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JustMichael:
Another thing you could do is incase all 25 wires in one piece of heat shrink tubing.  When you heat it up the tubing will shrink around the wires making it look like a 25 conductor cable.  Make sure to use the right size tubing because it only shrinks so far.

DarkKobold:
Oscar showed a nice deal on some 9 conductor wire. It was pretty slick, but I can't find it now.

Brad Lee:
25 or more conductor wire is good if you plan on doing the whole panel as swappable

Phone companys use 25-pair wire (50 conductors, all color coded) a lot, maybe give a call to a local phone co and see what they can price ya for a few feet of that. CHances are theyve got it in bulk rolls for a couple bucks a foot. This wouldnt have any ends on it likely. Pieces with ends (male/female) would be more costly, but a decent solution if youre looking for swappability. If you ask for em, theyre probably gonna be called amphenol(or just 'amp') connectors

(i dont mean a phone company like at&t or gte, more like a local shop that does business phones)

krick:
After further research, I've changed my mind.  I'm going to go with one DB15 connector per player...

DB15
PIN FUNCTION
---+--------
01  Ground
02  Coin
03  Start
04  Up      
05  Down    
06  Left    
07  Right  
08  Button 1
09  Button 2
10  Button 3
11  Button 4
12  Button 5
13  Button 6
14  Button 7
15  Button 8


So I guess I need to look for 20/15 multi-conductor stranded unshielded wire now.  That should be FAR easier to come by.

tivogre:
I bought my multi-strand cable from here:

http://www.connectworld.net/cgi-bin/iec/02MWireMSStr.html

They were very good to deal with, have reasonable prices, and a variety of "number of strands".

Hope this helps!

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