Sakura Wars Saturn Cart
I came across a few of these and am not really sure what these are. I think these are memory cards, but I do not know a thing about Saturn. I put the cart in with no disc, and nothing happened. I put the cart in with a game (Die Hard Arcade) and nothing unusual happened. What is this thing and how do I use it?
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The Sakura Wars sticker was just a promo thing, I guess. Not familiar with the game, nor do I know if the game uses the RAM cart or not.
It's an extended RAM cart to help out with things like extra animation in specific games like Marvel Super Heroes. I think they come in like 1 or 4MB. Other games use it too, kinda like how the expansion pak on the N64 works. Not all games will function or show any notible differences though.
The Sakura Wars sticker was just a promo thing, I guess. Not familiar with the game, nor do I know if the game uses the RAM cart or not.
It could be a RAM cart specific to the Sakura Wars game. King of Fighters '95 on the Saturn came bundled with a RAM cart that had animation assets stored on the cart. You had to have that specific RAM cart inserted in your Saturn in order to play the Saturn port of KoF '95, though IIRC it functioned as a normal 1MB RAM cart for all other games. It might be the same case for that Sakura cart.
KOF 95 and some Ultraman game had actual ROM cartridges, there was no RAM in them.
Oh yeah, that's right. I could wrong, but the OP seems to have a RAM cart. I think I have one of those carts (Light gray cart compared to the RAM ones which are white and a dark gray)
The only thing is unlike RAM carts, KOF95 and Ultraman won't work without the ROM carts iicr.
It's an extended RAM cart to help out with things like extra animation in specific games like Marvel Super Heroes. I think they come in like 1 or 4MB. Other games use it too, kinda like how the expansion pak on the N64 works. Not all games will function or show any notible differences though.
The Sakura Wars sticker was just a promo thing, I guess. Not familiar with the game, nor do I know if the game uses the RAM cart or not.
It could be a RAM cart specific to the Sakura Wars game. King of Fighters '95 on the Saturn came bundled with a RAM cart that had animation assets stored on the cart. You had to have that specific RAM cart inserted in your Saturn in order to play the Saturn port of KoF '95, though IIRC it functioned as a normal 1MB RAM cart for all other games. It might be the same case for that Sakura cart.
Could be. As mentioned above, KOF95 uses a specific ROM cart. Given the color to the Sakura Wars cart led me to believe it's a RAM cart, so it could function as any other RAM cart (So I don't think it has stored assets?) Again, not real sure as I'm not too familiar with Japanese games and their carts.
Hopefully someone can chime in to confirm that it's just a normal RAM cart or not.
Memory cards, RAM carts, and ROM carts, do different things.
Obviously enough Saturn has only one cart slot. Making the carts, or game features reliant on them, mutually incompatible.
1MB RAM and 4MB RAM are two separate products. Depends on the game whether it's optional, both work, or just one works.
Ultraman is also a specific cart. Not interchangable with KOF95.