I have a round button model, and the opportunity to pick up an oval button one. I think I heard somewhere that one is more easily modded. Which of the two, and should I go ahead and buy the oval button Saturn?
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I have a round button model, and the opportunity to pick up an oval button one. I think I heard somewhere that one is more easily modded. Which of the two, and should I go ahead and buy the oval button Saturn?
I always heard the round button Saturn was easier to mod, but I could be wrong. I'd pick up the Oval button Saturn, simply because Oval buttons look cooler.
The Model 2 (Round Buttons) Saturn is the easier of the two to mod when it comes to mod chips. Region mods are about the same. The Model 1 (Oval Buttons) is easier to perform the swap trick on, though thats not very good for the CD Drive.
Oval button PIA to mod. Stay with the round button version.
round button is easiest to mod
i've always heard the round button model 2 saturn is easier to mod, but I like the oval button version better myself. both are modable, it just depends on which one you like better and your experience with modding systems.
I have a model with oval button and I do the swap trick all the time very easily and without any hardware problems yet. :D
Oval buttoner looks cooler, swap trick is easier, but modchips are near impossible to find (moddability is same/close).
Yes, as TmEE says your main problem with oval-button Saturn is even buying the 1st gen modchip for it. Stick with the round-button Saturn.
So, wasting my coin to pick up this oval button Saturn?
Also, does one have superior audio/video chips over the other one?
Hardware wise they are identical.
I don't get how they are identical on the hardware side when one is easier to hard-mod than the other. There has to be something different in the circuitry or something else like chips, etc. to make this a fact.
The difference is that the ribbon cable that connects the CD drive to the motherboard on the Model 1 uses 20 pins, the one on the Model 2 uses 21 pins. So the Model 2 chip is incompatible with the Model 1 system.
They're not identical on the hardware side in terms of chips and layout, but they are identical in quality of A/V output (which is what Trekkies meant when he said the hardware is identical). It's not like there are "better" versions of the console with different sound and video quality as is the case with Genesis and Neo-Geo. The differences between the Model 1 and 2 are all just internal changes with how many pins the chips on the motherboard have, how big the ribbon cables are, etc. You'd never notice the difference between the two if you were just playing games.Quote:
Originally Posted by tz101