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Title: Monitor issue or game board..picture shown ..please help
Post by: taggsta on May 21, 2007, 09:05:02 am
(http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/3039/dscf1061ox0.jpg)

This is a bootleg Pacman but some of the text is missing and the screen has vertical red blurr going down.

Any help would be great.

Thanks.
Title: Re: Monitor issue or game board..picture shown ..please help
Post by: SirPeale on May 21, 2007, 09:29:06 am
I'm thinking 'both.'  Looks like your red is turned up too high, and you have some gameboard problems.
Title: Re: Monitor issue or game board..picture shown ..please help
Post by: Ken Layton on May 21, 2007, 11:18:15 am
The 'warping' by the word credit indicates that your monitor is in need of a capkit. The "black level" (a.k.a. brightness) is set too high and needs to be turned down. Color adjustments on the neckboard are NOT the problem. Looks like you probably have a Wells-Gardner 4600 series monitor judging by the picture.
Title: Re: Monitor issue or game board..picture shown ..please help
Post by: taggsta on May 21, 2007, 11:59:49 am
The monitor has a SANYO lable on it.

Any idea where the machine has come? Japan ?

Some of the board chips are phillipines and Malaysia, are they the boot leg chips?
Title: Re: Monitor issue or game board..picture shown ..please help
Post by: Ken Layton on May 21, 2007, 06:57:18 pm
Pictures of the machine and the back of the monitor please (small file size for us on dialup).
Title: Re: Monitor issue or game board..picture shown ..please help
Post by: taggsta on May 22, 2007, 02:04:08 am
Ive put up a lot of photos on my blog page www.taggsta.spaces.live.com

Thanks for the info so far, really interesting getting info on a machine thats been in someones garage for 10 years.
Title: Re: Monitor issue or game board..picture shown ..please help
Post by: SirPeale on May 22, 2007, 01:08:51 pm
Still need pics of the back of the monitor.  The chassis.
Title: Re: Monitor issue or game board..picture shown ..please help
Post by: grantspain on May 22, 2007, 02:54:32 pm
although there were many bootleg pacman copies many of them were perfectly reliable.
a machine of your age will without doubt need a full recap of the monitor chassis,a good clean of the game board edge connectors and prom legs and a very serious look at the power supply(dry joints,bad caps etc)
good luck