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  1. Thomas

    Nanao Ms9-29 what is cn508 for ?

    Attach it to a nearby screw. It's ground for the monitor, not earth ground. The monitor and monitor frame aren't connected to the cabinet's earth ground.
  2. Thomas

    Working on a Sega Blast City

    Ah, I see. Having that mold looks like it makes things easier. Still a tricky job that I wouldn't want to try again. After all that work of making a mold and rebuilding the cones, you definitely need to keep the stock speakers.
  3. Thomas

    Working on a Sega Blast City

    Can’t tell from a YouTube video how good it sounds. Probably fine for arcade games. Especially older ones that don’t sound great with any speaker. I’m assuming “restore” means you repaired the disintegrated cone on the woofer. The hard part with that, I learned, is attaching the cone to the...
  4. Thomas

    Gunbird 2 Audio Improvement [WIP, help wanted]

    By "up and running" do you mean you changed the sound IC? And it's still noisy? No music during the intro. I think music was added in the Dreamcast port, however.
  5. Thomas

    Working on a Sega Blast City

    Edited my last post to delete the lower impedance comment. That's not quite right. Different speakers need different amounts of power to drive them. The sensitivity rating is more important than the impedance. You should stick with the original speakers unless they sound really bad or have...
  6. Thomas

    Working on a Sega Blast City

    My OEM speakers were completely ruined so I never had a chance to hear how they sound. My guess is that they sound fine. That's assuming the refurbishment you did brought them back to their original condition. If it sounds bad, try different speakers. But not the speakers I'm using. Find...
  7. Thomas

    Sega Blast City PSU - Voltage Support

    Do a search for cleaning JAMMA contacts. You'll find different methods and opinions and you'll have to pick one. But if you are getting 5V with the 5V potentiometer turned all the way down with the CPS2 connected then the contacts are probably all fine. P.S. that 3.3V is for JVS and you can...
  8. Thomas

    Working on a Sega Blast City

    Correct, I do not recommend it.
  9. Thomas

    Sega Blast City PSU - Voltage Support

    Do you mean maxed out the 5v and reduced 3.3v? Those readings might be low if the 5v is at max. Between the PSU connector, the JAMMA connector, your meter, and the game board JAMMA connection there are plenty of places to lose voltage due to dirty or oxidized contacts. It's a good idea to...
  10. Thomas

    Working on a Sega Blast City

    Those components were chosen specifically for the amplifier, woofer, and tweeter combination that I am using and if any of those three components change, you need to change the components too. So the answer is no, you don't need them. But if you connect the same amplifier that I'm using...
  11. Thomas

    How old is your CPS2 battery?

    By life expectancy I mean how long they will last installed in a CPS2 game. The battery manufacturer can only provide an estimate of how many years the battery will hold a charge before being installed in something.
  12. Thomas

    Working on a Sega Blast City

    No sub for the Blast. The ported speaker enclosures provide enough low end. My Blast City sounds better than my Astro City, even without a subwoofer.
  13. Thomas

    How old is your CPS2 battery?

    Are you sure those batteries have never been changed? Batteries can have a long shelf life and the date stamp is only the date of manufacture. Those 1996 batteries could have been installed in 2006. I recently pulled 2 batteries out of CPS2 games, one dated '94 and the other '97. Both...
  14. Thomas

    Working on a Sega Blast City

    Sure, list is below. If you haven't already tried some of the replacement speakers recommended in the Blast City speaker thread, I suggest doing that before doing what I did. I think this is nearly everything: WONDOM AA-AB32189 2x100W TDA7498 Class-D Amplifier Board DC 36V 5A 5000mA 180W...
  15. Thomas

    Sega Net City Restoration

    It's all in the thread. Go back a page or two and you'll find all the details. I think you asked about paint in one of my other threads a year or two ago? The process for the Net City was the same.
  16. Thomas

    PSA: MS293X, faulty chassis can break the tube

    I had that same shaking/pulsing in my Astro City for months. Very annoying. I intended to check out the potentiometers but never did. Eventually the problem went away on its own sometime last year. I still plan to at least clean the potentiometers but I’m being even more lazy about it now that...
  17. Thomas

    Working on a Sega Blast City

    The Blast City amp is only for amplifying the line level stereo output from JVS hardware (or something like Mister or a console etc). If you only plan to use JAMMA hardware then you don't need an amplifier. If you plan to use something other than JAMMA then you'll need to figure out how to...
  18. Thomas

    Working on a Sega Blast City

    It's a cheap Parts Express amplifier and I posted the model number and other details earlier in this thread. Replacing or modifying the power supply to send more power to the audio amplifier would probably require modifying the amplifier. Have you tried using the speakers that other people are...
  19. Thomas

    Working on a Sega Blast City

    Yes, still using
  20. Thomas

    Blast City/Net City paint code (crack repair log)

    Valspar is Sherwin Williams paint.
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