Uploaded July 2015 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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This is a Demo of the Sega Saturn Floppy Disk Drive (FDD). I got this cheap on Yahoo! Japan Auctions for about $30 as the power adapter and FDD operator CD was missing.

Why do I or you need it? We want it for game save preservation. The Saturn's internal memory is held by a battery, and the Backup cartridge memory can be corrupted if you're not careful handling it- say you forget to power off the Saturn and you pull the cartridge out- it has happened to me. Another is if you put in another region of the same game, some write over the save that is from the other region. Or if you put in a different version of the same game. This happened to me with Sega Rally, specifically when I got the Nettlink version of Sega Rally.

High scores, critical game saves like having unlocked characters, and for me especially, TIME ATTACK TIMES for racing games is the reason one should get this, not as a collectors item, but for actual use.

Some saves dwarf the entire system memory size, so you cannot write such a save to the system memory and transfer that to another memory cartridge. The only way to back up the save from a backup memory cart is with the FDD.