Mal, please help! I've read everything posted about modding Saturns, and I'm very confused. Please take a look at these 2 pictures, and please give me some advice:
It seems I have a 64pin board. I connected point A to B on the modchip, and connected the pin at the corner of the modchip to the +5V. Then put it in, and tried it with the 0014 and the 0019 bridge. In both cases, this happens:
Boots without the animation
2 red spheres
cd doesn't rotate
"checking disc format", and nothing more.
Also, I noticed that for some reason, the sounds (of the cursor for entering date, or the control panel entering the screen) are pitched very low, like about 3 times as slow as normal. When I remove the modchip, everything works normal. Please help a desperate fellow Sega-fan in need :'(
UPDATE: Ok, I'm very ashamed of myself...
I put the ribbon cable up side down into the modchip....But still, this doesn't solve my problem totally. Now it will boot originals (so the modchip and the Saturn are ok), but it won't boot backups. So this means I either burned the backup with wrong settings, or the modchip still needs to be soldered onto the ic on the cd board. Oh, wait, I've still got my jumper set to 0019, I'm gonna try 0014...back in a minute....
UPDATE 2: Put the 0019 soldering back to 0014, and nothing changed, except for the fact that the Saturn gives a "no suitable disc" message after checking the cd for a shorter time. With the 0019 bridge, checking the disc would take like 10-15 secs, with the 0014 it was just 5 secs (or maybe it was just my imagination and there was no difference). So considering the fact that it does boot originals, I guess I burned the backups with wrong setting?