hecmeister
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Post by hecmeister on Nov 2, 2016 13:40:23 GMT
Hi guys new here but see a lot of great posts hoping to get a little help. Picked up a japanese sega saturn on ebay cheap, seller advertised it was working. So I took the chance on it.
I received it and it looks good but there was a hole in the Shell at the back so I figured he had it modded once
Plug it in and it boots and plays music cds when I put in a Japanese game. It says disk not suitable for the system, I thought strange tried a usa game same message, made sure everything was clean and no go same message.
Took it apart and the pins for the region mod look they have been touched but seem to be in the correct position. Also seems like there was a 50hz switch on it as there is what looks like wires connected to a chip covered by black resin or epoxy.
Anyone have any ideas?
If this is in the wrong section I do apologize and thanks for any help.
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Post by zyrobs on Nov 2, 2016 15:35:48 GMT
You would need to post pictures of the board so we can tell exactly what happened with it.
I'm guessing someone did a region mod and butchered it up. The switch might have been for a region switch, not a 50/60 switch.
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alf
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Post by alf on Nov 2, 2016 20:23:27 GMT
Yes, i remember reading about the same problem as yours. The saturn was not capable of playing any disc, telling that the disc is not suitable for the system. The cause of this was unsuccesful region mod. Someone broke the leg of the chip or damaged some trace, making the floating point somewhere with no evident state (+5V or GND). I would suggest you to read about a region mod and try to undo it, making sure everything is just like it should be originally. Use multimeter to check connections and voltages in critical points of the traces/legs repsonsible for maintaining region.
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