Comments on: Mod Your Sega Saturn to Play Imports

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:59:09 +0000

Hello all

I have buyed 2 Sega model 1 console,I do the swap trick my mate also got a Oval button type after the 3 th swap the screen make stripes black & grey and cant boot anymore

After put the console out for aswhile the swap trick works again

My reason is that if we swap the motor which maybe runs at 12 Volts will exactly shot cutted and blow up

Any suggestion,I heard there no Modchip for Model 1 anymore and that its pretty hard to solder

Thanks

By: Tom Honeyfield

Tom Honeyfield — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:55:14 +0000

Carl, first things first, your imports won’t work anyway because the mod chip doesn’t include all regions. Second thing, what model is your sega saturn? When i say model I don’t just mean 1 or 2. If you open it up and have a look inside now i’m firing in the dark here but I’m guessing its a model 2 with round buttons? now check to see whether it is a 64pin or 32pin model 2. Do this by checking how many pins there are in the chip on the bottom left of the mid section (basically the board the cd lens is mounted on). The chip in the bottom left hand corner next to a white oblong box with 5 grey wires coming out of it will either have 64 pins or 32 pins.

If it is 64 pin (which mine is) the mod chip may not work correctly. Have you tried booting the saturn up with a copied game inside, then when it gets to the cd player screen simply opening and closing the cd lid? Try that if you haven’t because that seems to work for me.

email me tomhoneyfield@hotmail.com if you still got problems i can only help by telling you everything i know

By: Spencer

Spencer — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:26:45 +0000

I just got the Necronomicon for the Japanese Sega Saturn and I read this article but I don’t know where to get any of the parts what should I do?

By: Mourton

Mourton — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 11:39:24 +0000

I found out how to play Cd-R imports without modifying the ISO; if you have a ST Key, wait until it goes into the Saturn BIOS screen and says loading: with a real disc…
Then, when it says Load Application, click the button and perform the swap mechanics then. It works, but the sound was a bit screwy for me playing Snatcher…

By: Carl

Carl — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:12:11 +0000

I have the exact modchip Rackeybot sells installed in my Saturn, and my PAL Saturn and its CD-drive is working perfectly – I can play my original PAL discs without problems when this modchip is installed. But, I can’t get it to boot copied discs, can’t get it to boot orig. imports… It just brings me to the music player menu instead. If I put a copied PAL disc in at this point, nothing happens. If I put a copied/orig. import disc in at this point I get an alert saying the disc is not suited for my system.

Is my modchip broken? Something tells me that the Saturn wouldn’t start up at all if the modchip was busted, or at least the CD-drive wouldn’t spin up… What am I doing wrong?

By: Telly

Telly — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 01:10:00 +0000

Hi Racketboy:

Would a ‘Saturn ST-KEY’ qualify as a similar product to the 4-in-1/5-in-1 Action Replay cart mentioned above?

If I plug a Saturn ST-KEY into my U.S. Sega Saturn console, will it allow me to play all NTSC/J (Japanese) AND PAL (European) Sega Saturn games?