As previously mentioned, I had planned to wire harness with a JAMMA edge like this: @LemonyVengeance gave me the idea of bypassing the JAMMA edge and just wire it directly to the Blast City I/O. Due to the sheer amount of wire I needed, I figured it would be cheaper to Continue Reading
Blast City
Rhythm Tengoku – Control Panel
I first tried this game when I got my Naomi NetDIMM setup and it’s a quirky yet addictive game. It’s playable on a joystick setup, but since it’s got a dedicated cabinet with extremely oversized buttons, I figured why not try and go down this avenue without having to purchase Continue Reading
Bye Bye Blast City
The Monkey Ball Blast City has been sold and picked up this morning and will now become someone else’s CPS3/Naomi cabinet! It’s a bitter sweet move as it means I will breaking my l “pairs” mantra, however, the new cabinet is perceived as one of the “grails” so let’s hope Continue Reading
Blast City – wavy corners part 2
A lot of trial and error on the weekend but still haven’t gotten to the bottom of it unfortunately I tried plugging in the vga (31khz) to my naomi universal and I didn’t get any wavy corners. Monitor is powered via the blast city, everything else is on the naomi Continue Reading
Blast City – wavy corners part 1
The universe just doesn’t want me to love the blast city! Backstory: The blast city had some “buzzing” that got louder as time went on. After reading a thread on AP, it pointed to some stuff inside the yoke and would need “cleaning” but to do so would mean removing Continue Reading
Blast City – Recap
So the feedback I got from a few people was to “recap” the PSU and it “should” fix my issue with the Sega I/O TL;DR – I’m exactly in the same situation as I was prior to the recap Blast PSU Recap Adventure After getting my cap kits from Arcade Parts Continue Reading
Blast City – Final stages
Into the final stages of this project. It took a couple of attempts, but I’ve come to the conclusion when I use a NetDimm on the Blast City PSU, I can’t use it on a single PSU. I’ve been told to do a re-cap on the PSU which “should” fix Continue Reading
Blast City – Pushed through
Push through last night and installed the cp and 3 button harness just to get going! Happy to report everything is working properly! Here’s a quick test run with DDP DOJ on IGS PGM One issue I have (and a lot of blast city owners) is corner convergence. Not much Continue Reading
Blast City – It’s alive!
This weekend that just passed, I set myself the goal of “just getting the shell screwed in to the base” as the shells had “dried*” *more on that later. The wiring deceivingly took WAAAAY longer than I expected as I decided I would take out all the old clips and Continue Reading
Blast City – Hiatus
Wow, it’s been 4 months since I last updated! I haven’t really had much motivation to finish it off, I had one cab in its place with the rest of the cabs which made me really delay the finishing of the other cab. With that said, I recently sold off Continue Reading