Re: Why'd you choose your username?
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I actually find the DC controller pretty comfortable. Most games don't use the D-pad much at all, and I don't mind the triggers any more than a 360 controller's.
I've tried to run Saturn games on emulators. It approaches impossible to play NiGHTs on emulator, partially because the Saturn is a really, really complex architecture (approaching as much raw power as a PS2, but broken up into over 8 processors).
NiGHTs does NOT run well on any of them. Possibly because it was a really taxing game for a Saturn in the first place, and written somewhat later in the console's life by the same company that designed the hardware. It runs on SSF and Satourne, although with severe graphical problems in both (and requires some coaxing even then). It requires lucky results from undefined behaviour to run on Yabause, but runs OK there--but with no sound, and takes several minutes to start. None of the emulators can play it off of disc (probably because the Saturn had an overcomplicated disc format), and making a rip of a Saturn game is really difficult.
And it's like that for a lot of Saturn games. I've tried for years, and there's no getting around it. Only about 50% of all Saturn games are playable in emulators, and almost none work perfectly.
However, there is still hope. You can buy NiGHTs for Windows on Steam. Or for PS3 on the PSN (but not in the US), or on Xbox 360 in the Xbox arcade.
The downside is that this version has removed content: no versus mode, the control is 24-way control (which is still not too bad) instead of analog angularity no matter the controller you use, and several easter eggs and hidden/end-game features are gone (like the final A-life stages, the secret Sonic level, and the secret demo-version of the first two levels). It does, however, come with some promo content, Christmas NiGHTs, but if you already have a Saturn you can buy that for extremely cheap online.