November 11, 2017

★ SHIRO! PODCAST: EP 5 - Getting Saturn Online with NetLink over VoIP

1 hour 29 minutes

SEGA'S ONLINE HISTORY & NETLINK PLAY OVER VOIP

Official Saturn NetLink over VoIP Thread: https://www.dreamcast-talk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8453

Official Video Setup Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKNOhWgMCMY

SEGA RPG FAN (at Dreamcast-Talk): https://www.dreamcast-talk.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=58ItsStillThinking (at Dreamcast-Talk): https://www.dreamcast-talk.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=5587 Xiden (at Dreamcast-Talk): https://www.dreamcast-talk.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=7828

OPENING Obscure game of the cast: Gundam Side Stories

MAIN TOPIC:

Sega, ahead of their time...

Sega network based service started on the mega drive in 1990

Sega Channel

offered games for download

X-Band

modem was built in to later sega channel adapters

for the most part, matchmaking came about by reverse engineering the game code, then develop a hack to intercept 2 player activity.

Multi player Online MMO

Dragon's Dream

Phantasy Star Online

Technical Aspects

Hardware

Japanese Hardware

Sega Saturn Modem (XBand)

14.4kbps

Saturn media card requiring credits

required the XBand server for matchmaking

US Hardware

Netlink (Some XBand Technology)

28.8kbps

Direct dial only (no central server)Taisen Cable (DirectLink Cable)

Postby rush6432 » Wed Nov 03, 2010 5:52 pm

i did a ton of research on this a while back and ive got a copy of the euro version of doom and a few others.

i even got the pinouts for the cable and made an adaptor to allow the serial cable to link a console to a computer serial port and had a program tunneling the serial connection over the internet for internet play seemed to work but i only tested it on a LAN and not actually the internet. worked fine. internet play might work but im not sure how much if any lag there will be.

http://www.saturnleague.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=654&sid=a5f80701ca4f5a4c8cdb134952e4a484&start=15

Software

Japanese

Sega Saturn Modem

Daytona USA Circuit Edition

Decathlete

Dennou Senki Virtual-On

Dennou Senki Virtual-On Media Card Pack

Habitat II

Pad Nifty

Pad Nifty 1.1 & Habitat II

Puyo Puyo Sun

Puzzle Bobble 3

Saturn Bomberman

Sega Rally Championship Plus

Sega Saturn Internet 2

Sega Saturn Internet Vol. 1

Sega Worldwide Soccer '98

Shadows of the Tusk

Special Disc with Sega Saturn Internet 2

Virtua Fighter Remix

Dragon's Dream (a demo that is said to be the first online console RPG)

Taisen Cable

Daytona USA Circuit Edition

Doom

Gungriffon 2

Hexen (accessed through debug menu, very buggy)

Hyper 3D Taisen Battle Gebockers

Hyper Reverthion

Steeldom

Daytona USA demo (U)

Doom (U) (U has it, but E version seems to not have system link. J may have it, code is listed (unlike U or E).)

Independence Day (U)(present but nonfunctional)

Hexen (U) (U has it, but E verion seems to not have system link) (buggy)

Virtual-On: Cyber Troopers - Netlink Edition (U)

Dennou Senki: Virtual-On for SegaNet (J)

Wipeout (JUE) (this listing is probably wrong, can someone confirm? Not listed in code and no reviews mention it.)

Wipeout XL/2097 (JE) (as above, this game probably does NOT have system link. Not listed in code, etc.)

Duke Nukem 3D (U) (U version is listed as having DirectLink support in its code and does have it; E version does not have it (neither code nor support))

Daytona USA: Circuit Edition (J)

Gun Griffon 2 (J)

Steeldom (J)

Shadows of the Tusk (J) (unconfirmed, listed as having it in code)

Saturn Bomberman (U) (unconfirmed, listed as having it in code)

Sega Rally Championship Plus (J) (unconfirmed, listed as having it in code)

Puyo Puyo Sun for SegaNet (J)

Hyper 3D Taisen Battle Gebockers (J)

Sega Touring Car Championship (JUE) (unconfirmed, listed as having it in code)

Densetsu no Ogre Battle (J) (unconfirmed, listed as having it in code)

Netlink Browser (PlanetWeb Internet Browser V. 1.135) (unconfirmed, listed as having it in code)

Decathalete for SegaNet (J)

Dragon's Dream

https://forum.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?136448-Saturn-system-link-question

Europe

Taisen Cable

Doom

Hexen (accessed through debug menu, very buggy)

Netlink Modem

Taisen Cable

Hexen (accessed through debug menu, very buggy)

Independence Day (Manual makes reference to the feature, but it appears to be removed from the menu. Possibly accessible via cheat code or hex hacking)

GUEST INTERVIEW: Sega RPG Fan & ItsStillThinking1999 from the Dreamcast-Talk forums talk NetLink over VoIP.

