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This article is about the emulator. For the audio format, see Saturn Sound Format.

SSF 0.10 showing the PAL Saturn BIOS.

SSF is a Sega Saturn emulator for Windows, capable of running the majority of Sega Saturn games. It is designed to run Saturn discs directly, so images must be mounted with a virtual drive program (e.g. Daemon Tools) in order to be played.

Features

Emulates the Sega Saturn and the similar arcade board Sega Titan Video (ST-V)
BIOS not required, but may be recommended in certain cases
All regions (PAL & NTSC) emulated
Backup memory emulated
Savestates supported
Joystick support
WAV sound recording
BMP screenshots

Compatibility

SSF currently has a very high level of compatibility, running more than 80% of known Sega Saturn games.

Component	%
SH2 emulator	100%
68000 emulator	100%
VDP1 block	95%
VDP2 block	95%
SCU block	100%
SMPC block	100%
SCSP block	95%
CD block	85%

Minimum system requirements

Operating system	Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows XP 64-bit Edition
CPU	Any CPU supporting: FPU, MMX, SSE, SSE2, TSC (P4-class or higher)
RAM	256 MB or more
Graphics card	DirectX 9.0c capable, graphics card supporting Vertex Shader 2.0 and Pixel Shader 2.0
Sound	DirectX 9.0c compatible, able to play 44100 Hz stereo PCM
CD drive	Drive supporting MMC3 read command

Downloads

Download SSF

File: SSF_011_alpha_R5.zip ("SSF_011_alpha_R5.zip" does not exist) (info)
Current version: 0.11 alpha R5 (12 April 2010)

Prior versions

An archive of previous versions is available on the official site (see below), though most of these have been bundled in the last download on this list.

SSF version 0.11 alpha R1 ^(info) ("SSF 011 alpha R1.zip" does not exist) (547 kB)
SSF version 0.11 alpha R5 ^(info) ("SSF 011 alpha R3.7z" does not exist) (386 kB)
SSF versions 0.06 alpha 4 to 0.11 alpha ^(info) ("SSF versions 006-011.7z" does not exist) (7.21 MB)

External links

SSF Official homepage (Japanese)
SSF compatibility list (with screenshots)

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