Sega Mega Tech

[Nipedley]

I thought I'd post my Sega Mega Tech project here
It's been ongoing for 4 (I never thought it'd take so long!) months, also happening to be my *first* ever arcade machine with no previous experience whatsoever.
I guess I'd better start from the beginning;
I found this thing stuck at my local market in the corner, covered in lots of random stickers (pain to get off!!) and just asking to be restored (the poor thing). Picked her up for only

[AlanS17]

With the coin slot way up there, I wonder how little kids ever played. I've never seen that one before.

[TOK]

Wow, thats cool! I have a buddy that is into classic consoles. He is going to crap when he see's this. He has about 5 Genesis's (Genesii?  ), and this would be a "Holy Grail" caliber find.

[Nipedley]

Hehehe =D It's pretty much like the playchoice, sms/genesis games but in arcade form =) It uses cartridges though rather than bare pcbs, unfortunately genesis/sms carts arent interchangeable with it
The machine is *awesome* though, and streets of rage sounds WAY better than it ever did/does on my tv =)

P.S. picture attatched of game cart + manual

[Timoe]

That monster looks rad

[Nipedley]

Thought I'd give a mini-update..
1. The main monitor was capped, but not completely, as a result the picture is a LOT more stable, but not as good as I think it could be.. so it's left out again for another 2 weeks, along with the top monitor, at which point I will be _completely_ re-capping both monitors! Included is a picture of what it looks like now (with one of my favourite games loaded..).

2. Finishing touches being added, final things being cleaned and I re-wired the whole mains section (previous owner left pretty much the entire thing as a deathtrap..), including fixing the gaping whole where the power switch used to be (re-mounted now, why he couldnt even wire a power cord in properly is beyond me)..

Machine is just about ready to be called "Completed" now, on the day I'll be putting a History write-up as was suggested by one forum member already, I have it written and will be putting it in the coin box. I never plan to sell it, hell I want it to be buried with me, but in the off chance it does go to someone else at least they will know a bit about where it came from.. I'll also be putting in a sticker, with the cab's name, and date of project completion... with my signature 'acourse, you could argue that its pointless but hey.. its my first machine, im a bit sentimental ;P anyway.. once this machine is done, its onto my next project, Terminator 2. Cant wait to rip into it and get rid of those f'ing spiders..


ADD: Top is before, bottom is after. Sorry about the low quality, all I had of it running was a movie so I had to do a screencap. The quality is hard to tell, but its much better than it was before! And it doesnt roll or jump!