Biggest arcade mistake that could have been easily avoided. What's your biggest GOOF

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Biggest arcade mistake that could have been easily avoided. What's your biggest GOOF

So I recently acquired a Pooyan (Konami Classic), inside was a Commando PCB (Capcom Classic). So to be cheap I decided instead of buying one of those adapters Konami to JAMMA and rewire it using a JAMMA harness... I figured I would just use the existing wiring and keep things original. So as I'm going along it looks like all of the existing original harness is attached except someone added "Joystick Left, and Right" respectively since pooyan was a 2-way game and commando required the other wires. I label everything properly based off of the Commando Pinout. I than De-Soldered the edge connector. and than Re-Soldered all of the wires to correspond the correct Pinout for Pooyan... I grab my Pooyan Board, and I said SHIT!! I forgot it was a 36 pin on the Konami board and not the typical 56 Pin.... Oh well what a big waste of time. What's your biggest completely pointless / avoidable mistake >?
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Biggest Screw-Up:

Not checking a game before loading/unloading it. It turned out the bottom part of said games monitor wasn't bolted in... and as such, when the game went on it's "back" the bottom of the monitor shifted backward while the top remained in place... causing the neck board to hit a cross member and snap the neck of a rather expensive monitor.

:(
 
Biggest Screw-Up:

Not checking a game before loading/unloading it. It turned out the bottom part of said games monitor wasn't bolted in... and as such, when the game went on it's "back" the bottom of the monitor shifted backward while the top remained in place... causing the neck board to hit a cross member and snap the neck of a rather expensive monitor.

:(

+1... at least mine wasn't an expensive monitor. ;)
 
After a quick fix on an Atari football board, I plugged it is backwards. That sucked bad.
 
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