Japan FZ-10 3DO displays incorrect colors

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  1. zetastrike

    zetastrike Rising Member

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    I just fired up my Japanese FZ-10 for the first time and immediately noticed that the yellow circle in the 3DO logo had a pink tone to it. Then the R.E.A.L logo was outlined in pink. Then the bios screen with the bouncing objects was pink instead of the normal color. Then I put in Virtual Horror (Monster Manor) and the title screen looked normal the split second after it appeared, then had a huge splotch of pink on it. I pressed start and the title screen looked normal for the brief moment before it faded out. Then the game began and the walls had sploches of pink on them, but the edges of the walls were the normal gray and my character's hand and the key sprites had that same pink tone that the circle in the 3DO logo had.

    I just checked and my NA FZ-1 doesn't do this, so it's not my TV or the AV cables. I also tried it on my samsung plasma and again, the random pink. What's wrong with it? Things that aren't supposed to be pink are pink.
     
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    zetastrike Rising Member

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    UPDATE:

    I've opened it up to look at the caps and noticed that the 150uF 200V cap on the PSU has a glob of gray "putty" near it that's forming a connection between a diode and some other components on the PSU. That's all I could find that looked suspicious. Could that be a possible cause?

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    Flash Dauntless Member

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    That's just a drop of glue, and my FZ-10 got it too: P1050156s.JPG










    The PSU has nothing to do with it. If that cap will fail there will be way more severe consequences.
    The pink stuff can be either failing caps on main PCB or bad contact somewhere around video output circuit. And it will be better if you post actual photo or video of it.
     
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