From: weaponx013@yahoo.com   
      
   BelPowerslave wrote:   
     > I wonder how Sega finally managed to get true 3D transparency going on   
   > the Saturn. I know 2D transparency was not only possible, but showed up   
   > in quite a few games...3D, though, seems like it was always just   
   > dithered bullshit.   
      
   Popular rhetoric is that Burning Rangers is using software coding to   
   "emulate" true 3D transparency.  If you asked me nobody knows how either   
   the PS1 or the Saturn really did anything except for the coders and   
   emulator guys.  The point I'd like to make is that if the Saturn could   
   handle 2D and 3D transparency *in software* in an adventure style game   
   like Burning Rangers it had no deficiency in 3D capabilities.   
      
   It is well documented that Sony's entry in the market temporarily   
   dropped the average development cycle to six months time.  This is   
   simply not enough time to make a great game, as later PS1 releases and   
   PS2 releases proved.  Six months was also not enough time to code custom   
   special effects into a system with seven processors *and* make a   
   functional game.  Most developers seemed to do the later and forgot   
   about all the clamoring they had done for the "right" to the former.   
      
   > I don't know, I'm hesitant to try it...I hear it both ways: That one   
   > could play it without knowing Japanese, and that you're totally screwed   
   > if you can't hear the lady screaming orders at you. I hate playing games   
   > through FAQs...   
      
   Well, for the price I'd try it and see what you think.  The American or   
   European releases are obviously preferable if you are willing to pay the   
   price.  I keep hoping for a disk only US version to land in my lap.   
      
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