Ms Pacman has a compass built in? WTF?

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Okay, so i'm new to the whole video thing but not new pinballs.
This still doesn't make any sense to me so here goes:

I have an original ms pac man. If you go to center the game where you want it in a room, half of the screen/picture loses some of it's color, if you put the game on an angle, it goes back to normal. You can go back and forth like this, and everytime you center the game, the screen loses the red. I even tried ever so slightly moving it but it creeps right back to bad, go back the other way, it's fine. I have tried different spots, same thing. I don't want a ms pac man on an angle in my gameroom! How does it know i'm moving the game when I barely move it!? :(


Thanks, James
 
The earth's magnetic field DOES affect monitors. The monitor simply needs to be degaussed. All color monitors have built-in degauss circuitry that fires when the monitor is turned on from cold. All you have to do is shut the game off, position it how you want it, wait fifteen minutes to half an hour for the monitor's thermistor to cool down, then turn it back on.

-Ian
 
It's reacting with the earth's magnetic field (I'm serious).

Some monitors do that, inside the monitor there's a degaussing coil that should be plugged into the monitor pcb, if it's unplugged sometimes it'll do that.

You can put it where you want it, then use a degauss coil to get the colors right.

BTW, you should'nt move it with the game turned on, makes it worse!
 
Yes, i usually bring my ms. pac upright when i go camping to better navigate the trails of the sierra nevadas. who would have thought...
 
If you do a search for "How to manually degauss a monitor" either here on KLOV or the rest of the 'net - you'll get all the info you could ever use.

A manual degauss coil costs less than 20 bucks and is a good tool to have.

RussM
 
Sometimes if a game has fallen over it will destroy your monitor causing the colors to be all off. Even a degausing coil will do nothing to fix this issue. We have a Monkey Ball game that fell off the back of a truck and it's NEVER EVER been the same. The image is all rainbow effect and looks horrible. I just wanted to throw this out there and I am sure this is not your case. The tube is done. And it's not a convergence issue either.

Also sometimes your degausing circuit will fail, or will be stuck ON and burn out your coil/relay/whatever.

Even a power drill or a pretty strong magnet can act as a good degausing device in a pinch.
 
Pinballs next to a video game will cause all kinds of problems as well. They are full of magnets. Just pointing this out because you said you weren't new to pins.

Jeff
 
Sometimes if a game has fallen over it will destroy your monitor causing the colors to be all off. Even a degausing coil will do nothing to fix this issue. We have a Monkey Ball game that fell off the back of a truck and it's NEVER EVER been the same. The image is all rainbow effect and looks horrible. I just wanted to throw this out there and I am sure this is not your case. The tube is done. And it's not a convergence issue either.

Also sometimes your degausing circuit will fail, or will be stuck ON and burn out your coil/relay/whatever.

Even a power drill or a pretty strong magnet can act as a good degausing device in a pinch.

The mesh screen that is right behind the face of the tube that helps separate the color electrons has become jarred and is refracting the electrons. It will not fix itself. The tube is ruined
 
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