If you buy a Pascal Janin all in one board you don't have to jack around with all those ground mods. The board is expensive but it really makes the game sing.

I'm finishing up a Pinball Pool. First System 1 game I've attempted. I've got it breathing pretty good now, using a donor board that I know has issues, but it's working now, which was more than it was doing when I got it. I've touched up the cab, repainted the glass frame, and got a NOS glass from Mayfair. Touched up and cleared the playfield, replaced all the drops, rebuilt the bumpers and flippers. It's going to be a nice game when it's done. I'm going to be getting the board for it it a few weeks.

You have to repin the connectors. If you don't you're wasting your time. If you're going to stay with the original setup, throw away the interconnect cables and buy new ones from Docent. No sense repinning those when you can buy new, and they're cheap.

I like Genie, despite the fact that it has those double flippers. Just never did like that flipper setup at all.

To me, Clay Harrell's guide on System 1 games is the gold standard. Anything you need is in there.

Genie was SS only. Gottlieb themselves only made 16 System 1 games (there were some conversion games made but not by Gottlieb). The first eight System 1 games had EM counterparts with the last such game being Countdown, whose EM counterpart is Space Walk. Beginning with Pinball Pool, the rest of the games were all SS. Genie was the fourth all SS game. There are no examples of the prior three pure SS games being made as an EM, so I kind of doubt there is a Genie EM anywhere out there.