I sold my Sonic Super Straight to buy both the FL2K and Panthera, but after it was all over with it was worth it. Both have some playfield wear, but is very minor. They both are having problems getting into game mode. The Flight 2000 won't even turn on, right now. The cabinets are in pretty nice shape for being in and out of arcades. So as a I discover more, I will post pictures of what I find.

Here are two pictures of the playfields.

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Here is the second.

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Yeah, the power board down in the bottom was pulled out, and it apparently doesn't turn on. I haven't had the time to investigate yet.

Now, I'm looking forward to the sounds of Panthera! It should be quite fun!

Thanks for the advice guys! I didn't know there was a replacement power board.

Hey Lovef2k can you send me a link to that website page because I can't seem to find it on Marco.

Thanks for the links! The price doesn't look too bad, so I might have to pick one up for it.

I finally bit the bullet and bought a new rectifier board for the Flight 2000 and a power supply board for Panthera. I got both from K's Arcade. I think they are also both Rottendog boards. Any luck with these?

Okay, I'll make sure to do that.

Panthera is now up and running thanks to Rottendog's Power Supply Board. Now onto Flight 2000's Rectifier Board, which is currently all screwed up. Picture to come.

Took a look at Flight 2000 today. Man, is it a mess! I rewired the slings. The playfield almost dropped on my head. It looks like I am going to install the new rectifier board tonight and fire it up, possibly.

The two lower slingshots were taken apart, so I had to put them back together.

I believe everything is there, but I guess I'll see when I power it on.

I'm in the process of reworking one of the flippers because it got oiled by some idiot. Finally here is what the old rectifier board looks like. Tonight I might tackle the board.

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Any tips on how to fix that birdcage of wire rework over there.

The whole entire board (Meaning the transformer, etc) was removed. I had to put it back in. The big problem is all of the connectors were repinned, and J1 isn't even the right number of slots on the connector. It has one to many. So I'm planning on going through and redoing it all because I don't want something to blow if it is wrong. Plus everything seems to be wrong on this game. A safe bet would say that this entire transformer board is wrong.

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Thanks!

Can anyone identify this?

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^That is on the bottom board too.

Does anybody know if it is suppose to be there?

Got it powered up, but doesn't start a game. The game does boot up. It just doesn't take a credit and the GI doesn't light up.

Here is a photo of it lighting up.

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reseated J1 and now the GI is lighting!

I had the GI lighting and credits taking this morning, but now I only get two or three chimes.

It varies sometimes it will fully boot (with 7 chimes), but now the displays won't turn on.

Order the two IC 5101 from Marco. They should be here in a couple days.

Also ordered all new drops targets for Flight 2000 and LED's for Panthera. Starting to think about what LED's I'm going to use in Flight 2000. First, though, got to get the thing working! IC's should come Monday. After that I'll have to see on what the next step is in the restore process.

The rec board is installed that is how I know the 5101's are bad. I never trust the prop stick, so I had it leaned up against the backbox it still fell. Luckly enough it didn't fall on me. I got the five blank drops and the decal set from Marco. I wasn't aware that PBR had them. I'll have to remember that the bank unplugs.

Put in a new 5101 at U8 last night it got me back to where I was originally. The game boots, but doesn't or can't fire up a game. The soleniods don't work right now, so I'm thinking the next step is to look into the driver board.

It is now "working" as far as it starts a game (cracked molex), but now when you lock two balls it kicks one out and one into the shooter lane. That isn't suppose to happen.

Looks like the game solved the problem for itself. It has stopped shooting out two balls. Now, to a few other issues.
One, the lower pop bumper won't fire, but it did fire once or twice today. That was really weird since I haven't ever seen it fire before. Just in case you think it is the switch it isn't. Whenever it is touched by the ball it scores points, but doesn't trigger the pop.
Next, The lower left sling if hooked up blows a fuse down in the lower. I'm thinking it might be related to why the pop isn't working, or that the coil is bad.
Lastly, All the slingshots chatter when fired or fire multiple times. I have no idea what would cause this.
Other than that the game is really coming along great. Thanks for the tips so far!