SEGA RPG FAN wrote:Xerxes3rd wrote:Side note: has anyone here actually played any of the Saturn games over a modem before? Is it actually playable?
I used to play Virtual On once in a while with a friend back when real phone lines were a given. It was virtually indistinguishable from a split-screen match, but he was also only about two miles away from me. I've also played all of the racing games using a phone line simulator between two Saturns. The main concern is going to be finding out at what point the latency becomes too much for the game to handle.
A good first step in testing would be to have two adapters on the same LAN, dial into one and have the second connected to a Dreampi and make sure that you can at least get a solid internet connection. Internet connections are tolerant of latency and packets being out of order so it would be a low bar, but important to verify.
The second step would be to do the same but with a Saturn connected to each adapter (still in a LAN setting). If that test passes, then full fledged internet testing could commence.
I can verify that Saturn netlink internet & email via the Dreampi works very well
I was just pondering an idea... not even sure how to accomplish it or its its even a plausable idea. But is it possible to dial out from a usb modem to another usb modem? (I guess like a fax mode??) Since thats basically what the Netlink does is dials out to the other Saturn and the 2nd Saturn awaits for a "Phone Call". Seems like that would work. But I'm not familiar with modem commands on how to accomplish that. Also getting two dreampi's to connect in some way where one of the dreampis can be listing for a saturn call. I mean I guess thats what VOIP is doing anyways.