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 The US Saturn system from April 1996 is a HyBrid system.  An oval case surrounding a "v2" 21 pin ribbon cable motherboard.
-Taken from http://forums.segaxtreme.net/index.php?showtopic=10200&st=0&p=80411
+The following is an excerpt taken from http://forums.segaxtreme.net/showpost.php?p=73890&postcount=2 and originally posted by A Murder of Crows on SegaXtreme.net:
-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.
+==Sega Saturn Model/Board Revision FAQ - 08-27-2003, 03:41 AM (Excerpt)==
+Date is found on the bottom of the US Saturn Systems\\
+R = Round Power/Reset Buttons\\
+O = Oval Power/Reset Buttons\\
+#/# = Pins on ribbon cable/legs on cd-rom board numbers\\
+All assume a US Saturn since i do not have PAL or Japanese Saturns to look at.\\
+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 towards the outside of the Saturn to make this work.  Controller port and LED board is a separate component on this model.
+==Notes from A Murder of Crows, 2008-02-24:==
+This post was from a few years back on my essentially fruitless attempt to correct the misinformation regarding different models/revisions of Saturn systems.  Now that the original Samsung article was updated to indicate the unit did in fact have a Reset button, I can confirm that the Samsung units appear to be Model 2.0 (probably closer to a 2.1 based on the "weirdness" surrounding the CD board and power supply) under my guidelines.  On a side note, try as I might, people never really caught on to the fact that Round Button does not equal a "Version 2" system.  In the original posting, "Round Button" units are marked as 3.0, 3.1, and 4.0, based entirely on the internal hardware.  The motherboard used in the April 1996 units, and, by extension, most likely the Samsung units as well, have a decidedly different layout from those that came either before or after them.