well yeah and no.
The machine should boot up and do it's "maiden spins"...but that's all it will ever do.
It will never progress to a "game play" ready state.
I noticed in your last photo that it still has a coin mech.
Now, if you were to remove the 2-pin connector on the door emitter optic, you could add credits to the machine by pressing that little small white Service Credit button on the coin-in optics board on the very bottom.
It would allow you to add 2 or 3 credits to spin the reels.
Then...get this...hit the play button on the deck an then if you touch one of the reels with your hand, it would put the reels in error....but they would be spinning slowly ...forever! lol
That's what you want the machine to do, right?
Make sure Jim understands you.