UK Sega Saturn help needed!

[Xen]

Hello, I'm a new member here, I found this community while browsing for an answer for the following question...

I wanna get a UK Saturn (it's more convenient to me), but the games I wanna run on it are all NTSC or NTSC-J. I have an Action Replay 4M Plus for those purposes, but the problem lies in that I'm not sure how the games will run - you know, the 50hz/60hz stuff. So, how does a PAL 50hz Saturn perform with 60hz NTSC games? are there no timing problems, for example? my TV can output all signals easily...

Thank you!

[Liger]

Hi there,
I found that there can be issues with running import games on a PAL Saturn via an Action Replay.
For example, I found the sound was out of sync/distorted on Street Fighter Zero 2 & background graphics were not visible in Marvel Vs Capcom. PAL 50Hz Saturn's also run at a 17.5% slower speed compared to the NTSC Saturns.

So whilst the Action Replay will allow you to run imports on your PAL Saturn, it will not make your machine run them in 60Hz, full speed, as was intended.

What you could do is get your PAL machine modified to run NTSC-US & NTSC-J games. I know consolepassion.co.uk offer a switchless mod which seems the business. Could be worth enquiring about if you want to run your imports properly.
Hope this helps

[Xen]

Hey, that helped a lot. Thank you mate!