Sega Memory/Ram cards question...

[williewonka2k1]

I just got my sega cd ram card, and I bought a sega saturn one long ago. But my system won't detect them. I'm assuming it runs on a battery? Is this true? If so, would changing it allow my system to detect the card?

[Whiskers the Wonder Cat]

Aren't the cards usually what people use when their battery is dead on the Saturn?

[gepeto]

Them ram cards are tricky I had one you had to play with everytime it was removed. I believe it comes down to the connectors inside the machine they get worn over time. I tried cleaning the connectors that help sometimes. What lead me to believe it was the connectors was one day I came across a new saturn I plugged in the ram card and it worked with no problem even had my saves on it. Good luck

[Whiskers the Wonder Cat]

Hey, can you tell me how I can play JPN games on a U.S machine, or a U.S game on a JPN machine? I know you need a specific RAM cart. But don't you have to do some disc swapping or anything? Or do you just put the disc in and it just plays?

[Cryomancer]

The original poster is looking for sega CD advice guys ;)

Unfortunetly I have no experience with those carts so I'm useless too! And to make it worse I'll answer the saturn import question!

Saturn imports will boot with an action replay 4-in-1, or the..ST-key I think it's called, no swapping needed. However if the game requires a RAM cart of it's own you might have trouble. If it needs a 1meg or 4meg the AR should take care of it, unless it's a really early model and then it might not work for some (like vampire savior). There is a mod you can do to fix this, google for saturn "vampire mod" or such.

[gepeto]

Hey, can you tell me how I can play JPN games on a U.S machine, or a U.S game on a JPN machine? I know you need a specific RAM cart. But don't you have to do some disc swapping or anything? Or do you just put the disc in and it just plays?

if you have a jap saturn game with or without the 4meg ram and you have a us saturn without a region swicth. you will need a special memory card plus/gameshark card that will but pass the region.

The dangerous method was When you want to play the game with the 4meg ram cart you have to swap the rear card after the region bypass activates. This is dangerous because it could damage your system but it was the only way to play say streetfighter vs xmen without a swicth .

If you can find a modded one get it fantasia I believe has one in the buy and sell for 60.00 that would be a good deal
you get the true feel of its greatness. Theere were issues with the 4in one carts.

[Whiskers the Wonder Cat]

I'm planning on getting a Import Saturn, and play some U.S games on it as well as JPN. But if I do get the 1mb/4mb Plus RAM cart, it's all good right?

None of that dangerous crap?

[gepeto]

You should be all set then because the us saturn if I recall didn't have any 4meg cart games. The 4 in 1 unoffically had issues, when the us players would use them to play the fighting games that needed them.

go to www.gamefaqs.com lookup saturn/saturn hardware faq and read up good mod articles.

The reason you should get the switch if you can is because they are rare and not as simple as say the psx mod.
If you are getting a japanese that is also great although I never tried reverse regions ( japan to us)with the card but it should be no problem.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/saturn/game/916393.html

[gepeto]

Aren't the cards usually what people use when their battery is dead on the Saturn?

The Us Memory card plus was use mainly as a memory expansion because the system memory would fill up. The region bypass was the extra treat. The gameshark had a region bypass it was never in the instructions I think you had to press and hold abc when you turned the saturn on. Don't quote me it has been a few years on that one

[Push Upstairs]

I just got my sega cd ram card, and I bought a sega saturn one long ago. But my system won't detect them. I'm assuming it runs on a battery? Is this true? If so, would changing it allow my system to detect the card?

In the case of the Sega CD & the Saturn you have to turn the system on without a game in it to access the system menu.

I would try formatting your Sega CD RAM cart and see if your system sees it then.

I have a Sega CD RAM cart and i don't recall my system having any problems detecting it.