Weird Mod Behaviour

[retroborg]

Hi

I have a SEGA Saturn PAL Model 2 with a 21PIN CD Cable & a 32PIN IC Chip.

I bought a MOD Chip from http://www.jandaman.com/ and installed it.

If I insert a copied game in the CD-ROM and power up the console, without going to the BIOS CD-Menu screen, the game works fine. But if I start the console without inserting a game in the CD-ROM and try to load it from the CD menu (insert the game after the console gets into the menu screen), it says: “Checking disc format” but it recognizes it as an audio CD.

Also if I insert a copied game after the system boots into the CD menu screen & then press reset, the game will not load up. Instead it will get back to the CD menu screen & recognize it as audio CD.

It seems that it only works when it starts from an all ready powered off console.

Is this a characteristic/phenomenon or a defective Mod Chip?

Other than that, the MOD chip seems to be working fine with all the copied CDs I tried, but only when I load them directly, without going to the CD Menu screen first and loading them from there.

Any opinions/ideas will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

 

[ratfish]

Nope, that's common with a lot of mods.

 

[retroborg]

Well that's interesting, because with the PSX Mod chip, you can load copied games on the Playstation1 at any point, either from the menu screen or booting up directly from the beginning.

So are the PSX mod chips better quality or just completely different?

 

[retroborg]

Does anyone else have any opinions/ideas about this?

 

[IBarracudaI]

Originally posted by ratfish@Dec 3, 2003 @ 11:40 PM

Nope, that's common with a lot of mods.

He's right 😉

 

[Jaded God]

Why do you have to go to the BIOS/menu screen? This isn't a big deal, who cares?

Get a 4-in-1 Expansion cart if you want to use menu features and have the mod work.

 

[retroborg]

I don't need to go to the Bios/CD Menu Screen. It's just that I didn't witness this behavior with the mod chip I installed in my PlayStation1. One would expect it to work at all times, so it lead me to believe that this might be a defective Saturn Mod chip.

If I tried another Mod chip would it also act like this?

Does it depend on the brand?

 

[Jaded God]

Your modchip is working.. So why bother?

Saturn mods and psx mods are two different things first off.