Saturn Surgery
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At some point, controller port 1 on the Saturn stopped working. We thought it was the controller, and bought a new one. A brand new one, from 1990-whatever – with manuals and a contest entry form for an arcade cabinet! Sadly, the new controller didn’t work in port 1, but did in port 2 within the BIOS where we set the system time.
My brother Josh came over with his electronics
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toolkit, and performed open-port surgery on the Sega Saturn. Controller port 1 is still dead, and
he forgot the multi-meter to test further. We think we may have found the issue to be a poorly done solder joint, and his instrument is likely too blunt for this small of a scale. Next time.