swedishmeat87
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Post by swedishmeat87 on Oct 3, 2011 8:41:04 GMT
My PAL saturn recognises my 4MB RAM cart, but my Japanese white saturn took ages to make it work. Now it's in and works ok, im NEVER going to move it! I almost thought the port on my white saturn was broken. Clean it upp !!!!! Mate ! U need this and this :   |
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munchiaz
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Post by munchiaz on Nov 18, 2011 21:04:11 GMT
i have the action replay with the comm port on the top.With my model 2, In order to get it to work i just hold the start button when i boot up my saturn. If i have a jap game in and don't hold start the system boots to the menu screen to play music and wont boot up the game. Not sure if holding the start button is normal, since i just got the AR a few weeks ago
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karr80
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Post by karr80 on Dec 3, 2011 0:28:02 GMT
Hopefully somebody can answer this. I just received my ARP and it says 3 in 1. I keep seeing people talk about the 4 in 1 or 5 in 1.
Is mine an older, less "good" ARP?
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Post by speedinin60hz on Dec 3, 2011 0:31:13 GMT
mine just says action replay plus or 4 plus cant remember without looking when you boot your console and the action replay screen comes up look at the top of the screen and it will tell you what version it is i have a 1.84 and a 2.02 i think
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Post by zyrobs on Dec 3, 2011 0:36:53 GMT
Hopefully somebody can answer this. I just received my ARP and it says 3 in 1. I keep seeing people talk about the 4 in 1 or 5 in 1. Is mine an older, less "good" ARP? It's 3 in 1 because it's a memcard, mem expansion, and cheat device in one. It's 4 + 1 because it works with games that need 4mb expansion and ones that need 1mb expansion too (barring a few SNK titles). |
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Post by speedinin60hz on Dec 3, 2011 0:44:03 GMT
i have a normal saturn memory card well i say normal the sticker is of some japanese writing with some sort of baseball patterning and some numbers 8 and 32 so it must of been for a game of some description but i tried it with a game that neds expansion and nothing happened it didnt work. is it just a memory card i thought all memory cards act as a ram expansion too.
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Post by zyrobs on Dec 3, 2011 1:04:21 GMT
i have a normal saturn memory card well i say normal the sticker is of some japanese writing with some sort of baseball patterning and some numbers 8 and 32 so it must of been for a game of some description but i tried it with a game that neds expansion and nothing happened it didnt work. is it just a memory card i thought all memory cards act as a ram expansion too. No, memory cards give you more space for savegames, something like 16x the internal memory. The expansion gives the machine more RAM, nothing more nothing less. This is useful for arcade ports using a ton of animation, like X-Men vs Street Fighter, which was arcade perfect, while the Playstation version had 2-frame walking animations. |
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karr80
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Post by karr80 on Dec 3, 2011 1:36:48 GMT
Ok, so now I'm having a problem with X-Men vs Street Fighter.
I plugged in my newly obtained ARP.
Turned on my Saturn and saw the action replay menu.
Copied a few saves the ARP, so no problems there.
Then I put in X-Men vs Street Fighter, which I've been waiting for the ARP cart so I could play.
The game starts up and seems fine until I get to a match.
As soon as the first round starts, the game crashes and the screen says something about "CPU Address Error"
Does this mean I got a bad ARP, or is it possible that the cart slot on my Saturn is bad?
Or is the problem something else entirely?
Thanks for the help.
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Post by speedinin60hz on Dec 3, 2011 2:09:49 GMT
i have a normal saturn memory card well i say normal the sticker is of some japanese writing with some sort of baseball patterning and some numbers 8 and 32 so it must of been for a game of some description but i tried it with a game that neds expansion and nothing happened it didnt work. is it just a memory card i thought all memory cards act as a ram expansion too. No, memory cards give you more space for savegames, something like 16x the internal memory. The expansion gives the machine more RAM, nothing more nothing less. This is useful for arcade ports using a ton of animation, like X-Men vs Street Fighter, which was arcade perfect, while the Playstation version had 2-frame walking animations. so the official sega cards are not able to enhance the ram then? i have 2x action replays any way but the action replay boot menu pisses me off when i am playing a japanese game. saying that i have 3 box sets coming two king of fighters and real bout fatal fury so i can use one of them. would they work with all games that need ram as long as the carts are 4mb ? or just snk? |
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Post by zyrobs on Dec 3, 2011 2:46:34 GMT
There are official Sega memory cards, and official Sega RAM cards. They should be easy to distinguish - one has an empty label (so you can note down there the contents of your savegames and such), the others have huge japanese letters stating 1MB or 4MB or whatever. All of them are generic and not locked to one game. So a 4mb ram card you get with Vampire Savior should also work with Metal Slug and so on. 1mb ram cards obviously won't work with games that need 4mb ones, though. Satakore lists which games need which cart: www.satakore.com/cartridge.php |
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Post by speedinin60hz on Dec 3, 2011 11:23:00 GMT
cheers bud
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NeoGeoNinja
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Post by NeoGeoNinja on Dec 3, 2011 12:37:57 GMT
IN THEORY...
once you have one of Capcoms 'translucent' 4MB RAM carts (which actually says 4MB on it, as well as some Japanese text I cannot translate) you SHOULD be able to play all of Capcoms titles that require 4MB of RAM... AND all of SNK's titles that require 1MB of RAM. However...
Certain SNK titles are NOT fully compatible with the 4MB RAM cart. Real Bout Fatal Fury and SShodown 3 spring to mind. There's possibly more.
Truth be told, your best off using an AR4+1 with your fighters - as it covers both angles. Just a shame the memory card capability isn't more dynamic. It's an issue that really ticks me off about the Saturn vs that cart slots reliability.
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Saturnlover36
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Post by Saturnlover36 on Dec 25, 2011 17:41:04 GMT
i bought my action replay recently and i was a bit worried it might be fake but when it got here it looked pretty legit, bought off play asia
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Post by Sidney on Dec 29, 2011 1:31:40 GMT
How much mate?
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5thstreet
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Post by 5thstreet on Jan 17, 2012 19:45:25 GMT
I just got my AR from play-asia, and it works fine, however I have to put a lot of pressure on the cart to get it into the slot. Much more than some of the memory carts I have. Is this normal?
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