Sega Mega CD Karaoke Box - Top View

Sega Mega CD Karaoke - Top View

Sega Mega CD Karaoke Microphone HAA-2932

Just a quick update. I received the Sega Mega-CD Karaoke add-on today, gave it a test and found that there is a buzzing noise from the unit while it is powered up.

More annoyingly, the microphone does not work. I pulled it apart, with more photos in the photo gallery, and the microphone cartridge appears to be dead.

I’ve gone ahead and bought a $10 600-ohm BG-58 microphone cartridge from eBay as a candidate replacement. It’ll be a few weeks before it arrives, so at this point I don’t know whether it will be electrically and mechanically suitable.

It did eventually turn out to be the right gamble: the replacement BG-58 cartridge worked and the microphone was successfully repaired.

In the meantime, I’ve purchased a very nice-looking boxed Yukawa Dreamcast, my first NTSC-J Dreamcast.

The Yukawa packaging is part of the early Japanese Dreamcast story rather than a fundamentally different Dreamcast hardware model. Sega executive Hidekazu Yukawa featured heavily in the Japanese launch advertising and appeared on launch-era packaging.

I am still waiting on the Genesis Nomad from the US. The good news is that it has reached Australia, so it shouldn’t be more than a few days before I am gaming on the go!

Regular visitors might also have noticed that the menu bar has slipped up to the very top of the page. I’m still tweaking the banner and alignment, but it is good enough for now.

Here’s to the week ahead!

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