Hey pinheads and fellow Checkpoint owners!
I’ve finally dove back in to restoring this Checkpoint I bought a while back that I understand passed through the sanctum before reaching me. This horribly disfigured Checkpoint was at one point re-themed by some real estate company and apparently used for promos and in the office.

To be honest this game needs a bit of EVERYTHING, and I’m severely overwhelmed and not sure how to start attacking this properly.

My best guess is to try and stabilize the playfield which has all these overlapping layers of Mylar?? It’s very weird and I’m not sure if I should rip them up and ruin the paint (which has already bubbled and peeled beneath the Mylar) or if I should leave it?
The mechs have been hacked quite a bit under the playfield and plenty of flashers and coils don’t even register.

Here’s what the playfield looks like, and I’d really appreciate some beginner tips on how I can make this into at least a decent player. I’m really not looking to make this into a HEP, as this will be my first foray into a location pin. I just want to take it from parts to a player!

Any and all help appreciated.

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Hey, I have this game now, I knew someone at the sanctum had it at some point!

I’m trying my best to restore it, but this is only my 3rd ish game I’ve worked on and the first 2 didn’t need any work like this so essentially, this is all new to me. The flippers are so weak I can stop them with my hand, but when they reach full stroke they are strong and can’t be budged. Does this indicate an issue with the flipper board?

PBR is working on the DE Flipper bats right now. Also I’d replace the checkpoint targets with the little Porsche symbol like I’ve seen others do. It looks so nice

You don’t typically replace playfields for wear spots, and swapping them is extremely time consuming, 30 hrs or more. Typically people touch them up or create decals (stickers) to put over them

Mine has tons of fiberglass/resin repairs throughout it, it looks god awful, I would definitely be interested if it’s less than $500

Do you or anyone in this thread know who repairs Data East boards?? I have a soundboard from my TA that needs to be totally rebuilt and I recently replaced my Checkpoint MPU with a rottendog and I’d like to send out the MPU to get repaired, it had a very weird problem in the logic where it kept locking on a solenoid even after replacing the transistor

Your knocker’s been cut out, like most of them. I am suspecting that the knocker was causing the transistor to blow or something since it’s so common in DEs

All of the power supplies usually look like that. They were so crappy. Get a rottendog see if that fixes it. The high voltage section is probably going bad. Someone could rebuild it for you too

Okay where did you all get those great air ball deflectors? I really could use one

No that board was used for several games. It was meant to be modular, they could use as much or as little as needed

I assume most of you have it on freeplay mode.
It’s supposed to be red when it needs coins and turn green when it has credits on the machine. That’s it. A nice little touch to add some flair to a game that is absolutely packed. The most “premium” DE ever made feature-wise compared to today’s games.

That little metal circle at the end of the ramp. Never seen one of those before on any of the Checkpoint’s I’ve seen. Even the “collector HUO” one my buddy bought. Is that custom?
For some reason Checkpoint’s always seem to be missing SOMETHING no matter how nice.

I’m surprised how active this club is.
Maybe I should dig out my Checkpoint and get it going again. Mine has some really F’d up stuff going on.
And someone stole parts out of the drop target bank, and parts for the 3-bank are impossible to get. The little metal tube that the springs go on for tension is missing.