hey im new...and need some help!!

[buick4u2nv]

hey everybody... im chris and im in belleville

heres my problem... i have an arcade game (not in the original cab) "trog"... the games works.. everything comes up..i can get credits...but to play the game you have to press start... welll my start dosent work..
i took the control panel off.. and there i found. 5 or 6 cut wires..(not used?? i dunno) AND 3 or5 broken wires..
i was thinking of trying some thing out...but i REALLY dont want to cook anything... its almost like theres no power at all... any suggestions???

[northerngames]

I would start with the start button first to see if the others work still.

[buick4u2nv]

im going to snag a few pics... i just dont know what goes where....

altho they will be with my ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- phone cam..i'll gett better ones at a later date..

[buick4u2nv]

heres my game:


heres the back of the control:



cut and broken wire:


one more:


all the wires go to this..

[NoOne=NBA=]

First question, are there two wires hooked to the start button?
If so, does the game start if you short across them with a piece of spare wire?

If yes, you have a bad switch on that button.
If no, there is something else wrong with the wiring.

[buick4u2nv]

nothing happens...

see the 4th pic down there 2 small at the top... those are the start for player 1 and 2... they are hooked togeather..which is odd..

[NoOne=NBA=]

The green wire is supposed to be connected to all the buttons/sticks.
It is the ground loop.

Is the white wire right by the player 1 start actually connected to the button?

[buick4u2nv]

the green is connected to all the buttons...but that got me thinking of a ground issue..

here you see a loose ground down near the coin door... and upon closer inspection i see another wire with a striped area... im not hooking em together but ya never know..

[buick4u2nv]

any suggestions??...., before i throw it in the quarry??

[NickG]

I  suggest - you answer NoOne=NBA='s question.  Then we can go on to further trouble-shooting measures - It looks as though someone did a poor soldering job on all the switches and some of them came loose.  Trog is a standard JAMMA arcade game.  You can search for the standard JAMMA pinout on the internet for correct wiring, but it looks as though you have white stickers on your JAMMA connector; which label the connections for  each switch.  Each switch should have two wired connections: one to it's labeled position (if it is labeled) and one to any ground on the connector.  I have a Trog and the Trog manual if you run into further issues, but it looks like  the wire(s) just came loose. the wires on the start buttons should be connected to the sevententh postion on the JAMMA connector (in the third photo of your third post - "all the wires go to this..")  A cheap multimeter might be a really handy tool to use here; have you one?
   

[buick4u2nv]

yes i do... the white IS hooked up..and the greens are aswell.. all the white sticker says is the name of some company...but i'll giver a search for that wiring diagram...thanks..

[buick4u2nv]

HOLY ... it werks.. thanks... i need too hook up a ground to the controls.. but didnt know.. i needed that JAMMA wiring diagram... now just to get plyaer 2 buttons werking and im gold... THANK YOU