Hey all,
Hopefully someone here knows about “vintage” game systems.
I have a Sega CD and it runs perfectly fine except for two specific things I've seen so far.
1. The boot menu music is distorted, that is the jingle that plays on the loading screen with no disc inserted. It seems that is it specifically the bass line of the jingle. It is fully distorted/scratchy sounding.
2. I've only come across this issue in Spider-Man so far. During any cutscene when dialogue is playing, the audio will intermittently skip, the same way every time. It's basically like a second or two of audio, then full distorted skipping kind of noise, back to perfectly fine for 1-2 seconds, then fully distorted again. This happens only during the cutscenes. This audio does not appear to be “redbook” audio as it is not one of the files on the disc.
The Sega CD plays regular CD audio just fine, both from the AV port of the unit and through the Genesis AV port. Which leads me to believe two things…
1. Whatever chip supplies non-cd audio to the genesis is bad
2. Perhaps the CMOS chip should be replaced since (I think) this is where the boot audio is
I know the disc itself is fine it works on another unit.
Any thoughts on how I can proceed?
Hopefully someone here knows about “vintage” game systems.
I have a Sega CD and it runs perfectly fine except for two specific things I've seen so far.
1. The boot menu music is distorted, that is the jingle that plays on the loading screen with no disc inserted. It seems that is it specifically the bass line of the jingle. It is fully distorted/scratchy sounding.
2. I've only come across this issue in Spider-Man so far. During any cutscene when dialogue is playing, the audio will intermittently skip, the same way every time. It's basically like a second or two of audio, then full distorted skipping kind of noise, back to perfectly fine for 1-2 seconds, then fully distorted again. This happens only during the cutscenes. This audio does not appear to be “redbook” audio as it is not one of the files on the disc.
The Sega CD plays regular CD audio just fine, both from the AV port of the unit and through the Genesis AV port. Which leads me to believe two things…
1. Whatever chip supplies non-cd audio to the genesis is bad
2. Perhaps the CMOS chip should be replaced since (I think) this is where the boot audio is
I know the disc itself is fine it works on another unit.
Any thoughts on how I can proceed?
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