Wow. Way to go Dino. Obviously a man who stands behind his product.
While Dino helped me sort out my display issues in private, I wanted to give a public thank you to him.
We did quite a lot of troubleshooting on the old display. Firmware updates, colorization files, swapping harnesses, ribbon cables and putting the display into another game of mine. This wonky display actually worked reasonably well in my Getaway, but anytime it was in World Cup Soccer, it would only start-up correctly 2/3rds of the time.
And even though he was under no obligation to do so, DIno made me up a new display and shipped it to me. I put this one in Soccer and it worked great. It also worked as expected in the Getaway. We did some more troubleshooting just trying to understand if there was some common thing causing the blank display start-up issues in Soccer and the only thing we ultimately determined is that something has gone wonky in that display.
That wonky display is going back to Dino and he's going to look at it and see what might have been the issue. Regardless, he was most gracious in providing me a replacement display.... at no additional cost!! How good is that for customer service?!? I would certainly not hesitate in buying future displays from Dino as my pinball collection expands. You're in good hands with him. Thank you again, DIno.
Jon in Guelph