I picked up an original Ms Pacman off of Craigslist. Owner said that it wouldn't play because the monitor was making a buzzing sound and thought it might have been shorting out. I went over and looked it over and it had some bad water damage on the bottom. Someone had tried to do a "repair" by nailing a 2x4 across to bottom because there were only holes left where the legs used to be. They had also tried to bondo the sides over rotten wood. I offered the guy about half of his asking price and he agreed.

After rebuilding the monitor with a full cap kit and new flyback I was able to play the game. The monitor looked great with no burn.

The power supply had been replaced with with a switching power supply. The PCB had been hacked and wires soldered directly from the switching power supply to the PCB. They hacked the wiring harness to remove the power leads. This would need to be replaced. Thanks to Todd Tuckey over at TNT I was able to get a new unhacked harness.

My idea was to restore it with no hacks. I wanted to leave the fixed original boards in the machine and install a 60 in 1 with a jamma harness but put connectors on the jamma harness that would allow you to swap it back to Ms Pacman PCB quickly. No control panels were harmed during the construction of this project.

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Bondo, sand, bondo, sand, primer, sand, primer, sand....

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Decals going on.....

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T-molding goes on next. I went with pink. I think it looks better.

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Coin door was in okay shape besides the wiring (it was hacked up). Stripped the out paint off and the primered and repainted it..

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Finished coin door...turned out pretty good.

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Restoration completed...

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The trackball I ordered has a pink LED light below that lights it up. Hard to see in the pictures but it turned out really nice as well.

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Thank you. It was a fun restoration.

Most of the parts were bought from Twisted Quarter.

http://www.twistedquarter.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=219_248&products_id=1329

Decals and the marquee were bought from Escape Pod

https://www.escapepodonline.com/collections/complete-kits/products/ms-pacman-complete-restoration-kit

Thanks, for the monitor repair I would watch John at John's Arcade.

https://www.youtube.com/user/blkdog7/videos

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I had thought about doing a stencil but the decals were much easier and this machine is not going to be routed so I wasn't very concerned with the longevity of decals vs stencils. I do like the look of the stencils but decals for me were just as good and easier to apply.

I picked up the arcade in October and worked on it on weekends only. I did take some time off from working on it during the holidays. My wife would have killed me if I worked on this while we had a house full of guests. Overall it doesn't take hardly any time compared to a pin.

The coin meter shows 88644.

So at .25 a game that would be $22,161. I would say it paid for itself.

A jamma harness, a switching power supply and then your game board (I used a 60-1) that is about it.

Very nice, I may take you up on that offer. Thanks!

The cabinet work I already knew from working on my PINS. The monitor repair was the first time I had worked on a monitor and I just watched a ton of YouTube videos on how to do it. Everything else was just learned from different forums like KLOV for when I had any specific questions or issues. really it isn't very complicated especially compared to a full restoration of a PIN.