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Attaching it to the mainboard
Ok, now we need to attach 6 wires from the right of the schematic (J6, J10, J12, /RST, /BUTTON, /50) plus three LED-wires (red, green, GND) and two supply-wires (total 11) to the mainboard, fun!
Flipside
You can't hide from the flipside!- "Flipside" by Moloko
First, a little overview:
Region
This is how it looked on my board.
The left row of pads is all +5V, the right row is GND. The 0-Ohm resistors connect either +5V or GND to the
inner pads, which are responsible for which region the Saturn thinks it is.
I'll call the inner pads like their respective +-jumper. These are the relevant settings:
| Region | JP6 | JP8 | JP10 | JP12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Europe | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Japan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| US | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Obviously, my Saturn is European. Note that JP8 is the same for every region, so we leave it as it is. Let's unsolder the other three!
Now attach three wires to the jumpers by soldering each wire to the two inner pads, like this. Also, don't make the wires to short,
the mod will probably rest on the other side of the mainboard. I also hot-glued the wires as a precaution.
The wires go to J6/J10/J12 on the mod.
50/60Hz
Attach a wire as on the picture and (carefully!) cut the pcb track, make sure it really is cut. Again, I hotglued the wire.
The wire goes to /50 on the board.
Ok, we're done with the flipside. Be cautious that you don't pen in the cables between the PCB and the chassis, we don't want anything bad to happen.
There's a small slippage between the reset-button and the controller-port where the cables fit nicely.