Tonight I finished replacing the interconnect on my boards. After completing this I thought what the heck, why not try them in the game! I plugged them in and there were no signs of life. The CPU status LEDs flashed so that’s a good sign. I did a typical test, I pushed on all of the ROMS just to make sure they are seated properly. Turned the game on again and I was in audit mode! I replaced the battery holder and installed some batteries and now I have attract mode! YES! Then… NO! The game reset. No biggie I knew I had more work anyways.
So I brought the CPU board back to my bench and after removing all 6 roms I noticed a nasty site on old boards. SCANBE sockets! They are the worst socket ever designed and my board has 6 of them! Yup off I go to remove those sockets. So now it is 1:15am and I have removed all six sockets and cleaned the through holes for the new sockets.
Is there a more beautiful site? Not right now. 
I’m not installing the sockets until later… at least the holes are clean
