How to burn Saturn games on a Mac with Toast

[gregnash]

I was a bit reluctant to try the swap method - i thought i'd probably balls up the burning of the disc (i'm on a mac, and tutorials are much harder to find), and i didnt want to screw up my saturn motor by cocking it up multiple times.

I thought i'd give it a go anyway, and wadda know it worked perfectly!! i couldn't believe it, first time of ever trying and i pulled it off. i thought id just write a post to say exactly what i did, so if any of you are mac users or not sure whether to try it, you can read these steps.


Burning the disc:

Once I'd unRar'd the .rar file (using unRarX, free from http://www.unrarx.com/ ), it left me with a bin and cue file. I opened Toast Titnium 8, selected copy from the 4 options on the left and chose the sub heading Bin/Cure files, then hit the select button on the right hand side, and you can pick the bin or cue file. I think it may have come up with a notice about audio tracks, but i just OK'd through any message and it was fine. I chose to burn the disc at 1x speed


Swap Method

This is well documented, I have a model 2 saturn, and just cut an elastic band into a smaller piece and tied it round the little tower inside the saturn.


Then I sat and played Radiant Silvergun for 6 hours.

[fingersmaloy]

Hey, thanks for that. That's a good resource for us Mac users. You need to mod your Saturn to play burned games too, huh?

Do you know if the mod chip needed to do that is different depending on the region of the Saturn itself? Wanna play burned stuff on my Japanese Saturn...

[andythebadass]

good job sir. toast is a great burning tool for almost any format.

[opticledilusi0n]

liquid cd works well for burning dc, saturn, segacd, and wii games

[gregnash]

you don't need a mod chip to play CD-Rs, just do the swap method. I'm playing games from all regions on my UK saturn, but i do have a Action Replay cart. there's probably some mega chip that will do it all, play CD-Rs without the swap and play imports, but you've gotta get urself a 4MB RAM cart for some of the classics, so may as well get an Action Replay.

The only bad thing about having a PAL saturn is that most games on the net are NTSC, so will play slower than they are supposed to, so you have to find the EUR version of stuff like Panzer Dragoon Saga, which is slightly harder to find.

[aw93053]

which CD-R brand did you use for the Toast method?

[christoph]

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