Blast City

So I’ve spent some significant time on this – fortunately, I didn’t get zapped along the way! After reading the thread on Aussie Arcade – https://www.aussiearcade.com/topic/72785-sega-blast-city-abnormal-voltage-on-signal-ground-and-more/, I decided to take away my internal tx out of the picture just like the OP did. I simply tuned my 220v cab into a Continue Reading

For those that remember this post.. Blast City – Zap! I got a nasty little shock the first time I powered on this cab. I thought it was due to the switch, but I’ve since received another shock or two when I tried adjusting values through the remote board and Continue Reading

mR_CaESaR said:  Shortly after posting this, I was sent a message by a friend to try a Panasonic TC-68GS71A for a consumer tube swap. Whilst not 100% perfect, he previously used it on a tube swap for the blast city and yielded acceptable results. I was able to purchase the Continue Reading

Sad day unfortunately… the tube gets dimmer and dimmer by the day 🙁 🙁 Here you can see just how dim the tube is compared to my other blast. I had to turn off the light on the top left (tired tube side) as you wouldn’t have been able to see Continue Reading

Got my hands on a CRT tester on Wednesday night to try out thanks to hwaygo on discord – it’s the BK Precision 490 and fortunately for me, it had the correct CR23 connector 🙂 Never having done any of this stuff before, I watched multiple videos of what we needed Continue Reading

Another update on my wonderful adventures with the Blast City! 😀 😀 I ended up getting some repro artwork – mostly for the blast, but a few random bits and bobs The repro blast cp artwork is ok, but not 100% perfect, it will do the job for my purposes Another Continue Reading

Because working on two blast cities over the last year with a lot of tears is never enough…. guess what I picked up last night???  😀 😀 Yep! I’m back for one more go! hahaha The Honda HRV is surprisingly large inside! I’ve now done two cab trips with my Continue Reading

Spent some time on the public holiday to configure the monitor. Here’s the cross stitch of the monitor before any convergence work.. After about two hours worth of mucking around and me $h**ting myself, this was the best I could do (also ran out of convergence strips) The bottom left Continue Reading

Joey’s analysis of my 2931 Well turns out mate that it’s the tripler inside the flyback that has failed, it had damaged an SMD IC in the regulation section plus the 5 pin regulator and zener protection diode, H-Drive transistors and vertical IC, this is supposed to shut the chassis Continue Reading