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

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.

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

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

"Hi ShitHead" XD 4:48

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.

Most likely the reason why you cannot remove the BIOS password is that these motherboards have a default password in the firmware. Since it was made for a Japanese company in Japan, you'd most likely need to search for it in Japanese and type it in with the Japanese keyboard that you of course have because you are using this board in an approved manner within an officially licensed Sega arcade cabinet.

I've never came upon your channel before watching this video and I have to say that your commentary is very entertaining. Happy to have watched until the end. 2 thumbs up!

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.

Imagine they make a second revision of the ALLS, and put the revision letter at the beginning, so the first revision would be A-ALLS, while the second would be B-ALLS.

I'm still using a 1070ti on my 1080p setup. What you should keep in mind is, while the 10 series gtx cards are very old, both graphics card speeds and the demands of the latest games have grown extremely slowly over the past 5 years. Until very recently the only thing pressuring me to upgrade has been RTX, not raw processing power.