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Myname - Jan 16, 2003

		Myname		Jan 16, 2003
			Busted my third Saturn today doing the damned 50/60hz and country mod. It seems that I can do any other (often more difficult) mod perfectly well, but the Saturn ones just seem to go wrong for some reason. At the end of this partcular one, I ended up with an on/off switch which controlled the power, with no video at all. How the hell that happened is beyond me. Think I'm just going to get a Japanese Saturn and an import cart.. Much less stressful that way. And the white ones look cooler . Plus no more Saturns will send themselves to the graveyard out of spite towards me . Sorry for the pointless post, just wanted to whinge a bit.

		yashiro		Jan 16, 2003
			ouch. sucks for you... so you really want it to run all three countries? because the region mod for jp/na is way easier...

		Myname		Jan 16, 2003
			I'm in PAL-land which is why I'm bothered about getting the mod done. Can't stand 50hz borders. I was just going for the JAP/PAL switch and 50/60hz. Not particularly difficult, but for some reason the only time I feel like doing mods is at 6am after no sleep. At that time in the morning, sometimes you win and sometimes you lose ???

		Flakvin		Jan 17, 2003
			I've gone through 3 Saturns too... Just had to say that. But, these just died... Didnt have a chance to mod any of them. Saturn 1 - Failed to read CD's after 5 months of use. Saturn 2 - Power Supply blew up?!? Saturn 3 - A component on the back of the mobo burned out. There's my pointless post, in this (so called) pointless thread

		IBarracudaI		Jan 17, 2003
			I guess I'm pretty carefull, I've 2 saturns, all of them working well... Both saturns are PAL, one of those has *permanently* became a NTSC/European saturn I didn't made a switch I just soldered it to NTSC settings and that's it... At first I though it wouldn't make much difference, but as soon as I booted up some ntsc games I had around, WOW! That's what I call playing games.... I was really tired of those borders.. and as I am almost 24h a day staring at pc's monitor at 85Hz, when I powered on my PAL tv at 50Hz it almost hurted my eyes... ::

		Myname		Jan 17, 2003
			Success!... Got my Japanese Saturn

		mal		Jan 17, 2003
			Nice, but expensive. Final bid US$60. Shipping US$50 OUCH!!

		Myname		Jan 17, 2003
			Cheaper than buying a boxed japanese Saturn from someone in the UK.. They go up to around £100 before shipping. This one is around £80 with 4 games including shipping, so not too bad. Makes you want to go shopping in Japan though

		mal		Jan 17, 2003
			I guess I just have to look at it from a slightly different angle... The Space Harrier boardset I bought cost much more. And it only plays the one game.