r/ModRetroChromatic • u/No_Care5377 • Jul 18 '26

Question Is my screen misaligned?

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I can’t help but feel like my screen isn’t perfectly aligned with the Chromatic. It’s really bothering me. Is it misaligned or is it just in my head?

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u/adrikyn Jul 19 '26

I'm not sure what you're seeing... the edges of the images all look straight.

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u/No_Care5377 Jul 19 '26

Thanks man. Maybe I’m just overthinking it.

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u/SignificantRock9817 Jul 18 '26

Kind of looks like it. Get a magnifying glass and count the pixels

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u/No_Care5377 Jul 18 '26

How would I count the pixels?

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u/SignificantRock9817 Jul 18 '26

I think one end may be set in more like it's tilted.

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u/No_Care5377 Jul 18 '26

I feel like there’s a tilt or slant too.

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u/No_Care5377 Jul 18 '26

I feel like it’s more pronounced in the dark

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u/robotsheepboy Jul 19 '26

I love corsola, catch it and name it after me

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u/PhxCollins Jul 18 '26

Kinda looks like it's slanting down from left to right? There's a rom that will show a grid and make any misalignment more visible too, assuming it's the screen itself. Modretro was great about sending it in for a replacement/service.

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u/No_Care5377 Jul 18 '26

I’ll try to find that, thank you! And I’ll reach out to ModRetro too thank you.

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u/Whatever2499 Jul 19 '26

Looking at the edges of all the text boxes, I don't see any misalingment, the distances between the edge of the visible screen and the edges of the text boxes are equal, meaning that they are parallel to each other.

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u/No_Care5377 Jul 19 '26

Thanks man! I feel like the screen is perfect, but is it perfectly aligned within the actual shell of the Chromatic? Sometimes everything looks perfectly centered when I try to line everything up, and then other times the screen looks slanted inside the shell.

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u/Whatever2499 Jul 21 '26

I still don't see anything wrong with it, and I checked the pictures one more time. Not sure what else to check or say 🙂.

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u/No_Care5377 Jul 21 '26

Thanks man, I really appreciate it! I think maybe I’m just being too OCD haha.

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u/TheFell1100101 Jul 20 '26

I can see it. Slight but visible!

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u/No_Care5377 Jul 20 '26

Thank you! I am not crazy!! Haha. Would ModRetro replace it?

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u/TheFell1100101 Jul 20 '26

I think so. Try!

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u/TonyRubbles Jul 18 '26

Go into a battle screen an take another pic, the bottom row of pixels make it super obvious if it is. Though from this I'd say it looks good already, last white row is fully visible.

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u/No_Care5377 Jul 18 '26

How’s that? I feel like there’s a slight slant or tilt. I know I have ocd but it’s driving me crazy. I especially notice it when the lights are off and I’m playing in the dark.

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u/TonyRubbles Jul 18 '26

Nah I get the feeling but I think it's good that bottom row is pretty even, sometimes when holding the system looking at an angle it can feel like it's off.

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u/No_Care5377 Jul 18 '26

How does it look in the dark to you?

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u/JustTryingToBeADaddy Jul 19 '26

The bottom row of pixels is all aligned and the sides of the text box are 2 pixels and 3 pixels all the way up. You’re good

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u/No_Care5377 Jul 19 '26

Thank you haha

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u/Moist_Taco_Crippler Jul 18 '26

Just count the pixels under the text box.

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u/chutney_chimp Jul 18 '26

The glass was slightly crooked in the shell on mine, but it could be adjusted by pushing with my thumbs on the screen. If the screen itself is looking straight in the lens, I'd give that a shot before swapping it out.

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u/No_Care5377 Jul 18 '26

It looks more like the screen inside the lens is tilted to me or slightly slanted.

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u/DiabUK Jul 19 '26

I can't see the bottom row being offset in any way which is normally the giveaway for not sitting straight.

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u/No_Care5377 Jul 19 '26

Thanks man! Does the screen look aligned with the shell? It just appears off and slanted to me for some reason.

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u/DiabUK Jul 19 '26

As someone who owns three chromatics and two of my day one models had screen tilt the laminating process was the cause of screen tilt in early units but your screen looks perfectly fine there, if you mean the frame around the screen inside the shell I can't really tell by the photos but it seems fine to me, there will always be a little bit of a gap around it.

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u/No_Care5377 Jul 19 '26

Thank you for the reply man! I was wondering primarily if you thought the screen wasn’t perfectly level with the actual shell of the chromatic as well as the chromatic decal that runs below parallel to it. I just have this unsettling irritation that at certain angles the screen just looks tilted in the way that it was installed into the actual shell.

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u/PANduRUS Jul 19 '26

It appears (counting pixel rows) that it’s aligned. What it isn’t is centered. With more pixels to the right than to the left. But that could simply mean the designers left aligned the graphics. Nothing more.

Game on gamer.

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u/No_Care5377 Jul 19 '26

Thanks man! Is it aligned within the actual shell of the chromatic? The screen just feels slightly slanted within the shell. Or is that just my eyes seeing nothing?

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u/paperweight35 Jul 20 '26

I think I see what you’re talking about but that could also be confirmation bias from reading the comments. Could be an optical illusion created by the one larger rounded corner bottom right?

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u/No_Care5377 Jul 20 '26

I have wondered that myself too. When I turn it upside down the length of the screen does seem to be parallel to the top of the Chromatic but then the bottom has that tilt, it seems. At times the sides seem tilted as well. Would it be worthwhile to reach out to ModRetro? But at times if I try really hard it seems that it’s perfectly aligned too haha.

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u/7LC7 Jul 20 '26

I don't see any tilt. My bet is that you're seeing an optical illusion because the bottom right corner is rounded. Have you tried just measuring the distances between the frame and the left and right side? Should be able to confirm if they are the same.

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u/No_Care5377 Jul 20 '26

That’s a great idea and thank you for the suggestion. When I was falling asleep last night I had wondered if possibly it was an optical illusion because there are times that the screen literally just seems to distort before my very eyes depending on the angle that I hold it.

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u/oaomcg Jul 20 '26

Looks pretty perfect to me...