jimbodeanny
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Where do I begin...?
Well, I bought an 8liners 19" monitor to replace the POS WG4500 that was previously in the Frogger I'm fixing up. After throwing it in and powering the game up, I was thrown off by a few very annoying issues (aren't they all?)
The first thing I noticed was that there was degaussing problems - or at least I had the game in the exact WRONG spot in my baseball (as you can see with the color blotches.) I was able to eliminate a good portion of it by rotating the cabinet a bit, but there was still some discoloration. Anyways, this isn't a big issue for me at the moment.
The next thing (and one of the biggest issues) was how the picture seemed to curl/cave towards the lower right. It looks like the someone pinched the picture in the lower right half of the screen. I played with a ton of the adjustments (h. pos, v. pos, v. hold, h. hold, you name it.) I even twisted the yoke slightly which didn't really fix the problem much. On the Wei-ya chassis there was a pin cushion spot next to the h. pos pot, but no pot in the place (only the holes for the pot.) So no luck there
The last major issue revolved around the focus and text. The text at the very top of the picture seemed to have, what looked like color ghosting (it looked like there where slight drop shadows of red and green.) I played with the color adjustments, turning the red gain on the chassis down as well as the red cutoff on the neck board. I also played with the brightness (on the flyback). It helped a tad, but not enough to eliminate it. It only appeared this way near the top. The bottom 2/3 of the picture was fine. I also had trouble with the focus. Again, the text in the lower half looked fine, but the further up the picture, the softer the text was and looked out of focus.
I'm not sure where to begin on this fother mucker. Ideas? Suggestions? Should I try to get an exchange chassis/monitor from 8liners?
Thanks
-Jim
Well, I bought an 8liners 19" monitor to replace the POS WG4500 that was previously in the Frogger I'm fixing up. After throwing it in and powering the game up, I was thrown off by a few very annoying issues (aren't they all?)
The first thing I noticed was that there was degaussing problems - or at least I had the game in the exact WRONG spot in my baseball (as you can see with the color blotches.) I was able to eliminate a good portion of it by rotating the cabinet a bit, but there was still some discoloration. Anyways, this isn't a big issue for me at the moment.
The next thing (and one of the biggest issues) was how the picture seemed to curl/cave towards the lower right. It looks like the someone pinched the picture in the lower right half of the screen. I played with a ton of the adjustments (h. pos, v. pos, v. hold, h. hold, you name it.) I even twisted the yoke slightly which didn't really fix the problem much. On the Wei-ya chassis there was a pin cushion spot next to the h. pos pot, but no pot in the place (only the holes for the pot.) So no luck there
The last major issue revolved around the focus and text. The text at the very top of the picture seemed to have, what looked like color ghosting (it looked like there where slight drop shadows of red and green.) I played with the color adjustments, turning the red gain on the chassis down as well as the red cutoff on the neck board. I also played with the brightness (on the flyback). It helped a tad, but not enough to eliminate it. It only appeared this way near the top. The bottom 2/3 of the picture was fine. I also had trouble with the focus. Again, the text in the lower half looked fine, but the further up the picture, the softer the text was and looked out of focus.
I'm not sure where to begin on this fother mucker. Ideas? Suggestions? Should I try to get an exchange chassis/monitor from 8liners?
Thanks
-Jim
