Asteroids AR boards- Which to repair?

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My asteroids cocktail is far and away the most beloved game I have. It's the only one my wife will let me keep in the house.

It's getting a little flaky, and it's due for a rebuild. I brought it back from the dead years ago with just some swap out boards.

So I'm going to rebuild the G05 that's in it. Not a problem, it probably needs it. But while I'm doing all this I have a wonderful Asteroids Deluxe board I'd love to be able to swap out in it.

I have 3 of these AR boards. If you see the pic with the three, the cocktail's AR is the bottom one. The one on the right is a -03 board, and it's got two jumpers at J8 that appear to be hooked to the same leads. The one on the left has a square molex connector at J8 only. Both bords on the right and left are marked "3" with a maker on them

So I'm guessing that these are the boards 03 are what I need to use in order to play asteroids deluxe on the cocktail (I have made the adapter already).

My asteroids takes the small rectangular molex, not the square one, so the one on the right is the choice I'd make.

If I rebuild the one in the single pic (with two jumpers at J8) will it properly play both games or is there something I can do to the original that's better? Or do I need a new board altogether?
 

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The AR-1 boards are functionally the same the difference is in the 4-pin plugs, both the square and rectangular plugs are for the speakers, the board with both 4-pin connectors is just a little more versatile as it will accept both styles of speaker connectors.
Dick
 
So any one of the boards would have to modified to play asteroids deluxe? The one I have has less parts than the one in the single pic.
 
Doesn't someone here sell these boards? Please PM me if they have a board I can use please.
 
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