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Here's something different, it's a boxed V-Saturn RG-JX2 for ME! I often don't have the time to work on my own stuff but Oct 6th is my birthday so I can at least give myself this.
Full restoration with new caps, cleaning, CD drive calibration and more! #RetroGaming #SegaSaturn
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Full restoration with new caps, cleaning, CD drive calibration and more! #RetroGaming #SegaSaturn
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The power supply is first, new capacitors and a new fuse. The original fuse is not replaceable without soldering. I install a fuse holder and a ceramic fuse in a very common 20mm size.
Power jack solder joints have also been reinforced.
Before and After
Power jack solder joints have also been reinforced.
Before and After
The motherboard - New capacitors, a cleaning, and a AA battery mod. The Energizer Ultimate Lithium AA batteries easily outclass the coin cell. I also install larger, but bent over, caps. They filter power from the PSU. This is my Saturn so I can be as unnecessary as I want :)
Lately I've been messing with reverse engineering #panzerdragoonsaga file formats to get at the textures & models for a challenge. Texture (CGB) format wasn't too hard, after reading up some tech docs on saturn development it was fairly basic, except they had no meta data at all!
So while most image file formats contain data on width/height/bpp these were just pure texture data, not even a number of textures in the files nor any barriers. Just 4 bit per pixel indexed colour textures usually with 16 bit per colour (5bit per channel) palettes at the end.
CGB texture files for models usually are accompanied by an MCB file which I assumed was the mesh data... but I couldn't figure that out yet, no easy way of telling what relates to the textures in it without first knowing some textures to find. Catch 22!
