sega saturn system disc.. what is it?

[Muscelli]

I just bought a sega saturn system disc which i am a little hesitant about on ebay.. I paid a pretty amount, but have no idea how much they retail for.. yeah, stupid, i know.. But yeah can anyone give me details on what it is and what it goes for

[johno590]

I just looked in the DP guide and I couldn't find anything... what exactly are you talking about?

[Muscelli]

System Disc KD-01

[Kitsune Sniper]

Is this it?

[Muscelli]

Is this it?

thanks a ton for the info... used by snk then.. sweet..

I wonder what he means by rare.. I hope they fetch a pretty penny

[ProgrammingAce]

woah, woah, woah... that link isn't so right...

The system disc is a developers tool used to load CD-R's of games in development.

It works like a boot disc. You put the system disc in, wait a few seconds for it to do it's thing, then put the CD-R in and press start. The saturn loads up the CD-R.

There are two different color system discs, one for 1st party development, one for 3rd party development. They're distinguished by their color, red and black (there's also a blue one, but i don't know what that one does). I'm colorblind, so i can never remember which is 1st party and which is third.

I have some more info on system discs (and a whole lot more development tools) on my website. The link is in the sig... I've seen the discs sell for $2 and i've seen them sell for $100, so it all depends on who you're selling to.

BTW, the number written in marker on the disc? That's the serial number. Sega can use that number to trace back the owner of the disc if it were ever sold on the black market (do they care any more? i don't know).

[Kitsune Sniper]

thanks a ton for the info... used by snk then.. sweet..

I wonder what he means by rare.. I hope they fetch a pretty penny

Read the text. The ones at that site =were= used by SNK, but there's no way of knowing who used your disc. Also, it's somewhat useless without the matching Developer's disc... Still worth something, but it'd be worth more if it came with the other disc.

[dj898]

when I got my DevCart Rev.B system from Konami it had the system disc inside and yes it works but when I tested it - it's 3rd party disc btw - on the retail console it doesn't work.

What I meant by that is as soon as you open the CD door you get back to the main screen and I haven't tested with the CD door sensor jammed since it works on Dev Saturn anyway...