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Alrite fella, you need to look on the TOP of the Saturn motherboard, your looking for the VDP chip (graphics chip to you and me) Its marked above it, printed in white letters on the mainboard "IC14" so you dont need to look for a specific part number, just look for IC14, plain and simple and it...

Have you got the side of the mod chip with the tops of the chips, facing the outside of the Saturn? Do you have the ribbon cable the right way around? Try putting the mod chip facing the outside of the Saturn, and try the ribbon cable different ways, the way that it goes into the CD mainboard...

It's working now ;) I had taken the CR2032 battery out as I intended to replace it with a brand new one. Sat there looking at the board and thought hmm.. no battery, surely that cant be the problem, so I got a new battery out and popped it in.. Hey presto.. working Saturn, everything...

Thanks for your advice, really helpful and just what I needed!

I've modded about 15 other systems successfully.. this, and the one I posted about the other day, are the only ones Ive had problems with.. <!--QuoteBegin-orta[/i] What kind of mod are you trying to do on your saturn anyway? is it a region mod or are you trying todo a mod to play back-up? If...

Got another Saturn.. modded it.. Turn on.. BLACK SCREEN No boot up at all, power light is on, no CD spin, no nothing When you turn it off, the power supply makes a small whine noise for about a second REALLY fed up with this.. Saturns may be "cheap" but this is two ive now FUBAR'ed :damn...

I tried what you suggested RE thicker wire with more strands, and it still didnt work In fact, when I took the wire off then, the chip leg broke off RIP my Sega Saturn :(

Yeah.. no video I checked all around the VDP now as the problem must be with it.. I FOUND.. a small blob of solder that must of dropped off the iron, joining together two pins of the VDP! I removed this.. tried again and nothing.. exactly the same.. Im using single strand Kynar wire, as its...

The text that changes size is just the overlay text from when the TV automatically changes to A/V mode (I live in Europe and im using a SCART cable) I soldered all of the connections and hot glued the wires, just to keep the wires in place. It seems the console is working and the 50/60hz mod...

Hey guys ok well, I have a Saturn, I put a region mod in it and a mod chip and it was working great then I hot glued the wires to the board. Then I added 50/60hz switch using the VDP chip method. But then when I try the system it gives only a BLACK screen, like its going to work, but nothing...

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Ok I soldered it all back in place.. and the disc still doesnt spin etc.. so it looks like its "umoddable" (Sanyo Saturn) so ive given up now (DAMN im persistent!) I actually broke the solder pad off the 71st leg of the Sanyo chip :owned So then I thought, well, it wont work without this...

Ok ive tried the mod chip in the Sanyo Saturn again, and it just displays "checking disc format" with the A-B method.. I guess I need to try the IC leg again.. but I dont really want to :flamethrower: :owned

OK, it seems Radiant Silvergun was copied correctly, but the person who put this ISO on a torrent had decided to patch it to US region.. :angry: So of course, it wasnt working because I had my Saturn switched to JP.. so this means that the Sanyo Saturn will probably work with one of my mod chips!

Ok I fitted the mod chip into a 32 pin saturn. Used A-B method. Used 0019 solder bridge. Tried backup and it was a no-go.. then I started to think... is the backup working? Did it burn right? I take my original Snatcher (NTSC-J) and I read the image using BlindWrite. Then I burn the image...

Hey guys.. more info. I bought some mod chips, these chips look different to the ones I had before, they look better quality. The board colour is a dark blue and you can see more detail on the back of the board, like tracks and such, whereas the chips I had before were badly corroded, these...

No comments on my findings... ? GAH

BTW: I have deduced, that the Sanyo CD board models can be identified easily without removing the case. Look on the back of the case, if it says "Made in China" it will have a Sanyo CD board. I am 90% sure this is correct, and if you dont want this unmoddable system now you can easily check!

Ok today I got out the last chip I had not tested (mod chip) I took out a 32 pin CD drive from another saturn, installed it on it - now I get the red circles !! wow!! Apparently this means that the ribbon cables arent in properly - ive tried putting them all sorts of ways, and when they are in...

Ive posted in the huge thread at the top of the page about my UK Sanyo Saturn with PC TRAP-crap