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    Default Saturn spine card dot codes

    Does anybody here know what all of them are, and what all of them mean? Most games seem to have the same 3 dots, (blue, pink, purple) but I just got one with 5 dots, (blue, pink, purple, green, green) and I don't know what they mean. I was told that this particular game (Power Drift) requires a 4MB RAM cart, but I don't see anything on it to indicate this, unless that's what the two green dots are for. I have no idea what any of them mean.
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    Thats strange, I dont have any on my spine cards.

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    I'm talking about in the yellow box on the front of the spine card. They all have a yellow box with a series of colored dots in it. I figure that they must mean something, but what I don't know. I assume it's some kind of code.
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    Blue: Number of players
    Red: Genre
    Purple: Memory backup
    Green: Periphals
    Black: Number of CDs/other media

    The black one doesn't seem to be used that much.

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    OK thanks, so the two green dots mean that it works with two different peripherals? I wonder what they are? Steering wheel maybe? How do you tell if it needs a RAM cart? Could that be what the other green dot is for?
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    Nevermind, I just noticed that where that yellow box is supposed to be on the spinecards, On the games I have the box is red and says CG & Music. I dont have many Import Saturn titles with their spinecards so I wasnt quite sure what you meant.

    Also, Thanks davidleeroth for pointing that out for future reference.

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    Yeah, I think the color of the box is supposed to be some kind of code too.
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    Peripheral could mean gun, steering wheel, joystick, mouse etc.
    I think the RAM compatibility/requirement is described in the green field. Should be easy to figure as RAM=RAM in Japanese.

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