Is there any way to solder on connectors to to the wires rather than resoldering all the wires to the new microswitches when the new buttons come in? If I have to do some soldering, I'd rather solder once, in case I have button problems in the future.

The kick buttons are on a separate wiring harness, so I'll just buy a new kick harness for the new kick buttons. The harness I'm looking at has connectors like the ones for the punch buttons.

Well, I'm looking to replace the control panel overlay, all the buttons and both joysticks. I'm getting most of that stuff from ebay. The main issue I going to have is with the wiring.

Most of the punch buttons, the 1P & 2P start buttons, and the joystcks should be an easy fix; the wires have connectors that slide on and off the microswitches. Pretty simple. However, all of the kick buttons and two of the punch buttons' wires are soldered to the microswitch ends. (?!)

There's also a black wire (I'm guessing it's a ground wire, but I'm no electric engineer) running between each of the buttons. Not sure what that's for or if it's necessary to replace once the buttons and microswitches are replaced.

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Just dropping by to introduce myself, I've just bought my first ever game cabinet (Street Fighter II: The World Warrior), and I came to this forum to get some tips on how to refurbish it. I refurbish electronis for a living, and fixing up this cabinet seemed like a fun exercise and possibly a way to make some extra cash (by either setting it up at a restaurant somewhere or just selling it). From the little bit that I've done to it, it's pretty fun, and I'd be interested in doing it again on another machine.

Take care!