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SAROO
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  opened by smbhax at 20:15:39 04/25/26  
  last modified by smbhax at 21:53:40 04/25/26  
  smbhax [sys=SAT; cat=Hardware; reg=C]
           
https://github.com/tpunix/SAROO
 
https://selectbutton.net/t/saturn-is-not-our-future/10897
 
SAROO is an open-source ODE that plugs into the memory expansion port of the Saturn, allowing Saturn ISOs to be run from microSD card.
 
With 13 lines of assembly code added to its config file
 
https://github.com/tpunix/SAROO/issues/214
 
it'll dump the Saturn's BIOS to the microSD the next time a game is launched from the cart.
 
  smbhax 20:33:30 04/25/26
           
Before SAROO, to get a Saturn BIOS legally--and emulators require them to run games, even the games you might legally rip yourself from your own game discs ; )--you'd have had to disassemble the Saturn, desolder its BIOS chip, and dump it with an EPROM programmer. 'p'
 
  smbhax 20:34:13 04/25/26
           
https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/2023/02/16/saroo-a-saturn-flash-cart-re-emerges/
 
SAROO started in China in 2013
 
https://web.archive.org/web/20151204230202/http://www.sarooo.com/
 
and went open source in 2015, but had unresolved timing issues. Came back in 2023.
    
 
references:
· SAROO Sega Saturn pad (SAT)
· Sega Saturn (SAT)

 
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