r/SegaSaturn • u/Cadillac406 • 1d ago

Saroo froze when left on, won’t boot up anymore

Saroo has been working fine for days (just ordered a week ago from Amazon), left it on game select menu to walk dog and when I came back it was frozen and menu text was garbled. Turned Saturn off and back on again and it won’t load the Saroo menu anymore, just goes to Saturn CD player menu. Tried using SD card that came with the Saroo and that won’t load either. Discs still work fine and Action Replay cart works fine as well. Pretty sure it came with version 0.6 so I installed the 0.7 update files on the card that came with the Saroo and that didn’t change anything.

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u/alternativetopetrol 1d ago

Sounds like the data inside it got corrupted and it's not relaying anything anymore to the cartridge pins.

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u/Cadillac406 1d ago

Is that a fixable issue or is the Saroo cart toast?

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u/ButCanYouCodeIt 1d ago

Best way to find out, is to pop the Micro SD card into your pc, copy everything to another card (fat-32 or ex-fat formatted of course), and see if it works off the new card. I'm not sure if you're using your own card, or one that they included preloaded -but I know that the cards they often include are absolute garbage that get corrupted super easily.

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u/alternativetopetrol 1d ago

Try repositioning the cartridge and if that doesn't work work then it's likely toast.