Proper way to end a Sega Saturn game and power down?

[retrofuture]

I want to avoid wearing out my Saturn as much as possible. What's the proper way to end a gaming session? I'm assuming hitting the power button isn't it. Thanks!

[RyaNtheSlayA]

I want to avoid wearing out my Saturn as much as possible. What's the proper way to end a gaming session? I'm assuming hitting the power button isn't it. Thanks!

open the disc tray (this alows the drive to shut down properly), close the disc tray and let it make sure their is not disc, power off!

[Ivo]

I want to avoid wearing out my Saturn as much as possible. What's the proper way to end a gaming session? I'm assuming hitting the power button isn't it. Thanks!

open the disc tray (this alows the drive to shut down properly), close the disc tray and let it make sure their is not disc, power off!

Really?
So, reset, open tray, remove disc, close tray, power down actually preserves the Saturn compared to just turning it off?

Ivo.

[skate323k137]

i wouldn't open the tray, it forces the cd drive to stop the CD. I just hit the power button, allthough when im extra "anal" about it, i hit ABC+START twice to get to the cd player first. On the dreamcast i hit ABXY+Start to get to the title screen, then i power down.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

I want to avoid wearing out my Saturn as much as possible. What's the proper way to end a gaming session? I'm assuming hitting the power button isn't it. Thanks!

open the disc tray (this alows the drive to shut down properly), close the disc tray and let it make sure their is not disc, power off!

Really?
So, reset, open tray, remove disc, close tray, power down actually preserves the Saturn compared to just turning it off?

Ivo.

never did i say reset but thats how i do it, weather it does or not i have no clue, i would think it does but the problem is it the drive has to stop the disc while its spinning, so mabe quit to the main menu of the game or someplace it wouldnt be loading or reading off the disk as much (like ridge racer on psone, once u start the race u can take out the disc and put in your own music cd, i believe it works with all ridge racer games but i have yet to try it on something like gran turismo although it seems to work ok on spyro)

[retrofuture]

Anyone have their Saturn instruction manual? I never had one and I just looked all over for a PDF or transcriptions. It would totally help out if you could look up the official procedure and report it word for word here. I will worship you!

[nick944]

I want to avoid wearing out my Saturn as much as possible. What's the proper way to end a gaming session? I'm assuming hitting the power button isn't it. Thanks!

There really is no proper way, IMHO it doesn't matter if you open the lid to end or just hit the power button.

[executioner]

Anyone have their Saturn instruction manual? I never had one and I just looked all over for a PDF or transcriptions. It would totally help out if you could look up the official procedure and report it word for word here. I will worship you!

From the manual:

Ending a Session

1. Press the RESET button while holding down Button A.
2. Press the OPEN button to open the CD door and take out the CD.

Note: Before you remove the CD, check that the CD Control screen appears (which means the CD has stopped spinning and is safe to remove from the Sega Staurn)

I uploaded it for you.

http://rapidshare.com/files/128774846/H ... S.pdf.html

[SpaceBooger]

Anyone have their Saturn instruction manual? I never had one and I just looked all over for a PDF or transcriptions. It would totally help out if you could look up the official procedure and report it word for word here. I will worship you!

From the manual:

Ending a Session

1. Press the RESET button while holding down Button A.
2. Press the OPEN button to open the CD door and take out the CD.

Note: Before you remove the CD, check that the CD Control screen appears (which means the CD has stopped spinning and is safe to remove from the Sega Staurn)

I uploaded it for you.

http://rapidshare.com/files/128774846/H ... S.pdf.html

I wonder if that is the same for the Dreamcast?

[The Apprentice]

I usually just hit the power button when the system isn't in the middle of readng a disk.