No TK_Monkey, unfortunately I never got either of my time killers boards working. Hopefully if primal rage does in fact work, then this will fix both problems. I mean they are more or less doing the exact same thing. The seller swears he fired it up a few times before sending it, and even considered keeping it. His packaging was excellent, so I don't believe it was damaged in shipping.
I guess I need to get out of my head that even if have a bunch of boards that work fine, doesn't mean I don't need to make adjustments to my equipment when a board doesn't play. Primal Rage and time killers are the only 2 boards that I felt weren't broken, yet I couldn't get a picture. Time killers used to work fine on a Dedicated Mortal Kombat 4 cab I had like 6 years ago. I know that a lot can happen when it just sits around for that long. I even got a replacement battery for it, but that didn't help. It always made me wonder if my cab now (Wrestlefest) was setup a little differently. I'm leaning towards that whole -5v thing, because MK4 needed it, and time killers uses it....so my cab could be lacking that. All the old school side scrolling 4 player beat'em ups konami games work with no problems.....X-men, Simpsons, GiJoe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1&2. I have Battletoads, Captain America & the avengers, Spider-man, Superman, Avengers in Galactic storm, Aliens, NBA Jam, Pacland, Double Dragon 3, Robocop, Ninja Gaiden as well as the Capcom 18-1....All work completely fine as well. I guess thats why this whole thing drives me nuts.
I had a problem with one of Yatons crappy multi-jammas too. I have another cabinet I will test on, I just need my friend to come over and drill the locks (hopefully tomorrow or Tuesday). We'll see if that rules out anything else. It's an old dedicated Thundercade that I'm trying to fix up to sell (at least I hope I can find someone that will buy it). I have a Narc Cabinet that I'm redueing but I don't think that has a jamma harness in it. If Primal Rage had a medium option on the board it could be another one I could possibly test on. Although, I have to drill that one too....oh fun! lol Doesn't anyone ever save the keys to these damn things? I've had to drill every Cabinet I've ever had.
Almost forgot, I did have some trouble with a bootleg Punisher jamma board I got. The pic was really fuzzy (I think it was B&w too) and made static come out of the speakers. I always wrote that off to being a boot. I just didn't want to have to worry about the suicide battery on the old capcom one.
Regarding the whole sync thing, what am I supposed to adjust on the back of the monitor? I just don't want to screw anything up for my other games. Hopefully I can find that happy medium that p1899m mentioned.
I'm gonna grab that multi-meter tomorrow hopefully (I should have already bought one) & test the voltages. I'm gonna test all those areas u mentioned Peale. I would definitely buy a multi meter off you, but I want to get to the bottom of this soon, so it's easier to just go down the street and grab one, even if it costs me a bit more.
Everyone here has been so helpful, thank you to all.