my arcade is possessed: Sega Top Skater green convergence tweaking

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my arcade is possessed: Sega Top Skater green convergence tweaking

so in the midst of every other friggin game hard drive, monitor or power supply crapping out, our Top Skater's convergence was all SCREWED out of nowhere.

it's a 50" Hitachi rear-projection, and all the buttons are in Japanese on the remote.

from what I can tell, the red and blue are fine, it's just the green is wavy, bowed, haywire, tweaking out, etc.

anyone have experience with fixing these? I read a few times that there's some ICs or transistors that control the convergence, and they fail, and I think there's no replacements available or something.

in other news though, the top of my PlayChoice-10's lower monitor isn't crunched anymore. I swear this place has dirty power!
 
oh boy.....beenthere looking for new monitors for the segas....

i have some spare boards but i think they are toshiba

heresthemanual, they explain how to adjust in the monitor section....http://www.segaarcade.com/pdfs/topskater/ts-manual.pdf


FYI there was a working top skater on chicago craigs for like $300 or 350 recently you might have to pick that up for themonitor!!

ALSO i have working gameboards for top skater if you ever need any....
 
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oh boy.....beenthere looking for new monitors for the segas....

i have some spare boards but i think they are toshiba

heresthemanual, they explain how to adjust in the monitor section....http://www.segaarcade.com/pdfs/topskater/ts-manual.pdf


FYI there was a working top skater on chicago craigs for like $300 or 350 recently you might have to pick that up for themonitor!!

ALSO i have working gameboards for top skater if you ever need any....

our Eighteen Wheeler's doing similar shit. I THINK that one has a Toshiba. I wanna say our House of the Dead has a Mitsubishi. not sure what the Wave Runner's got. white balance is off on the Wave Runner, but other than that I think that one's ok.

I tried to straighten out the colors in the static setting, they weren't even aligned in a white line. now I'm doing each friggin corner in the dynamic mode, and I'm getting SOME white lines, but it's really bad along the outside.

I think this board may just crapped out.
 
Scratch that, figured out there are knobs on the back of the TV. Now I just need to figure out why the skateboard isn't unlocking during game play, lol
 
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