korn16ftl3 wrote:why is that? from what i have read the AR's screw up the expansion slots in the saturns due to the cart card being made to thick, and i am aware that you can patch the disc image to NTSC but from what i have read results vary on that as well
The AR is fine. The Gameshark is the destroyer of slots.
I'm unaware of any 'varying'. If you have a chip so you can play burns and no AR or ST Key, you run the patcher on the ISO and it flips the bit so it matches the region of your console. If you have a chip and an AR or ST Key, you just burn. The problems most people have is either burning with crappy discs, not burning at speeds of 4x or 8x, or downloading something with the music tracks converted to MP3 and not changing them (or having a program thatchanged them) back into WAV files for the burn.
vlame wrote:Srp gold does it right and has never given me probs for changing the region of a game.
well ill soon be joining saturn land so ill see what all the hub-ub is about i have just a staturn deck and controller ordered the chip AR car and S-video cord (and some nintendo tools) from the store here
sega cd used to give me shit about burns till i screwed around with burn-at-once and made like 10000 Frisbee's but i got it down so i could burn them at full speed with 100% success, only problem is....BAO is a 32-bit program only and a discontinued freeware so ya lol (sorry for drifting way off topic but hell im the OP )
I too inquired a few times about making homemade Saturn chips. Hopefully some day some one out there will get the data needed. It DOES exists some where, since the Saturn chips are produced, some one obviously has the data some where. But the community will most likely have to rely on some one nice enough to get the data through some sort of reverse engineering or hacking and whatnot. It would be really nice to have it though, you could make a Saturn mod chip on some perf board fairly easily.
Ziggy587 wrote:I too inquired a few times about making homemade Saturn chips. Hopefully some day some one out there will get the data needed. It DOES exists some where, since the Saturn chips are produced, some one obviously has the data some where. But the community will most likely have to rely on some one nice enough to get the data through some sort of reverse engineering or hacking and whatnot. It would be really nice to have it though, you could make a Saturn mod chip on some perf board fairly easily.
ya i dont know what exactly go's into a saturn chip...would be interesting to see the hex and what not tho i looked into a DC chip (even tho there really not need'd) and they are not pic based at all hell the chip looks like a BIOS chip only
on a side note i did learn it is possable to dumo the DC BIOS and edit it to be region free...same thing with the saturn but there is a disc check on the saturn else where (not in the BIOS its self presumably in the CD rom firmware or something?) that prevents the boot CD-R edit on the saturn BIOS from from working
vlame wrote:can someones reverse engineer a chip? i have a few currently non working ones.
i can not reverse.....but non working chips would be a problem seeing as how we would need to read the data exchanged/altered between the saturn/mod chip/cd rom as the chip deliberitly interferes with the standerd function of the system by injecting data making the machine think the disc is legit
vlame wrote:can someones reverse engineer a chip? i have a few currently non working ones.
i can not reverse.....but non working chips would be a problem seeing as how we would need to read the data exchanged/altered between the saturn/mod chip/cd rom as the chip deliberitly interferes with the standerd function of the system by injecting data making the machine think the disc is legit
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here is another idea for ypu RB members / saturn fanatics i found this on the internet http://www.gamingenterprisesinc.com/DataLink/ as well as i have tracked down the schematics to do both add a port to the AR repro's as well as make the USB Adapter
i havent read threw all the directions and read all the schematics yet but it looks to very simple, i know adding the port to the cart is easy and building the circuit board shouldnt be that hard
is this any thing any one would be interested in buying?
Vlame and i have discussed this a bit i thought it would be an interesting idea
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