Star Trek Rewire Update

Here is an update on the rewire job of my Star Trek.

First, thanks to Hans O for sending me his G80 spare parts. This made the
job infinitely easier, as it took care of the entire card-to-outside the
cage part. Almost (more on this in a minute).

It's about 2/3 done -- monitor, sound, and coin door are on the new
connectors, it coins up, and the picture no longer disappears.

As for the CP -- the harness Hans had was from a Space Fury, and at first
glance looks the same as a Star Trek. It has 15 wires, the same number as ST
uses.

However, for some reason, Sega decided to completely change the order of the
pins between Space Fury and Star Trek. On SF the wires went nicely in
order, while on ST they are in some random order.

Why, oh why, would anyone make a convert-a-game system that requires a
different wire harness between games when the plugs and number of wires are
exactly the same ?

Since the connectors to the CPU board are simple punch-down connectors, I'm
going to rewire that in the ST order, and keep the cable to the CP
straight-through.

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Received on Thu Apr 14 13:41:10 2005