Monitor Help on colors

robgest

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I'm working on my first monitor issue and could use a little advice. I have a VS. Mario machine that has a few issues but the color thing is killing me. I have attempted adjusting the colors many times with no luck. Could someone point me in a direction of basic monitor adjustment and repair. I am looking at getting the DVD set from Fromm but money is low and I thought that someone might have a tutorial someplace. I have added a picture of what it looks like before I started messing.
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What monitor is that? It's probably not a Sanyo...

Nintendo monitors operate on inverted video. The game board puts out a high signal for "gun off", and a low signal for "gun on", which is backwards from a normal game board. Hence why you have a negative picture.

There exists an inverter board to convert Nintendo video to standard and vice versa. You've either got an inverter board in use with a Nintendo monitor, or no inverter board and a non-Nintendo monitor...

-Ian
 
OK, a couple of pictures. I think its a Samsung....
 

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That looks like a Kortek.

See that little board on the left? The connector that's toward the tube has two possible places it could go, right next to each other. Move it to the other one.

-Ian
 
OK, a couple of pictures. I think its a Samsung....

The inverter board has no power going to it, and it looks like the cable is connected to the inverted side of the board. Move the cable to the non-inverted side of the inverter board and see what you get.
 
Is this what you are talking about? I will have to try in after work and see what happens.
 

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If you are unable to tweak in a bright pic with good contrast it may very well be a worn out tube... your electron guns are not boiling off enough electrons so a rejuvenator could do the trick. Good luck!

not like you can just run to kmart and pick one up :)
 
First off did you ever have the right colors to begin with?

If not then yeah, you might need to run a power and ground to that board. where the top pin connector is. all those parts on the invert board need juice to run.
 
You need to power the inverter board. Assuming the game worked at some point in it's life, there should already be a cable for it. In one of your pictures, I can see two small wires going under the monitor chassis - a red one and a black one. What do those go to? Put the video connector back socket on the inverter board it was at initially, and connect up the power to the small two pin connector - it needs 12vDC to run.

-Ian
 
I will take a look this weekend and see what I see. Renting a Uhaul and picking up a bunch of games all over the place Saturday.
 
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