Question about the Saturns internal memory

[northerngooner]

Hi
Just a quick question. Is it possible to increase the Saturns internal memory?

[mick_aka]

Short answer, no.
Even if you could manage to fit a higher capacity chip the saturn would not adress it properly.

Unless you fancy funding a new revision saturn motherboard? ;D

[northerngooner]

admin said:

Short answer, no.
Even if you could manage to fit a higher capacity chip the saturn would not adress it properly.

Unless you fancy funding a new revision saturn motherboard? ;D

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Suppose I need that lottery win sooner than I thought

[tails87]

i think there was an extension for the cartrige slot which had some additional memory for games like king of fighters

[zyrobs]

There are expansion carts for both the backup saves and actual RAM as seen by games.

Beyond that, the Sophia devkits had expandable memory for development.

[tails87]

there is a documentation about the saturn extended RAM cartrige

for those who are intrested:

koti.kapsi.fi/~antime/sega/files/ST-TECH-47.pdf

[antime]

The Target Box expanded memory was essentially a RAM cartridge, but could be from 8MB to 32MB. Making a cartridge with similar capacity wouldn't be too difficult.

It may be possible to replace the workram-H SDRAM chips with higher-capacity ones, but it would require cutting traces and soldering in additional address lines.