Happy Friday! I finally got the new (well, new to me) Baby Pac-Man cabinet from Kentucky. Its in great shape!

If you look at it closeup, it’s got a few scratches here and there. I’m thinking of sanding it down, patching any deep scratches with filler, and painting it. I’m not 100% sure that I will do that at this point though, as it is in such good shape. I could probably just touch it up a bit.

I have new sideart for it, and a new CPO. Both of those will definitely be done whether I paint the cabinet or not.

I didn’t realize that this had the playfield glass on it, which is a plus seeing as I shattered the other one.

Here are some pictures of the old soggy cabinet for comparison:

Checkout how much the “wood” swelled on the old baby. You can really see it if you look how it is sticking past the edges of the t-molding on his back corner:

Now, here’s the same corner from his dry brother:

The only damage on this new cabinet is on the very back, along the top edge:

It looks like something heavy was sitting on top of it or something, and it has a crack running along it. I should be able to glue that back together easily.

I’m still working on the boards for this, and probably won’t do anything on the new cabinet until I have everything working 100% in the old one. I had gotten the Vidiot board working, but now it’s no longer starting the game. Supposedly if you have a communications problem between the MPU and Vidiot boards that will happen. I can get into the communications test after boot up and it definitely isn’t communicating properly. It wasn’t before either, even when the game was working so I’m not too concerned about it. I’m going to put new connectors on the wiring harness today and see if that helps.

Here’s a picture of the twins side by side: