Sega Saturn server client!!?

[ASSEMbler]

I was going over some dev drives I bought, and it appears to contain the
server side apps for saturn online play.

Saturn21.bat

CALL NET1 SATURN21
CALL NET1 SATURN22
CALL NET1 SATURN23
CALL NET1 SATURN24
CALL NET1 SATURN25
CALL NET1 SATURN26
CALL NET2 SATURN21
rem CALL NET3 SATURN21
CALL FINALCHK SATURN21
dm SATURN21.PCB

---- VIEW Report ---- Thu Feb 02 16:32:02 1995....Format: 2.3 Leading Absolute English..Size: 4.800 by 8.205..------------------------------------..Layer Traces Pads Name..------------------------------------..1 3311 970 SATURN21.G1..2 4195 1206 SATURN21.G2..3 1709 464 SATURN21.G3..4 4028 0 SATURN21.G4....------------------------------------.. D X Y COUNTS.. Code Size Size Traces Pads..-----------------------------------

d 4.09 1 820 510 0.45 0 0 0 0 0 10 0..m 0 0 0 1 0 0 igubsize.gen 0 0 0 0 1..t 1 1330 130 0.03125 0 0 1..s 1 0 0 #SEGA SATURN DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM v2.0..t 1 1330 110 0.03125 0 0 1..s 1 0 0 #SYSTEM INTERFACE..t 1 1380 60 0.0625 0 0 1..s 1 0 0 #SATURN21.SCH..t 1 1330 35 0.03125 0 0 1..s 1 0 0 #31JAN95 JRC..t 1 1520 35 0.03125 0 0 1..s 1 0 0 #1..t 1 1570 35 0.03125 0 0 1..s 1 0 0 #6..m 0 500 200 1 0 0 sat_edge.sc 1 0 0

SATURN21.APL
SATURN21.APT
SATURN21.ARF
SATURN21.BAK
SATURN21.BAT
SATURN21.ENV
SATURN21.EXC
SATURN21.FT
SATURN21.G1
SATURN21.G2
SATURN21.G3
SATURN21.G4
SATURN21.HOL
SATURN21.INL
SATURN21.NET
SATURN21.PCB
SATURN21.RPM
SATURN21.REC
SATURN21.SCH

[8bitplus]

Nice find. Any chance of getting it working for a spot of Sega Rally online?

[AntiPasta]

What makes you think this is the server software?

[ASSEMbler]

What makes you think this is the server software?

Just the hex really, I have no clue what it is so I posted it here to see if anyone knew what it was.

[retro]

Could well be NetLink stuff. I might have a copy of the manual somewhere but I can't remember. I'll have a dig sometime.

p.s. jammy git!! :lol:

[ASSEMbler]

I have to do a better recovery of the drive, that means I need to build a system to do it, the drives are in an archaic format.

[WarHampster]

This would be incredible if it really is NetLink server stuff!

[ASSEMbler]

I have to build a fucking OS/2 or NT 3.51 box to read these...

Anyone have any old sd-ram?

[michal99]

I have to build a fucking OS/2 or NT 3.51 box to read these...

Anyone have any old sd-ram?

I was always told that any linux can read natively any disk format.

[ASSEMbler]

linux is about as appealing as a box of saltines..

[alecjahn]

But if it's functional...?

[ElBarto]

If the partition are HPFS FreeBSD can mount them

[ASSEMbler]

I can install nt easier, I don't feel like compiling shit today.

I plan on releasing the files.

[saturn_worship]

Hail ASSEMBLER....if this works it's gonna be really great.

[Blai]

Nice find!

Thanks for your effort in getting the files!

[Dreamcast]

You don't have to compile Linux (if that's what you meant). Download a live-cd version like Knoppix. Everything runs from the CD, so nothing has to be installed. If the hard drive can be read, it will most likely be mounted automatically.

[Barret7sc]

Also, what kind of HDD interface are we talking here. I would assume IDE or SCSI. Provided you can see the actually drive in a more modern machine, you could use VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org) to install OS/2 or NT 3.51 into a virtual machine then use the Raw Disk mode (http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/UserManual.html, search for "Using a raw host hard disk from a guest") to directly access the hdd from the virtual machine.

Ideally you would make a byte-for-byte copy of the original disk first, plus, I'm sure there is some way to convert the backup image into a format a virtual machine can read. (http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/, this can create hdd images from a physical disk that you can use in a vm)

Anyway, just my 2 cents.

[ASSEMbler]

I can just install nt 3.51 and send it over on the network.

I'd rather not have to learn all new stuff when installing nt is
about 20 mins of intermittently hitting "next"

[hrahn]

I'd rather not have to learn all new stuff when installing nt is
about 20 mins of intermittently hitting "next"

Sooooo true, and thanks to that I was able to install about all foreign language XP versions for exchange students back at the university :)

Maybe having a VM of every old OS could come in handy here, if you have to recover files more frequently. iirc, VMware allows direct access to mounted harddrives from within the VM, they don't have to be legible to the host system.

[VMS]

FYI: Sega Saturn Netlink (USA only, 28.8kbps modem) used direct-dial Xband software for gaming; there were no servers. There was a central web portal you could connect to with various links, services, and a list of Netlink owners who registered with the site. You would e-mail them to see if they would like to play, and then ask for their phone number. That was the extent of it.

The Japanese modem (14.4, also Xband with a card slot) might have used a server - I can't remember, but I believe it did. Someone here must know, or could just read one of the Japanese game manuals to find out. Perhaps the Japanese server code was one possible solution under review for USA.