Never even knew there was a RBG club. I do not have one yet, but will someday would be my guess. In fact, if someone has a very nice example in the upper midwest and wants to sell it to make room for a new Stern or a Wonka or something, PM me a description and price.

^^ Stainless steel and chrome are beautiful. I am pretty sure I know the game you bought. Looked like a very nice one!

Have you closely inspected the GI connectors? They often get overheated and burnt on system 11 games. That can cause resistance and make your GI run dim.

Do you mean reseated it? Can you snap a high res picture of the interconnect board. Behind the speaker panel and mostly the right hand side of it as you face it.

Thanks for the pics! I don't see the common burnt plugs either. I assume the plug with the looped yellow wires is the one you re-seated. (J6) If you changed something by just doing that (made it dimmer yet) it would seem that you are on to something there. A cold solder joint on a header pin or even a cracked trace on the board could do that. I have seen this happen, but am admittingly grasping at straws.