Saturn Mod Chip Surprise!

Yeah so I bought a Sega Saturn at Value Village for $9.99 and when I opened it up to clean it I noticed it has a mod chip installed! So I burned off the first Saturn game I could find and gave it a test run.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Sega
• Saturn
• mod
• chip
• sonic
• jam

[1191SPEED]

I tested it on emulator and is region free, even if set to PAL, and insert the game jap

[MN12BIRD]

@1191SPEED Yeah, in an emulator you have probably loaded a universal BIOS file. Changing PAL in the setting is just changing resolution not region and I'm almost certain real PS2 systems are region locked you need a Japanese PS2 system to play Japanese games. I could be wrong but I'm fairly certain of that I've seen people buy real Japanese PS2's just because they wanted to play Japanese games so that's why I'm guessing that.

[1191SPEED]

also on consoles like the PS1 and PS2 modchip does not eliminate the regional bloc because he is already region free the ps2 right?

[MN12BIRD]

@1191SPEED PS2 isn't region free but I'm not sure about mod chips for the PS2 they got pretty advanced so it wouldn't surprise me if the mod chip also made PS2 region free.

[1191SPEED]

the mod chip and region free?

[MN12BIRD]

@1191SPEED Nope the mod chip just lets it play backups it still won't play games from other regions like Japan without extra mods or a Action Replay 4M Plus cart.

[dogeymon83]

Hey mn12bird, the way to get off stickiness and price tags off, nicely and cleanly, is to squirt a little lighter fluid onto a pice of paper towel and rub it on the price tag. The chemical softens that crap up and makes it easy to wipe it right off.

[froggydarren]

the only sonic 1 version were you can spin dash :)

[SNKNostalgia]

That particular model mod chip rarely works and went for $12. I bought 2 of them and were fried right out of the box. I had to order a completely different model for $35 off a UK site shipped to me the US for another $7. This was back in 2005. I can't believe those horrible $12 chips go for $40 now, hell no.

[SonicTehAwesomeFace]

Well apparently, if you know for sure that it has a modchip installed, then the price is literally 10 times more expensive. I got a Saturn for my birthday in 2011 (waaay late) from Digital Press in Clifton, NJ, US, and it costed 120 USD. It was probably because you were paying them to put it in, but does it really have to be that friggin' expensive?