It's arrived - The Sega SKC-1000

Why does it have a hard drive?

 

Hmm, looks like the SKC-1000c would be the model to track down I guess.

That is used to store music tracks along with the videos for them. I doubt you could store Saturn games on it although that would be amazing if you could.

 

Bigggg props to Druid for the pics! Truly interesting stuff, guys!

 

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I want one

 

this is fuckingtastic!

 

Damn amazing piece of junk! But I love every SEGA junk lol

 

This is cool

 

If it can not play games through the disc changer then how the hell does it plays games then?

 

Just looking at the post with the internal images, it looks like there's a single sliding-tray CD drive on the left side of the unit. That suggests to me that the CD changer is attached as a separate drive and is not integrated into the on-board optical drive. That makes sense, given that the SKC unit should be able to operate on its own with no changer attached.

 

That's 100% correct, kendrick :thumbsup:

 

Interesting. It is amazing how many variants sega made of their hardware. Makes you think they were almost trying to go after that 3do market (if there was even one lol).

 

Holy shit!! It's HERE!!!!!! and best of all it still has a hard drive full of music and data including the weather forecast for Tokyo 22nd February 1998! It also has an advertisement for the Dreamcast Sega karaoke system! How F*ing cool is that?!

OK, on to the pictures. First, idiot EBay sellers take note. this is how you pack expensive heavy equipment :nod:

No.1 A big heavy box.


No.2 Lots of good packing on top, below and around the sides of the item.


No.3 Use plenty of bubble wrap. not just a little farty piece.


Now on to the actual hardware which is very heavy.


The Saturn discs go in to a high end CD drive which is very nice with the controller slots in behind the 2nd flap. Also behind that flap are audio tweaking knobs just like on the Wondermega. however these on this system will make your Saturn sound like you never would have believed. Separate bass and treble controls really make things sound amazing and so rich.



Around the back of the system are more inputs and outputs than you could ever want. There's also separate outputs for Video CD. Could this be a resolution thing? Either way the actual karaoke menus (powered by the Saturn by the looks of things) are beautiful via RGB or S-Video. The Saturn it's self also looks very nice through S-video although I've not tried it through RGB yet.



I was also sent the CD multi changer as well but I don't have the cables to connect the two and I don't have the key to open it. There are CDs in side the system and it is very very heavy so maybe there are actually 50 discs in there. I will sell this though since I have no use for it.

I'll be taking a closer look at the system on the next Retro Core so keep an eye open for that one.

Yakumo

 

That is so awesome! Much better than my red wii debacle. I'll have to keep my eyes open for one of these...

 

Don't sell the CD-Changer! It looks as if the connection is similar, if not identical, to an external SCSI-II-cable. Could you get a closeup pic of one of the connectors?

Also, do you have an explanation for the telephone and network connectors?

 

That's a nice piece of kit!

 

Woweeeeeee.

Yeah, Yak. You're usually so thorough!

 

He was too excited!

Nice buy! Can't believe you didn't pick one up for 5,000 Yen on the offchance, though!!

 

Now that's what I call a truly masterpiece of hardware.

How about that phone line jack? Can you connect it to dial-up?

 

Yeah, I thought I had watermarked the images but must have forgotten to in the excitement. Fixed that issue now.

@Rodrigo, yes you can. But I don't have any dial up phone line jacks in my house. Everything is fibre optic cable, yes, even the telephone.

I can get the cables easy enough but I really do have no use for it. I will never use the CD Changer and it's way too big to keep in the house. I would rather it was sold to someone who will make good use of it. I presume it's working since it powers up and does a CD drive check

Yakumo