sega saturn 20pin modchip info

My personal disclosure: I buy almost exclusively from Trenton_net. His prices are amazing bar none however they have occasionally come with bad ribbons and bad power wires so be prepared to do some soldering and ribbon sourcing. As far as I can recall all chips I've received have worked albeit some are pickier than others with Sanyo Saturns.

Probably be easier to know what you've tested but I know I have the SSIC7A and HK-3; possibly more but I don't have the parcel with the batch I just purchased on hand either. I'll probably end up reverse engineering a chip for kicks assuming this semester of digital logic proves useful.

 

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This is what I figured personally. Why spend money on a new laser assembly when you might as well just get the real console and everything that comes with it? Especially, as you correctly pointed out, when there are so many revisions? Anyway, these are the kinds of things I am talking about:

Full Assembly:


Just the Lenses (About 50% cheaper than the full assembly):


Being an electronics layman, I don't really know much about these things or what models they would be compatible with. I figure no matter how cheap I could get these in for, shipping from China would kill it for most people. For the weight, size, shipping, original cost, technical knowledge needed to install, I figure people would rather just get another used Saturn and be done with it.

 

I could probably do with a few too, how about you work out a price and then see if people are interested or not - as thats going to be the deciding factor.

 

He's right - they're not cheap. I was going to grab some ages ago. Plus the Chinese ones can be very hit and miss - I've seen a LOT of replacement lasers die a lot quicker than the originals.

The main problem with lasers is that if they're not correctly calibrated, they need special equipment (including the original alignment CD) to set up correctly. Blindly twiddling pots is a sure way to kill the diode fast.

 

Indeed it is but where in the hell would I find the alignment CD?

 

How do you go about getting one off the catalog?

 

email him

Also, he now has the 20/21 pin chips

 

Okay how much are they and how would I pay for it? would I just send him a PP payment as a gift or how does it work?

 

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Ok I'll ask him in the next few days now I just need to figure out how to pay for it.

 

Dropped Trenton a PM would love to get some of those, as it will probably work out cheaper than shipping yet another console from the US/UK only to find the laser died in the post :/