The PI-1 board is a direct replacement board for the original Gottlieb System1 CPU board. It is professionally manufactured, built around a modern and fast MPU. Thanks to its strong reliability, its many new & innovative features and its multilingual menus (6 languages available), its success has kept growing since its creation in 2001.
FEATURES
The PI-1 board gives a boost of additional modern features in reliability and playability:

• One board fits all games: forget all about specific game proms and dipswitches to set
• The circuit boards are integrally gold-plated for an even longer durability and almost zero-wear of the edge connectors
• All integrated circuits (ICs) are socketted (mostly on machine tool sockets) hence easily replaceable without need for specific tools, making maintenance easy and at a much lower cost
• Integral hardware protections against the most common failures, such as high voltage shorts from playfield coils & switches and, against faults from the main power supply: prevention of most common & destructive failures
• Additional advanced software protection against hang-up and data loss by built-in watchdog
• Energy saving board which drains less than 10% of the original board's current on +5V line
• Set of monitoring lights for CPU activity and +5V
• All game data (a.k.a. "bookkeeping") stored in a non-volatile memory, no more battery leakage & corrosion
• Monitoring LEDs for all 8 coils and status of outhole and slam switches: more diagnostics to fix faulty games' playfields
• Two additional header connectors for A1J6/A1J7 in case the original ones were too corroded to be usable still; the wires can then be rerouted onto those new headers
• All connectors are double sided; in case the lower side solder pad is damaged it is possible to restore the contact with a double-sided edge connector
• Entirely driven by text-style menus, no more obscure DIP Switches
• Clearly readable on-display configuration menus & messages in French, English, German, Portuguese, Italian & Spanish
• Installation manual in English with fully detailed yet simple explanations (so that anyone should be able to install the board)
  

Loads of new exciting features that may be enabled or disabled at will for full original game compatibility:
Playfield attract mode to scroll playfield lamps in game over as on modern games Skill shot upon ball launch: a precise target must be scored (randomly chosen among a given list for each game) to earn a bonus that increases with each success Multiple extraball, several extraballs can be cumulated per each ball in play Chance ball, gives the ball back if lost within a given time Top 5 high scores table with names and scrolling display Unlimited credits mode, no need for coins or to open up the coin door to add more plays Expert game level (points divided by 10 after 900,000 pts) 1-million points award Counts & displays score over 1,000,000 points; the scores display no longer rolls back to zero after 999,990 2 different tilt sensitivities Animated playfield lamps, the lamps of certain targets and rollovers flash briefly when scored Previous scores remembered at power-up Bonus up to 39,000 on certain games Provision for alternate game rules The Special feature can give 50,000 points or the extra ball feature can give 10,000 points: great for tournaments! A confirmation is now asked if the CREDIT button has been pressed to abort the game in play and restart a new one (kids..) Idle (power saving) mode that turns off the playfield lamps without any user's action for a long time
New advanced tests
Testing for stuck switches specifically associated with coils Drastically enhanced test modes for individual coil/lamp/digit/switch testing, including those special lamp-mapped coils (as on Buck Rogers for example) Smart coils mode, drop target bank reset coils are triggered in case of need only (spares both fuses and components)
Flipppin' marvellous novelties
Settings by means of a simple TV remote control (RCA Sony or multibrand), infrared sensor is optional Scores can be displayed on an optional giant 6-digit display (70cm x 20cm).

The PI-1/X4 board is an all-in-one direct replacement for the MPU, power supply and driver board (eliminating the need for an MPU to Driver board harness which is usually corroded), and supports sound/tones for early games (Cleopatra, Sinbad, Joker Poker, Close Encounters, Dragon, Charlie's Angels, Solar Ride, Count-Down, Pinball Pool). For later games using the advanced sound board, (Hulk, Totem, Genie, Buck Rogers, Roller Disco, Torch, Asteroid Annie and the Aliens), you must use your original sound board or the FLIPPP PI-FX/X4 add on card below.

The PI-FX/X4 board is a sound board meant to be used only with the PI-1X4 All-in-one System 1 board. It replaces the "advanced" sound board located on the right side of the body of these pinballs (A1J6 connector) and offers the same capabilities than the other sound boards at a much cheaper price! Easy install in 10 seconds: The board plugs onto the all-in-one board and the loudspeaker is connected via cable supplied with the MPU.

The PI-FX/1 board is a direct replacement board for the sound boards used in the last Gottlieb System-1 games which used the obsolete 6530 chip.

The PI-FX board is a direct replacement board for the sound boards used in the last Gottlieb System-1 games and the non speech capable sound boards in the System-80/80A games, which used the obsolete 6530 chip.

The PI-SAD4096 board is designed for the Bally Centaur pinball. It replaces the very prone to fail SAD4096 IC located on the SAY IT AGAIN AS-2518-81 reverb board on the right side panel of the backbox, just at the right of the sound board. No more reverb (echo) on your Centaur pinball? It's very easy: pull the SAD4096 from its socket and install this board instead!