Can this saturn be saved ?

It's a US power supply. The reason I knew that the moment I saw the photos was that it only has 4 pins on the PSU output - so not PAL (the PAL supplies have an 5th output pin used to supply 9V for SCART switching) - so it was either US or Japanese - but it has a black case and a black power button, so it had to be a US machine.

Incidentally, that "4 pin" thing only works that way round - all the early machines had 5 pin power supplies, so you can't infer that "5 pin = PAL / 220V".

 

UPDATE

Got the varistors today and placed 1 on the PSU.
With these results.

 

Cool, so now there's power - is there video?

 

No there is no video because the saturn is missing a ribbon cable.
Step 2 is finding one. But where ?

 

The Saturn should boot up fine without the ribbon cable, it'll just have derpy sound and abnormal cubes in the CD Player. But it gives video and audio.

 

OK thanks,
Time to buy a AV cable for the sega saturn then. A Pal or ntsc cable does not mather for that conection i gues ?

 

Yep. You can even build one. Pinout for AV are avadible

 

I got the AV cable in the mail today.





The saturn works !

I was suprised to see that you can set the language on a ntsc console.

Now i need a ribbon cable.
I also need to mod the console so that it plays pal games.

 

There's no need to mod - just burn PAL game as NTCS (patch before burn) and load via swap trick

 

fantastic outcome black sheep great persistence on this project , also phenomenal help from members of assembler

 

Hold on there. We are not out of the Woods yet.
I tried to play a audio cd on the saturn but it doesn't spin the cd.
I think this is because the ribbon cable is missing.

Swap with what ? I don't have any saturn games. This is my first saturn ever.

Looking on ebay for ribbon cables gave 0 results so i think i have to buy another broken system for parts.

 

i had a Sega Saturn ribbon cable problem a few years ago and some members of a electronic forum suggested that i could buy a 22 Way and cut off 1 conductor on each end giving me a 21 Way ribbon cable................


just a suggestion if you cant find a exact one

 

Here:
http://www.segastyle.com/store/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=52

But you can use any generic FFC with 21/20 pins - just go to electric shop and ask about FFC with 20/21 pins

http://www.tme.eu/en/details/mx-98267-0365/ffcfpc-ribbon-cables/molex/0982670365/#

 

Fanbloodytastic mate!

 

No ribbon means the laser won't do much of anything.

 

Those cables from segastyle are too short !!
I need a ribbon cable for a model 2 ntsc saturn. So that needs to be 21 pins .
But how long and wide does it needs to be ?

 

Depends, is it a 32 or 64 pin? 32 pin Saturns use a ribbon that's ~4" IIRC. Shoot me a PM and I may have one for you. Shipping a tiny ribbon across the pond shouldn't cost much and it'll be the right size.

 

I have no idea if this is 32 or 64

 

hi black sheep , the 32 or 64 Pin Chip is on the drive board..............you dont need to dismantle the drive just take a photo of the exposed part of the PCB for us

 

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