Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Monitor/Video Forum => Topic started by: JoeB on February 17, 2004, 07:43:05 pm
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In the process of tuning some capcom games in MAME, I've noticed that most of these games (post 1995 or so) have a build in color chart (viewable via F2 option).
No matter what Capcom game I try, the reds always fall off to black much earlier than the others. Heck, almost half way through it!
I was afraid this might be a problem with my arcade monitor (connected via ArcadeVGA) so I went out and found the following color wheel image:
http://www.mauigateway.com/~donjusko/tubecolors.htm
When I look at it on my normal 17" Trinitron PC monitor, it goes down gradually.
When I look at it on my arcade monitor, it too goes down evenly across all the colors (except that it drops to darkness just a couple of shades earlier).
Can anyone else give it a shot and tell me if they also noticed this? At what level does your monitor start dropping to dark? Is the capcom color chart also messed up for you?
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wow!
no replies!? ???
Has anyone tried to see if their monitor is showing the colors right?? Can anyone press F2 in any of the Midway games, go into video settings and snap a digital picture to show the rest of us their color range??
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For eal precise color settings, I use an old Street Fighter 2 game board. It has an excellent color alignment mode.
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Ken,
how do you go about tuning colors on an arcade monitor!?
Things like contrast and brightness control ALL the colors...
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Color balancing/tweaking is done with the controls on the neckboard in arcade monitors.