Sega Saturn Architecture – A practical analysis

Re:Sega Saturn Architecture – A practical analysis by SpecialistK on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @04:29PM (#39832476)

The MilCD exploit was already patched in the last hardware revisions (VA2) so I imagine it would be a bit like the Switch (IIRC) where early models are vulnerable to exploits and more desirable on the second-hand market.

I'm not sure what the agreement with Microsoft was, but it was probably on a per-game basis if the developers wanted to use Windows CE.

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Re:Sega Saturn Architecture – A practical analysis by MBCook on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @06:00PM (#39833346)

Oh I didn’t know it was patched in hardware.

I knew it was per game whether the software actually used the windows CE stuff. I’m really not sure it was ever used much at all. I know the first version of Sega rally used it but it performed so poorly they had an updated version that didn’t that they put out later to fix the issues. And I’m not sure the bad version even came to the states.

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Re:Sega Saturn Architecture – A practical analysis by SpecialistK on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @07:21PM (#39833984)

Technically I misspoke. Some VA2 DCs used the older BIOS with the exploit still there, but most did have it patched.

One Reddit thread I see claims that Microsoft actually paid Sega for the Windows CE logo on the front of the system. But as you said, not many games used it.

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