Working on repairing a bartop and button mysteriously stopped working

[Phouglas]

I have a bartop where one of the joystick switches wasn't great so I switched it out.i was very careful in not messing anything else up or so I thought. But when I went to test it the player one start button no longer works. I looked at it and it's still connected and it clicks and everything but it doesn't provide any indication it's doing anything. I opened up the mame control adjustments with TAB and that button doesn't do anything (it's tied to joystick button 7).

Any idea why it would stop responding entirely?

[thomas_surles]

What are the buttons connected to? Ipac? Xen mo? Jamma?

[pbj]

Unplug and replug the connectors on the malfunctioning button.

[Phouglas]

Thanks guys, figured it out

[pbj]

Thanks guys, figured it out

And what was the issue?

[TapeWormInYourGut]

...it was something between the control panel and bar stool

All jokes aside, we don't care if it was an honest mistake m8. Please don't leave us with a statement like that.