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Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/playsegasaturn

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November 11, 2017

★ SHIRO! PODCAST: EP 5 - Getting Saturn Online with NetLink over VoIP

1 hour 29 minutes

SEGA'S ONLINE HISTORY & NETLINK PLAY OVER VOIP

Official Saturn NetLink over VoIP Thread: https://www.dreamcast-talk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8453

Official Video Setup Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKNOhWgMCMY

OPENING Obscure game of the cast: Gundam Side Stories

MAIN TOPIC:

Sega, ahead of their time...

Sega network based service started on the mega drive in 1990

Sega Channel

offered games for download

X-Band

modem was built in to later sega channel adapters

for the most part, matchmaking came about by reverse engineering the game code, then develop a hack to intercept 2 player activity.

Multi player Online MMO

Dragon's Dream

Phantasy Star Online

Technical Aspects

Hardware

Japanese Hardware

Sega Saturn Modem (XBand)

14.4kbps

Saturn media card requiring credits

required the XBand server for matchmaking

US Hardware

Netlink (Some XBand Technology)

28.8kbps

Direct dial only (no central server)Taisen Cable (DirectLink Cable)

Postby rush6432 » Wed Nov 03, 2010 5:52 pm

i did a ton of research on this a while back and ive got a copy of the euro version of doom and a few others.

http://www.saturnleague.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=654&sid=a5f80701ca4f5a4c8cdb134952e4a484&start=15

Software

Japanese

Sega Saturn Modem

Daytona USA Circuit Edition

Decathlete

Dennou Senki Virtual-On

Dennou Senki Virtual-On Media Card Pack

Habitat II

Pad Nifty

Pad Nifty 1.1 & Habitat II

Puyo Puyo Sun

Puzzle Bobble 3

Saturn Bomberman

Sega Rally Championship Plus

Sega Saturn Internet 2

Sega Saturn Internet Vol. 1

Sega Worldwide Soccer '98

Shadows of the Tusk

Special Disc with Sega Saturn Internet 2

Virtua Fighter Remix

Dragon's Dream (a demo that is said to be the first online console RPG)

Taisen Cable

Daytona USA Circuit Edition

Doom

Gungriffon 2

Hexen (accessed through debug menu, very buggy)

Hyper 3D Taisen Battle Gebockers

Hyper Reverthion

Steeldom

Daytona USA demo (U)

Doom (U) (U has it, but E version seems to not have system link. J may have it, code is listed (unlike U or E).)

Independence Day (U)(present but nonfunctional)

Hexen (U) (U has it, but E verion seems to not have system link) (buggy)

Virtual-On: Cyber Troopers - Netlink Edition (U)

Dennou Senki: Virtual-On for SegaNet (J)

Wipeout (JUE) (this listing is probably wrong, can someone confirm? Not listed in code and no reviews mention it.)

Wipeout XL/2097 (JE) (as above, this game probably does NOT have system link. Not listed in code, etc.)

Duke Nukem 3D (U) (U version is listed as having DirectLink support in its code and does have it; E version does not have it (neither code nor support))

Daytona USA: Circuit Edition (J)

Gun Griffon 2 (J)

Steeldom (J)

Shadows of the Tusk (J) (unconfirmed, listed as having it in code)

Saturn Bomberman (U) (unconfirmed, listed as having it in code)

Sega Rally Championship Plus (J) (unconfirmed, listed as having it in code)

Puyo Puyo Sun for SegaNet (J)

Hyper 3D Taisen Battle Gebockers (J)

Sega Touring Car Championship (JUE) (unconfirmed, listed as having it in code)

Densetsu no Ogre Battle (J) (unconfirmed, listed as having it in code)

Netlink Browser (PlanetWeb Internet Browser V. 1.135) (unconfirmed, listed as having it in code)

Decathalete for SegaNet (J)

Dragon's Dream

https://forum.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?136448-Saturn-system-link-question

Europe

Taisen Cable

Doom

Hexen (accessed through debug menu, very buggy)

Netlink Modem

Taisen Cable

Hexen (accessed through debug menu, very buggy)

Independence Day (Manual makes reference to the feature, but it appears to be removed from the menu. Possibly accessible via cheat code or hex hacking)

GUEST INTERVIEW: Sega RPG Fan & ItsStillThinking1999 from the Dreamcast-Talk forums talk NetLink over VoIP.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PlaySegaSaturn

Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/playsegasaturn

Website: https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/

Buy our merch at: https://segasaturnshiro.threadless.com/

Support us on our Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/shiromediagroup

Join our Discord to discuss translation patches, Saturn obscurities, and all things SEGA Saturn!: https://discord.gg/SSJuThN

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