I just had this same issue – or something that looked very similar while inspecting newly acquired VBs.
I had it opened up/upsidedown right near a light to see what I was doing. It turns out that the smeary lines were just ambient light bouncing around inside and reflecting off of something in there. As soon as I covered up the back, and put the visor on, it went away.
Hopefully your circumstance is the same and will have an easy fix! 🙂
I think a good starting point is getting more familiar with the VB, it’s guts, and how it functions (circuit-wise).
I just bought 5 of them for a steal (most “broken” or with display problems, but we all can fix that). So I’ll have some units to spare/practice on.
In the meantime, if anyone has any good recommendations for literature (textbooks, websites, etc) that can give me a good grounding on some practical programming or circuitry that I’ll be likely to encounter – feel free to share! 🙂 I learn pretty quick and am not afraid to be confused!
I’ll also be crossing my fingers that another batch of flashboys will be whipped up sometime soon! 🙂
Yep – I know this one is certainly going to be a challenge, but the harder the better! 🙂
I wouldn’t need to alter the mirror system/servos, I don’t think. I would just need my signal to match the refresh of the strip of LEDs in the chip.
And yep, I figure I would have to find a way to hardline out from the board itself. Unless there is some way to signal into a modded cartridge (a la FlashBoy USB). But like you said, the buffer time would probably be problematic 🙁
