Racket's Saturn mod chip

[D.D.D.]

For those who have the chip and sucessfully modded their Saturn, who did the A-B trick and who did the pin-14 solder?
I'm just trying to see which one has the higher success rate before I try soldering for the first time...

[Hatta]

I bridged A-B, worked great.

[Curlypaul]

I have a 64 pin saturn and I used the A+B bridging method just fine.

If it doesnt work I reckon it will be easier to desolder the modchip than desolder the tiny pins on the board.

[andymol21]

32 pin, did the AB connector by just wrapping the wire round and plugging the power supply in, no soldering at all. Works fine for me.

[D.D.D.]

I have a 64 pin saturn and I used the A+B bridging method just fine.

If it doesnt work I reckon it will be easier to desolder the modchip than desolder the tiny pins on the board.

That does sound quite logical and well, sound.
Also, I'm going to be doing this on a Japanese Saturn... Anyone use the chip on a J-Saturn?

[disorderlyvision]

i soldered. works great!

[Ziggy]

For those who have the chip and sucessfully modded their Saturn, who did the A-B trick and who did the pin-14 solder?
I'm just trying to see which one has the higher success rate before I try soldering for the first time...

If this is your first time soldering, then maybe you'll wanna practice on something else first. I soldered mine, but I have a lot of experience in soldering.

And if you go the solder route (which is always better then using 'tape tricks' and such) the paper trick in Racket's guide is a really good way to single out a single pin on the chip. If you don't do something like that, its almost impossible to solder a single pin, they're almost microscopic!

[D.D.D.]

For those who have the chip and sucessfully modded their Saturn, who did the A-B trick and who did the pin-14 solder?
I'm just trying to see which one has the higher success rate before I try soldering for the first time...

If this is your first time soldering, then maybe you'll wanna practice on something else first. I soldered mine, but I have a lot of experience in soldering.

And if you go the solder route (which is always better then using 'tape tricks' and such) the paper trick in Racket's guide is a really good way to single out a single pin on the chip. If you don't do something like that, its almost impossible to solder a single pin, they're almost microscopic!

I don't really have anything else like circuit boards etc, what else could I practice on?
Also, could you perhaps give me a bit more info on the paper trick? I read that in the guide but might you have a picture or just a bit more info on that (as it is my first time)?

[Ziggy]

I'll see if I can upload a picture later, but basically you single out one pin of the chip using paper. I used standard computer paper, ripped it into quarters. Stick a peice of paper on each side of the pin you want to solder, this way you almost garuntee you only touch that pin.

I don't know if you looked at the pins yet, but they're very small and very close together, so unless you have the steadiest hand/arm in the world and you're looking at it under a magnifying glass, you're gonna have trouble.

The problem is, you don't want to accidently bridge a connection between two pins on the chip because then nothing will work, and it could possible damage something. By singling out the one pin using the paper trick it makes it very easy to get the job done, and vastly lessens the chance of bridging a connection between two pins.

[Curlypaul]

If youve never soldered before then read a couple of guides and have a practise using some speaker wire and some PCB's out of something broken. It not really that difficult to get the wire to stick to something but if you can get that nailed before you attempt to solder those pins, then its one less thing to worry about when you are trying to hold that iron steady.

btw, is that saturn a 64 or 32 pin?