That used to routinely be one of the most common and affordable saturn games. It's weird that the US version of Zwei has gone up in price. You really only need Saga in english, because Zwei only has very little text (all narration) and the animation alone explains what's going on (well, to the degree that anything is explained in that game). You can play actual genesis carts in an emulator using a Retrode, and you can just pop your saturn discs into any PC disc drive. A 1-pixel blur for Genesis emulation will make some of the CRT effects I described appear (although the rainbow banding doesn't occur) and SSF has an option to turn faked transparency into true transparency within the emulator (one of the few image enhancement quirks about it - the Saturn had calls to automatically dither sprites to fake transparency, and SSF can intercept them and render them as truly transparent).
If you are dying for an attractive way to play those types of games on a modern television, emulation is honestly the way to go. The Genesis and Saturn very heavily rely on CRT television tricks. I know it's a preference thing, but sharp, clear pixels is not always the best choice, imo. Games like these were designed explicitly to exploit the inaccuracies of an NTSC CRT television. I still have my copy somewhere, if I can find it I'll pop it into my XSX.I know someone else mentioned using a framemeister and presumably RGB Scart output, but I just really never agree with that. It looked and felt different enough that I basically thought it might as well have been made by all non-Team Andromeda folks. I was expecting it would basically be like the original PD and Zwei, but with better graphics, and that's all I wanted. whereas ironically Panzer Dragoon Orta ultimately became a barely recalled footnote in my gaming career. In the mean time, I played this obscure little first person shooter named Halo, which went on to become one of my favorite franchises of all time. I gave absolutely zero fucks about Microsoft throwing their hat into the ring with a new console (off) but then I heard it was going to have a new Panzer Dragoon as an exclusive (on) but then I heard it wasn't going to be made by Team Andromeda but rather some new studio called Smilebit (off) but then I heard Smilebit was made up of mostly ex-Team Andromeda staff (on.) I ran out and bought an Xbox, but the PDO wasn't going to release for more than six months.
I went through this on-again/off-again rollercoaster ride. (Pretty sure the game actually released in early 2003, though.) PD Orta was literally the reason I bought an Xbox in the summer of 2002.
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