wilycoldcuts
Student
Hi everyone!
I'm new to the forum - my intro thread was only a month ago where I mentioned I was waiting for the right cab, which didn't take long! I'm now the proud owner of a Blast City, courtesy of Cereth's import thread in the trade/sale forum. It arrived on Sunday, so I'm slowly poking at it and making plans.
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Initial thoughts:
I'm new to the forum - my intro thread was only a month ago where I mentioned I was waiting for the right cab, which didn't take long! I'm now the proud owner of a Blast City, courtesy of Cereth's import thread in the trade/sale forum. It arrived on Sunday, so I'm slowly poking at it and making plans.
Link to Imgur album
Initial thoughts:
- This cab is in pretty excellent shape! No major cleaning is required, although there are some light scratches on the screen bezel that I'll hit with some Novus polish. The coin mech reads 23590, which means this machine has seen about $20,000 worth of plays, right?
- My first major operation will be to swap the PSU fan because it sounds like death. Internet says it's just a regular 12V 80mm fan with a JST connector - are there any other limitations to watch out for, here? If not, I'm partial to Noctua fans so I'll probably go for that.
- Testing it with a borrowed SFII board, the screen looks pretty good to me (no ghosting or burn-in) but has some convergence issues and blurriness in the corners. I'm no connoisseur, but I think the next step will be taking a look at the chassis to look for goop and figure out if I can improve the picture with adjustments or if I try my hand at recapping it.
- The button harness isn't complete or in that great a shape, so I may end up making replacement harnesses for the control panel. The controls are a bit mushy too, so I'll probably replace them with the original pink and green color scheme as seen on the marketing flyers.