Importing Japanese Consoles

[Rayek]

Just bought a Sega Saturn from Japan, it came in the mail today. I hooked it up, and... nothing but fuzz. Not the normal fuzz, but fuzz like you turned on an Xbox and have the channel set to 5 instead of 3.

Do I need any adapters? The Saturn uses standard A/V cables, so i wouldn't think anything could go wrong.

Is it a bad cable?

Help please.

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

My first thought was maybe it's PAL, but it's from japan so it cant be.

no clue.

 

[grahf]

Make sure no pins are bent over in the a/v plug. Its pretty tiny.

 

[Rayek]

I don't know what did it, but I had Samurai Shodown and Virtua Fighter in no time at all. Perhaps one of the three (!) pins on the A/V output jack was in the wrong hole. But after a bit-o-fiddling it's working fantastically.