Donkey Kong Junior doesn't like to face south!

Tighe

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The colors are all off when it faces south, if it faces East, it looks correct. Cycling the power doesn't do anything. Does a EZ20 have a degauss circuit?

Do I need to degauss it to have it face south?
 
Bloody emf fields! Got the buggers in my garage too. Is the chassis side or tube side happen to be facing some kind of electrical area? (box, conduit) Can't stand it when I position a game just right and then that happens. I've found theres not much you can do but move it around to another spot and find a game that doesn't get effected so bad. Degauss coil might help but the fields are gonna be there to keep pulling the colors out.
 
I agree - that interference probably isn't going anywhere. I'm not sure if Nintendo cabs are particularly sensitive to electro fields, but I had the same problem with my Donkey Kong (the colors were bleeding in the lower left corner of the monitor). I just rotated the machine 90 degrees. Problem solved.
 
I dunno about that, I had a machine with VERY severe gaussing. I degaussed and degaussed and degaussed it for a couple of weeks and it eventually came good. It's worth mentioning that this was with the more effective "flicking" technique rather than the one which involves waving the wand around like an idiot.
 
Do I need to degauss it to have it face south?

Well, you should degauss it when you see these kinds of problems in general...

Yes, the Sanyo has a degauss circuit. All color monitors do. Whether it's working correctly is up for debate, but I'm willing to bet that it does. Did you turn it on from cold while it was facing south? If, for instance, you had it working in one orientation with good colors, shut it off, wheeled it so it faced south, then turned it back on five minutes later, the built in degauss circuit would not have fired at all. Similarly, if you turned it that way while it was on, you'd get the same effect.

If you HAVE tried a couple of cold power cycles with the game facing south, then you should manually degauss it with a handheld coil. It's also possible for the metal frame around the monitor to be slightly magnetized, so you might want to try to get that a bit too.

Surely you have a degaussing coil at this point, right Tighe? If not, I'll show you how to make one.

-Ian
 
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