The Saturn is a shmup El Dorado. There are many vertical shmups (especially arcade ports) that offer a TATE mode to use the full (horizontal) resolution of the SD CRTs back then.
In the old days you would just rotate your small tv, in the days of large flatscreens that is nigh impossible.
I would love a "compensate Tate for HDMI" feature that rotates the game picture 90 degrees to the left (but leaves the menu horizontal).
Sadly Robert Peip decided to not add that feature to the PS1 core but on the Saturn there are much more vertical shmups with Tate mode. Games like Image Fight look rather squished and low rez when played in standard pillarboxed mode.
These 30 games offer Tate:
1942, 1943 and 1943 Kai (Capcom Generations 1)
Batsugun
Battle Garegga
CrimeWave (hold L+Y and press Z)
DonPachi
DoDonPachi
The Game Paradise!
Gekirindan
Gunbird
Gun Frontier
Gun.Smoke, Mercs and Commando (Capcom Generations IV)
Kingdom Grandprix
Kyukyoku Tigers 2 Plus
Image Fight
Rayforce (aka Galactic Attack/Layer Section)
Shienryu
Skull Fang
Sonic Wings Special
Strikers 1945
Strikers 1945 II
Up'n Down, Pengo and Head On (Sega Ages: Volume 1)
Vulgus and Exed Exes (Capcom Generations)
Zippy Race (Irem Arcade Classics)
The Saturn is a shmup El Dorado. There are many vertical shmups (especially arcade ports) that offer a TATE mode to use the full (horizontal) resolution of the SD CRTs back then. In the old days you would just rotate your small tv, in the days of large flatscreens that is nigh impossible. I would love a "compensate Tate for HDMI" feature that rotates the game picture 90 degrees to the left (but leaves the menu horizontal).
Sadly Robert Peip decided to not add that feature to the PS1 core but on the Saturn there are much more vertical shmups with Tate mode. Games like Image Fight look rather squished and low rez when played in standard pillarboxed mode.
These 30 games offer Tate:
1942, 1943 and 1943 Kai (Capcom Generations 1) Batsugun Battle Garegga CrimeWave (hold L+Y and press Z) DonPachi DoDonPachi The Game Paradise! Gekirindan Gunbird Gun Frontier Gun.Smoke, Mercs and Commando (Capcom Generations IV) Kingdom Grandprix Kyukyoku Tigers 2 Plus Image Fight Rayforce (aka Galactic Attack/Layer Section) Shienryu Skull Fang Sonic Wings Special Strikers 1945 Strikers 1945 II Up'n Down, Pengo and Head On (Sega Ages: Volume 1) Vulgus and Exed Exes (Capcom Generations) Zippy Race (Irem Arcade Classics)