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Post by ninju on Nov 7, 2011 18:54:14 GMT
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Post by zyrobs on Nov 7, 2011 21:21:03 GMT
Probably some random dust caused a short somewhere. I've bought busted Saturns for dirt cheap in the past, that worked flawless after cleaning up the dust from the insides. You only need to cool the PSU, by the way. The rest of the machine is not prone to overheating, and even the PSU rarely does it. I do have one model that tends to overheat without an extra fan inside. Damn, that's a VA7 PAL board... looks like there are at least two PAL boards I'm missing. Never seen this type before in a PAL console. As for modded saturns, check the one I did before:  50/60 switch, full binary regionswitch to enable all 16 regioncodes, and the video connector desoldered in place of a RGB SCART out. Sadly this machine eventually got busted as I used it as my main testing bed. If I knew that VA0 PAL Saturns are so damn rare, I wouldn't have experimented on it at all... |
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Post by ninju on Nov 8, 2011 8:51:30 GMT
since the psu never get hot,there is one thing that gets hot-the power supply,so i tried to cool it down a while so i don't have to look for replacements in the future..Nice one man!I never saw a board like yours..If i understand correct your collecting every saturn board available??Maybe you miss more..i have 4 PAL sega saturns in my house..2 model 2 and 2 model 1,i will show you pictures when i have time
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Post by zyrobs on Nov 8, 2011 10:27:34 GMT
since the psu never get hot,there is one thing that gets hot-the power supply,so i tried to cool it down a while so i don't have to look for replacements in the future..Nice one man!I never saw a board like yours..If i understand correct your collecting every saturn board available??Maybe you miss more..i have 4 PAL sega saturns in my house..2 model 2 and 2 model 1,i will show you pictures when i have time Just make nice readable pictures of the serial stickers on their back (there's a topic about it), I can tell what boards you have from that. I'm missing VA7 and VA13 PAL Saturns, and have VA0 (on the picture, busted), VA1, VA3 (busted), VA5, VA9 ones. I have to buy at least one another VA5 and VA9 wince I know that there were at least two manufacturers for these models. My VA3 model is busted but I'm not in hurry to replace it since the board is identical to VA5 other than some small details. I want to buy all the different boards to document the differences between them, the "evolution" of the hardware design if you will. It would also make a good source for modding info too in the future, since there's a lot of half- or mis-information on the net. I've found VA0, VA7 and VA13 ones the most rare... only saw one of those so far. |
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Post by ninju on Nov 8, 2011 19:41:23 GMT
 This is my modyfied saturn model 2 |
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Post by munchiaz on Nov 19, 2011 5:21:33 GMT
awesome mods. reading this post reminded me of the current saturn
i have. I found one at a thrift store for $12, and it worked, but
when i took it home i noticed some weird yellow stuff on it. I didnt
know what it was. I cleaned it up and then had it sitting on my
shelf for a few weeks, i noticed that the yellow stuff was back on
the saturn, it was like oozing out of the saturn, and it smelled
really bad. So one day i took it apart. It was so nasty inside. I
think an animal peed on it or something. I had to completely gut
and clean the thing. The circuit board didn't get to dirty. but i had
to soak all the plastic in water and soap. Also there was a bunch
of dead bugs in the thing. I put it back together and it still works.
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Post by NeoGeoNinja on Nov 19, 2011 9:06:48 GMT
awesome mods. reading this post reminded me of the current saturn i have. I found one at a thrift store for $12, and it worked, but when i took it home i noticed some weird yellow stuff on it. I didnt know what it was. I cleaned it up and then had it sitting on my shelf for a few weeks, i noticed that the yellow stuff was back on the saturn, it was like oozing out of the saturn, and it smelled really bad. So one day i took it apart. It was so nasty inside. I think an animal peed on it or something. I had to completely gut and clean the thing. The circuit board didn't get to dirty. but i had to soak all the plastic in water and soap. Also there was a bunch of dead bugs in the thing. I put it back together and it still works. QUITE POSSIBLY... the most disgusting Saturn related story I have ever read. Over breakfast, no less... |
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Post by Sidney on Nov 19, 2011 11:58:02 GMT
Lovely.......
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Post by munchiaz on Nov 20, 2011 4:30:41 GMT
lol. yeah it was pretty gross. Good thing it only cost me $12
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Post by NeoGeoNinja on Nov 20, 2011 11:21:39 GMT
lol. yeah it was pretty gross. Good thing it only cost me $12 HEH. AND... it's the Saturn you still use til this day?! ;D |
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