Fighting Vipers (Saturn)

We offer the highest-quality reproduction/backup Sega Saturn games package at a budget-friendly price. Our discs are printed with OEM style art and the OEM style long box is a second print run done in recent years and nearly indistinguishable from an original.  The disc requires a Pseudo Saturn Kai to play.

SYNOPSIS

Armstone City, year unknown. The Mayor decided to hold a fighting tournament with the grand finale being held on the top of the city tower, and the Vipers, young urban warriors decide to compete, each with their own goal on mind. All eight came from several backgrounds, like the hard-rocker Raxel, the orphan with a burning desire to meet his father Bahn, former gang leader Tokyo, queen of the catwalk Grace, the giant with an unknown past Sanman, construction worker and former marine trainee Jane, fashion designer to-be Candy and skater boy Picky, plus Mahler, someone with a score to settle with the Mayor.

While based on the same Model-2 arcade board as Virtua Fighter 2, Fighting Vipers included several changes, such as a wall surrounding the battle area and equipping each fighter with a two-piece (chest and legs) armour that can only be broken with power hits. Once the armour is gone, the unfortunate fighter is more vulnerable to opponent hits, and damage can also be collected after hitting the wall or floor after a throw.

Gameplay is also radically different from Virtua Fighter - noticeably faster, with combos done by fast button-mashing sequences sometimes on the same button, instead of the timed presses that require an additional push on the d-pad of the first title. Another new addition to gameplay is the Quick recovery, which allows a fighter that suffered a severe blow to quickly get on his feet, avoiding damage and allowing for a quick counter, but at the same time leaving him open for another blow if the opponent is fast enough. to react.

Game modes include Arcade, Vs, Team Battle (best of 9) and Training. Game options allow the player to tweak the difficulty setting, number of rounds before a match winner is decided, size of life bars, if there's a time limit, if the order of opponents is random or predefined and between three game modes: Original (based on the arcade version), Arrange (gameplay tweaked for the Sega Saturn) and Hyper (allows Vipers to voluntarily drop their armour, allowing to perform special attacks at lightening fast speeds), Stage selection, and to change the disposition of the control pad to better suit the players' style.

Another mode, Playback, allows to see rounds previously saved by the player or fighting demos recorded by the AM#2 staff, each with the ability to choose a camera. As usual with Sega's fighting ports, extensive bookkeeping is included, as well as a few hidden characters.

DISC QUALITY

Our reproduction games are burned on high-quality media, as determined by the ratings of the storage media industry. By using high-quality media, your game will play with increased reliability (especially with old reading lasers) and will have man more replays before the disc wears out.

LONG BOX QUALITY

We use only new OEM-style long boxes. The acrylic cover is made of a less glossy material than the original but is less prone to cracking as a result. Regardless, they look remarkably similar and are of the same dimensions as the stock cases.

REPRODUCTION ART/INSERTS

Unlike many reproductions games we've gotten in the past, we use only high-quality, thick-stock (weight) photo paper for the back and spine (contained in the see-through acrylic case.

REPRODUCTION MANUAL

Our Saturn reproduction manuals start with a heavy-weight cover like the originals and utilize glossy pages, again like the originals. We utilize scanned copies of the originals for North American titles, and create custom manuals for fan-translated and homebrew titles.

QUALITY CONTROL

We test every single disc we create on stock Sega Saturn hardware using Pseudo Saturn Kai loader before shipping out. Some other shops only check the disc image burned properly via the computer disc burner without checking on real hardware. This results in a lot of burn imperfections going unnoticed until in the customer's hands.

LEGALITY OF REPRODUCTION DISCS

Sega Replay does not sell game ROMs but provide free backup copies for games preservation in accordance with PUBLIC LAW 100-667—NOV. 16, 1988 and other related copyright laws. Additionally, by providing you a reproduction, or "backup copy" of an original Sega Dreamcast disc, we assume you own an original, commercially-produced copy of the title and are seeking a backup copy as a means of preserving your original software due to the limited amount of times a disc can be played before wearing out. Sega Replay only charges for the material, time, and effort to create your product, never the game code.

REQUIRED TO PLAY DISCS

By purchasing a backup reproduction disc, you are assuming responsibility for owning some sort of boot loader which allows you to play these type of discs. We recommend Pseudo Saturn Kai. If you do not have this cartridge, you may purchase one from our store. Regardless of where you obtain such a device, be aware that backup games will not run on an OEM Sega Saturn without such a device.