Crisis Zone Gun Calibration or bad part?

Liteyear98

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I have Crisis zone mostly working now. I do not know a lot about this specific game but it seems pretty straight forward to work with.

I am having an issue with the gun calibration. No matter how I calibrate the gun the bullet hit pattern in game does not deviate. Meaning no matter where you shoot the bullets, they always go to the same place on the screen, creating a small area where all of the bullets have hit.

I am in the initial stages of troubleshooting but thought somebody out there might be NAMCO smart and have ran into this already.

I am assuming I might have a bad optic board in the gun or the camera may be bad but will start with the easy stuff like cleaning and wiping things down first..

Any suggestions on where I should start looking if I cant get it going with the easy stuff?

Thanks in advance
 
Didnt work

OK

So I cleaned the monitor, glass, sensor and gun and that didnt help.
I adjusted the brightness and contrast - that didnt help either.
I thought maybe the monitor cardboard not being there might affect the problem so I put it back on. The only thing I can think of is that the bezel is not on the machine. The op took it off when he was working on the gun and never put it back. I didnt get it when I bought the game.

Could the missing bezel cause the lack of sensing the guns movement?

I tried calibrating the gun and can get the rounds to hit dead center and far left.

It seems no matter how I adjust it the rounds hit in the same two places as in the calibration mode. The rounds do not hit in multiple locations, just one spot on the screen.

I am assuming that there is an issue with a board, but I have no clue which one.

I really need help on this is at is new to me.
 
most likely because of the camera besides the glass mirror.
you can open it from above.

please note, if someone has already messed with it, it(the camera) can be installed backward (and it still fit into the place). i am not really remember which the right direction it should face, whether the mirror or backward. that's from my experience.

also, in gun test, there is an option to change parameter (i don't remember exactly what it called), the range from negative, 0 and positive value. try to change that and see the gun cross mark movement.

one more thing, you should adjust the gun in dark room. don't expose it to sunlight. the sunlight made the adjustment a bit messed.
 
Still trying

Thanks for the reply.

The camera is right beside the mirror and it faces the mirror and receives the reflection from the monitor that way.

The cabinet is a time crisis converted to a crisis zone. So I am missing the bezel. I dont know if that would make a difference.

I did take the camera off to clean the smoked plexi covering it. I put it back the way it was but it could be 180 degrees out. I will try that tomorrow.

I have the game in the garage, its not super dark but its not daylight either. I will try to get pics of the gun adjustment to explain what its doing

I tried the gun test adjustment. I get three adjustments if you will from it. It seems as if it just moves the field of vision the camera sees from left to right. If I go super low (Below 0) the aiming cross is almost center mass where it should be. If I go super high you can see the cross move to the far left of the screen. The third result is somewhere in the middle but the aiming cross jumps all over the screen -- it does not stay stationary at all. All three when tested in game fire the bullets in the same spot on the screen as in the calibration mode (Center, Left and all over). But you cannot move your shots out of these zones by moving the gun.

Also, every now and then the game wont start because of a SUB CPU Failure. I believe its the gun, but after I fiddle with some stuff it will boot. It just takes some time.

I will try the dark room thing. I may have to break out a tarp and go camping in side with the game.
On a side note -- There was no back door for the machine. Would light leaking in from the back affect my progress?

I am somewhat leaning towards a bad part, but hope its just settings. I will keep trying and report back.

Thanks for the help.
 
no, the bezel didn't affect the gun.

the sub cpu board is the one residing outside of the metal box (main board). it usually have led indicators blinking. you most likely have connectors problem with it.

just now i remember, i fixed some of crisis zone gun issue by reset eeprom setting, by pulling off the battery out of the main board. after pulled off, turn it on and there will be error message in test mode (i don't remember what it said). after that, turn it off again, and put the battery in. that should reset the eeprom gun setting to normal. now, don't CALIBRATE anything, just tried to play a game and see if the croos mark points to the right direction. you can set the parameter afterward (not calibrate, calibrate is different with setting parameter), if it still not proper.

i did that because there's no way to reset to default value for the gun setting. nor did the calibration routine get me anywhere.
 
Still trying to get it going

Thats good information.
I will take a look at the Sub CPU Board and connectors and try the battery removal and see what that does to it.

I am glad someone like you is is willing to share their knowledge and help me try all possibilities for repair.

Thanks
 
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I was doing the battery thing and fired the game back up and the monitor went dead. I am thinking the Power supply finally went Tango Uniform and possibly fried the HOT or some other Chassis component (Based on reading the forums). It is clicking just under 1 time per second.

I will look into it when I have some more time. Regardless I think I am now looking for a new power supply. I will have to see how this one works so I can test it. It looks like the cooling fan wasnt working so it could have overheated and killed some components.

This could have been affecting the gun issue as well. I guess I wont know till the latest issue is fixed.

The good part is the Police 911 in the corner works great. It was a welcome distractor from the Crisis.
 
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