What is this Saturn accessory? Cartridge printer? Scanner?

Post by **ImportBoy** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 4:41 pm

I recently got a bunch of import games in today. One of them has a catalog of Saturn stuff. On the back page there was something being advertised for $150 (mabey a package deal). It shows a white saturn, the saturn floppy disk drive, and a weird thing that looks like a tiny printer that goes into the cartridge port.

Anyone have a clue what this thing is? (Or can read the kanji) I wonder if it was ever released. Scan is attached.

Post by **lordofduct** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:01 pm

Nope... the printer stuff that came with the Sega Saturn was the "You Word Processor" program and it came with a keyboard, floppy (sometimes without it as well), and Canon bubble jet printer. Here's an ad showing it:

Personally that looks like an e-card reader

Post by **metaleggman** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:08 pm

Looks like a card reader of some sorts. Quite a few Japanese systems got them I think. I know the famicom had one so that's like what 4 or 3? That's alot to me.

Post by **ImportBoy** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:10 pm

Just a follow up - the item in question is actually the Japanese Saturn 28.8k modem. Apparently it does have some kind of a reader with it. I'm hoping to get one of these soon along with the Japanese browser and try to test it out.

Post by **metaleggman** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:56 pm

ImportBoy wrote:Just a follow up - the item in question is actually the Japanese Saturn 28.8k modem. Apparently it does have some kind of a reader with it. I'm hoping to get one of these soon along with the Japanese browser and try to test it out.

Maybe that's like an ID card or a phone card then.

Post by **ImportBoy** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:18 pm

Maybe that's like an ID card or a phone card then.

I think the cards or whatever it reads were used for SegaNet. Mabey an ID card with high score, user profile, etc? I'm going to go mulling around Yahoo Japan Auctions later, see if someone has one.

Post by **grittykitty** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 11:53 am

it is a modem and the reader is for phone cards. i don't recall where i read it online (probably wikipedia!) but i think the cards had to be purchased/recharged through sega. i saw one of these for sale in japan but didn't buy it

Post by **ImportBoy** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 1:05 pm

it is a modem and the reader is for phone cards. i don't recall where i read it online (probably wikipedia!) but i think the cards had to be purchased/recharged through sega. i saw one of these for sale in japan but didn't buy it

Do you know what purpose the phone cards served? My understanding is that to play Saturn SegaNet games you just need to dial-out to the other player's system.

A pity you didn't buy it...I would have bought it from you had you listed it with your other stuff! I want to try some SegaNet multiplayer gaming sometime. How much was it being sold for?

Post by **Perseid** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 1:24 pm

Wow. That printer combo is insane. Who would want a word processor that only worked on a TV?

Post by **ImportBoy** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 2:25 pm

Wow. That printer combo is insane. Who would want a word processor that only worked on a TV?

I could think of a couple reasons. The buyer might not own a computer being probably the most common. You could also think in a family setting - mabey one of the kids needs to write up something for school but the family computer is often used by the parents for work related things. By having a word processor on the kids game console with the ability to print makes sense.