Types of Saturn Mainboard

[sirius1212]

Hi

I've already modded one of my saturns with the 50/60hz and country switches (which works perfectly), but I have a second saturn I thought I'd have a go at. Both are UK pal (MK-80200A-50) with the round buttons.

I've took the second one apart but it is quite different to the first one. The first one has the 32 pin IC chip on the CD drive, all the relevant jumpers are present for country modding i.e. JP6 to JP13, and the board is marked "Saturn Main VA9".

The second one however has the 64 pin IC chip and I can't for the life of me find anywhere on the mainboard the jumpers for the country mod!

Here's a link to a photo of the writing on the board:

Board Type

Anyone seen one of these before and do you know how to do the mods them? I am wondering if because it says "VA PAL" does this mean that it is permanently wired for UK and 50Hz and can't be modded?

For full pictures of the board click below:

Front

Back

This has prompted me to wonder how many types of Saturn mainboards there are. Anyone know? Am I right in saying there is a VA7 model as well and the VA9?

Cheers for any help

 

[Genestealer]

This does seem rather similar to mine. I can give you detailed instructions, but I'd prefer to do it over AIM, ICQ or MSN if you don't mind (check my profile for contact info). I also dont have a good place to host the images I took. For the JP1/JP2 jumper, try looking to the bottom left of the cluster of connections marked with white on the top right of the picture with the bottom of the mainboard. They were around there for me.

 

[orta]

Try this it might help

http://www.gamesx.com/importmod/saturncon.htm

you can find every possible segasaturn jumper points there and maybe other

types of saturn model 🙂