Sega Saturn Region Free BIOS

[AlmostOriginal]

I am happy that it works. I guess bugs are expected much like the snes bugs. When trying to run star fox for example.

Well just comparing for example the early power supply to a newer one a lot of the components are "missing", but they still work. There is alot of filtering missing in the newer power supplies. If i knew what the missing components on the motherboard where it would probably not make any diffrents that i would note. Only the constructer would "know". Like you said. Thank you.

[SaturnHST]

Because you are supposed to have the 50/60hz mod too if you are going to play 50hz games. Your post isnt a bug or issue with the bios, its an issue of running pal games in 60hz

I was replying to this:

What will happen to PAL optimized games if i run them on my region free bios modded japanese sega saturn?

[APE]

I am happy that it works. I guess bugs are expected much like the snes bugs. When trying to run star fox for example.

Well just comparing for example the early power supply to a newer one a lot of the components are "missing", but they still work. There is alot of filtering missing in the newer power supplies. If i knew what the missing components on the motherboard where it would probably not make any diffrents that i would note. Only the constructer would "know". Like you said. Thank you.

Most of the time components are removed for cost cutting measures. Either something was over-engineered and late found not to be necessary or parts were cut because they weren't 100% intrinsic to the machine functioning at a level deemed acceptable. Sometimes you get crap like the PS1 laser assemblies having plastic where it was a bad idea or you get something where parts are removed because they're made redundant/<insert reason here>.

The "slim" Wii has solder pads with missing components for a handful of things such as the WiFi module. In this case you could "improve" it by adding the missing components back in - assuming the Wii will recognize and utilize the WiFi properly. In the case of a power supply adding the missing components isn't likely to cause something bad to happen but there isn't a point to it unless you actually know what it does and you desire the extra capabilities it offers (maybe they killed off an extra rail).

Sometimes the component pads are for a planned expansion that never materialized in which case you can have some fun there on occasion. Plenty of unpopular headers exist in electronics all over the place that are useful for serial/JTAG/etc but unless you know what it is and how to use it there isn't much point to it.