VS Super Mario monitor issues

Classic capacitor failure. This monitor should be recapped at this time.

I offer services for this monitor. $50 plus parts and shipping. You'll receive:

1) ALL electrolytic capacitors replaced with high temp, brand name capacitors

2) solder rework

3) 24 hours of bench testing
 
Buy a Cap kit. I buy them from therealbobroberts.net
Remove and clean monitor chassis (look up "discharging a monitor")
Remove old caps (you will need a soldering iron)
Put new caps in board with fresh solder
Touch up any large solder joints with fresh solder while you are there
Replace chassis and adjust

If only you would have put your location in your profile, you may have gotten an offer for a personal tutorial on doing the cap kit.... but you could be anywhere on the planet.....
 
Does anyone have directions on how to recap my monitor?

Yes. There are lots and lots and lots and lots of posts on the subject. I even wrote a step by step guide explaining how to remove the monitor from the cabinet and disassemble it. And a huge thread on monitor theory and basics, which is a sticky. You need to understand how to safely discharge the monitor and take it apart, and how not to destroy the monitor in the process...

For instance, this goes over taking apart a Sanyo - it's written with regards to Donkey Kong, but it's valid for this as well.

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=183237

In your case, the same capacitor has failed - C407. 10uf, 160v. You can just replace this one, it'll fix the foldover. But I usually like to change all of them while I'm in there - just depends on how comfortable you are working on the monitor. Changing that one cap will solve your problem and allow the picture to fill the full screen. Other capacitors cause other symptoms like jail bars, unstable image, etc. As they're all old at this point, it's usually common practice to just change them all. It's up to you whether you want to do that or not.

-Ian
 
this particular monitor probably will show you the biggest payoff in terms of quality improvement after capping it.

every one I did was like night and day. lol

if you happen to go through with doing it yourself, my very important advice to you is to make note of where your audio amp connectors are plugged in at, they're JB and JC if I recall, get a sharpie out and make a line on the left side of one and right side of the other marking the connector and the amp you can put little dots where the lines line up. I say this because a lot of people have reported mixing them up and it will blow your amp board up good.

the other important piece of advice, which I discovered after I did my PlayChoice-10 dual monitor, is that you have to reflow or completely suck out the old and replace with new solder on all the color drive transistors on the neckboard. something about the new caps makes the connections on the solder joints go intermittent on them.
 
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