Slightly tilted XY Gravitar Monitor and Dragon's Lair timing issue
I'm thinking about picking up a few games today and was hoping to get a bit more insight into how hard these issues may be to fix.
Gravitar:
-The picture looks bright and very colorful but it is slightly tilted. Can I fix this by rotating the deflection coil a little bit? How much do I risk messing up the convergence?
-The Gravitar occasionally boots so that the image is fairly distorted; hard to describe. Turning it off and back on seems to fix the problem. Any ideas how serious this is?
-My memory of XY vector games is that the lines were very sharp lines. This Gravitar, and a Space Duel I'm also considering, both look fairly jagged almost like raster graphics. Is my memory wrong or is there something wrong with the machines? Looking at razor sharp resolutions on phones and tablets the last few years has likely spoiled me.
Dragon's Lair/Space Ace
-This cabinet is a Space Ace that I believe was converted from a DL (blue art). It comes with both Laser Disks and the circuitry to work with both. When the gentleman who demoed it for me yesterday was playing it, the game seemed to kill him when it shouldn't have. I know that DL's timing can be tricky and maybe he was off but I wanted to make sure this wasn't something to watch out for (input timing being off).
Thanks to any and all input!
I'm thinking about picking up a few games today and was hoping to get a bit more insight into how hard these issues may be to fix.
Gravitar:
-The picture looks bright and very colorful but it is slightly tilted. Can I fix this by rotating the deflection coil a little bit? How much do I risk messing up the convergence?
-The Gravitar occasionally boots so that the image is fairly distorted; hard to describe. Turning it off and back on seems to fix the problem. Any ideas how serious this is?
-My memory of XY vector games is that the lines were very sharp lines. This Gravitar, and a Space Duel I'm also considering, both look fairly jagged almost like raster graphics. Is my memory wrong or is there something wrong with the machines? Looking at razor sharp resolutions on phones and tablets the last few years has likely spoiled me.
Dragon's Lair/Space Ace
-This cabinet is a Space Ace that I believe was converted from a DL (blue art). It comes with both Laser Disks and the circuitry to work with both. When the gentleman who demoed it for me yesterday was playing it, the game seemed to kill him when it shouldn't have. I know that DL's timing can be tricky and maybe he was off but I wanted to make sure this wasn't something to watch out for (input timing being off).
Thanks to any and all input!


