The Original Saturn/Project Jupiter ( plus blackbelt , mars)

rather saturn looking pad?

 

As I said

As I said before there is one collector who has one. I think Assembler knows him but I'm not quite sure.

 

woah!!!! amazing! did someone know if he can pla with it ? (i would never play with it like a normal 32x but it have more value if it work.)




too cool! really , i always loved sega thing vut this is just too cool! :smt033


do you think others prototype exist? :smt117

 

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It looks like the shape of the Saturn pad, but the button placement is the same as my Genesis pad (except for the Start button).

 

It is a Saturn pad, but you can't make out from the photo if it's been modified to use an Atari-style connector or if the machine has Saturn-style ports. (The pads in themselves should be interchangeable.)

EDIT: Playing around with the colors shows that the machine uses Atari-style connectors, just like the Megadrive.

 

http://www.the-nextlevel.com/features/cge/

This site says it was a fully working model...

 

Someone once told me he saw the Netptune and later the Silver Saturn proto in TecToy's office (TecToy is SEGA's arm here in Brazil), and both are working models. This guy worked for some game magazines, but I don't know how much we can believe him...

 

Silver Saturn Proto? Care to tell us some more about that? rayer: rayer: rayer:

 

Guys, have any of you ever heard of the Sega Mark 4 ? I bet not :smt024 Well, it was the prototype of what became the Mega Drive. The original design even had a built in LCD screen. I can take a photo of the original designs if anyone is interested. I'd do a scan butthere's no scanner in my UK home

Yakumo

 

The original Saturn (before it was released) was going to be silver, not that horrible gray color. There was some different writing on the top as well. Someone posted a pic here not long ago. I've got pics in several old magazines if you wish for me to post them.

Either way, they'll be on JG in the coming weeks... just got a big backlog while the weather is nice outside.

 

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Yakumo,now that's interesting....post!

 

OK, I'll grab my brothers digital camera tomorrow to take a few pictures.

Yakumo

 

Legit, the program was Bad Influence! and the Scorpion is a bootleg megadrive.... I had the opportunity to get one once, but my friend forgot to tell me and then we couldn't find it! (biiiig boot fair)

 

Assembler or anyone:

are you familar with something called SA-2 from Sega? of course I don't mean Sonic Adventure 2, but a 32-Bit Sega hardware, either arcade, console or both. From the two small scraps of info I have mentioning Sega SA-2, it is the Jupiter hardware and/or the 32-Bit 2D arcade hardware that Jupiter is based on.

"just like Saturn's predecessor, Jupiter(SA-2), did not have dual CPU. Come and think of it, Jupiter had a 68030."

"Saturn is based on Sega's SA-2 32bit 2D arcade board with addional polygon handling capability."

does this ring a bell in someone's mind!?

 

2D 32 bit arcade hw? Looks like System 32 for me. BTW, all the rumours points that the Saturn was based on the Gigadrive that was based on the System 32.
The common sense is that Jupiter was a cart-based Saturn, but in which state of development?

 

How could there be compatibility issues? Will some MD/GEN games not play when passed through a 32X? I don't see how they couldn't successfully integrate a MD2 and 32X onto a single PCB.

 

agreed.

I completely go along with the suggestion that System 32 was the basis for GigaDrive. the GigaDrive evolved into the Saturn. Jupiter was a cartridge only Saturn, but not the final Saturn released to Japan in Nov 1994. Jupiter must have been the cart-based version of an early Saturn. the Jupiter and the early Saturn were single CPU systems.

I think that SA-2 (which I've never seen mentioned anywhere except for two posts on the internet) is probably System 32. or a component of System 32. but that's just my guess. I posted the question about SA-2 here in hopes that it might ring a bell with someone, but oh well.

 

It doesn't pay to read anything posted by "R420". He never has posted anything of value and most probably never will.

 

Well, only Virtua Racing as far as I'm aware of.