Hey all,

First post, happy to be here. I've been a pinball enthusiast for many years, but have never owned a machine until recently. I was gifted a Captain Fantastic, that is in fair shape, but something I will slowly work on.

Excluding the usual maintenance items (rubbers, flippers, ball, etc.), it's in great shape.

OK, on to the issue I'm having.

The game will keep scoring correctly DURING PLAY, but during the bonus tally, it seems to go completely overboard with the amount of points, especially when A+B are lit for the double bonus. I've easily had 100,000 bonus points at the end of a ball play. Based on what I know of the game and what I've seen, and knowing the top score (on modified) is 199,990, there appears to be something wrong.

Any suggestions on where to look?

I appreciate any help or pointing me in the right direction. Thanks all!

Marc

Cheers!

Thanks for the reply, I really appreciate it.

Yes, this is the EM version of the game.

Let's say that the 10,000 is lit for the bonus and double-bonus is not lit. It will start to count down from 10,000, but sometimes it will get stuck on say 6,000 and give me about 40,000 points.

I haven't played a working version of this pin to know for sure on how the bonus is supposed to add up (and the manual doesn't go into details), but based on the games I've played in the past, If it's at 10,000, I should get a total of 10,000 points, or 20,000 if it's double bonus. Is that correct?

Oh, and thanks for the heads up on the tech em forum, I should have posted it here.

Marc

Yeah, it's certainly the stepper unit - took a video, it clearly isn't properly rotating.

Gonna take it apart tomorrow, clean and lubricate.

Thanks for the help!

Well, I took it apart, cleaned it and lubricated both the wheel and the Solenoid, but it's still happening. However, I did learn something in the process.

If I manually fire the selenoid, even partially in, it will ALWAYS catch and move the stepper 1 step as expected. But, I just can't seem to explain why it gets stuck when the machine is doing it. Could the springs be loose? I was thinking maybe the teeth were too worn, but it catches 100% of the time when I manually fire it.

So odd - kind of out of ideas at this point.

Any ideas?

(By the way, this is fun - I enjoy troubleshooting issues like this, will be amazing once it's resolved.

Marc

P.S. Is there a way to move this thread to another forum topic?

You've been great man, I appreciate it. Yup, I'll start another thread there and see what we can find out.