opened it up, cleaned up the gunk, cleaned and reapplied thermal paste, plugged and unplugged all connectors, replaced CR2032 coin battery(was displaying Battery Error).
gratz dude! I got to play this game for the first time at mits's house a couple months ago, he also brought it to the tournament meetup. While I haven't played a tekken game since 3, I really did have ALOT of fun with this one.