Any reason I should not join the club? Got offered a good deal on a Soccer Kings locally. Game was not booting, but started to after a few fuses were replaced. Still has some issues. Never seen one in person and tough to find much info on it.

Good to know, never owned anything so early. Been wanting an SS just for the different feel and this checks all the boxes.

Good to know. I saw the machine earlier today and will pick it up later this week.

Game boots now, lower flippers work but none of the upper 3 were. I was told the upper playfield worked intermittently. The goalie had also worked intermittently but i did not see this. One display was out and the sound only worked when the ball drained. Should be a fun project.

Does anyone have a source for the 8 digit displays? Hoping to wrap up PM this week and do punchy the clown as well. After that going to fix up soccer kings so I can sell it. Its a pretty machine, but out of room :/

Been trying to test my displays for Soccer Kings. Can anyone confirm that all 5 display boards have to be connected? In my case if I try to test with anything less than 5 display boards hooked up to the ribbon cable the boards will fail to cycle 0-9 correctly. Some or all will go 0, 1,0,1, 4,5,4,5,8,9. Also, I have been seeing where in attract mode (displays should read all 0) the displays flicker like they are strobing to 8 and then back to 0.

In order to test I jumpered all 5 displays to player 2 since at the time it was counting from 0 to 9 correctly. I have 2 good display boards and 3 good glasses. 1 display board only lights a single comma. 2 display boards fail to show the first 2 digits (leftmost) and then the 5 and 6 digits. Really debating whether it is worth dealing with this or just converting to led.

Don't think I am explaining it well enough. If I have 4 of the 5 displays plugged in some or all of them will show the wrong numbers 0-9 when doing tests. If I switch those 4 around the issues do not follow the board. If I plug all 5 boards into the ribbon cable the issue goes away altogether. If I plug one board in that shows 0 issues when all 5 boards are plugged in and it is the only board connected, it will fail the display test by showing the wrong digits. Does that make sense?

Frankly I am tempted to sell off the set to someone who wants originals and just buy the led to get rid of it the problem altogether.

Yes and if only 1 is plugged in at a time it reads incorrectly. If all are plugged in they read correctly.