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I bought one with a controller and Virtua Cop for $5 yesterday at a flea market. In your opinion, what are the must-have games? Best place to buy games? And, what's the deal with regional lockout? [/seinfield.]

Thanks.

Ebay...And um there is a way to trick the Saturn into playing Japanese games without any mods, search for "Saturn disc swap" or something like that.

Pawn shops, swap meets / car boots. Most Saturn games are inexpensive.

I don't know if it works for USA saturns, but if you have a pal saturn, you can simply use an action replay cartridge and play nearly all other-region games.

Games:
Sega Rally Championship
Die Hard Arcade
Panzer Dragoon Saga
Tomb Raider (although the playstation version is better)
House of the Dead

Yeah, the Action Replay works for playing games from other regions; it just plugs into the cartridge port. I use one with the 4 meg memory expansion to play the Japanese X-Men vs Street Fighter and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night with no problems.

Nights Into Dreams.  one of my top favorite games of all time.  And if you can find it with the controller, even better.

Funny thing, I have a Nights controller, but no game :P  At least I think I do...it looks like a prototype DC controller or something...

Maybe. But most of the games are more than what I am willing to pay, which is like $10 a game complete and mint. When you get some rarities and popular games for next to nothing, paying a little more seems like a lot, ya know?

One of the games I have is Virtua Cop 2, that's a great game. Area 51 and Iron Storm are somethings to look for as well.

You can't go wrong getting Virtua Fighter 2.

It is one of the best games they ever had for the system.

Not quite as good as the Arcade version. But, a nice attempt none the less.

Virtua Fighter 2, Virtua Cop, Bug, Sega Rally, and various ports of 3do games are all good.  They have some decent rpgs and shooters on this system as well.

Another vote for both Sega Rally and Tomb Raider.

Nights and the Panzer Dragoon games.  I thought Bug and Mr. Bones was alright, too.

I love Die Hard Arcade.  If you can get a copy for under a bazillion dollars, Shining Force 3 is arguably the best of the entire series.

$15? very excellent buy

Only willing to pay around  $10 for a rare mint game?!
I don't know any system you'll get that kind of luxury.

Here is a great link for the must haves though.
http://millartime.com/videogames/segasaturn.htm

Oh, I got lucky, but I was so impressed that I was spoiled by the whole experence. :(

Well it's true that general second hand stores don't know the value of rare games,
so you may still get lucky once again yet ^^

youre going to be lucky to find any complete saturn games for under 10 bucks, the oversize jewel cases are extremely brittle, and most are in bad shape once they hit a store shelf. 

Or if you were a pal collector, you've got the problem of the original games having these hybrid, part plastic part cardboard cases that come apart easy :S
Thankfully newer titles were in pure plastic cases that very closely resemble today's DVD cases.

Japanese games are great, normal jewel cases, if they break just get anew one ^^