Victory Road/Ikari Warriors G07 picture upside down?

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Victory Road/Ikari Warriors G07 picture upside down?

The monitor is in correctly, but the picture is upside down and according to the dip switches there is NO monitor flip option for Victory Road. Anyone have any ideas on this one?

Is it ok to flip the G07 upside down in the cabinet ? I don't get why it wouldn't be correct standard position....
 
Instead of flipping the monitor.. Just flip the yoke connector.



 
http://www.therealbobroberts.net/yoke.html

Ok, I see this, basically which way does this need to go in order for it to be right side up?

go7yoke.jpg




To flip the image in your G07, you need to switch the red & white pair AND the brown and gray pair. That will turn your image 180 degrees. Bob Roberts' page references cutting the connector apart, but I think it would be a more eloquent solution to de-pin the connector and re-pin it in the new orientation. That way you get to keep the connector in tact. The pins can be released by inserting a small paperclip from the bottom side of the holes on the connector. There's a slot on the side of each hole, that will release a tang holding in the wire terminal when you push the paper clip up there. Hard to describe, but easy to do once you look at it.
 
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Nice photo!

Figured the vids would tell the story.. Usually 1-5 yokes already have had the connector snapped.. But it's really as easy as just breaking it in half and following the above directions.. Ultimately repining the connector would be best, but I've yet to see one done in the hundreds of monitors I've run across over the years :)




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To flip the image in your G07, you need to switch the red & white pair AND the brown and gray pair. That will turn your image 180 degrees. Bob Roberts' page references cutting the connector apart, but I think it would be a more eloquent solution to de-pin the connector and re-pin it in the new orientation. That way you get to keep the connector in tact. The pins can be released by inserting a small paperclip from the bottom side of the holes on the connector. There's a slot on the side of each hole, that will release a tang holding in the wire terminal when you push the paper clip up there. Hard to describe, but easy to do once you look at it.
 
what a bizarre yoke connector. you seriously have to break that thing into 4 parts to flip the yoke?
 
what a bizarre yoke connector. you seriously have to break that thing into 4 parts to flip the yoke?

All G07's are like that. To be honest, I'm not sure why they designed it like that when the rest of the world used another standard. But I do know that's why many of us have cooked a chassis trying to use a G07 yoke with it. They're the only ones who used an every/other configuration with the horizontal and vertical, whereas the rest of the arcade monitors always had the horizontal and vertical windings next to each other in pairs.

This is the first time I've heard of someone having to re-arrange the pins in a G07. Most other times the orientation must have been fine, or there was a dip switch to flip the screen.

The Sanyo monitor in my Donkey Kong cab arrived to me with the yoke wires flipped. The game originally had Road Fighters in it. I initially chose to modify my DK board to invert the image to work with the flipped yoke wires, but that proved to be a real pain in the ass when I wanted to test other DK boards in the cab. I later converted the pcb back and re-pinned the yoke connector. Ah....much better.
 
that's commitment. (moding the board)

I was never aware of this yoke arrangement though. glad I stumbled upon it.
 
oh, yeah that seems pretty easy. I was thinking more along the lines of how you mod Defender and such at use composite sync.. that's a little more complicated if I remember right. heh
 
go7yoke.jpg




To flip the image in your G07, you need to switch the red & white pair AND the brown and gray pair. That will turn your image 180 degrees. Bob Roberts' page references cutting the connector apart, but I think it would be a more eloquent solution to de-pin the connector and re-pin it in the new orientation. That way you get to keep the connector in tact. The pins can be released by inserting a small paperclip from the bottom side of the holes on the connector. There's a slot on the side of each hole, that will release a tang holding in the wire terminal when you push the paper clip up there. Hard to describe, but easy to do once you look at it.

I'm trying to do this exact procedure right now and I can't for the life of me find this release point with a paperclip.
 
I'm trying to do this exact procedure right now and I can't for the life of me find this release point with a paperclip.


a paperclip is a bad example and if you use one it works much better if you gently pound the end kind of flat and then try it.
 
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