Malfunctioning Saturn

[vintagegamecrazy]

I have an extra Saturn and it has problems. I thing the Cd drive is fine because it will play audio cds fine all the time, but when I play games, there is problems. Some games won't load or read at all, others will play but when the game changes scenes and has to load the next area, it will usually take a long time, or sometimes freeze and never load at all and just crash, but like I said it never gives me any issues when I play a music cd. Does anyone know how to fix this, I would like to fix it and sell it?

Any info would be appreciated.

[Berty]

try adjusting your pentometer (spelling) but be very careful!

[vintagegamecrazy]

can you elaborate please?

[jonjandran]

http://www.segaxtreme.net/misc/faqs_html/radsil_cdrwadj.html

http://www.mrvfone.com.au/sega/saturn.htm

These might help. Basically you want to adjust the voltage going to the laser to help it read cd's better. You do this by turning a little orange potentiometer.

It sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. Sometimes it helps for a couple of weeks and sometimes it keeps working for years.

Just don't "overadjust". Start off with a small turn and check the discs and if it doidn't help, try turning it a little more.