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slinga - Aug 29, 2003

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  slinga Aug 29, 2003
What ever happened to the Tectoy Saturn? Was it ever released?

 Mr. Saturn Aug 30, 2003
Not that i know of...

 antime Aug 30, 2003
Tec-Toy do have a Saturn page..., and some stores even appear to sell them..., dunno if they are actually made by Tec-Toy though.

 NR Pickle Aug 30, 2003
That pic of it looks pretty cool. Too bad the sites aren't in english. It'd be nice if they are moddable b/c I know someone who wants to mod but has the 20 pin ribbon cable.

 antime Aug 30, 2003
Going by the picture it's a Skeleton Saturn... without the "This is Cool" logo. But there's no guarantee the actual for-sale units look like that (though Tec-Toy did produce many rather cool variations of the SMS).

 Daniel Eriksson Aug 30, 2003
I have mailed them and they dp produce new Saturns and some games. Though they only distibute it to Brasilian stores. They also have Megadrive, Mastersystem and Dreamcasts for sale.

 Adrock Aug 30, 2003
They must be contracted by Sega to only produce them in Brazil, which now means you have to find someone or somewhere from Brazil that is willing to sell one, sounds like i might have to take a look around.

 M3d10n Aug 30, 2003
A friend 'o mine just got a Tectoy Skeleton Saturn. It's pretty much the Japanese unit, with the region modified to US and the color system modified to PAL-M (basically, NTSC with PAL colors). The logo is the Japanese one, and also is the BIOS.

Ah, it's prolly a model2 too. Tectoy's models always reflected the Saturn models being sold in US (mine is identical to the US model1 Saturn), then when the US produciton halted, they started selling the Japanese models. There are both white and skeleton Tectoy Saturns (but only skeleton ones are made nowadays, I think).

 slinga Aug 30, 2003
Wow awesome. It's great to know Saturn's are being made again :cheers

What about controllers? Does this mean I can get my grubby paws on skeleton or white controllers?

 Daniel Eriksson Aug 31, 2003
Indeed they have controllers. Check here : http://www.tectoy.com.br/...

 Adrock Sep 1, 2003
All we gotta do now is find someone who can understand portugese and get them to source some of those wonderful consoles/controllers so we can buy them.

 IBarracudaI Sep 1, 2003
hehe, I do understand portuguese

But i'm from portugal, M3d10n is brasilian though

 Adrock Sep 2, 2003
You could ship them to portugal for us lovely European members of the board and then send them to us

 Yceman Sep 2, 2003

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by Adrock@Aug 30, 2003 @ 06:03 PM



 They must be contracted by Sega to only produce them in Brazil


Actually, they are (or at least they used to be) something like "Sega Brasil", they are (or used to be) officially linked to Sega, like Gradiente used to be with Nintendo. And although Tec Toy apparently still produces Saturn and Dreamcast, I can only find SMS and Mega Drive for sale.

BTW, recently I've been to some kind of flea market and I was impressed to see how active the market for old games is here.

 mal Sep 11, 2003
FYI

Sega Saturn Brazilian Console New Sealed ... (eBay)

 M3d10n Sep 11, 2003
Geez, that's *my* Saturn. The same gigantic box

'Cept mine came with VF Remix (they just put a "REMIX" sticker next to the VF logo in the box).

BTW, if anyone is planning to mod that after buying, forget it. It's a pure-breed model 1.

 AntiPasta Sep 11, 2003
the auction says it is US region encoded but outputs a PAL-M signal... does that mean it requires specific PAL-M games or does it run NTSC games with PAL-M?

 M3d10n Sep 14, 2003
It does NTSC games. PAL-M is merely NTSC (same resolution, 60Hz) with PAL color encoding.

AFAIK, Tectoy merely imported their games directly from SOA (without the boxes and manuals, of course), and did their own packaging and manuals. They never printed any Saturn, SegaCD or DC games.

While they translated Riven into portuguese, I think the game was pressed either in USA, Europe or Japan.

 cezario Sep 16, 2003

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by Adrock@Sep 2, 2003 @ 06:04 AM



You could ship them to portugal for us lovely European members of the board and then send them to us


I´m from Brazil. Do you want anything from here? I would be glad to help. From fan to fan.

 Alexvrb Sep 23, 2003
Wouldn't you have to use a transcoder to get it to work properly on an NTSC TV?

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