Playing Sega Saturn games with multiple discs?

[Avowian]

New to emulation(mostly), and I'm just curious about how to handle this before I start anything multi-disc. I'm running Saturn through retroarch, if that effect anything.

[niglurion]

Saturn, PS1, PS2 or gamecube is the same thing, you can add any disc as additional apps. After that, you will see dics 2, dics 3,... with right click (or in the game menu in BigBox). Edit a game (ctrl + e), additional apps tab and add application... And set it like that (use emulator box checked): Otherwise changing disc when you're playing is directly inside emulator GUI. For RetroArch go to Core Disk Options > Disk Image Append. I hope I have helped you

[Lordmonkus]

Just out of curiosity, does the Saturn Yabause core actually run at a playable speed for you ? It runs god awfully slow for me on a 4 ghz AMD cpu. The standalone Yabause and SSF run fine for me but from what I have read on the retroarch forums the RA core doens't have the dynarec compiler in it yet and doesn't have the opengl support the standalone has.

[niglurion]

I've a i7 4770k o/c to 4.3GHz, and the few games I tested were ok on the yabause core (Shining Force III, Panzer Dragoon II, Daytona USA, Albert Odyssey, Mega Man 8, The Legend of Oasis). Not as smooth as the standalone one (much more glitchs/artefacts), but the framerate was good.

[Lordmonkus]

Probably an AMD thing then, oh well. Saturn emulation is in such a poor state, it really needs the same attention the Playstation and Dolphin emulators got. I'd imagine coding up a Saturn emu to be a very painful task considering how notorious it was just to make games for.

[DOS76]

Honestly SSF is a pain in the ass but once you get it going it works very well on a lot of games (Also sometimes different versions run games that the newest version doesn't). I know it isn't great definitely isn't intuitive and it requires 3rd party disc software but it is actually a good working emulator. This of course doesn't even go over what a pain in the ass it is to use in LaunchBox with setting up all the additional apps (of course if you can get the .bat working it saves time but for me the .bat doesn't start as many games as the additional apps method does). Also with Saturn the additional app method doesn't work since you have to actually mount the .cue before you run it or at least it doesn't work with how I have everything setup.

[Avowian]

Thank you so much ^^

[Lordmonkus]

Yeah I got mine setup with SSF and the bat file to mount and unmount games but the Saturn still needs a good emulator that's easy to use like ePSXe or an improves Yabause core for Retroarch.

[DOS76]

That would be great but isn't really likely to happen.

[SentaiBrad]

The reason I chose Yabause out of the two is not because either has good emulation, but because Yabause is easier to use. In RA there is a swap disc function, at least for PS1. I don't know if it exists or works for Saturn.

[DOS76]

SSF lets you swap discs but it entails leaving full screen opening your virtual disk tray mounting the new disk in Daemon Tools (or whatever equivalent you may be using) then closing your disk tray again. So while doable it isn't pretty.