SegaSonic the Hedgehog - Home Edition

[Fredo]

Hey guys

Here is my lastest completed project, hacking some small "plug and play" Golden Tee Golf - Home Edition trackballs to work with SegaSonic the Hedgehog.

Here is the original controller

They are quite cheap, both in price and conception, but should work fine for a casual use. They are much easier to get than other console trackball controllers and you can guess they won't have been use used a lot.

They are extremely easy to hack, as the directions are written directly on the PCB, this is where you can solder:

UP = YB
DOWN = YA
LEFT= XA
RIGHT= XB
Brown wire = +5V
Brown and white wire = GND

The buttons are quite good, yet a bit hard. Guess what, they are exactly 24mm in diameter, perfect for Sanwa buttons.

He is my Jamma adapter for the trackballs:

As my PCB was equipped with a Sega System 16 IO board, only two players could play, as the original board is "incomplete"

Adding the missing components made the third player work !

Adding the missing D4701AC, the A472J resistor and shunting the filters:

And BAM ! the third player works !

 

[Fredo]

Damn, didn't see there was a "consolized" section, please delete this thread :/

 

[PascalP]

very nice work!

 

[ShootTheCore]

Well done! I was planning on a similar project if a System 32 Multi ever materializes.

 

[Fredo]

Well done! I was planning on a similar project if a System 32 Multi ever materializes.

I don't know about Multi System 32, but you can make converts, as the games have been decrypted and can work without the suicide battery

 

[ShootTheCore]

I know about the converts - I picked up a Spider-Man board A few months ago with the intention of converting, but I ended up trading it. Need to hit up Yahoo Japan at some point for another System 32 board.

Is your SegaSonic a conversion @Fredo?

 

[Fredo]

I know about the converts - I picked up a Spider-Man board A few months ago with the intention of converting, but I ended up trading it. Need to hit up Yahoo Japan at some point for another System 32 board.

Is your SegaSonic a conversion @Fredo?

No, it is an original de-suicided board

 

[ekorz]

Where did you find an extra D4701AC? If I recall guru has a repro design for the trackball board but those parts are super scarce. He was looking for a source or a modern chip equivalent.

 

[twistedsymphony]

Where did you find an extra D4701AC?

This is the most relevant question in this thread

 

[Fredo]

Where did you find an extra D4701AC? If I recall guru has a repro design for the trackball board but those parts are super scarce. He was looking for a source or a modern chip equivalent.

It was indeed a pain in the butt to find where to buy a single unit. I managed to find a chinese electronics website to buy one. It costed me $4 USD + $8US shipping costs, it was a total blind bet as I never heard of that site whatsoever, but they did indeed shipped it.

Unfortunately, I can't find that site anymore. Even the paypal receipt does not mention it, it only mentions "Cai Linyan" as the seller. Go ahead and find anything with that...

 

[ekorz]

Well if it's easier to buy 50 units from somewhere, lemme know where that is!

 

[jassin000]

This is mega awesome, and as mentioned above IF a System32 multi ever materializes I'd be all about it.

The problem with converting a System32 game around here is Spider-man is the most common...
And in terms of gameplay/enjoyability it blows SegaSonic away!
Sure being a huge Sonic fan I want to play everything, but to anyone who has actually played it, yea it's just NOT a very good game IMO.

System32 multicart where are you!

 

[twistedsymphony]

System32 multicart where are you!

I don't know why everyone is so interested in a System 32 multi... looking at the games list it's got a pretty weak line up:

The Sonic Game that requires a trackball for some reason:
Segasonic The Hedgehog

Beat Em Ups
Arabian Fight
Golden Axe : The Revenge of Death Adder
Spiderman

Crappy Fighting Games
Burning Rival
Dark Edge
Dragon Ball Z V.R.V.S.
Holosseum

Who cares:
Soreike Kokorogy 2
Super Visual Football / Super Visual Soccer / The J.League 1994

You're not going to play these on your cab:
Air Rescue
Alien 3 The Gun
F1 Exhaust Note
F1 Super Lap
Jurassic Park
Rad Mobile / Gale Racer
Rad Rally
Slipstream

I think most people only care about sonic and the beat-em ups... and if you're Ekorz you care about the crappy fighting games...

Personally I'm planning on making Spiderman, Sonic and Golden Axe conversions since nothing else here interests me. I mean if there's a cheap multi I'll pick it up just to play around with the crappy fighters but there are many other platforms that need a multi more than system 32. Heck even System 18 despite having fewer games has more titles I'd like to see on a multi than system 32.

 

[jassin000]

Spider-man and Golden Axe 2 are the must haves on System32 for sure.
But Arabian Fight is fun, Rad Mobile (it would need a special controller/consolization) is awesome, SegaSonic is "iconic" for lack of a better term...

Oh and yea, if you are @ekorz Burning Rival, Dark Edge, Dragon Ball.

Look at it this way... I spent a bunch on a CPS3, SIMMs enough to run 3rd Strike and a Darksoft SuperBIOS cart/conversion.
The only game I really play on that setup is 3rd Strike.

 

[jugu]

I'm here for Alien 3: The Gun and Jurassic Park. Have a Golden Axe 2, which is awesome. Only played Spiderman a couple of times, but it was fun.

 

[Flinnster]

Very nice work. I'd love to have a SegaSonic one day. That's one pricey PCB you have there

 

[Fredo]

Well if it's easier to buy 50 units from somewhere, lemme know where that is!

Chinese manufacturers seem to be able to provide such quantities. But of course, I did not try.

https://m.french.alibaba.com/p-deta...nguage=french&detailId=60700778642&redirect=1

As far as I am concerned, I do not plan on buying other Sega System 32 games. The games available do not interrest me that much.

I wanted this one because I am a big Sonic fan, I had the money, the skill and the will to build all this up so I will be able to share it in some gaming conventions

Thank you all guys

 

[ekorz]

I think most people only care about sonic and the beat-em ups... and if you're Ekorz you care about the crappy fighting games...

let's be honest. I took my burning rival and promptly converted it into a GA2!! Dark edge is novel from a historical standpoint... doing "3D" with sprite scaling. Anyway I just like the idea of having the full library. And maybe I miss my J League!

 

[codecrank]

very nice mod to add 3p

oh the game list is missing "where's waldo" , I have it, I need to give a try just for laughs...

 

[twistedsymphony]

the game list is missing "where's waldo"

I thought where's waldo was on system 18?