saturn problem

[muse hunter]

my grey saturn is starting to annoy me now, everytime i try playing a game that requires a ram or rom cart i have to continue to take the cart in and out before it recognises it. And even worse with the ram cart that i got with xmen v sf it doesn't recognise that cart at all. When i want to change over games that use 1mb cart and use a 4mb one or vise versa i have to continually take cart out blow on it put it back in to see if it works and this process is starting to grain on me. I guess the saturn is the problem does anyone have any advice? or should i just go out and get a replacement saturn? (maybe a good chance to get a this is cool version)

[Escape-To-88]

Those bloody RAM carts!!

After a coupla years modding saturns and doing various bits n pieces, I have found the best solution is to use a 4/5in-1 Action Reply cart (also acts as a decent universal adaptor). The standard 4/1mb RAM carts are pretty useless, ive had lots of sprite corruption in KOF, Marvel VS SF etc. Where as the Action Reply is fantastic, my old capcom ram just sits gathering dust!! 9/10 times its not the cart slot its the cartridge, The offical carts are especially bad with KOF 96 and Marvel Vs Streetfighter.
Hope that was some help!
If you needed a Action Reply Universal Adaptor/RAM cart i can get you a brand new boxed one for ?25.00 inc. postage, or you can probably find a decent second hand one.
Good luck!

[nekroxide]

The offical carts are especially bad with KOF 96 and Marvel Vs Streetfighter.
Good luck!

Ahh, that would explain why when playing KOF '96 I've had my character or the CPU one turn into a huge blob of mangled pixels!

I've never had any trouble with my JP machine recognising the cart, though. I try not to take it out unless I'm putting saves onto a memory cart.

[muse hunter]

thanks for the advice, i've just ordered action replay cart from ravengames hopefully that be the end of my problems

[Escape-To-88]

Raven bloody games!! there a nightmare, used to live down the road from them..you def. have an old revision cart, if you do the mod i posted in your last thread all will be well on planet saturn.
Adios

[Taurine]

Battery!

I had exactly this problem with my PAL Saturn, a 4-in-1 and official Sega memory cart. Every time I tried to power it up I had to muck about with whichever cart for several minutes to get it working.

The weird thing was that I changed the console's own backup battery and it just started working correctly every time. I have posted about this before. It seems as though the low or flat battery inside the little door on the back of the console (an LR44 I think) seems to leave something running too low a voltage for the cart to work.

Do yourself a favour, replace the console's backup battery and see the end of the problem

[Escape-To-88]

HHmm...strange never encountered this problem before, as have previously used a PAL saturn for a number of months, without bothering to change the battery and the 4meg cart was fine, maybe it depeneds on the model??

[Kubrick]

I guess the saturn is the problem

You guessed right. The design is basically piss-poor and you'll have problems even on a brand new machine.

I've never had the problems you're describing, but I've always had to push a cart all the way in, then pull it back out slightly for it to be recognised. Once I'd positioned it to work though, it would work/be recognised every time.

[nekroxide]

Guess it was because it wasn't designed like cart slots are on other machines - to have game carts pulled out and pushed in constantly - so they didn't make it as durable and stuff.