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Post by zyrobs on Jul 25, 2015 17:16:20 GMT
Yeah, I gathered.
If you want to know exactly who and when made the unit originally, there should be a LOT number on the motherboard, by the way.
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Post by zyrobs on Jul 25, 2015 2:56:09 GMT
I think they just reused whatever stickers they had at hand, possibly because they did not have ones with their own codes on them. It would also explain the lack of VA #s in the serial, since the early SY (Seiyo Denshi) USA models did not include them either, for some odd reason.
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Post by zyrobs on Jul 25, 2015 1:33:50 GMT
It's a refurbished unit, hence the contradictions. 9 after the year means it was refurbished, unless the unit is a VA9, but in those cases they use Z instead of 9. AB is the manufacturer code for whoever was fixing units in North America - I've seen a Sega CD II with that code before (and that was a unit that was confirmed to have been sold as refurbished stock). Likewise, "AC" is the same but for Japan, and so is "S".
I wouldn't mind buying that unit from you, though if it is fully boxed then I may not be able to afford it (shipping price tends to cost more than the unit).
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Post by zyrobs on Jul 14, 2015 19:14:32 GMT
The assembly is all interchangeable, but I'm not sure if the switch rating and the capacitor is the exact same on Japanese models.
The PAL model 2 I have opened here uses cs222m capacitor (2200pF AC250V) and the switch is SDL1P-A (250V 4A/32A)
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Post by zyrobs on Jul 12, 2015 18:03:29 GMT
List updated, 3405 entries now online.
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Post by zyrobs on Jul 7, 2015 1:44:41 GMT
They did update a few things in the internals in hst-3200 units, but as far as I know they are unrelated to the sticker.
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Post by zyrobs on Jul 6, 2015 20:10:13 GMT
Yeah, you can see the socket on the pictures.
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Post by zyrobs on Jul 4, 2015 14:38:09 GMT
Bad_Ad84 can and I believe he is in the UK.
I can also install it, but I'm in mainland EU so postage prices would be so sick that it would be cheaper if I sold you an entire modded console.
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Post by zyrobs on Jul 3, 2015 22:04:43 GMT
All VA0 units use DIP boot roms, everything else used SOP boot roms.
Socketed EPROMs were only on very, very early units, which were presumably used for testing. You'd need to be very lucky to find one.
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Post by zyrobs on Jul 1, 2015 20:07:45 GMT
It is indeed two LEDs, directly coming from small PCBs held onto the top case (no light pipes). All Japanese launch units were like that.
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Post by zyrobs on Jun 30, 2015 20:54:56 GMT
Very nice, thanks a lot!
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Post by zyrobs on Jun 29, 2015 11:58:56 GMT
670-xxxx is the sega serial number for labels, stickers, prints, cover artwork etc. The two machines are identical, only those stickers are different, either the content of them or their size.
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Post by zyrobs on Jun 18, 2015 20:56:11 GMT
Thank you very much. In case you haven't reassembled it, is there any chance you can take photos of the motherboard? To see if there are any early run ICs in there.
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Post by zyrobs on Jun 18, 2015 11:40:52 GMT
You could just play the PC version of Virtua Cop.
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Post by zyrobs on Jun 9, 2015 19:15:13 GMT
Use a real video cable, not that junk.
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