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info:samsung_saturn [2006/01/06 21:51] – created nfginfo:samsung_saturn [2006/05/14 04:36] – Info on US Hybrids 67.168.223.203
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 ===== The Samsung Saturn ===== ===== The Samsung Saturn =====
 +I now have three of these units and have some additional information.  The Samsung Saturn is, basically, really bloody weird.  It's a hybrid old/new model Saturn, with the motherboard from a late-model Saturn (two separate boards, one for the controller ports only) and the shell from an old model (oval buttons).
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 +According to a reliable source, Sega themselves used this same setup for the last generation of oval-button systems in Japan, so the Samsung unit is not unique.  It's very possible other units, like the US version and possibly the HiSaturn and V-Saturn also had these versions.
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 +{{ info:samsats1.jpg}}Two out of three of these units has no Japanese language option, which isn't surprising considering the ongoing irrational hostility between the Koreans and Japanese.
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 +The Samsung Saturn has a strange power supply, being the only Saturn to offer a wide range of voltage support (110V - 220V).
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 +=== Not So Unusual Anymore ===
 +**Note:** The following paragraph was more relevent when the system was believed to be the only oval/round hybrid system.  
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 +Several fixes were employed to mate these two odd components.  The power switch, reset switch, and both power and activity LEDs had to have adjustments made so they'd work with the old shell.  Both LEDs use acrylic risers to make the light visible from the PCB (on the bottom) through the shell (on the top).  While one riser was used on the newer model Japanese Saturns from Sega, none of these new-model PCBs had activity lights (though some had a place where one could go).  The power switch is mounted on tall plastic legs, where on the Japanese old models they were mounted to the top half of the system, and in the Japanese new models it was mounted on a metal riser platform.  The reset button, which was mounted to the top of other oval-button units, is connected to the base by a plastic stalk, like the newer round-button models.
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 +=== US Hybrid ===
 +The US Saturn system from April 1996 is a HyBrid system.  An oval case surrounding a "v2" 21 pin ribbon cable motherboard.  
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 +Taken from http://forums.segaxtreme.net/index.php?showtopic=10200&st=0&p=80411
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 +Model 2.0
 +Date: April 1996
 +Specs: O 21/64 (See notes)
 +Prognosis: Modable
 +Notes: This is probably one of the rarest US saturns. I have owned 3 of these babies and all 3 have worked with my older 21 pin modboard. this system is the only one that is 21 pin and still has the Disc Access light and the oval buttons. You can replace the 64 leg CD-Rom unit with a 32 leg unit. Because of the rumors regarding a March 1996 unit with round buttons, i will not dismiss the possibility of a round button April 1996....i figure it's very possible, but just highly unlikely. Modboard position should be facing outside of the saturn to make this work.
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 The Samsung Saturn. Talk about elusive. Ask Google about it. Until it was [[http://nfg.2y.net/games/grafx/samsat.htm|discussed on NFG Games]] (Pictures are also present on the linked page) it was totally unheard-of.  If you don't speak (or type) Korean you'd get only a handful of pages listing company names or talking about unrelated news clips concerning the Korean electronics giant Samsung and the Saturn car company.  The Samsung Saturn. Talk about elusive. Ask Google about it. Until it was [[http://nfg.2y.net/games/grafx/samsat.htm|discussed on NFG Games]] (Pictures are also present on the linked page) it was totally unheard-of.  If you don't speak (or type) Korean you'd get only a handful of pages listing company names or talking about unrelated news clips concerning the Korean electronics giant Samsung and the Saturn car company. 
  
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