Mystery Castle

Partial

Alvin G1993alvin-g.mystery-castle.1993

OPDB IPDB alvin-g/mystery-castle-1993.mdalvin-g/mystery-castle-1993.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
mystcast

2 ROM sets resolve to this machine. Clones share the definition unless a hardware difference is listed.

Controller platform
Not determined
Displays

No display inventory recorded yet.

Address space
Switches
17–55 (21)
Solenoids
6–32 (20)

Coverage

Partial

Real evidence exists, but authoring requirements are still missing or in conflict. Verify before shipping a table.

Completion13%

Progress is derived from the fixed author-readiness requirements. It helps rank unfinished work, but only a 100% author-ready definition passes the publication gate.

Catalog Identity
validated
Address Enumeration
unknown
Semantic Naming
unknown
Physical Wiring
unknown
Mechanisms
unknown
Variant Coverage
candidate
Recreation Knowledge
unknown
Still missing · 14
Driver MappingController PlatformInput EnumerationInput SemanticsOutput EnumerationOutput SemanticsDisplay InventoryMechanism InventoryMechanism BehaviorPolarityVariant DifferencesRecreation NotesProvenanceSpatial Placement

Switches

The addresses PinMAME reports as closed. Numbers are the public API values, not matrix hardware pins.

21 addresses

Switch map

Sequential addresses, grouped in columns of eight.

used unused
 
+0
+1
+2
+3
+4
+5
+6
+7
1–8
9–16
17–24
25–32
33–40
41–48
49–56
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
21 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
17
Sw17
switch.sw17 candidate
18
Sol Ball Release
switch.sol-ball-release candidate
21
Sw21
switch.sw21 candidate
23
Sw23
switch.sw23 candidate
24
Sw24
switch.sw24 candidate
25
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate
26
Bumper2
switch.bumper2 candidate
27
Left Slingshot
switch.left-slingshot candidate
28
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot candidate
29
Sw29
switch.sw29 candidate
30
Sw30
switch.sw30 candidate
31
Sw31
switch.sw31 candidate
32
Sw32
switch.sw32 candidate
39
Sw39
switch.sw39 candidate
45
Sw45
switch.sw45 candidate
46
Sw46
switch.sw46 candidate
47
Sw47
switch.sw47 candidate
48
Sw48
switch.sw48 candidate
53
Sw53
switch.sw53 candidate
54
Sw54
switch.sw54 candidate
55
Sw55
switch.sw55 candidate

Controlled devices

Everything the ROM can energise, grouped the way a table author builds it.

Coils, magnets & motors

20
20 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
6
Sol Kicker Mega Mode
coil.sol-kicker-mega-mode candidate
11
Reset Drops U
coil.reset-drops-u candidate
12
Reset Drops D
coil.reset-drops-d candidate
13
Sol Outhole
coil.sol-outhole candidate
14
Sol Knocker
coil.sol-knocker candidate
16
Sol F16
coil.sol-f16 candidate
17
Sol Flash17
coil.sol-flash17 candidate
18
Flash18
coil.flash18 candidate
19
Flash19
coil.flash19 candidate
20
Sol Flash20
coil.sol-flash20 candidate
21
Sol Flash21
coil.sol-flash21 candidate
22
Flash22
coil.flash22 candidate
23
Flash23
coil.flash23 candidate
24
Flash24
coil.flash24 candidate
26
Sol F26
coil.sol-f26 candidate
27
Sol Game On
coil.sol-game-on candidate
29
Back Relay Norm29
coil.back-relay-norm29 candidate
30
Sol Ball Release
coil.sol-ball-release candidate
31
Back Relay Doom31
coil.back-relay-doom31 candidate
32
Sol Diverterx
coil.sol-diverterx candidate

Recreation notes

Working knowledge that has no schema field yet — edition differences, tuning values, pitfalls.

Coverage: partial - machine identity plus candidate-only I/O attachments. Playfield devices, wiring, mechanisms, and behavior are evidenced only as unverified candidates.

This record was promoted from the generated catalog stub stub.pinmame.mystcast by the catalog-wide identity pass of 2026-08-29. The promotion resolves machine identity and carries the catalog's residual driver grouping over unchanged, the platform and device attachments below were added by the 2026-08-29/30 candidate passes and assert nothing beyond candidate provenance. Every requirement in the definition's coverage.missing is genuinely outstanding.

Identity

  • PinMAME catalog: root driver mystcast, description "Mystery Castle (R02)", manufacturer "Alvin G", catalog year "1993".
  • OPDB record G5vZZ-MQNNo (IPDB 1647) names this machine "Mystery Castle" (Alvin G. & Co, manufacture date 1993-01-09); the resolved identity rests on the agreement of the PinMAME catalog and this reviewed mapping.
  • The definition's driver list is exactly the clone tree PinMAME declares under mystcast; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • mystcasa (199?, Alvin G, clone of mystcast).
  • mystcast (1993, Alvin G).

VPX script candidates (candidate)

  • 1 retained community table script(s) declare this machine's driver; their extracted switch/lamp/solenoid/GI candidates are carried as 41 candidate devices. When curator work weighs sources, a retained script outranks emulator-derived candidates for runtime semantics, but every device here is still a candidate until a known-working table is verified against this exact physical machine.

What a curator must establish next

Controller platform from the pinned PinMAME driver source; full input, output, and display enumeration with semantic names; physical wiring and polarity; mechanism inventory and behavior; variant differences across the clone tree; recreation knowledge from a manual, schematic, or known-working table; runtime provenance; and a normalized spatial placement for every physical device. No manual, schematic, or runtime-harness evidence is retained for this machine yet; the candidate sections above are the only retained I/O evidence so far.

ROM sets

Every driver that resolves to this physical machine.

ROM set Description Year Parent Hardware
mystcastMystery Castle (R02) 1993——
mystcasaMystery Castle (R03) 199?mystcast—

Parent set: mystcast — clones share this definition unless a hardware difference is noted.

Pinball memory maps

External source LGPL-3.0-only1 map

RAM layouts published by an independent project and mirrored here at a pinned commit. They are not part of this machine’s definition: nothing below was used as evidence for the definition, and none of it counts towards coverage. Check claims against the upstream project.

Upstream
tomlogic/pinball-memory-maps
Commit
d8693b9

This program makes use of content from the Pinball Memory Maps project.

mystcast.map.json

alvingv2format 0.8

maps/alving/mystcast.map.json

Applies to ROMs
mystcast
Sections
high_scores
Map JSONMap sourcePlatform JSONPlatform source

alving defines the RAM layout this map’s offsets are read against — the map is not interpretable without it.

Evidence

Every claim above traces to one of these. When they disagree: a known-working VPX script wins on controller addresses and causality, the manual wins on wiring and construction, pinned PinMAME wins on emulator routing and display layout.

  • PinMAME catalog

    BSD-3-Clause

    pinmame.catalog.8371478a7640

    PinmameGetGames

    8371478a7640
    by
    PinMAME contributors
    rev
    8371478a7640

  • VPX script

    vpx-script.1feb341341cba7be

    vpxtable-scripts: Mystery Castle (Alvin G 1993) v.2.3.1.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Mystery Castle (Alvin G 1993) v.2.3.1.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    1feb341341cb…

Something wrong or missing?

This definition still has 14 unmet requirements, listed under Coverage above. Fixes belong in the definition itself — editing on GitHub forks it for you and opens the pull request.

Cite a source for anything you change — a manual page, a line in a working VPX script, PinMAME source, or a reading from the machine's own service menu. Claims without provenance cannot be validated.

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