Sega Saturn Swap Trick (Physical Modification)

Alright, I just got done doing this simple modification for the first time. Anyone should be able to do this if they have access to tape, and a screwdriver.

First, flip over your Saturn console, and remove all screws. There are no hidden screws on this system (not on mine, shouldnt be on any). There should be around 5 screws total.
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Once all screws are out, remove the top cover.
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Now, notice where the eject sensor is located.
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Next, tape the two together (test the system while holding the sensor if you are unsure how to tape)
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Test your system with a game. If all is well, then your disk should spin up and play!
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Put the system together, and play as you need!
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If you have any questions, post here!

Good clean tuto on this one. But ya know, i'm a perfectionnist and thought that maybe 56k users might want to view this. So I optimized the images. :P

Sorry for that. ;_;
Optimize is my last name.

lol alright. I dont care about the 56kers in all honesty, since they have a hard enough time downloading Saturn games :)

Pardon me if i missed the point of the tut but why did you do that?

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Originally Posted by Jochiem Mizrahi

Pardon me if i missed the point of the tut but why did you do that?

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You can play burned Saturn games after you make this simple modification. ;)

oh ok i should try that then hope nothin goes wrong cuz i dont kno how i would get another saturn :(

i tried to play a burned copy of fighters megamix but it keeps going to the bios screen. I was holdin the sensor with my finger did i have to tape it inorder for it to play the game?

I also burned nights into dreams. the redump one that is on this site i tried the trick with that cd in and it said disc not suitable for system. borman did u have that before?

Please don't triple post.

I've finally gotten my Saturn open. All you have to do is tape that one thing, and suddenly it'll be able to play burned games? Or is there more to it?

guy did u tape it yet?

Not yet, but I will in a few minutes. I'm downloading a game to burn to a CD at the moment as well to test, but it'll be a few hours

well when u test it let me kno if it worked and tell me what u did

Okay, I've taped it. Original games work just fine still, so that's a plus. I don't have a burned game to try yet (alsmot all of the Saturn games on this site have no seeders) but I hope to get one here soon to try

Let me get this straight, If you tape those prongs together, you can magically play burned games without swapping? Because im confused as to why the title of this tutorial is "Sega Saturn Swap Trick (Phsyical Modification). Does this mean that you can just straight out of the box after you tape those prongs play saturn backups or does it mean that you can swap the discs and have it work?

The way I would imagine it works from reading your tutorial, especially since you refer to those prongs as the "Eject Sensor" which would imply an object designed for sensing when the drive is ejected, is that when you tape those prongs together you can eject the drive without losing the boot sector data since it would not be detected by the Eject Sensor since it now has tape over top of it, and pop in your backup which would load from your original discs boot sector?

BTW Your saturn could use a good cleaning! Nice tutorial but could you be a little more specific on what this does? Thanks!

You still have to swap. This is just the physical modification that you need to do to your system in order to trick it into believing the drive is always closed. Which technically it is, once you tape that bit together. ;)

Just as I thought, thank you :)

What does "swapping" mean? How do you go about doing that? ( I think I missed an earlier tutorial)

i might be wrong but i think it means switching an original sega saturn game with a burned game to trick the laser into thinking the burned cd is the real game so it can play

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Originally Posted by Jochiem Mizrahi

i might be wrong but i think it means switching an original sega saturn game with a burned game to trick the laser into thinking the burned cd is the real game so it can play

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Yep. Exactly.

But don't worry, Sega consoles never have been hard to trick. :P
Here is a quick tuto on how to swap, depending on your saturn model.
http://mail.computertree.com/~josh/saturn/backups.html

It seems really complicated to me. All this talk of laser and disk speeds and whatnot. I don't eeally understand,. The disk never seems to spin faster when I look at it. And if I listen to the buzz noise of a disk loading, it all sounds the same. It never "speeds up" or "slows down"

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Originally Posted by Guy

It seems really complicated to me. All this talk of laser and disk speeds and whatnot. I don't eeally understand,. The disk never seems to spin faster when I look at it. And if I listen to the buzz noise of a disk loading, it all sounds the same. It never "speeds up" or "slows down"

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The Saturn is super-easy. After you tape the switch, you load a real game, listen to the lazer buzz (moving)...when it stops, switch for a burned game.

It *really* is that simple ;)

Well, I'll give it a try, if this iso download ever decides to finish. At this rate, it won't be until tomorrow, though. I hope it works.. There are so many games I've always wanted to play

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Originally Posted by Sprung

The Saturn is super-easy. After you tape the switch, you load a real game, listen to the lazer buzz (moving)...when it stops, switch for a burned game.

It *really* is that simple ;)

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Next, you'll be claiming you got it on the first try, right? :P

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Originally Posted by Cyberxion

Next, you'll be claiming you got it on the first try, right? :P

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Yes, but I fear Evil Ted :P

I don't know what bug crawled up that guys ass, but you need not fear him. He's gone forever. :P

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Originally Posted by Cyberxion

I don't know what bug crawled up that guys ass, but you need not fear him. He's gone forever. :P

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Good to hear ;) Evil Ted was...well...evil :sick:

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Originally Posted by Sprung

Good to hear ;) Evil Ted was...well...evil :sick:

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Eh, only occasionally. Still, that evil is in the past for the most part, and I respect you far too much to go that route again, so let's all rejoice! :)

It works! Alright! I got it down to a science on my third try. Now I just need to get ahold of some working torrents. I haven't been this excited in a long time.

EDIT... again: Now I really DO have it down pat. The timing is very easy once you know what sounds to listen to.

OK, so I got this trick to play backups of US Saturn games, but I'd like to play backups of JP Saturn games on my US Saturn. I hear all that's needed to play imports is a certain type of Pro Action Replay. I'm thinkin' all I'll need is that in addition to the swap trick... maybe?

Anybody willing to run down the available methods to play JP backups on a US system?

I believe you can convert the region of a lot of the saturn games, although it doesnt work all the time. Zorlon should know about that more then I do though