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List of SD card hack, carts, alternative replacements to CD drive.
Malenko:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on June 10, 2016, 09:27:01 am ---Of course some still work. I have had as many come to me with dead lasers, dead gears, broken lid switch, etc as those that still work. The fact that yours still work doesn't negate all the nonworking Saturns. These days it seems about 50/50 for the Saturns I come across and nearly all of them at least need laser adjustment.
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If you take care of your ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---, it tends to last longer.I consider adjusting the laser as part of taking care of it.
Saturns not being taken care of and having broken gears doesnt mean they were made with crummy parts, you just happen to come across ones that were neglected.
Howard_Casto:
Also it's like my psx arugment (which I was correct on btw). You can buy a playstation for 8 dollars....... on frikkin amazon! You would have to kill 10+ psx's before it's even remotely practical to buy the 140 dollar sd adaptor. Saturns can be a little more pricey, so it could be worth it, but it's very much a case-by-case basis.
Disc-based systems only make sense to sd/hdd mod when they aren't reliable. So far the Wii is the only disc-based system I've had die.
My DC has a bad drive but that's because someone had monkeyed with it before I bought it. I got it working again and it ran for a couple more years. Considering I only paid 20 dollars for it, two controllers, a vmu and about 10 games, with everything complete in box, I think I did pretty good.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on June 10, 2016, 12:47:40 pm ---Also it's like my psx arugment (which I was correct on btw). You can buy a playstation for 8 dollars....... on frikkin amazon! You would have to kill 10+ psx's before it's even remotely practical to buy the 140 dollar sd adaptor. Saturns can be a little more pricey, so it could be worth it, but it's very much a case-by-case basis.
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That's a lot of effort and frustration, though. Granted, you're not going to get 10 bad ones off Amazon. But you're also not dealing with a couple bad ones, shipping and wait times, and you're not burning/buying a whole spindle full of CDRs. I think you're right about the $140 price point but if that were $100? Maybe I'd go the other way.
opt2not:
--- Quote from: Malenko on June 10, 2016, 08:50:19 am ---
--- Quote from: ChadTower on June 10, 2016, 08:19:32 am ---Yeah, you could buy a $15 modchip and drop that in, right up until the CD drive dies because the gears are cheap plastic from 20 years ago.
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Meanwhile my Saturn that gets regular playtime and is the one I bought from FunCoLand many many many years ago, is still going strong and I was doing the swap trick with it to play my import games for a long time. I did eventually buy a Japanese Saturn so I didnt have to, but both systems are going strong.
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I got a dirt cheap Saturn a little while ago with a botched modchip install, 'cause someone thought a $15 modchip was easy to do. I guess that person wasn't too experienced with modding and ended up damaging some traces, the connectors to the cd drive, and made a mess with the soldering. After cleaning it up and repairing the traces, I removed the cd drive and installed the Rhea. Perfect fix to an otherwise dead Saturn, and upgraded with the Rhea made it come back from the dead with a vengeance! Installed RMENU for it as well, and it's running pretty amazing. Best fix/upgrade this console can get.
I don't really care to have a bunch of burnt discs laying around, nor do I want to create more waste doing so. Which is why these flash devices are great!
Not sure why some people want to promote mod-chips in a thread dedicated to flash devices and drive replacements.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: opt2not on June 10, 2016, 02:14:24 pm ---Not sure why some people want to promote mod-chips in a thread dedicated to flash devices and drive replacements.
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Modchips are part of the discussion when we're talking pro/con of anything that is modifying the system's storage method. And damn, man, the Saturn mod IS super easy, so whomever botched that so badly must have been really bad at it. :)
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