Moonwalker - Edge connector

[Bensonrad]

One of my fav games this, which I have had for a while, however it wasn't until a mate decided to join in the play, we found player 2 would not go down. The dips all seem to do the reverse as well, but my main issue is the player 2 down. I stuck it away, but my daughter was going on about MJ today, so I dug it out for a play.

Looking at the pcb, I now notice the edge connector is missing the metal bit on Solder side pin 10. (which is 2p down), can't believe I didn't look there before really.

Anyhow, is there a way of re-applying it, so dare I say it! Michael Jackson is able to go down

or how can I fix it!

Cheers

Ben

 

[andyman]

There is a vid somewhere on here showing a repair for this, cant find it though

Andy.

edit : found it
andyman2010-11-28 20:49:14

 

[guddler]

Nice one - I was after this info a while ago. Most importantly on there is the 3M part number for the tape. Not cheap mind at £32+ VAT but hey.

Didn't really grasp why the guy goes to the effort of colouring the epoxy resin to match the PCB (the wrong part of the PCB - or was it only me that spotted that?). At the end of the day, the new edge connector trace completely covers the epoxy resin anyway so why bother making it anything other than clear?

 

[andyman]

Originality

 

[Macro]

or if there is an unused pin nearby, bridge the link to that, and add an extra wire to the loom - it doesn't look like it uses button 3, so link to the connector next to it, and use button 3 instead. just link the two solder pads together.

 

[Bensonrad]

Cheers folks