Sand the side of the chip? Because it is hard to fit the chip in that area it rubs up against the metal sheet that's on top of the board. Could that be my problem?

I removed the chip and the saturn works. My soldering iron gets real hot could it have blown out the chip? It doesn't make sense cause my solders were perfect. The chip was down as far as it would go without literally breaking it with force from putting it down. Will racketboy give me my money back?...

Ok I got my modchip today and soldered it in. All my solders look fine and the modchip is securely plugged in and so is the cable intot he modchip. My Saturn won't spin up and load ANY game. I don't know. I never tested this Saturn before I modded it to see if it would spin up. I just turned it on. ...

well can i play burned import games on the saturn with a modchip? or do i have to rip it change the region and burn it to a CD-R?

I live in Brooklyn but the only arcade I ever knew about closed when I was still a kid, I was about 12 or 13 when it closed. I used to go there nearly everyday for 4 years though. I'm 18 now and the only one around me that I know about is in Manhattan in Chinatown. It's called Chinatown Fair. It is ...

It was funny because we started making jokes about the switch. I try to find the humor in things cause now I had to buy a new Saturn...it kind of sucks. I think I will just use the swap trick to boot imports; until I can afford a Japanese Saturn that is. And yes the contacts came off when my friends...

Ok, so I decide I want to try that switch trick to make my Saturn switch from US to JP. So me and my friend take my saturn apart and drill a perfect hole in the side and the switch goes in flawlessly. We solder all the points to the swtich and begin on the saturn mainboard. So about 4 hours and a bi...