Arcade monitor - tuning the colors..

[JoeB]

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?

[JoeB]

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??

[Ken Layton]

For eal precise color settings, I use an old Street Fighter 2 game board. It has an excellent color alignment mode.

[JoeB]

Ken,

how do you go about tuning colors on an arcade monitor!?

Things like contrast and brightness control ALL the colors...

[Ken Layton]

Color balancing/tweaking is done with the controls on the neckboard in arcade monitors.