Sega Accidentally Made A Gaming PC... And I Bought One

I cracked the BIOS password with the help of some Discord members by brute forcing a hash of it from a dump I made of the BIOS chip. It's i7DAXst4 if you have one of these and want to get into it. Here's a video where I go over what's in the BIOS: https://youtu.be/tNh6mFpbzvY

sega does what nintendont

I hate it when I accidentally make a fully functional computer from the ground up, darn wednesdays.

So my grandpa was a technician for a while and when he had gone to Japan for around a month he was working on this racing arcade cabinet(probably sega or sony) and what he saw was a straight up PS2 mashed in with a gamecube and a whole rat's nest of wires everywhere. When he had asked about it the owner said that is was so they could quickly load data from a memory card and the gamecube was good at rendering so that's why they were kinda just fused together into an abomination

21:09 Filming OBS off a monitor with a camera 😂 love i

The full StarHorse setups in Japanese arcades are wild. The floors they're on are often smoking floors too, so it really has a feel of a somewhat sleazy casino.

Kinda insane that a PC built for a horse betting game where mainly the only thing on screen is a menu with some horses in the back is able to run rdr2 at max settings 1080p

I've never watched your videos before but I'm instantly enjoying this, you're charismatic, your editing is good, your storytelling is good, and you're funny. not to mention you picked a super interesting to talk about, and it's even more wild that you bought the computer.

There is NOT an overwrite for the bios password, these machines are quite secure. This is a special mobo model Gigabyte made for SEGA where the password is hard coded into the firmware itself. That also means that every StarHorse 4 bios password is the same should you find someone with it. It's also impossible to normally update the bios without serious hardware engineering skill (if there is a consumer update) because the versions won't match up to proceed. I went through this same ordeal about 2 years ago and had some of the first of these in the US that I'm aware of. Be very careful with the original drive or you can find yourself bitlockered out of it if it detects you've changed the spec of the machine even a little bit. eg. If you plug it into another machine you'll kill it. The serial ports on the ALLS you have should connect and control any LEDs and the vacuum fluorescent display (VFD) made by Futaba (card reader display) and are local to the seat. I believe the satellites connect to the main unit via ethernet. Even if you got your hands on a USB key to attempt a boot (SEGA reclaims them so they're rare), it likely would not boot without detecting the main terminal and it's possible the drive's game data has been wiped (mine were) before shipment. AFAIK, there is no community to restoring and making StarHorse 4 playable... so a PC gaming rig is a good recycle use case.

That is crazy how Sega used an i5 8500 and GTX 1060 instead of a cheap arm CPU with 2011 smartphone level graphics.

I love computers with a fan strong enough to make it fly, literally.

That power supply has a 2 year protection plan available from Arby's. Incredible. What a time to be alive.

Up until 4:34 i completely forgot this was a video about a Sega computer, ya got me hooked in good. Great vid!

The "service" button is commonly used in arcades for staff to cycle through the settings without having to hookup a keyboard and mouse. They generally connect to a board that connects to a serial interface on the PC

As an industrial PC, it was absolutely guaranteed to have either FSP or Delta PSU in there.

I know I'm late, but some things for you: . You're right about the COM ports, they are used for the touch screens. Their touch is sometimes are special, depends on the game. on 1 game (maimai), the screen is divided into specific partitions. They then are represented in a string of 0 and 1s and sent through UART. you can even emulate the touch using Arduino. . The service key is an external key, mounted on the arcade's frame somewhere. Not a part of the ALLs, so sold separately. it probably connects using one of the COMs, idk. actually, you can try smashing your keyboards and see if any will be able to emit the "Service", "Test", "Coin" keys. In some games, they are [1], [2], [3] (not numpad). . As you probably have suspected, the game needs a GAME KEY. It's a modified USB flash drive, sold separately. Usually, they'll issue a huge update every half/1 year and arcade stores need to buy them to get the latest updates and got connected to their server. yeah, they are $EGA. btw keys are different on different arcade machines/gens. . On older maimai game, they used "Ringedge 2". i3 540 + GeForce GT545 + 2GB RAM was used till around 2020. sufficient for running games that don't use the GPU intensely. . ALLs MX2 uses 1060 and MX2.1 uses 1660Ti and they are underclocked. They need to be powered on and display game demos for at least 16 hrs a day, usually 24. . as you know, mobo is modified. also, they don't use M.2 (never seen one before). I think most components are made custom for them. . If you want to dig around about sega arcade games, emuline has a bunch of folks who has dumped them and let you run it on a regular PC. pretty interesting to see people DIY their own arcade there. . I remember the HDD/SSD that is built-in is actually encrypted and can be unlocked by their mobo. I really want to try CTRL+ALT+DEL after the ALLs software start and see if there's a way to copy the data out.

I found a few different things inside arcade games when I used to fix them, some had PC's, and the Time Crisis cab we had was a PS1 board, and the license to operate the machine was on a PS1 memory card, the USB chip port you can see is likely something similar where the arcade obtains a license to operate the machine, and that port checks for a "key" containing the license for a certain amount of time. Can remember if I worked on any ALLS but I definitely used to install Lindbergh's. The hardware was kinda a secret so I wasnt allowed to open them on the job, we always got a replacement and sent the old one back. I should find one so I can tear it down. I was impressed with how they could be turned on at 8am and run all day playing countless games until closing at 11pm... I wonder what was in em :P

Sega has been making arcade hardware with PC parts since the Lindbergh in 2005. The one difference between the Lindbergh and the other PC based arcade boards is that it ran Linux. It's just cheaper to use off the shelf parts, which is why you see it in Sega, Taito, and Bamco boards.

There ARE private communities that share you private server configurations for Star Horse 4, but they are invite-only, and they only let you access servers in exchange for sending data in that SSD in case there are any new or missing content in the satellites or servers you possess. This also means they supply the software to people who do not own it to upgrade their own older hardware, or play it at home/online using a private stream of the Server. I don't have any more invites, but I'm sure someone will eventually come out to send one to you.

Had to laugh at the section of the video where you had your battle with the reusable zip tie. Interesting and fun post. Looking forward to watching some more of your content. 👌