Blast City Help!!

[cathoderaze]

After searching and searching for months I finally have gotten my hands on a Sega Blast city cabinet. Now my only challenge is setting it up for Jamma as it was previously just set up for Naomi 2 stuff. The person I bought it from told me I would need a converter to run the monitor on low resolution. He also said I would need a switching power supply. Im not sure if this is true or not. I am hoping I just need that 001 loom and I will be set any advice would be appreciated. He has the stereo audio coming out of the power supply as well. Also if anyone could identify the connectors in the photos and tell me what they are that would be great!

[chempop]

Congrats on the cab! I started my candy addiction with blast city as well. What is most important is to read up A LOT before tampering with things. I highly recommend joining arcade okatu because the wikis and threads over there are a key resource. There is also a decent blast city thread at neo-geo. For both of those forums you'll need to join to access the bulk of info.

As for your cab, what is probably the most important to know is what kind of monitor and chassis you have. Blast usually have tri sync toshibas with nanao chassis ranging from ms-2930, 2931, 2932, etc. Figure out what you have, read up on those sites, and NEVER LICK THE ANODE CAP!

As for your pics
#1: not sure
#2: that the input/output (I/O) board, most of those empty connections are where a standard Jamma harness with be attached, kick harness, and a few other optional things.
#3: not sure what the 3 loose plugs go to, could be marquee light, speakers, etc. Right near the VGA looking plug SHOULD be the other plug for video over JAMMA (if your chassis is compatible)
#4: again, hard to know without tracing them to where they come from, could be speakers, coin meter, coin register.. a number of things.
#5: Just look up the number of the power supply and see if it's the stock blast one, my guess is that it is. I'd be able to tell from a picture of the back..

or you could look at this to see if it helps (keep in mind this Bass Fishing manual is going to differ a bit, it's still be very helpful): http://wiki.arcadeotaku.com/images/6/65 ... ishing.pdf

[cathoderaze]

Congrats on the cab! I started my candy addiction with blast city as well. What is most important is to read up A LOT before tampering with things. I highly recommend joining arcade okatu because the wikis and threads over there are a key resource. There is also a decent blast city thread at neo-geo. For both of those forums you'll need to join to access the bulk of info.

As for your cab, what is probably the most important to know is what kind of monitor and chassis you have. Blast usually have tri sync toshibas with nanao chassis ranging from ms-2930, 2931, 2932, etc. Figure out what you have, read up on those sites, and NEVER LICK THE ANODE CAP!

As for your pics
#1: not sure
#2: that the input/output (I/O) board, most of those empty connections are where a standard Jamma harness with be attached, kick harness, and a few other optional things.
#3: not sure what the 3 loose plugs go to, could be marquee light, speakers, etc. Right near the VGA looking plug SHOULD be the other plug for video over JAMMA (if your chassis is compatible)
#4: again, hard to know without tracing them to where they come from, could be speakers, coin meter, coin register.. a number of things.
#5: Just look up the number of the power supply and see if it's the stock blast one, my guess is that it is. I'd be able to tell from a picture of the back..

or you could look at this to see if it helps (keep in mind this Bass Fishing manual is going to differ a bit, it's still be very helpful): http://wiki.arcadeotaku.com/images/6/65 ... ishing.pdf

Thanks man! The cab was a Bass Fishing Cabinet. I read that all Bass fishing cabs came with MS-2931 monitors. Those three loose plugs are connected into one plug right under the VGA cable. So Im guessing it is for Jamma video? one of them has a label which says Naomi jumper. Will the stock power supply be ok to run Jamma?

[system11]

Yup, no -5v though probably.

You can save yourself a lot of misery by simply installing a whole new loom in parallel with the old - FrancoB makes them. That's what I did with my New Net City.

[cathoderaze]

Thanks System! Do I need -5 volts? What do I need to get the -5V? I'll contact him for sure! Ok so I have removed the old harness. It seems he was just using it for controls and the coin mech for his Naomi 2 setup. So in theory I think all I need to do is get the proper Jamma harness and be set? here are a few more pictures of things I could use some help Identifying.


Black and white wire connected to this. Marquee light?


No Idea on this one.


This brown lamp chord looking wire is connected to these black and white wires and the brown chord is snipped at the end.


No idea again.


Not sure about this either.



Here is the back of my power supply. I was asked for a photo of it earlier to see if it was one that would supply the correct voltages for Jamma.
Thanks again guys for helping me with this!