Nick Goracke
I'm still around!?,
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I've switched over to RGB for all of my older consoles, and the Saturn especially has a very distinct buzzing sound that's audible on "silent" screens, but usually masked by music/sound effects.
I had a similar problem with the SNES and PSX, but breaking the audio out from the video at the system connector end seemed to eliminate most of the buzz. The Saturn... not so much.
Eventually, I opened it up and tried doing a stereo mod by connecting wires to the board (near the 10 pin connector), but didn't hear much improvement. Just testing the various pins inside with a wire tester, I noticed that I could still get readings when touching an RGB pin with an Audio pin, or any pins with Ground - something that wasn't a problem on other systems.
So I'm wondering, does anybody have a schematic for the Sega Saturn that could show me where to find Right and Left audio at the DAC, rather than downstream at the actual pin? Or another solution that might alleviate the problem? I know a Digital Audio mod for the Saturn exists, but this is mainly being used for a 2-channel analogue only system, so that doesn't really help me...
I had a similar problem with the SNES and PSX, but breaking the audio out from the video at the system connector end seemed to eliminate most of the buzz. The Saturn... not so much.
Eventually, I opened it up and tried doing a stereo mod by connecting wires to the board (near the 10 pin connector), but didn't hear much improvement. Just testing the various pins inside with a wire tester, I noticed that I could still get readings when touching an RGB pin with an Audio pin, or any pins with Ground - something that wasn't a problem on other systems.
So I'm wondering, does anybody have a schematic for the Sega Saturn that could show me where to find Right and Left audio at the DAC, rather than downstream at the actual pin? Or another solution that might alleviate the problem? I know a Digital Audio mod for the Saturn exists, but this is mainly being used for a 2-channel analogue only system, so that doesn't really help me...