Regarding Sega Kiosk

[Sinistral]

I received an interesting message about the sega kiosk. May be useful to the lucky few who own one of these.

"Greetings,





I am so very surprised I saw a photo of the master system kiosk on your site. I would like to inform

everyone that it is indeed possible to disable the timer reset chip and in fact 1 unit out there already

has an added switch on the back for disabling the chip.



Lets go back to 1987….

I was working at Montgomery Wards (In santa maria, Ca) and purchased one of these units (For $1.00

complete with cartridges) that the company was going to throw away. I took it home and in fact figured

out how to disable the reset timer. I hooked it to a switch I installed on the back or side don’t remember

where exactly these days.



I loaned the unit to my brother so that his kids would have something to do while visiting him for the summer.

Unfortunately I never got the unit back as my brother sold it….Just one of many, many reasons I do not

talk to him anymore. I would love to get my unit back if anyone comes across it or perhaps buy one

that someone has up for sale.



The way I disabled the chip (which was very near the back end of the mainboard if I remember right) was

I found the actual hardware reset (All master systems have one) and traced it back to the right chip

(Possibly a 555 timer chip, but again it was along time ago) using multimeter to watch for the reset signal.

Once I had located the chip and pin that was sending the reset signal I cut the run and soldered a switch

so that I could put it back into demo mode whenever I wanted to.



Thanks,

KJ



KJ Holm

Senior Designer

NAMCO NETWORKS AMERICA INC.
"

[rupert]

this is excellent. I just wish i had some skills. I'm going to have another look at mine and try and work out what to do..

[Tonto]

I seem to remember Bock mentioning that it was possible to disable it.

.....or maybe I imagined that.