Its in better condition than I expected. Sometimes the RF shield can have a few rusty spots, but in this case everything looks to be in good order. The original Saturn has a few differences to the later models.
The PSU is located in the lid, and the internal expansion card slot is located on a smaller secondary board. There are some other cosmetic differences too. The case seems to have ventilation holes and holder for an internal fan.
I may try adding one later. Although the Sega Saturn is not known to suffer problems with leaking capacitors, at least in my experience. They are now almost 25 years old and due to be replaced. The HTS Saturn is a bit tricky to dismantle but eventually after a full strip-down I freed the motherboard. You can see the motherboard has surface mounted capacitors mostly, and a couple of larger radial caps near the connector for the PSU.
The PSU has several high voltage and capacity caps. These can be changed as well but can be harder to find the replacement parts. I started with the motherboard and removed all the original caps.
I then cleaned and prepped the solder points for the new ones. In order to play games on CD-R a modchip needs to be installed. The Modchip help bypass the detection mechanism that checks if the CD is an original milled one, and skips straight to loading the data. Several people have produced the modchips for Sega Saturn. RobWebb and Racketboy both produced mod chips in the past, but they are no longer in production.
Older Saturns use a pin cable. The later units use a pin cable. I recommend a universal chip called the Phantom, which can be purchased directly from RetroGamerStuff. Inaltion is very easy, but does need soldering. The modchip needs a 5v power connection. This can be taken from many places on the motherboard, but the most comon connection points are under the PSU connection prongs, or a veryusefull point on the CD-Rom driver board.
Both are highlited in the installation guid for the Pahntom. A close-up shot of both solder points follows in the next steps. Step 4 — Connect the Power Link Cable The small wire soldered into the left side of the mod chip is called a jumper cable Attach this jumper cable to the Saturn to power the chip On the left side of the Saturn, there are four metal pins in a vertical row Take the end of the jumper cable and plug it into the second pin from the top on the back of the unit even if you see 5 pins instead of 4.
Below is a close-up of where to solder the power cable red Please note the power wire MUST solder to the power socket directly! Step 5 — Connect the Signal Link Cable There are two ways to do this step: The original way was to solder the signal blue wire to pin 14 of the pin chip.
To make this easier, put 2 pieces of thin cardboard surrounding and isolated the 14th pin Then you soldered to the 14th pin very easily, ignoring the other pins Below is close-up of where to solder the Signal cable blue OR You can get rid of the signal cable altogether and link the signal point to point B with a bit of solder instead of linking to pin 14 of the pin chip.
Secure the ribbon with a few more pieces of tape, because you never can be too sure. Before you put the case back onto the Saturn, make sure everything is ready to run. Are the connections tight? Is the mod chip taped down well? Once everything looks good, re-assemble your Saturn case.
Testing Set your Saturn back up, plug in the controllers hook it up to your television set Put a burned backup CD into the Saturn and turn the system on The disc should play just like a real Saturn game. January 3rd, at pm by racketboy. September 20th, at pm. Retro Gaming , Sega. April 20, at am. Anonymous says:. June 9, at pm. June 10, at am. June 25, at pm. MisterKreK says:. July 28, at pm. OrMuZ says:.
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