Hello All - I'm helping a friend with a Jungle Queen, and we're stuck with what seems to be a reset issue. Apparently, the game was working fine, and then someone tilted during game play. After that occurred, the game never reset properly again. It could be unrelated, but I'm mentioning it just for reference.

Here's what I know so far:

Upon turning the machine on, the score motor will begin turning, and the game will attempt to reset somewhat. The AX Relay (Reset Completed Relay) will stay pulled in and latched, so the game never completes it's cycle. If I manually release the latch, the reset process stops and score motor stops spinning. Manually adding a credit and pressing start will begin the loop all over again. I'm not sure if it's a stepper issue, or a switch issue somewhere... trying to sort it out.

Something, somewhere, is preventing the reset from completing I believe. I'm not as familiar with this era Gottlieb as I am with some other EM pins, so any advice is welcome. I have the "start up process" info, but I'm having some trouble sorting through all the complexities.

Thanks in advance for advice/assistance! I'll happily provide more info if it will help, let me know. I'm going back tomorrow and/or Monday to look at it again, so fire away with ideas.

Replied, thanks HowardR

Anyone else have any thoughts in the meantime? The complexity of the Player Unit and the stepper in the front right of the cabinet is different than other, older Gottliebs I've known.

I have the schematic, which is a plus, but Gottlieb AX/BX, Z1, Z2... they drive me nuts. I'm way better with Williams and Bally.

I'll have to check the score reels to see if they reset by adding something manually and trying to reset. If it helps, I can provide snippets from the schematic (since Gottlieb isn't a fan of sharing the whole thing around). Let me know what you'd like to see. Normally I'd be checking stuff like the zero position on the score reels, the Game Over and Tilt relays, etc... but with late gen Gottlieb EMs it feels like there are 20 things that go into that process I'm not used to.