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Satiator Menu Kai Receives Multi-Disc Support in Upcoming VersionCafe-alpha continues their decade-long quest to make playing games on real Saturn hardware more accessible and affordable. A June 22 update on their Patreon page detailed some features present in an upcoming Satiator Menu Kai version: “Regarding Pseudo Saturn Kai recent development, I’m pleased to announce that support for multi-disc games in Satiator ODE is finally completed!” SHIRO! reported on these coming features in February — read the story here — at which point cafe-alpha shared technical and testing hurdles that remained before multi-CD games were fully supported by Satiator Menu Kai. While the updated version with multi-disc support is not publicly available at time of writing, cafe-alpha teased that the implementation of this feature will surpass the Satiator’s default menu: “Detection of the multi-discness of a game is done according to the information from the game’s first CD-ROM sector so that it should be more user-friendly than Satiator official loader. I didn’t [verify] in details what’s better (and what’s not) but as I did my best to implement multi-disc support into Satiator Menu Kai, I hope it will be appreciated :)” Further details were shared by privateye , lead tester for the project, via Discord: “The main improvement is that SMK will not require disc images to be named according to a common pattern, unlike the official menu which requires the folders to have exactly the same name except for the disc number which must start at 1 . For example :
Not all multi-disc games from the Redump set adhere to this naming scheme and so must be renamed for disc swapping (by opening and closing the lid) to work, here are some examples :
Other improvements are that SMK will support :
When the new Satiator Menu Kai version is public, you will be able to download it from the PPCenter webpage . 
The Satiator Menu Kai is a menu for Professor Abrasive’s fantastic Sega Saturn optical disc emulator (ODE) the Satiator , which replaces the default frontend. Satiator Menu Kai — the fruit of reportedly two years’ worth of effort upon its initial release — while aesthetically comparable to the default menu, especially when compared to retrohead’s now-defunct Rings Menu , saw the addition of numerous highly requested features added. One feature notably missing was multi-CD support, an issue now rectified.
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