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Dex74

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Hi all,
Just got this beuty.
Board looks good overall. The game starts and plays fine, but some sprites and parts of the playfield are flipped.
If I switch the orientation setting on DIP switch bank 1 (switch 2 - flip screen), the game is rotated 180° and everything looks correct.

On closer inspection, I found that one component (at least one leg) is damaged. Could this be causing the issue?
The part in question is labeled C87 on the PCB.
Am I correct in thinking this is a tantalum electrolytic capacitor, 10 µF / 25 V?
The “+” marking shows the positive lead orientation, right?
Does anyone have the manual of the game in good quality? I found something on yahoo auction, but in very low resolution

Thanks for any insight/help!
 

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Board looks good overall. The game starts and plays fine, but some sprites and parts of the playfield are flipped.
May not be your problem here but this behaviour is typical of games using both software and hardware for flipping, most likely the software part works but there's something wrong on the hardware side.
 
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