Modding a Japanese Sega Saturn For North American Usage

[christoph]

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[vlame]

patch the american iso to ntsc j

[Upsidedown Fuji]

patch the american iso to ntsc j

Yep, this is the easiest way to do it.

Just do the swap method and you'll be playing domestic games on your Japanese system in no time.

[christoph]

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[17DaysOlderThanNES]

The Action Replay Plus will let you do that (still need a modchip for backups). Consolegoods.co.uk keeps em in stock (both of em).

Region patching games is stupid easy too: http://madroms.satakore.com/#SRP

you literally just open the disc image and click the countries you want (you usually have to deselect the current country) and patch it. Easiest. mod. ever.

I still need to facepalm over the thread title, though: NTSC is a video format used by Japan and North America (primarily), you wouldn't need to mod a Japanese Saturn to output NTSC because it's already NTSC.

[christoph]

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[skate323k137]

any cart or region mod will work fine with the chip. I have both a region modded saturn, and one that I use a cart in. Having done the region switch mod several times, it's nice, but in this day in age, it's a waste of time and unnecessary risk (assuming pressing "A" twice to start your game isn't too inconvenient). I'll probably never put another region switch in a saturn, too many revisions of the motherboard, and you have to cut a couple of traces too. As far as mods go it isn't hard, but it's pointless unless you NEED the cart slot for a netlink, official memory card, or proprietary cartridge. Depending on if you value your personal time like I do, doing the region mod will likely take just as much time as it would take for you to just earn the money at work for the all-in-one cart.

[christoph]

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