Araiguma Battle : Soul Calibur 2 ! (Conversion / Restoration )

[Um Jamma Yammy]

Alright, the marquee has been ordered. We got a hook up on the Soul Calibur II marquee for this cab:

   

I do not have the files or I'd share them here and say take it to your favorite translite print shop but yeah.. Lots of people online selling this marquee, you can contact and ask for this size,

The factory dimensions are: 28.75" x 9"

Had a look at first up for our donor CRT, and see this nice impact there? 

   

What has that done? This! Your first thought may be, oh it needs degaussed. But this is not quite that. 

   

So what's happened here? I can only guess at this point but it looks like the magnets fell off the back of the tube. 

Using a magnetic change holder for an old car (strong enough to reach that part of the tube, sliding from all the way at the rear forward) 

   

   

Well it seems that the magnets they glue on the backs of these tubes fell off!! You can see what also looks to be yolk separation causing the bowing there on the upper left hand side. Once we get the case open, I would assume we'll find them hanging out somewhere in the bottom of the case..

If you check the service manual, attached in post #2 titled: Sony Trinitron KV-27FS120 Service Manual.pdf and navigate to page 13, you can see the following:

   

Lines up with our color purity issues perfectly and the evidence of a hard impact at some point, the evidence at this time strongly points to the magnets being knocked off. Will post pics of em when we find em! 

   

Though before messing with that, there is a lot that can be done in the service menu!!

So this is done by

   

In an earlier post we identified that this Chassis is a BA-6 as marked on the rear of the TV. Looking that up, or in the manual you can see it clearly states it's a "one chip" digital system. So what I said in the first post, no RGB mod. Though, we have component input and I don't think anyone will visually be able to tell the difference.

That said, pulling up the service menu, at the bottom there you see the "M65582AMF-102FP". That's our "one chip" that is our signal processing and microcontroller that handles everything. Attached, is a datasheet for this IC. 

Something to note about tuning. In our case, tuning this sitting here on the floor is not a good idea. There is going to be a difference in appearance for sitting 4-5 ft away and 1ft away from the display. So we're going to want this display mounted up in the cab before doing anything there. 

Next step will case removal, pulling all the boards, mounting the tube, and figuring out where to stick the BA-6 chassis. Which I would say we can really be in luck here because going from the BA-5 to a BA-6 they really cut back on the boards!

Referencing the BA-6 Training Manual again in Post #2, page 7:

   

Something else nice this system does, is remembers it's last state on power up. Though for how long is unknown to me. I'm turning it on now, unplugging and going to plug it back in tomorrow and see if comes back on after a good 24 hours. This is important because the monitor will power up as soon as the cab power switch is flipped.

I do see that it's got an EEPROM (IC002) stores up to 99 entries worth of errors! Page 40 of the BA-6 Training Manual details how to access this history. This might also be storing the last known power state.. Just tested this after 24 hours and.. It recorded the state! 

Know what else? We got the new machine loaded and it's in route!

   

I did noticed the monitor exterior bezel is missing the cool NAMCO decal, so I found one of those and got it ordered. 

   

Next post we're really going to dive in deep on this thing!