Saturn AR cart

M0nk3y · Post by **M0nk3y** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 3:38 pm

I have one of the white clone AR carts for the Saturn. It's supposed to have the 1m/4M memory in it too, but it refuses to load Metal Slug and plays Cotton in lo-res. Apparently there is some sort of fix for this, involving 1 wire and a bit of soldering. Can anyone enlighten me please?

theevilfunkster · Post by **theevilfunkster** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 6:30 pm

my AR cart sucks, it wont play xmen vs street fighter at full speed. i wish my switched saturn still worked. i want to pay king of fighters 95 again

dementia · Post by **dementia** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 1:01 am

M0nk3y wrote:I have one of the white clone AR carts for the Saturn. It's supposed to have the 1m/4M memory in it too, but it refuses to load Metal Slug and plays Cotton in lo-res. Apparently there is some sort of fix for this, involving 1 wire and a bit of soldering. Can anyone enlighten me please?

The white AR Carts (no label) only disable regional lock-out. The Gray ones with labels are the 4-in-1 carts that disable regional lockout, have a 4M and 1M automatic switch, and have 512k of backup memory.

antime · Post by **antime** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 6:07 am

The AR fix is for 4MB carts that won't work with games that require the 4MB expansion. Metal Slug needs only the 1MB expansion so that's not the issue here. You could just try opening the cartridge to see if there really are any RAM chips in it.

(The 4MB carts don't "auto switch", the 1MB games also accept the 4MB carts.)

Neon · Post by **Neon** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 6:33 am

AR carts blow ass. I got one for my us saturn, and in addition to never booting an import, the saturn is dead.

Just buy a nice Japanese saturn.

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 7:10 am

But then you wouldn't be able to play US games. You may want to consider a modded Saturn. They only run about $50 but aren't the easiest to find. I've had no trouble with my 4-in-1 though.

M0nk3y · Post by **M0nk3y** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 11:58 am

Yeah, I've got a nice sexy white Japanese Saturn, with one of these installed: http://seb.riot.org/saturnmod/

So I don't need the cart for imports, just for the extra RAM. Brought it ages ago off Ebay. Oh well, best hunt down a proper Japanese 1m/4m cart.....

dementia · Post by **dementia** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 11:08 pm

antime wrote: (The 4MB carts don't "auto switch", the 1MB games also accept the 4MB carts.)

Some 1M games are incompatible with the 4M cart. I could have sworn it does switch for compatability reasons.

antime · Post by **antime** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 7:02 pm

Some individual cartridges may have problems, but no 1MB game will refuse to start with a 4MB cart inserted. I've personally played eg. Samurai Shodown 4 with a 4MB Action Replay even though some claim it's incompatible. Since the cartridge size detection is entirely passive from the cartridge's point of view there is not even any way it could automatically switch. There are carts that have a physical switch that set the cartridge ID, but it's actually completely unnecessary.

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 3:20 am

The Interact produced Game Shark cheat device for the Sega Saturn allows a plain-vanilla USA region SS the ability to play Japanese SS games and even doubles as a external SS game memory save cart as well!

I bought two used from my local Gamestop store for about $5-$10 a piece and is a really cheap-ass way to play those cool Japanese SS game imports if you don't want to mod chip your SS console (but who would not want to anyways)!

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 4:52 am

Except Interact Saturn products have a reputation to save like shit. Nobody should ever trust leaving important save data on one of their carts. But all the more power to you if you haven't had any problems.

theevilfunkster · Post by **theevilfunkster** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 12:54 pm

ive never had any problems with my interact memory cart but ive had 2 official memory carts which have wiped everything!

Kollision · Post by **Kollision** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 1:06 am

gwise from your gwave

well, I just tried to run Cotton 2 on my good old Tectoy Saturn with a 4-in-1 action replay cart and bang...
it doesn't work!

after I get the loading message the screen blinks for a split second and goes dark for good
ABC + Start does not work

played a few other games to test the cart, and they ran just fine
from what I remember I did test Cotton 2 when I got it, but now the thing is just refusing to work

anybody ever went through this?
tips?

shmups.system11.org

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You could also use Sega Saturn Game Shark to play imports...

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