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My friend adjusted it for me before I came and picked it up, but he didn't say anything about it was weird, so i'm assuming it was an easy adjustment. Hopefully everything goes easy when you work on yours too!

So guess what, It DID end up being the VHOLD! Can you believe it? It needed a little tweak on that and now it works great! So excited that it didn't need some more crazy work done to it. Thanks again for all the help and suggestions from everyone here!

Great idea! I will definitely try that, everything else I've tried on it so far has all been via RGB. Unless things change, I think i'm picking it up tomorrow at some point. Thanks for all the ideas guys, I really appreciate it!

Yes, that flickering was what made me suspect it needed a recap. Savon-Pat seemed to think his cap kit would fix it, unfortunately it didn't. Some other people on the PVM group on FB seem to think I should try adjusting the VHOLD and maybe that will fix it. My friend is going to try that out...

Aside from never working on a PVM before this, I'm not really sure, but I know he's busy and has a lot going on these days. I don't want to push my luck, I'm so grateful he was even able to spend time doing this recap for me.

I just chatted with my buddy, it's not looking like he will be able to explore ArcadeTechGW's suggestion as he's not familiar enough with working on PVM's. Which I completely understand (It looks scary!) So, I might be on the hunt for anyone in the Michigan area that would be willing to take a...

Thanks again for your reply. I passed this helpful info on to my friend who re capped it, hopefully he is able to look into this :)

@ArcadeTechGW If the flickering stops on bright games after it's been on for 10-15 min, do you still think it might be a power issue?

That is a great idea, I do not know if my friend re-flowed those pins, but I will definitely bring this idea up to him. Thank you for the reply!

Great! Is there a way I can sign up for a mailing list to be notified when you have it available? I hope I won't end up needing it, but would be nice to have on hand if I do

haaa! I don't know anything about sports, so nothing to worry about there ;-)

Nice collection! I've never messed with a BVM, but have really loved this PVM and just don't want it to die on me. I'm in Berkley (Near Royal Oak area). I have a few Japanese candy cabs in addition to this PVM, but I am quite a novice with fixing monitor issues.

That's what I was feeling like it was too, and after describing this problem to Savon-Pat he seemed pretty sure his cap-kit would fix the issue... His kit only contains the most common caps that go bad though.. I wrote him asking if he had any other suggestions on other capacitors that might be...

Good idea, I'll give this a try once I get it back in my hands. It's still on my friends work bench (he just re-cap'd it yesterday) so I just wanted to see if there was anything else I could suggest he might look into while he's got it opened up. Thanks again for the reply!

Thanks for the reply! The NES is hooked up via RGB, but it also does this behavior on bright games if I hook up a MiSTer to it too (also via RGB). Then if I leave the PVM turned on for a bit, and go back and play the same games they will work fine.