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Shortly after I got my Astro City 2, I took it apart for cleaning and inspection. I saw a gigantic metal cage bolted to the back of the cabinet, under the bay door and just assumed it was audio amps or housing for wiring, or an auxiliary bay.
A few weeks later, I got more curious and opened up the mysterious metal cage. Come to find out, inside the cage was a full on virtua fighter 1 PCB set with original sega astro city 2 model 1 wiring! Too bad VF1 sucks ass LOL
Fast forward to yesterday... I decided all of the model 1 wiring was annoying as hell, so I went ahead and removed all of it, and unbolted the VF1 cage from the back of the cab and took it out. I was curious so I hooked the PCB set up to my spare nanao monitor, which i flipped into 24khz mode, and it worked like a charm. VF1 was running in all of its crappyness. Upon going into the test menu for VF1, I noticed there was a "cabinet type" option where you could choose Megalo or Astro 2. Seeing this tells me that the Astro 2 was definately the dedicated cabinet in japan for Virtua Fighter (not common knowledge AFIK).
Ok so here's the real kicker. Virtua Fighter 1 came out in 1993. According to all sources online, the Astro City 2 was the final cabinet to be made in the Astro trio. Judging by my findings, this is INCORRECT. I'm 99% sure that the Astro 2 was actually the second astro cab to be produced, and the New Astro is the big brother of the astro 2. The main thing that leads me to believe this is both of my new astro cities have date stickers on the inside of the control panel, both dating late 1994!
So long story short, I'm fairly certain the order from oldest to newest for the astros is Astro City, Astro City 2, New Astro City.
-Big Bill
A few weeks later, I got more curious and opened up the mysterious metal cage. Come to find out, inside the cage was a full on virtua fighter 1 PCB set with original sega astro city 2 model 1 wiring! Too bad VF1 sucks ass LOL
Fast forward to yesterday... I decided all of the model 1 wiring was annoying as hell, so I went ahead and removed all of it, and unbolted the VF1 cage from the back of the cab and took it out. I was curious so I hooked the PCB set up to my spare nanao monitor, which i flipped into 24khz mode, and it worked like a charm. VF1 was running in all of its crappyness. Upon going into the test menu for VF1, I noticed there was a "cabinet type" option where you could choose Megalo or Astro 2. Seeing this tells me that the Astro 2 was definately the dedicated cabinet in japan for Virtua Fighter (not common knowledge AFIK).
Ok so here's the real kicker. Virtua Fighter 1 came out in 1993. According to all sources online, the Astro City 2 was the final cabinet to be made in the Astro trio. Judging by my findings, this is INCORRECT. I'm 99% sure that the Astro 2 was actually the second astro cab to be produced, and the New Astro is the big brother of the astro 2. The main thing that leads me to believe this is both of my new astro cities have date stickers on the inside of the control panel, both dating late 1994!
So long story short, I'm fairly certain the order from oldest to newest for the astros is Astro City, Astro City 2, New Astro City.
-Big Bill
