I’ve spent the last day trying to finish my Electrocoin Midi Mr.Do! arcade cabinet.
First up was applying the artwork onto the control panel. Considering that I’ve never done this before I think I made a fairly decent effort of it. Obviously I made a slight error as the bottom left does not quite match the bottom right, but I can live with it 🙂
Secondly I rebuilt the control panel, cleaning up the screws, washers, and nuts as I went along. I replaced the leaf buttons as the original ones were damaged. But kept with the same joystick, apart from washing it and applying new microswitches. I did the same with the Player 1 and Player 2 buttons.
I then tested out the wiring and made a few minor changes due to simple mistakes, and added a ground onto the control panel for safety.
I had a look at the left coin mech that wasn’t working. It’s missing a credit board, so I’ll leave it as it is. The wiring has been cut all over the place so it was difficult to work out what was going on , so I utilised the 12v that was coming off one of the connectors to get the lights lit up. At least one of the mechs is working ok.
I then cleaned the paint speckles off the left side with a magic eraser and centred the screen on the monitor. I think I’m pretty done with this now. Not perfect, but at a fairly decent standard now. Might have a few games on Mr.Do! this evening 🙂
