A few years ago, I bought a Model 2 European Sega Saturn (MK-80200A-50) from eBay mainly for nostalgic reasons. I had a saturn when it first came out, and since I was not in a position of any finance back then, I wasn't able to get all the games I wanted. However, since my aquisition of my new Saturn, I have been able to get some of the games which I wasn't able to get back then.
My falvorite of these games is Shining: The holy ark, however I have noticed that in certain places the game slows down to what is almost a halt. I sometimes get slight skips and lag when playing other high memory load games (for a saturn) such as Exhumed, thought these arn't as bad.
I'm an enthusiastic modder, though I've not done anything too brilliant as of yet, just made my own AV cable for my saturn, added a few LEDs to my DC, resurected my saturn from the logo crash, minor things. Now I want to try and overclock my saturn, and try to get better performance from it.
I was wondering if anyone has ever tried this before and whether, if they have, they got better visual performance or even faster load times?
I'd like to ask, if anyone has any information on how to proceed, could you please help me?
I have found the original pinouts and documentation for the SuperH-2 (SH-2) 7604 and SH-1 (7032) on google, and by using them I have been able to locate the clock pins, both input and output, but I'm not sure about what to do with them. From what I've read, I think I'm supposed to feed them a faster clock signal, but I'm not sure how to do that. Either that or boost the voltage.
Any help would be deeply appreciated!
Thanks!
-Nukpana
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Links are as follows
SH-2 7604 Product Overview http://www.classicgaming.com/epr/saturn/h12d0.pdf
SH-1 7032 Overview http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/pub/Main/Data.../cpu_sh1_pb.pdf
SH-1 7032 H/W Manual. http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/pub/Main/DataSheets/sh7032h.pdf
My falvorite of these games is Shining: The holy ark, however I have noticed that in certain places the game slows down to what is almost a halt. I sometimes get slight skips and lag when playing other high memory load games (for a saturn) such as Exhumed, thought these arn't as bad.
I'm an enthusiastic modder, though I've not done anything too brilliant as of yet, just made my own AV cable for my saturn, added a few LEDs to my DC, resurected my saturn from the logo crash, minor things. Now I want to try and overclock my saturn, and try to get better performance from it.
I was wondering if anyone has ever tried this before and whether, if they have, they got better visual performance or even faster load times?
I'd like to ask, if anyone has any information on how to proceed, could you please help me?
I have found the original pinouts and documentation for the SuperH-2 (SH-2) 7604 and SH-1 (7032) on google, and by using them I have been able to locate the clock pins, both input and output, but I'm not sure about what to do with them. From what I've read, I think I'm supposed to feed them a faster clock signal, but I'm not sure how to do that. Either that or boost the voltage.
Any help would be deeply appreciated!
Thanks!
-Nukpana
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Links are as follows
SH-2 7604 Product Overview http://www.classicgaming.com/epr/saturn/h12d0.pdf
SH-1 7032 Overview http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/pub/Main/Data.../cpu_sh1_pb.pdf
SH-1 7032 H/W Manual. http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/pub/Main/DataSheets/sh7032h.pdf