Tonight my wife did not have to work, and my TRON has been acting up so, I took the night to spend with TRON and get it back up and running. With help from a doc that cleverlyj sent me, I was able to do some voltage testing and, discover some causes as to why my TRON has been acting up. The biggest issue is, the power supply is basically hosed. I don't know if I should move to a switcher with this game or not- everything works fine when it's working, so I should probably just get another supply with a lithium batt conversion. The only thing I could not get working (which has not worked since I got it in November 2007) are the blasted lights on the coin door. I can get them to flicker, but that's about it. I've checked the molex connectors, checked the harness, all looks fine. I traced the orange wire with red stripes (12V main wire) back to the power supply and, upon putting the meter on it, it's only reading around 9.8 volts. I tried adjusting the 12V pot to help it, but it didn't make any change. I want those lights to stay on so bad!!!
Even though I couldn't get the lights on the coin door to stay on, I did get over a major hurdle with the game tonight: as I mentioned, I've had it since November 2007.. I loved playing the game, as I'd never played TRON before owning it. I then went to the video game expo in Philly in 2008 and noticed something on the TRON there that I never noticed before.. LINES!!! There were lines on the lightcycle board that did not show on mine, as well as a cross-hatch pattern on the spider board that I could not see on mine either.. As soon as I saw that, I knew I HAD to get mine configured the same way!!! Well, that was a year ago.. Tonight, while I had everything apart, I decided to see if I could get mine to finally look the same way. After about 45 minutes of futzing with the black adjust and the brightness knobs, I am proud to say that my game now displays exactly like the one did at the VGE!! The funny thing is, it made the fun factor go up even more for me now, to the point where I even got a new high score tonight! It's 30K which is probably nothing compared to you TRON pro's out there, but for me it was a real leap forward. My uh, "date" with TRON tonight couldn't have gone much better!
Now if only I can get the damm coin lights to stay on!!!!
Even though I couldn't get the lights on the coin door to stay on, I did get over a major hurdle with the game tonight: as I mentioned, I've had it since November 2007.. I loved playing the game, as I'd never played TRON before owning it. I then went to the video game expo in Philly in 2008 and noticed something on the TRON there that I never noticed before.. LINES!!! There were lines on the lightcycle board that did not show on mine, as well as a cross-hatch pattern on the spider board that I could not see on mine either.. As soon as I saw that, I knew I HAD to get mine configured the same way!!! Well, that was a year ago.. Tonight, while I had everything apart, I decided to see if I could get mine to finally look the same way. After about 45 minutes of futzing with the black adjust and the brightness knobs, I am proud to say that my game now displays exactly like the one did at the VGE!! The funny thing is, it made the fun factor go up even more for me now, to the point where I even got a new high score tonight! It's 30K which is probably nothing compared to you TRON pro's out there, but for me it was a real leap forward. My uh, "date" with TRON tonight couldn't have gone much better!
Now if only I can get the damm coin lights to stay on!!!!


