Re: Star Wars Problem

From: Rich Harkoff/Don Roberts <rharkoff1_at_new.rr.com>
Date: Wed Jan 19 2011 - 16:37:01 EST

Hi Andy,
I used my buddies PCB set, didn't swap any chips, both sets exibited
identical problems. He has an upright, I've got a cockpit so I did have to
make size adjustments on his PCB set, can't run my boards in his game, it's
in his garage and the weather is too cold here, don't want to take any
chances turning it on. As I said earlier I have access to a third set of
boards I'll get a hold of them this weekend and see how they play in my
game, plus I can try my boards in that game.
Thanks for the help so far,
Rich

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Welburn" <andy@andysarcade.net>
To: <vectorlist@vectorlist.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: VECTOR: Star Wars Problem

> your pcb definately has some issues, the tie fighters are stretching all
> over the place as they move, this is not a monitor deflection problem, if
> you are not seeing any divider or mathbox errors, you might want to try
> another AVG chip as this could cause what we see in the videos. AVG chips
> are notorious for being bad, so i'm thinking that maybe you used one avg
> chip on two boardsets? that would explain things..
>
> --
> Andrew Welburn
> http://www.andys-arcade.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rich Harkoff/Don Roberts" <rharkoff1@new.rr.com>
> To: <vectorlist@vectorlist.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 1:29 PM
> Subject: Re: VECTOR: Star Wars Problem
>
>
> Hi Karl,
> Both boardsets exhibited the same symptoms so I figured problem was
> elsewhere. Deflection prob? No hardware or mathbox errors on either
> boardset, I have access to another set of boards which I will try and get
> a hold of. I don't notice any jumpiness with the Tie fighters during game
> play but I do see the scaling. Had some problems getting the vids to play
> smooth, uploaded them from one of those Flip video cameras.
> Thanks,
> Rich
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Karl Doe
> To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 5:38 AM
> Subject: Re: VECTOR: Star Wars Problem
>
>
> Hi there,
>
> Are you sure it's not a board fault? The Tie fighters, etc look awfully
> jumpy in the videos you have posted, they are not scaling correctly as
> they move around the screen. Have you put it into test mode and run the
> mathbox checks?
>
> Cheers
> Karl.
> From: Rich Harkoff/Don Roberts
> To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 2:02 AM
> Subject: VECTOR: Star Wars Problem
>
>
> Hello,
> My Star Wars game has developed a problem and I was hoping someone here
> might be able to help diagnose. First off the boardset is fine, swapped it
> out with a friends and problem still existed. I completely rebuilt the
> deflection board this past summer. High Voltage is right on the money.
> When playing game I see a vertical white stripe on left and right of
> screen during explosions and death star blow up. On attract screen right
> after the Star Wars blue logo as the green letters in the story line
> scroll up the screen the letters appear mashed together at botttom left
> and right on screen. I took some video showing the problem, the vids are
> located here:
> http://s593.photobucket.com/albums/tt19/don1400/STAR%20WARS%20VID/
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Rich
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