UK Looking for any ntsc us or jap saturn games

just need to test a saturn i have which is unusual and feel that it has some kind of switches maybe region?? looking for cheap games just for testing please?

 

well you could test it with your pal games easily. does it have 2 sets of switches or just one?

 

it has three rocker switches on the top/lid side

 

If its a frequency switch, you should see your monitor report back 50 or 60hz. if you switch it after booting a PAL disc.
If you switch region and freq to anything other than US region 50hz, it will make a PAL disc not boot. 50hz and US region=PAL 50hz and JP region= Asian PAL which is not really a standard. 60hz + JP =JP mode, 60hz + US=US mode

 

only one switch seems to do anything, it changes the image so i pressume its chaging from 50-60hz etc

 

ok, then switch the others before powering on and booting the game. In game they won't change anything.

 

will try tonight when im at home

 

You could also take a quick peek inside, see where the switches are connected. This shows how a region mod is done.

 

Change one of the switches while the machine is off, then hold L or R while booting. The text in the bottom right corner says the region, it should change if you boot up under each region (changing it on the fly will not make a difference!).
from memory:
- PAL-C-v1.01a is the normal pal unit (regioncode C, as in hex for 12).
- PAL-4-v1.01a is a PAL unit set to USA region (regioncode 4).
- PAL-1-v1.01a is a PAL unit set to Japan region (regioncode 1).
- NTSC-1-v1.01a is a PAL unit set to Japan region and 60hz output.

USA models use v1.00a instead.

But, Japanese units won't display that region there - this only works on PAL and USA machines.