Space Invaders 19v1001 Rotated Picture

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I have a Space Invaders that the monitor picture is rotated 90 degrees. The yoke is still got original factory glue on it so it hasn't been rotated that way. Any suggestions on what to do to get my picture back to its proper positioning without a yoke rotation?
 
There are 4 wires, a red and black on one side, and a yellow and gray on the other. Which do I switch. I read that if I mess up the which wires go where I fry a lot of crap in my chassis.
 
There are 4 wires, a red and black on one side, and a yellow and gray on the other. Which do I switch. I read that if I mess up the which wires go where I fry a lot of crap in my chassis.

That I do not know off the top of my head... I would have to look at mine to be sure. I'll check tonight for you... (if you don't already get an answer from someone else on this thread).

This is most likely your issue... especially if the image is going the wrong way.
 
Looking in the coin door on mine I have gray in the front and red in the back on the right side, On the left side black in the front, white in the back.
 
That sounds right.

You need to put them how cwales is... what's happened is, they've plugged your two vertical into where the horizontal go, and the two horizontal into where the vertical go.

BTW I plugged them in screwed up on mine once and it didn't fry anything. Scared the shit out of me though, there was a mess on the screen and I think it was flatlined or something, I can't remember.
 
There are 4 wires, a red and black on one side, and a yellow and gray on the other. Which do I switch. I read that if I mess up the which wires go where I fry a lot of crap in my chassis.

Red and black can be swapped....
Yellow and gray can be swapped....
And yes, anything else is a bad idea.

Edward
 
this is my midway si deluxe cocktail,its b/w wgv1001 and this is rear shot with the top open:
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hope this helps!
;)
 
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How the hell can it be rotated 90 degrees?

So you're saying that the is on the left (or right side) of the screen and the credits line is on the opposite side? Instead of coming down from the top, the invaders come in from the left (or right)?

I would think that the horizontal and vertical yoke impedances would be different enough to not be swappable in that circuitry without either going way out of frequency or loading down the output circuits, blowing a transistor or resistor.

Show us a picture of the screen.
180 degrees, I can believe.
 
if its 180 degree,the monitor might be fitted wrong,there realy are some wallys out there who just throw things into holes and hope for the best.
:)
 
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How the hell can it be rotated 90 degrees?

So you're saying that the is on the left (or right side) of the screen and the credits line is on the opposite side? Instead of coming down from the top, the invaders come in from the left (or right)?

I would think that the horizontal and vertical yoke impedances would be different enough to not be swappable in that circuitry without either going way out of frequency or loading down the output circuits, blowing a transistor or resistor.

Show us a picture of the screen.
180 degrees, I can believe.

I've seen a xm-701 rotated 90 degrees. It's a totally different beast then the WG but the issue was the yoke wires were incorrect. I agree though, you think it would smoke something but it didn't.

your yoke should have small color dots by the connections like you see in the picture above. if it was me I'd first try matching the dots with the correct color wires seeing if you get a normal looking image and then flip it.
 
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Blinddog,
I actually was in email conversation with someone about that. Just tried that and I got my picture the way it was supposed to be, kind of. The image was right on the monitor but backwards because of the mirror. I then flipped the black and red wires and presto! I finally can play my space invaders!
 
I've seen them completely swapped before. It usually doesn't fry anything, I guess it depends on the model of monitor, lol.

I actually saw onetime somebody had put a pacman in a cabinet with a horizontal monitor, and instead of flipping the monitor, just flipped the yoke wires so the screen was squished down enough that you could see it properly... even though the monitor was sideways.
 
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