Switchless Saturn Region Mod!

[chipperkwah]

Check it out just did this yesterday and it works great! Saturn boots to U.S. region but if you hold down the reset switch for a few seconds it resets into Japanese region. Used kynar wire, that stuff is the business! Now I just need a saturn modchip and my system will be complete.

[Niode]

Erm. I don't think you understand the meaning of switchless.

Nice clean job though. Care to post schematics?

[Ziggy]

That reminds me of something I came across when looking for SNES mods.

http://www.consolepassion.co.uk/modific ... chless.htm

They'll mod your consoles for you, and they can do switchless mods too. Scroll down, they have videos for a few different consoles, there's one for the Saturn.

They do switchless for 50/60 Hz and for region. You hold down the reset button for .5, 1, or 3 seconds (if I remember correctly) to activate it. The power light also has different colors to show you which mode it's in. Pretty cool.

[skate323k137]

by switchless he means no need to add a toggle to the outside of the console. I've put region switches on a couple saturns and just mounted a toggle switch to the battery door cover. I think the directions for both ways are still on www.gamesx.com, that site has the most in-depth saturn region mod directions i've ever seen.

[chipperkwah]

Ya its called swichless because it uses the existing reset button and not externally mounted toggles, i love it! It is indeed on gamesx, heres the link
http://www.gamesx.com/importmod/sat_switchless.htm

There is another switchless mod for the saturn that can change region AND hertz, but you have to program your own chip. Genesis controllers are plentiful where i work so it was an easy decision. Heres the link for the other mod though.
http://seb.riot.org/saturnmod/

[Tercoil]

hmm i'd like to do one of these mods, or a switch version as i dont mind a switch on the battery door... the only problem is i havnt found a very good guide that includes pal, is it possible to have a 3 way switch so i can have pal/ntsc-u/ntsc-J ?? if anyone knows a guide it would be greatly appreciated

[elvis]

That reminds me of something I came across when looking for SNES mods.

http://www.consolepassion.co.uk/modific ... chless.htm

Bookmarked. Thanks for the link.

[vlame]

why not just region patch the discs or get a action replay?

[chipperkwah]

Because you can only region patch burned copies of games and I don't have a saturn modchip. I don't want to use an action replay because you can't save directly to the cart like you can with a regular saturn memory card, and the menus that you have to go through every time you start the system are annoying. With the switchless i just hold down the reset buttton to play a japanese game, or leave it alone and let it boot regularly if i want to play an american game. It's super simple, and the mod was fun to do too.

[Jimmy Yakapucci]

hmm i'd like to do one of these mods, or a switch version as i dont mind a switch on the battery door... the only problem is i havnt found a very good guide that includes pal, is it possible to have a 3 way switch so i can have pal/ntsc-u/ntsc-J ?? if anyone knows a guide it would be greatly appreciated

Go here for a single switch US/UK/JP switch, but you have to add a second switch for 50/60 Hz.

http://www.mmmonkey.co.uk/console/sega/saturnregion.htm

JY