Cyber Troopers: Virtual On - 95' Sega Twin Restoration

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Cyber Troopers: Virtual On was a vacation pickup that was probably the result of way too much eggnog.

This was, is, and will continue to be a project on steroids....

The Find:
Facebook Marketplace

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I found this on FM which is usually at the bottom of my list, partly because I don't have an account so I look a fool when I have to explain why I am messaging from my teenage sons profile and get a lot of non responses, but this was Cyber Troopers and to pass up the work of the AM3 team, especially with Sonoda and Ishikawa's hands on it I would be crazy.

After a few messages back and forth I was able to negotiate the price down and barter the rest. Through the deal making process I got to know a bit about the machine and its current owner. It was found by the seller in a shed without working monitors and wiring chewed up. Upon a worsening disability from his time in the service it was now sitting in his garage unable to be brought back to life (the guy loves his games but has lost the use of his hands so I made a side deal with him to make a few trips out and help get some of his other cabinets back up for him that will be for another post) and with the size of this one he was ready to let it go.

I quickly sold a Sega Virtua Racing upright w/ pedestal to raise the funds and scheduled the pickup...
 
The Pickup
"Barely an inconvenience"

This one was far, but she had to be brought back to the valley and live again so I hit the road with my son, gun and trailer for a 6 hour round trip to the border towns. GPS at one point said "Straight for 250 miles" the look on my 17 year olds face was great, "strap in were gettin' cabinets today boy!"

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It was a location where the seller said "go past the blue truck and enter by the tractor".

Sega re-used the 500lb a pop Daytona cab with a new hood design and doubled it, I think "should I be collecting Arcade 1up, nahhhh" we use every strap we can find, say a prayer and hit the road.
Large arcade machines on trailer facing rear

We left at 7am and return about 4:30pm in one piece, and it's all hands to get this out.
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Family moving large arcade machine off trailer at night
 

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The Startup
"Worst Case Ontario."

I am cursed with mouse cabs. With the amount of Hanta i've been exposed to I must have mutant level immunity by now.
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I cleaned it up, went through my harnesses and voltages, visually inspected around the boards (noticed one of the boards was originally in a Fighting Vipers). The sellers original problem may have been the linking. It may seem you link the fiber to the same port but you are actually going machine to machine so one machine has a TX to the other machines RX and vice versa, remember TX to RX.
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Flipped the switch and crossed fingers...
 
The Starting Point
"I'm Not A Pessimist, I'm An Optometrist."

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As can be seen there will be quite a bit of work going on.

I will be scanning and recreating both the good and damaged art only replacing what is missing or damaged beyond recognition.

The Pink screen is just that Pink so some work will be going on there.

Sound is one tweeter on Blue side, tweeters and sub on Pink but I felt around the cone of the sub and found a big ass hole so all that fun as well. Controls work and CPO is in good shape with original Sega Seal.

Sound is up next...
 
The Sound
"Do you hear what I hear"

So I started going through the sound. Problems are isolated to wiring and speakers so a bit o' luck there. I have no sound controls as the seller is digging out the coin tower which houses some of my critical test controls and volume connections. Fingers crossed it is found. Maybe there is a way to connect volume to a temp controller? I will have to post in the greater forum and see if anyone has ideas.

To get at the woofers you have to take the seats off. Simply pull up the hinged seat, to protect the seat back I laid a towel down making sure it was spread enough to take the whole seat back. Just four bolts hold the seat assembly on so I started at the bottom and just took the nuts off the top but left the bolts in until I was ready for final separation, that's when you can hear all the treasure start falling out. Below is the cleaner of the two cabs.

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After cleaning out the rattlesnake tails, mouse skeletons and mud dauber nests I found a few tokens that help fill in some history gaps.

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Yes I am a bottom feeder, but this is the funnest part. To get a cab, change a fuse, recap a monitor and give her a wipe down, personally bores me. My OCD see's a dingy cab and has to clean it. The more to clean the better. Getting to touch every screw and explore the nooks and crannies may not be for everyone but I love it.

It appeared someone had pull a nest off of the speaker cone and took most of it with it. Replacement for now will have to be off amazon until I come across a donor cab.

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It is a 4ohm 20w as seen here
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Blue cab has a good looking woofer but bad signal, Pink cab has bad woofer with good signal so as soon as I get a stripped screw out and a longer screw driver to get at a center screw in the case that is absurdly deep.

So in order to "control" sound previous owners appear to have unplugged mid range speakers on both cabs. Powering on with all speakers can be heard throughout the neighborhood so a temporary controller is needed ASAP.
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Some research will need to be done to see if each cab can have attract mode sound settings as Pink side plays during attract mode and Blue silent until game start. Switching boards between cabs carries this "setting" over.

I'll clear out my screw problems and continue shortly.
 
Oh wow, looking good. I'll be attempting to retro bright my plastics this summer I think. But first, I need to get it up and running 100%. I just had the power supply go on one side.
 
@mrdude I got about 70% there with retrobright, did a combo of both outdoor sunlight and focused uv light. Ended up sanding and painting as the discoloration was pretty bad. The first picture is a before retrobright and the original white under the sticker shows the state it was in5BA6D605-3700-4DC1-95AC-87CD5164CE6B.jpeg 0A4EC0D7-1ADA-4D18-B7FB-346C39B19DB1.jpegCA0670F0-F0E6-468E-82CA-644731D1EB6C.jpeg
 
My speakers are shot on my virtual on. Does anyone have a good replacement for the oval speakers on the main cabinet? The one next to the monitor. I can't find a good replacement size size.
 

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These are basically the exact same speaker, but these have a 3rd terminal and a cap you can clip off or bypass. I just fold the terminal over to bypass the cap and solder them together, then it'lll drop directly in. These work on pretty much all model 2 games. I've stocked up and have installed dozens of them. They're cheap, so might as well buy spares.
 

These are basically the exact same speaker, but these have a 3rd terminal and a cap you can clip off or bypass. I just fold the terminal over to bypass the cap and solder them together, then it'lll drop directly in. These work on pretty much all model 2 games. I've stocked up and have installed dozens of them. They're cheap, so might as well buy spares.
My man! I just bought 6. Thank you!
 
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