Did you try putting a music disc in and using the dashboard to play
it? CDDA shouldn't crash the machine as it's not executable code that
could go wrong should the machine try to load it.
As others have said, it could be the internal ribbons loose but I
doubt this would have happened over time. Check your power lead is
firmly in as well as the joypads and then put a brand new CR2032
lithium button in the back.
I doubt the Saturn would crash if it didn't have a battery but you
could check just incase the old one has leaked or reversed polarity!
Also, you might want to try buying a lense cloth from a camera shop
and giving the laser a little clean just to make sure no dust, smoke
or anything has built up on the lense. This plagues the Playstation a
lot.
Another point may be to check if the surface of your game discs are
not scratched, you can use your lense cloth you clean these too
(remember to use straight motions from centre to rim, never around the
disc in circles).
One last point, the Saturn and Dreamcast have very sensitive earth
pins on their Scart leads. If your connection is not firm in the TV
you might get all manner of funny things happening. I once had my TV
powering up my Dreamcast fan, even though the Dreamcast unit was not
switched on!
:-o :-o :-o
:-D
