Hello everyone,
I'm new to the forum and hope I can get some help with my "close encounters of the third kind" pinball machine. I want to restore it into it's original state (kinda in honor of my grandfather who recently passed away).
I'll try to be as thorough as possible. First time I booted close encounters nothing worked except the displays.
After opening the backbox the known issue of the leaked battery was clearly visible. I then changed the battery into an original (varta instead of data) and replaced a bunch of resistors, diodes and repinned almost everything of the MCU board. After that I put the MCU back, I was very happy as flippers, drop down, sounds, roto target all worked, everything seemed to work except the displays.

But now, the game seems to be stuck in some kind of game state... The moment I push the "ON" switch I can immediately control the flippers and basically start playing without putting in a coin. The drop targets don't reset and roto target also doesn't work. I think i've measured all possible voltages which are OK, all fuses are OK. I don't think the MCU is dead but just stuck in some kind of mode and it can't be reset. I believe it has something to do the with the reset circuit...

To summarize after pushing ON button:
- flippers work
- poppers work
- drop target and roto target doesn't work
- outhole doesn't "reset" the game
- All voltages are OK (MCU, PS, Display)
- Displays don't work

I hope I was a bit clear on the problem and hope someone can help me out.

I also made a quick vid and put it on youtube:

Thanks in advance!

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Tuukka thanks for the reply!
Had to wait for my scope before I could decently measure something.
From the info I have (Pinrepair.com), after power up TC1 pin14 should drop to -12V and rapidly change to +5V.
As you can see below, this is happens... only it's -10.6V and +4.9V. So I'm guessing the reset circuit is ok, although the time is very short (87ms)
Do you have any idea how long it should be?

I also checked the clock circuit, although I'm getting pulses not sure if it's ok. The top leg of the crystal (big one, left side of the board) pulses (at 3.57MHz), but the bottom leg doesn't pulse (steady -0.3V). I checked TC1 pins 1-13 and have pulses on 1-9 and steady 5V on pins 10-13

@TC1 Pin14 Reset circuit (PB on/off):
TC1 Pin14 ON OFF (resized).png

@Top leg crystal
Top leg of crystal (resized).png

@Bottom leg crystal
bottom leg of crystal (resized).png

These are all measured at TC1, I'll try to measure at the chips directly. In the meantime any other ideas?

Edit: Game over relay is indeed active.

Thanks in advance!

Tuukka ; I checked TC2 pin 11 and I'm having 198kHz CPU clock.

I also checked Z27 and Z29, but all outputs (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14) are low... 5V is also present at pin 14 and following schematics this is connected to "adjustable parameter matrix".
Are this the small switches on top or what is this matrix?

Can I assume as all outputs are low, something is wrong with these two? I would think that because I changed the battery and a bunch of resistors. The problem would lie somewhere in this location. I'm starting to think I did some wrong repinning, although I changed pin per pin.

TC2 Pin11 Clock Pulse (resized).PNG

Z27 (resized).png

Tuukka I checked Z27 and Z29 again and compared input vs. output. States are inverted, but I'm not seeing any pulses (only some noise as you can see in the first pic (Z29 pin 8)... Can I assume CPU is not running? Which IC is the "main CPU" I havn't been able to figure that out yet.
Output 8 Z29 (resized).png

I do however measured DS1,DS2 and DS3 and I'm seeing some pulsing on top of the 5V DC (second pic but with AC coupling).

DS AC coupling (resized).png