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Allied Leisure Industries (ALI) pinball games - Troubleshooting and Information (as of March 22, 2008 )

ALI manufactured a number of pinball games all based on one MPU (Central Computer) board as shown below (MPU Version 2). The MPU was powered by a single +5VDC power supply usually located on the bottom of the cabinet. (see below), and you want to make sure it does produce 5VDC (+/- 0.25VDC) at the MPU. You can measure the 5VDC at the filter capacitor mounted on the lower left side of the MPU board (just below the three plastic plugs Green/White/Red on the far lower right of the MPU).

The pinball games made using this MPU (the features - lights, switches and coils - were re-arranged by ALI to change the rules for each game) include: DISCO 79 (c/t), EROS ONE (c/t), HEARTS & SPADES (c/t), HOE DOWN (u/r), ROY CLARK/THE ENTERTAINER (c/t), STAR SHOOTER (c/t), TAKE FIVE (c/t), THUNDERBOLT (u/r), and GETAWAY (u/r). u/r = standard upright pinball. c/t = cocktail style pinball.

We service the MPUs, and also sell manuals, rubber rings, lights, and other parts for these games! Email link at the bottom of the page...

Version 1 MPU board

Here is the 5VDC power supply that needs to be checked for proper voltage and that the capacitors are in good condition.

center oblect is the 5 Volt Power Supply

Another common problem with these games are the poor quality fuse holders - I recommend that you change any that are not a hard bakelite or plastic body with a new holder. We sell mulitfuse holders if you can't find them locally. Note the two pair of old fuse holders just to the left of the +5VDC Supply.
Old poor quality fuse holders (two pairs)

And now new fuse holders...

We have copies of ALI Operators Manuals including schematics, cabinet wiring diagrams, and troubleshooting for most ALI Solid State pinball games. These include: Getaway, Take Five, Eros, and others - some made by Fascination under license...

You can use an ALI 4 player board in a two player cocktail - the cabinet has a jumper to tell the board to be in either two or four player mode.

There are two versions of the ALI single board MPUs. The first version is recognizable by a collection of resistors along the bottom edge by the middle edge connector. These are 'keep-alive' resistors that are supposed to reduce the failure rate of the light bulbs. These resistors and the extra connector were dropped after game serial #282674. The first version MPU with the extra resistors also has an extra active (but unused) connector on the upper left edge of the MPU and that connector and the keep-alive resistors show up only on the revsion 1 MPU schematic.

In both cases the 6530's are the same versions are -09, -10, and -11. I am again working on replacements for these - have the design worked out, now am going to run off the circuit board to test. Should have results by the summer...note that the Bally Home Model Pinball games did NOT use the 6530 and this will NOT work for them. That will have to be a separate project - unlikely that I will attempt it as the payback is even worse than the time invested in the replacement 6530 RAM/ROM/I-O/Timer project.