Alright, a while back I bought a white Japanese Saturn on eBay and straight away it started having a few problems where it was saying the lid was open when it was closed and vice-versa. I opened it up to have a look and (apart from noticing that there was a mod installed) it seemed the switch that tells the Saturn whether the lid is open or closed had gotten messed around so much that it had lost it's spingyness. It would get pushed back by the lid and not return, so the next time you closed the lid there would be no contact.
After months of trying to keep the thing in the right place, I've just given up on that and taped up the switch so it thinks it's shut all the time. This would be fine (although a tad irritating), but now it's developed a whole new problem..
This one can be kind of random, but generally it's that games keep crashing constantly. Sometimes they'll freeze up, sometimes music will loop, sometimes they just won't boot at all and will go straight to the screen where it says it's checking the disc's contents endlessly(it doesn't tend to be spinning when it does this). I'm finding it very difficult to pinpoint a specific symptom because it's so erratic, ie sometimes the game won't boot, but if you try again straight away it might. Either way, I can't get more than ten minutes out of any game I've tried (backups or originals).
At the moment my options are:
1. Smash the fucker up with a hammer and cry at the £100 I've lost by buying the damned thing.
2. Hire a private detective to find the guy who messed it up so badly and/or the person who sold it to me and have them brutally murdered.
3. Hope to hell someone can help.
If any of you can make it #3, I'll have their babies
After months of trying to keep the thing in the right place, I've just given up on that and taped up the switch so it thinks it's shut all the time. This would be fine (although a tad irritating), but now it's developed a whole new problem..
This one can be kind of random, but generally it's that games keep crashing constantly. Sometimes they'll freeze up, sometimes music will loop, sometimes they just won't boot at all and will go straight to the screen where it says it's checking the disc's contents endlessly(it doesn't tend to be spinning when it does this). I'm finding it very difficult to pinpoint a specific symptom because it's so erratic, ie sometimes the game won't boot, but if you try again straight away it might. Either way, I can't get more than ten minutes out of any game I've tried (backups or originals).
At the moment my options are:
1. Smash the fucker up with a hammer and cry at the £100 I've lost by buying the damned thing.
2. Hire a private detective to find the guy who messed it up so badly and/or the person who sold it to me and have them brutally murdered.
3. Hope to hell someone can help.
If any of you can make it #3, I'll have their babies
