Hypersports very 'square' rather than 4:3

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I picked up a hyper sports cab from a fellow KLOV member and have been going through it slowly. The monitor is a K4900 and has a nice picture but it's very square, sitting in the middle of the screen. I tried playing with the width coil, and while it's not stuck, it isn't having any effect on the horizontal width.

I know some games have different pixel ratios so was wondering if Hyper Sports is supposed to be square like this.
 
Wild speculation: Maybe because the game designers knew that a variety of different monitors might be installed in the cabinets... many of which had very minimal/shitty controls for adjusting width... and because the game has a significant amount of important info (scores and initials) close to the edges of the screen... they made the choice to leave some negative space on the sides, thus ensuring that all that stuff would be visible to the players?
 
Did you connect another board up to the monitor to compare?

My hypersports is able to fill up most of the screen through monitor adjustments.
 

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Did you connect another board up to the monitor to compare?

My hypersports is able to fill up most of the screen through monitor adjustments.

Looking at the last image you posted it looks pretty square too, seems to be a thing. I haven't hooked anything else up to it yet.
 
I worked on a T&F cocktail (repaired the K4900) for a friend a little while back. You should be able to adjust the monitor to fill the entire screen. If not, there's something wrong with your monitor.
 
Looking at the last image you posted it looks pretty square too, seems to be a thing. I haven't hooked anything else up to it yet.

The game fits across the entire monitor with less than an inch on each side why I took the edge pics. Hook up another game and verify your issue, if you aren't able to adjust the width to close to the edges you have a monitor/horizontal width cap issue. Did you recap the monitor?
 
The game fits across the entire monitor with less than an inch on each side why I took the edge pics. Hook up another game and verify your issue, if you aren't able to adjust the width to close to the edges you have a monitor/horizontal width cap issue. Did you recap the monitor?
I haven't touched the monitor yet, game came in last weekend.
 
I know for games like double dragon and moon patrol, if you change out the original monitors they are very squished horizontally. I've read that people change some capacitors to change the width of your display more than the width coil handles.
 
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