Sometimes I wonder why Mod got banned for his comments and you haven't. :\
Anyway, I just don't think they're going to spend the cash repairing a machine that frankly isn't going to make that cash back at this point. It was fallacy of the highest for them to get rid of Extreme and keep 5th + 7th (then again, we all know that Tony and Chad have absolutely no clue or desire to know which to keep and why), so basically I can see 5th sitting in back and becoming the spare parts machine for when others break down.
Which, you know, is probably going to be sooner than later knowing FFC.
Pop'n needs a whole new red button. The others are playable now (well, it's almost always playable if you beat the everliving shit out of them), but either the black part or the white part of the button is warped in such a way that it just won't slide without force. This isn't a problem when pushing it down, but obviously there is nothing with enough force to pop it back up from the other side. I'll talk to Tyler next time I see him about getting a similar button off of a redemption game put on it for the time being until/if they order a new one. The one that I've seen on the redemption game is similar to the buttons they got as replacements for the first bad button set, so it'll be crappy, but it'll work (mostly). | 
Also replaced the bad microswitches in Pop'n, but the real problem is that the buttons themselves (and their light/switch housings) are both gunked up and need to be scrubbed with a brush and cleaned with detergent, while the switch housings need to be examined to see if they're warping from the heat of the light. From what it looks like, the bulbs in the lights right now are too powerful for what it should be and are warping the light housing (which also holds the microswitch; when it warps, the button's teeth parts can't reach the switch properly or even at all), but at the same time the dirty buttons keep it from looking like it's really bright, so when/if they get cleaned, there shouldn't be a problem with switching to a lower watt bulb then. It'd be really nice if we could get some money to buy Pop'n some white LEDs rather than the hot bulbs, not to mention the LEDs would last several years at the very least.
