anyone have information on these or where they can be gotten? I would assume they would be rare to find, as no one makes them any more, would it be all too dificult to homebrew your own? I recently lost my saturn in an incident involving a 4 y/o brother and root beer :/. I have a few home brew things I need to test out yet.
I can get those no problem. I just have to order 50-100 of them.. Then they are about $5 each. Last I checked lan kwei had some I think.
Lan Kwei has no model 1 mod chips. Also model 2 chips that work on a 64 pin IC are very hard to find to.
Try here, they have both types of Saturn modchip in stock. http://www.robwebb.clara.co.uk/shop/saturn/saturn.htm
I once saw a site selling those a few years back, they were already very hard to find back then, and expensive... So I tried the swap trick instead, much cheaper and very easy to do on the model 1 saturns.
Sadly the swap trick will end up killing the poor saturn, though if I have no choice I suppose Ill hve to settle for it :/
I thought they onlu had those availible to developers, regardless Ive still got a few saturn cd-rs left, Ill make due for now I guess...
If you're careful, the swap trick won't kill it (although its not recommended). Much easier to just buy a newer revision Saturn!!!!!
At first I also feared that it could do damage to the motor... But my swap-trick saturn is still running fine after all the swapping, I have a few friends who also do it and theirs are also running fine. I dont think swaping is harmfull, the worst that can happen is scratching a cd while swaping in a hurry... I have watched closely how the cd assembly works, the cd motor isnt spining continuously as one might think, it only spins for about a fraction of a second for each second. It seems to be spining continuously but if you remove the cd from the drive you will see the motor spinning and stopping, spinning and stopping, and so on... So there is very little pressure aplied to the motor when swapping cd's. If you can swap it at the right time(when the motor is stopped) then there is no strain in the motor at all. I really dont see how this will kill a saturn. However if you're still worried then try putting a on/off switch on the drive motor and turn it off when you're swapping the cd.
I swapped for about a year, 6 years ago. My Saturn still works but doesn't startup as quickly as before. For me, the more I swapped, the easier it was to swap. The drive got slightly slower.
The 21pin is the Pin for the CDROM cable, right? and by 32pin, you mean the that chip on the CD card, right?
Sell your saturn. Buy a new one. Get the modern chip. easy. Oh the last step... complain after a year or so that your Saturn has had a nervous breakdown and won't boot very often, as that's what happens when you chip them.
Indeed, 21 pin is the CD cable (sadly you cant swap the whole CD system around, its also something with the mobo) and 32/64 refers to the CD controller chip. The site has pics if I remember right.
