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Saturn Country Mod (UPDATE)

First of all, I forgot to make a note of the model number of this motherboard!  Ooops, but it was an early Model 2 Saturn, the case had round buttons, and the controller sockets were on a separate board to the motherboard.

JP6/JP7 was on the underside of the motherboard, look around the area where the earth strap for the CD-ROM drive attaches.  I had to cut a small link on JP7 (cut it with a sharp blade, cutting through it a couple of times to ensure it was definitely broken),  you can use either of the points highlighted in red (these are the common points referred to on the gamesx guides)

Cut the link, suitable pads in red Wire soldered into place

JP10/JP11 and JP12/JP13 are on the upper side of the motherboard, in the same kind of area, there were links to cut through on JP10 and JP12 (pink lines on the photo below).  The common points are shown in red again.

 

Model 1 Saturn, 171-7069B MAIN, 837-11892-01:PAL

Again, JP6/JP7 are on the underside of the motherboard near the area that the CD-ROM earth strap screws onto.  Red dots show the 2 points  you could solder onto, pink line shows where I had to cut a link.

JP10/JP11 and JP12/JP13 - top side of motherboard, same area, cut links and solder to either of the common points (shown in red)!

Very early model with PSU in the lid of the console case.  VA0.5 - this was a Japanese model, so has different JP points linked up to a Euro console.  JP location is on the underside of the console, middle/front.

That's it for now!

 !! H E L P !!

Game console modifications