SEGA NEW ASTRO CITY

First things first... gotta thank BEN!! Ol' SBP really came through and went beyond the call of duty and drove to Toronto and back with me taking up his entire Sunday in the process. His reward? Some heavy lift and 15 seconds of Street Fighter II. oh yeah!! It also turns out he was highly contagious and exhibiting the first symptoms of chicken pox, (just diagnosed today).

With that bit taken care.... on to the story....




I had to rent a car to make the voyage, sadly the VW just couldn't handle a load of this magnitude. So, here is the rental beast, a nice huge van. Neat story, a van like this is actually a lot cheaper to rent than a cargo van, plus you get more km's for free. Since I was going to Toronto and back I decided to spend the $5 on the 3000km package.

I picked up the car and then picked up Ben and some snacks, of course I folded up the seats so we could fit the machine, negleected to tell the rental company about that part since I assumed they would frown on it.









One million hours later we arrived in a small town way north of Toronto.

Moving the cabinet into the car was actually extremely simple, it only weighs about 250 pounds and has wheels on the back as well as handles at the back on top. The drive back home was pretty smooth, poor chicken pox boy was a bit quieter though, I assumed at the time that it must have been day 3 of a 3 day hang over.

Got home around 9:30pm I think, moving the cabinet in was as easy as could be. I was an extremely happy man.

Then I opened it up. Seems the guy I bought it from neglected to mention that the Street Fighter II board was loose in the cabinet. Frig. It seems to have bounced around, cut a few wires, made a mess of the "creative" wiring someone had done in the cabinet and possibly busted itself (won't know for a while).




So, I ordered a new JAMMA wiring harness and have been doing some reading on how to rewire this thing, gonna do it right and clean. Also will have to get some new buttons and joysticks as these are a bit sketchy. So, it will be a bit of work but the end product will be worth it for sure! I remain positive.

Once it's done I'll be plugging in the X-Men vs Street Fighter board. SWEET.