Sega's ill-fated Saturn console may have lagged behind its competition in North America, but that wouldn't stop popular PlayStation games from being ported to the Saturn. Capcom treated the system especially well, but recently it was revealed that one major port never saw release on the Saturn.

A user on the Internet Archive uploaded a scan of Saturn Fan No. 20, a Japanese magazine dedicated to the Sega Saturn and its then-upcoming releases. This 1997 issue is somewhat special, as it lists a number of Saturn games that never saw a release on the system, including an entry in the Resident Evil series.

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The Saturn is infamous for its canceled Sonic game Sonic X-Treme, but a significant amount of third-party support is seen in this list, including Capcom's Resident Evil series, known as Biohazard in Japan. The first Resident Evil game was released on Sega Saturn in 1997, one year after its initial 1996 Sony PlayStation release. Saturn Fan magazine revealed that Biohazard 2 would be coming to the Saturn, but the final product never materialized.

At the moment, it is unclear whether the games' cancellations were due to declining support for the system, given that it would be discontinued the next year in 1998, or the Saturn's complex hardware design which is often cited as the reason it did not receive as much third-party support as the PlayStation. Still, the possibility of Biohazard 2 on the system may have helped it maintain its second-place status in Japan for longer. However, by this time, the fifth generation systems were aging rapidly and sixth-generation systems were on the horizon.

Horror games are a popular genre, and the Resident Evil series is incredibly effective in how it handles the scares. However, in addition to Biohazard 2, the Saturn would have also seen releases of other heavy-hitting franchises such as Virtua Fighter 3, a port of SEGA AM2's Model 3 arcade fighting game. The first two Virtua Fighter games were popular titles at release time, with Virtua Fighter 2 showcasing surprisingly impressive use of the system's limited 3D graphics capabilities.

With the fifth-generation dying down, Capcom likely decided it would not be worth it to complete and release Biohazard 2 on the Saturn, but in the end, it isn't a huge loss. The game is perfectly playable in its original PlayStation form or its critically acclaimed modern remake, and like the Saturn version of Resident Evil probably would not have added any significant changes in content.

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