biggest mistake, I hate to use the word silly. Went to change a fuse with the machine on. Was using a small screw driver to lever it out of the holder. Dropped the screw driver and somehow shorted the high voltage to the data buss, and seriously damaged three boards in the process (driver, sound, DMD), took weeks to track down and fix all the damage.

Along the way was having a heck of time on the sound board. Just was not getting the right bongs. Took the board to test at a friends house since I did not have any other games with that vintage of sound board (wpc non-dcs), where we determined that the repair guide was wrong on the 'bong' behavior for the board with no ROMs in it (I think was the issue), and ultimately turned out I have fixed the board, but the ROMs were bad.

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