so it turns out that the microswitches were the problem, but not in the way that i thought. you need to have the buttons wired up so that the circuit is always open until the button is pressed. we had the wires running to the other pole, the one where the circuit is always closed. the poor ipac was sending start, button1, button2, button3, up, down, left, and right for player 1 and player 2 all at the same time. no wonder the damn thing was acting crazy! so i switched the connections and voila! we have gaming goodness. the monitor is not perfect, but it’s a damn sight better than nothing, so i’ll leave it at that and be happy. it’s got a big magnetic thing going on on the left side of the screen, i’m not sure what it is but i’m guessing a good degauss might take care of it. i’ll leave that for next week. anyway.

the only thing left to do for today is get a 1/8″ to RCA adapter to hook from the computer to the speakers in the cabinet (the cab has an amplifier! cool beans!), and we’ll have sound and video. it will be a multimediafest for the soul.

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