Okay, I give up. How the heck do you remove a nintendo CP?

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Okay, I give up. How the heck do you remove a nintendo CP?

I've unlatched it and disconnected the wiring harness and it WILL NOT COME OUT!! :|
 
Sometimes these Nintendo control panels can be jammed in pretty well underneath the base of the bezel and there's also a metal lip that's screwed on the top of the speaker panel that holds the front of the control panel in place. In other words, there's a slot on the underside of the control panel that the metal lip goes in.

You need to lift the control panel up at the front and pull out at the same time.

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Yeah, got the front lifted up..I think it's the bezel that's holding it in. :|

The bezel doesn't hold it in. There's the wooden base that the bezel sits on that the top of the control panel slides under. The top of the control panel also has sort of a hooked edge so it may be catching on to the wooden side pieces that it sits on. You just need to kind of move it back and forth while lifting up at the front and eventually it should slide out.
 
Woot, got it. The support piece that the bezel actually fits into is sitting just a tiny bit low, so it was getting caught on the back edge. :p I'm gonna prop it up with something tomorrow but for the meanwhile I got it out.

None of the buttons on the CP were working....was examining the connectors on the CP...they were all connected so was like...what the hell's going on?

One of the pins on the connector broke clean off the back of the edge connector! <BLEEP!>

Didn't have any wire to do a jumper and I wasn't about to unhook this whole harness to fix one stupid broken pin! Got my soldering iron, dropped me a big ol' noobie blob of solder on top of the end of the wire, stuck it down on the sliver of exposed metal, and melted the bitch in there. Yes, I know it's wrong.

Yes, it's *working*. Oh look, all buttons on the CP work now....lol. Guess at some point I should learn how to fix this the right way, because looking at it, I could see how more of these could easily break off....
 
Cut off some wire from a useless TV board I had sitting around and did a proper jumper. Looked in my other cab, apparently, this is a pretty common fix...it was done on that one's edge connector too, lol.
 
I haven't worked on any Vs. games in a while but it seems that dedicated Nintendo machines have pretty crappy CP harnesses. The wires are much smaller than most games and the connector is just asking to break.
 
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