Launching Game on a Japanese Sega Saturn

[joeche1]

Just received a Sega Saturn Japan import. Powered it up, set the date/time and then was able to fumble through the Japanese settings and switch to English labels. Main screen looks like its just controls for audio...setting tracks, play, reverse/forward, stop, etc. It wont back out above this and no matter if I rebooted disk (Devil Summoner, japan version) or powered down I can't launch the game. I may have enabled/disabled a mode or something when jockeying through the original settings before finding the English labels. See attachment for screen shot. Anyone has any help on this or point me to a resource....couldn't find anything on Youtube. Thanks for the help, Joe.

[alienjesus]

I normally encounter this on my English Saturn when the disc doesnt read properly - it displays as a music disc instead of a game disc. The top left icon should be to try and boot the game iirc.

First thing to try is cleaning the games, obviously. If it's not that, I'd suspect an issue with the laser. When I got a similar issue with my original PAL Saturn a few years ago people suggested opening it up and reconnecting the ribbon cable attached to the laser assembly. I'd wait for some more specific advice before you attempt that though.

If not, cleaning the laser may help. If none of those work, I'm out of ideas.

[8bit]

It's the top left icon that will change to an 'S' when it detects that a game is inserted. On that menu feel free to open the disc tray, clean the disc, reseat and close the lid to get the system to try to read the disc again. If the logo changes it should be ready to boot up.

[joeche1]

Thanks for the quick replies! The disk I tried is flawless...not one defect. I have another game coming in the next few days. I had my No. Amer. version AV cables hooked up when I attempted to load the game and sent the screenshot. I pulled the import cables out, hooked it up and unfortunately they appear to not work....no audio and video, just a hum from the speakers. Even used different inputs on the switch getting same results.

[arcadifvid]

had the exact same issue.. tried 3 discs already. did all the usual suggestions, and in the end i just submitted to the fact that i bought a defective unit. i now have a saturn for display purposes only
anyway do let us know how yours go.

[joeche1]

Ended up returning it to the seller and will be sent a replacement.

Regards, Joe