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Benevolance:
My cabinet has been playable for about eight months and it's seen near daily use. One of the buttons is starting to go and needs to be replaced. Not the microswitch, but the physical button press mechanism.

This button has probably seen an abnormal amount of use; it's mapped to the 'A' button, which for NES rpgs is usually the only button you need to press. And I pretty much just play NES these days.

But it made me curious: how long buttons last for most people?

Ginsu Victim:
Hell of a lot longer than 8 months.

massive88:
Happ microswitches are tested for 10,000,000 cycles, I would still expect the microswitch to fail first.

Sounds more like you got a bum button, abnormal I would think.

Ginsu Victim:

--- Quote from: Benevolance on June 04, 2009, 01:57:56 pm --- One of the buttons is starting to go and needs to be replaced. Not the microswitch, but the physical button press mechanism.
--- End quote ---

Describe this.

TOK:
Pull it apart and clean it. If still bad, replace. $2.00.

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