Help me identify what this Cartridge is?? Solved!

[PassingBreeze]

Hi guy's, I got this cart bundled with a spares or repair Saturn I just picked up. It was listed as an Action Replay but its not, I don't know what it is or what its for?
The contacts are bigger than an official cart so I wont be testing it again for fear of damaging the cartridge slot but it doesn't appear to be working anyway.
The PCB says its a SS Golden Finger V2.







What's on the inside:


Thanks.

[sych]

It looks more like a normal memory cartridge by a third party. I doubt very much it's an Action Replay. Action Replays tend to have an upside down triangle at the bottom of the cart, indicating which way to insert. The cart in your picture has the 3 tear marks instead which are commonly found on Memory Carts.

I could wrong but to me it looks like a memory cart.

[mick_aka]

It's a region bypass cart.

[PassingBreeze]

Jan 17, 2016 9:04:35 GMT mick_aka said:

It's a region bypass cart.

Really, thanks for clearing that up mate. :-)

[NiGHTopian]

 I found this pic on Google, although there's no description:

[sych]

That's a great picture at the front. At first I thought it was a revamp of Michelangelo's creation of Adam, looking at it again, I'm thinking E.T?

[PassingBreeze]

Thanks for that, interesting.

[PassingBreeze]

I got it working by trying it in another Saturn.It turns out it is an Action Replay after all! Even though the pcb is totally different from my black 4in1?
The firmware is version 1.94 where as my other one is 2.02.
The contacts are definitely bigger though?
Makes me wonder if it's a fake or just an older revision.

[antime]

It's a basic Action Replay clone. There's no expansion RAM, but it's got the basic region free, cheat, and save game functionality. I've got a couple that are identical, except the soldermask is blue instead of violet.

[PassingBreeze]

Jan 21, 2016 20:50:03 GMT antime said:

It's a basic Action Replay clone. There's no expansion RAM, but it's got the basic region free, cheat, and save game functionality. I've got a couple that are identical, except the soldermask is blue instead of violet.

Brilliant thanks! I didn't know if it had the ram as I don't have any ram enabled games yet.
Thanks for your help everyone 

[skelesat]

Hello,

I also have this cart and try flash him to Pseudo Saturn v0.831 and 0.832 but it star booting and than reset on SEGA logo and repeat process agaib abd again.
Can someone help me ?

I try reflash back with AR Pro FW from Atlas CD but 201 nor 203C wont work. Original FW on cart was 194 but on CD is 194 just for AR Plus. Anyway I try flash that FW also but not work too.

So I like to save my cartridge like AR or even better flash him to Pseudo Saturn.

Please send some tip's to me...

[skelesat]

I try flash my "Golden finger v2" again with CafeAlpha. It freeze on Erase line even I wait few time for cca 30min, no matter if i try flash to Pseudo Saturn FW or one of original AR FW!
That same occur with original Pseudo Saturn flasher.

ATLAS every time successfully finish flashing and give line DONE but no matter with FW I flash(any Psudo Saturn FW or original AR FW of various versions) after I turn on Saturn with flashed cartridge it freeze on line SEGA.
If I put backup CD to him it still repeat booting to SEGA logo - so it resetting itself.

Have you any advice or tip's for my what to do ?
If I will be not able use this cart as Pseudo Saturn I like to recover him at least to original state with FW 194...

[fil]

it's an Action Replay