Saturn cd-rom adjustments?

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Which dials should I fiddle with?

The orange (variable resistor?) right below the laser
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The white one
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The gray one (coil)
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All of them
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You did WHAT now? ಥ_ಥ
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riseup
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Saturn cd-rom adjustments?

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Hey lads. I hadn't used my Saturn for about a year, and just when I was ready to play Shinobi I found it booting straight to music menu. I opened it up and found 3 dials around the drive which I randomly adjusted, :) hoping to see some improvement :lol: .. (you know the yellow one, white one, and something else).

I hadn't used it for so long I forgot about the dodgy drive cable-pins. Indeed they turned out to be the culprit, after re-inserting a few times the disk now spinned, but thanks to all the drunken adjustments i had made :oops: it loaded straight to the music menu

Please help me, if just with some links. The only one I found relating to it is this:
http://www.mrvfone.com.au/sega/saturn.htm

Does anyone have experience with this?
Even if just to put everything back to default setting, how would I do this? Say I use my multimeter (which is actually also broken :() where would I measure the voltage reading?


I don't want to get a 2nd Saturn when I can just fix this one (especially since it's Model 2 and I have a modchip inside). Though I'm not going to cry like in the other topic (which was ridiculous!! like a bunch of babies :? ). I mean they're $30. In fact I gave my old Model 1 away for free. Kinda regret it now, but I didn't know the Model 2 modchip in a Model 1 was possible (heard its really hard though).

Well, I'll be here, waiting.. possibly starring at my Hang On case, imagining the horrendous control and wondering why I never bought a Nights controller - the game's utterly useless without it.

Don't make me do it!

ps (is there a more appropriate place (other forums) to ask this question)?
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Why didn't you just clean the CD lens? That should have been the first thing you did.
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Ziggy587 wrote:Why didn't you just clean the CD lens? That should have been the first thing you did.
That is what I would have done first too... 8)
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I had to fiddle with mine to get it to work, old oval button saturn. But sadly I can't remember what I adjsuted now...
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Re: Saturn cd-rom adjustments?

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you guys aren't much help!

:cry: i need a hero
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