adamzero
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Hey gang...
Well, my Tempest (since the day I got it) has had a strange quirk. Hopefully someone can drop some knowledge on what might be the issue.
It has a monitor that's been refurbished within the last 18 months (right before I got it) by arcadecup in green bay, WI... but I'm doubting it's the monitor here.
The game will fire up fine and play perfect for maybe 5-20 minutes. Then, during game play screens everything will lose perspective. Like, the shooter/enemies/framework of the tube will just go crazy and sizes will be all over the place. The monitor's 'sound' changes as well. During this time, game sounds continue, and gameplay does too, though you can't really see what you're doing.
Once your game is over, the high score screen and the TEMPEST title screen are just fine & the monitor 'sounds' fine during these. But during the simulated play in attract mode, it goes back to being all messed up looking.
The monitor also gets an overall pulsing flicker as well. Certain elements remain just fine, even when the game goes goofy, like the score.
It goes goofy at random.. there's nothing that seemingly triggers it. Sometimes it'll just happen when the game is running in attract mode, sometimes in the middle of a game.
Another curious anomaly is if you power down the game, it will take multiple power-ups to get it to come on correctly...sometimes I let it sit for awhile and then at times it comes back on normal... BUT, during the times when I power it on and it's still goofy, it shows 40 1/2 credits...
But once it runs through the high score/title screen and does a round of goofy looking attract play, it shows 40 credits.
So, is this a board issue? Something with the voltage? I'm relatively new to this, so any help would be appreciated.
Thanks everyone.
Well, my Tempest (since the day I got it) has had a strange quirk. Hopefully someone can drop some knowledge on what might be the issue.
It has a monitor that's been refurbished within the last 18 months (right before I got it) by arcadecup in green bay, WI... but I'm doubting it's the monitor here.
The game will fire up fine and play perfect for maybe 5-20 minutes. Then, during game play screens everything will lose perspective. Like, the shooter/enemies/framework of the tube will just go crazy and sizes will be all over the place. The monitor's 'sound' changes as well. During this time, game sounds continue, and gameplay does too, though you can't really see what you're doing.
Once your game is over, the high score screen and the TEMPEST title screen are just fine & the monitor 'sounds' fine during these. But during the simulated play in attract mode, it goes back to being all messed up looking.
The monitor also gets an overall pulsing flicker as well. Certain elements remain just fine, even when the game goes goofy, like the score.
It goes goofy at random.. there's nothing that seemingly triggers it. Sometimes it'll just happen when the game is running in attract mode, sometimes in the middle of a game.
Another curious anomaly is if you power down the game, it will take multiple power-ups to get it to come on correctly...sometimes I let it sit for awhile and then at times it comes back on normal... BUT, during the times when I power it on and it's still goofy, it shows 40 1/2 credits...
But once it runs through the high score/title screen and does a round of goofy looking attract play, it shows 40 credits.
So, is this a board issue? Something with the voltage? I'm relatively new to this, so any help would be appreciated.
Thanks everyone.

