[EricH]

It could be that the console was simply hanging over the shelf, or that the inspectors judged it not to be an issue. With so many robot and bumper rules to enforce and so little time, I would suspect that anybody with a "close enough"-sized board and the proper firmware would probably pass that part no problem. I know when I was an inspector, I rarely looked at the console, except to check voltage readings and firmware revision--then again, they weren't quite as strict with the size back then (I last inspected in 2010, before the 2012 maximum size introduction).