I wish I could have waited.

I received my machine in the late summer. It's been sitting in my basement dead for 48 days now. I'm supposed to be receiving some parts today for it and I pray this round of Band-Aids actually gets it running.

It is a really cool looking machine, but that's all I really know about it, as I haven't played one in months now. If it ever works again, it had better "wow" me or it's out the door the second I have it up and running. I have better ways to spend my time.

Just as an update: I received a small package from JJP yesterday and replaced the cord that was giving me problems. With juice flowing to the LED boards now, I ended up having three 5V singles out. Luckily, Ken had the foresight to include six new 7V boards with my cord. I am now officially back up and running! The wife, kids and I all played a bunch of games on it last night, which was a lot of fun, because it was like we just received a new pinball machine, it had been so long since we played it. My wife got her name in at 3rd place.

Will I keep the machine? I need to really put some time in on it over the next couple of weeks, but I'm really liking where the software is right now and it sounds like we can only go up. If it holds together and stays lit, it just might be a keeper.

Oh my god. I turned on my machine just now and a bunch of lights are out. No big deal, I find out which board is dead, and change it out. Now, the whole machine has gone dead (again!) except for the monitor showing a splash screen, which was my original problem that went unfixed for 48 days! Back to square one! Excuse me, I need to go punch the crap out of something for a while...

I can't f'ing believe this.

Yes, I know it well.

Okay, I ended up re-installing 1.24 and it's working again. Sigh. I guess I need to keep a USB stick loaded with the current OS in the coin box and just re-install it every morning. It wiped out all my settings and my awesome, 8 year old daughter just got her name in the machine last night, too.

With the warranty being non-transferable, I'm not sure I can even unload this thing on anyone else? Has anyone had luck selling their machine HUO?