Fine tuning it has gone well. I had to create some splitters out of some wire and quick disconnects, but that wasn’t hard at all. The Radio Shack didn’t have any splitters at all for what I needed, so some ol’ elbow grease and a stunning ignorance of the danger of playing with electronic toys combined to cure my problem.

Now all PCBs can be hooked up, takes about 30 seconds to switch games, the coin drawer works, new locks in that, screen is bright, and all games work with sound now.

MK2 was the most heinous board to get working, but I found a sound board, hooked that up, and about the time I found that one, another dealer I had asked about sent me a couple more sound boards that he didn’t know if they worked or not for a price that was cheap, and lo and behold they worked. So now I’ve got some surplus for Ebay.

The bustamove game had intermittent sound…sometimes it’d work, sometimes not. So I pulled it open, cleaned it with some detergent-water and q-tips (basically the same stuff your electronics cleaning solution is made of) and cleaned the connectors real well. Works like a charm.

Now…time for that dissertation.