PLEASE ANSWER...Glitch in Saturn Metal Black???.....

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PLEASE ANSWER...Glitch in Saturn Metal Black???.....

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This game works fine on my Japanese Saturn, but after I put it in, it doesn't always go to the Taito logo and then the intro, it just shows some vertical green lines. :? But then when I press start, it goes right to the title screen, and the game works fine. I don't think my Saturn's dying, because Batsugun works fine on it, and so did Game Tengoku.

I have the red "Saturn Collection" edition of Metal Black, if that helps.
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I have the "Red Label" one as well, and I never had that happen to me...even with a US Saturn. I use an ST-Key converter.
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Post by dave4shmups »

The game itself still plays fine, though-I just press on the start button, and it goes to the title screen.

Do you think the Saturn is dying, TWITCH? I wouldn't think so, since two other games work perfectly on it. But I'm trying to sell it, and I don't want to sell someone a console that'll die on them a week after they get it.
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Are there any scratches on the disc itself, anything like that? If the system only does this with the one game, it might be the game itself that causes it. An old copy of Raystorm I bought had a bunch of scratches, and while it played fine the sound was messed up, a problem one of my old Playstations had...this time, though, it wasn't the system.
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Post by dave4shmups »

There is one long scratch on the back of the disc, and the part near the "hole" is fairly scuffed up, so that's probably it. Thanks for the advice guys; it's much appreciated! :D
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The same thing has happened with me, but its never hindered my gaming experience and thus I've never really cared.



Though I have the original release.
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Ok, JP, I hope you don't mind that I just edited my sale to include that fact that you have experienced the same thing.

Now somebody please buy my Jap. Saturn lot!! :D
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damn i wanted to buy that saturn lot
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Post by neorichieb1971 »

Some Saturns do some weird stuff indeed.

One of my old saturns (Gray one) gave a pixelly mess on the screen and crashed on the Bomberman title screen. I bought another bomberman and it did the same thing on that one.

Unfortunately when I sold it as broken on ebay, the buyer said it was fine.. Then I bought a Derby Stallion Saturn and would never play Outrun, but it works with everything else perfectly.

So its a hit and miss thing really.
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Just for the record, my Metal Black copy did this to me a few times too. At first I'd go to reset the game believing that it had frozen, but then it goes to the title screen.
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Unfortunately when I sold it as broken on ebay, the buyer said it was fine.. Then I bought a Derby Stallion Saturn and would never play Outrun, but it works with everything else perfectly.
My 'This Is Cool' skeleton Saturn used to do this. Again, Out Run only. Weird, as it's a JPN machine running (well, my version) a JPN game.
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