You can use SRP (Saturn Region Patcher) to - check if a cd image is first or third party - patch a cd image to be either first or third party. So...
Yeah, I get that all the time when I buy used carts, both memory and MPEG ones. They completely refuse to work, or at best they show up a buggy...
Those contacts are dirty enough to cause problems due to how densely packed the pins are on the Saturn cart connector. Clean the cart pins. If it...
I'd love to have that, my own adapter was giving me problems the last time I used it. Would be nice to have a backup for emergencies. But I don't...
You only need to lift that pin if you add a 50/60hz mod and use the JP1/2 solder points instead of lifting the VDP2 pin79. JP1/2 is linked to IC20...
You could also press and hold A when booting, which will automatically load the CD player regardless of what disc is in the system.
Modding that model is the same as modding any others, since all the region jumpers do the same thing. You need to cut the same ones and solder...
You could also try mounting and then ripping with CD Manipulator. It's a free and open source (Japanese) ripping/burning app. Very lightweight,...
I'd say it is definitely the laser. You either have to recalibrate it (and also check the tray height), or get a new laser.
If you have the device hanging up on the "checking disc format" prompt, then you have a miscommunication between the device and the Saturn. It is...
Note that the VA number does not need to be a perfect match. There have been many variants of certain boards (with SD RAM, with SG RAM, with...
Note that there are 3 ram chips there, one 512k main ram, and two 128k (I think?) chips for "word ram", the latter two being responsible for...
The Pioneer DVR drives can read subcodes (at least PQ ones, never tried reading the rest), and they are able to write all the others (I've burned...
May I ask which app is that on the first pic? I'm curious to see the speed "steps" of my own machine.
The easy way to get your mind off of shipping time is to order something else that arrives in 1-2 weeks. Then you can stay excited for that and...
Maybe some of the pins, that have to do with initializing the RAM expansion, are not making proper contact. Try re-inserting the cart, or maybe...
The menu was working perfectly fine when I was testing the new firmware a week or two back.
I'm not sure if plastic shells would work. There is only very thin space available around the cart connector and the EMI shielding. If you make...
Looks like a standard launch model unit, those had a top-mounted power supply.
Subcode reading was always something that not all drives could do, and it doesn't surprise me that modern drives completely do away with it -...
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