Sega Saturn White (JAP) 220V

**MrHard** · 01-27-2009

Is it possible?

I never seen one:

**Jamtex** · 01-27-2009

One would assume it's for an Asian market the same way that Japanese Megadrives were sold in certain asian markets.

**MrHard** · 01-27-2009

I have an Asian MegaDrive but it runs PAL game only. This Satur plays JAP only.

I'm Confused

**Jamtex** · 01-27-2009

Not all asian regions were PAL though...

**GaijinPunch** · 01-27-2009

Definitely not a Japanese product. All Japanese consoles (and I think Saturn hardware in general) start with the HST prefix. Yours starts with MK. I'm w/ Jamtex. This is for some miscellaneous country.

**Jamtex** · 01-27-2009

The Philipines and South Korea were two odd countries that used 220V for power but had NTSC-M for a TV standard. Hong Kong is another country that you find 220V machines that play Japanese games (the Playstation and Playstation 2 fro example).

**MrHard** · 01-27-2009

Thanks for your help

**retro** · 01-28-2009

I have a grey Saturn that has an MK code. It says Asia on the label. It too ends in 07. UK Saturns also use MK codes, ending 50 (like our games).

There are indeed countries in Asia that use either PAL or NTSC, different voltages, or a combination of both. Actually, half of Japan runs on 60Hz mains and the other half runs on 50Hz mains. Some countries even cross standards for television signals and even power ratings.

Of course, saying it is Asian isn't much help, as Asia is the largest continent and there are over 50 countries in Asia. So, how many of them do you think run exclusively in the 100-120V range? Half perhaps? Actually, it's 2 - Japan and Taiwan. Lebanon has both 110V and 220V. Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and Vietnam originally ran on 127V mains, but now also have mains in the 220-240V range, and are standardizing with the higher voltage.

So, all we can say is it wouldn't be for the Japanese or Taiwanese market! Is it outputting PAL or NTSC? As for it only playing Japanese games, that is merely the region lock on the console. They would set that to whatever would be appropriate for the country they sell it in. They're hardly going to set it to USA or Europe in, say, China. If you get hold of games from Asian countries, you'll probably find they'll play on Japanese machines... I've not tried it so I wouldn't know.

**Druid II** · 05-04-2011

Excuse me for bumping the topic, but I just come across this:

220v NTSC-J, MK-80228-07.

So what is the -07 suffix? Hong Kong? 08 was Korea, 11 and 16 were China, at least for games.

Originally Posted by retro

As for it only playing Japanese games, that is merely the region lock on the console. They would set that to whatever would be appropriate for the country they sell it in. They're hardly going to set it to USA or Europe in, say, China. If you get hold of games from Asian countries, you'll probably find they'll play on Japanese machines... I've not tried it so I wouldn't know.

Funny thing about the region setting. Only 1, 2, 4, and C codes are displayed by the console itself. That means Japan, Korea, USA and Europe in that order. If you set any other code by changing the region jumpers, the console will default to C. However, only the European and USA BIOS will display this region code, the japanese ones do not (including Hitachi and Victor models). I'd also suspect that a USA machine would default to 4 instead of C.

There are other region codes for Asia NTSC, Asia PAL, South America NTSC and South America PAL, and some games are actually set so they boot in more than one region, so some Japanese games would work on a machine set to say, Asia NTSC region. So it's not impossible for a machine like this to use an Asian region code and stay compatible with at least a number of japanese released titles.