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Help w/ Japanese Capcom Impress cab
Jakobud:
Here's a site with a dude who has Mamed 2 of these sit-ats:
http://www.trouble-makers.com/kami/emulation/index.html
Impostor:
That's TweakerZ's site. I emailed him for some help several weeks ago, but no replies. That's why I started this thread here.
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JamesMolloy:
I've seen an arcade stick for Dreamcast that seems to be one of those Blast City/Astro City control panels. I wouldn't mind one myself..
Impostor:
Back to the original topic of this thread....
I received the security torx bit set yesterday. To remove the plastic monitor frame, I had to unscrew 4 torx screws in the back of the cabinet, above the hand-slots. This allowed the entire monitor frame, bezel, and speaker assembly to be removed.
Next was to change the monitor bezel from horizontal to vertical. The bezel itself is square so it was very easy to unscrew the bezel from the monitor frame and flip it vertical.
Finally, the monitor have to be rotated to vertical. This is tricky b/c it's a 29" monitor and it's freakin' HEAVY!!! Luckily, the monitor is bolted to a metal frame that have 4 handles. After undoing the bolts that hold the metal monitor frame to the cabinet frame, the monitor can be lifted and rotated. At the bottom of the cabinet frame are 2 metal brackets that the metal monitor frame should rest on. Once on, you just put the bolts back on.
AFter this, I turned on the whole system and I got a big fat nothing on the monitor! But wait! Looks like there's picture, but it looks like a shadow of a picture. There's no color. The RGB gain knobs aren't working. A closer inspection inside the cabinet and the monitor board shows that the connector for the RGB gains were disconnected when I rotated the monitor. I didn't want to stick my arms inside there, being so tight, and getting zapped with the monitor. So I unplugged the cabinet and let it sit until tonite. Then I'll try to plug the RGB gain cable back into the board. Sure hope the monitor charge dissipated.
I'm sure this is all kinda confusing to read. I took pictures and hope to have them up on a site soon for everyone to look at.
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BobA:
Really good information. Should help anyone else who attempts the same type of work.
As long as you don't go near the HV circuits you should not get zapped. Do not touch anything associated with the HV wire that goes to the CRT. I know that alot of people swear by discharging the monitor but most service techs do not unless working of the HV portion of the circuit. Of course you should still be carefull not to touch exposed parts or circuits if at all possible.