware versions here: https://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=97184#Post97184
Rename the .bin file inside to Mpeg_card.bin according to the core instructions and then put it in the System folder. But Iâve tried all 7 documents, and none of them work.
Itâs most likely the PAL version, which is the same as the âvcd.zipâ file in the MAME software list, but it doesnât work either.
It looks like thereâs a lot going onâthese two are now showing up on this screen, just like Kronos, and as for Emir, I have no ideaâit wonât open.
Eringâs open-source Saturn emulator seems to have pulled off a miracle with Lunar and other MPEG titles. I havenât been able to test it yet.
Yeah, itâs bugged if you use 150% display scaling.