Hello everyone,
I bought a Space Ace '91 a few weeks ago. It works, and I've played it to the end successfully.
However, the longer the game is on, the LD (Sony LD-1450) seems to get "lazy". What I mean is that instead of hitting the mark every time, it starts to have difficulty loading scenes. The beginnings of the scenes are black and white, and sometimes are distorted. After about 30 minutes or so, the game will just black out since the LD cannot seem to hit the mark on the scenes anymore. If I hit the reset button on the PCB, it'll fire right back up, but will die again shortly.
Here's a video that demonstrates the problem:
So far, the only things I've done are to clean the laser with rubbing alcohol and to vacuum out and wipe the cabinet. I also wiped a very small amount of oil on the track rods that guide/support the laser mechanism.
Any ideas? Seems like it could be something small I'm overlooking.
Thanks!
I bought a Space Ace '91 a few weeks ago. It works, and I've played it to the end successfully.
However, the longer the game is on, the LD (Sony LD-1450) seems to get "lazy". What I mean is that instead of hitting the mark every time, it starts to have difficulty loading scenes. The beginnings of the scenes are black and white, and sometimes are distorted. After about 30 minutes or so, the game will just black out since the LD cannot seem to hit the mark on the scenes anymore. If I hit the reset button on the PCB, it'll fire right back up, but will die again shortly.
Here's a video that demonstrates the problem:
So far, the only things I've done are to clean the laser with rubbing alcohol and to vacuum out and wipe the cabinet. I also wiped a very small amount of oil on the track rods that guide/support the laser mechanism.
Any ideas? Seems like it could be something small I'm overlooking.
Thanks!
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