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Satiator preproduction unit by @prof_abrasive. From what I can tell it only differs from the final unit by not having a transparent plastic shell.

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@A3rgan @necrosofty @quangdx @asobitech and that boots on a system that isn't modchipped? This is curious.

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@leonkiriliuk The boot rom seems to be a custom version judging by the stickers, neither the version nor the crc matches any of the ones I have seen. I don't suppose you managed to dump it?

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@leonkiriliuk Most of the hardware seems identical to the Sophia dev kit, with some i/o missing (like no memory slots), and it is attached to a huge unique SH7604 debug board. Thanks for the pics!

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@FessX Some Sofdec encoded videos rely on data on the CD-ROM MODE 2 Subheader, to mark each sector as audio/video/subtitle data. Some discs even set up software decoded frames and MPEG Card decoded frames (10fps video vs 30fps video with the card). Maybe that is the reason?

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@FessX I can send you my spare Rhea ODE free of charge.

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@cyothevile Also you may want to consider dumping the 15 or so other ROMs on the unit - the ones on the modem, the Roland synth and harmony boards, and the ones connected to the Saturn boards cart slot, etc.

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@cyothevile Emulator authors are unlikely to support this, since there's 5 PCBs worth of other hardware, including a modem, a Roland synth, a SCSI card, etc.

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@FessX OSSC does include overscan and all 240 lines, even 256 for PAL. But it is a line doubler, so HDMI input may be off spec in 3x/4x/5x line modes. My old plasma TV can only handle 2x line mode. But modern monitors should have no problems.

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@FessX OSSC tends to work good with the Saturn, it's a line doubler with HDMI output, so similar to XRGB2Plus. It's also fairly cheap.

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@FessX A Video CD / Movie Card too, if you ever want to try to emulate those.

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@FessX If it helps you with the development of SSF, I'll send you a Rhea for free.

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@FessX You would need to some way re-build or generate the P and Q subcode data from the cuesheet if you wanted to convert bin+cue to CHD. I don't know if any tool can do that. I usually mount the bin+cue in DAEMon Tools and re-rip with CloneCD or Discjuggler to generate subcodes.

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@FessX In-track indexes are stored in subcodes.

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@FessX If you need a movie card for testing, I would gladly send one for free.

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@FessX A cue sheet may list more indexes beyond index 01, and this info is stored in sub codes. So it's not much but bin+cue does store some subcode information.

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@FessX On that note, SSF does not display CD+G graphics.

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@FessX 1 CD sector = 2352 byte data + 96 byte subcode. Subcode is used for indicating track pause, audio track position data (a track can have multiple indexes, for ex. TAITO Chase HQ + SCI, Dark Savior), pregap data, and CD+G and CD+EG data.

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@zan2zanjp What is this CD Checker? Is it a development tool?

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@HiddenPalaceOrg Will you only cover PS2 or other consoles too like Saturn?