Pistol Poker

Partial

Alvin G1993alvin-g.pistol-poker.1993

OPDB IPDB alvin-g/pistol-poker-1993.mdalvin-g/pistol-poker-1993.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
pstlpkr

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
21–80 (45)
Solenoids
6–29 (12)

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.

45 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
57–64
65–72
73–80
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
45 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
21
Sw21
switch.sw21 candidate
23
Sw23
switch.sw23 candidate
24
Sw24
switch.sw24 candidate
25
Sw25
switch.sw25 candidate
26
Sw26
switch.sw26 candidate
27
Sw27
switch.sw27 candidate
28
Sw28
switch.sw28 candidate
29
Sw29
switch.sw29 candidate
30
Bumper L
switch.bumper-l candidate
31
Bumper R
switch.bumper-r candidate
32
Left Top Sling Shot
switch.left-top-sling-shot candidate
42
Sw42
switch.sw42 candidate
43
Sw43
switch.sw43 candidate
44
Sw44
switch.sw44 candidate
45
Sw45
switch.sw45 candidate
46
Sw46
switch.sw46 candidate
47
Sw47
switch.sw47 candidate
49
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
50
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot candidate
51
Top VUK
switch.top-vuk candidate
52
Sw52
switch.sw52 candidate
53
Sw53
switch.sw53 candidate
56
Sw56
switch.sw56 candidate
57
Sw57
switch.sw57 candidate
58
Sw58
switch.sw58 candidate
59
Sw59
switch.sw59 candidate
60
Sw60
switch.sw60 candidate
61
Sw61
switch.sw61 candidate
62
Sw62
switch.sw62 candidate
63
Sw63
switch.sw63 candidate
65
Sw65
switch.sw65 candidate
66
Sw66
switch.sw66 candidate
68
Sw68
switch.sw68 candidate
69
Sw69
switch.sw69 candidate
70
Sw70
switch.sw70 candidate
71
Sw71
switch.sw71 candidate
72
Sw72
switch.sw72 candidate
73
Sw73
switch.sw73 candidate
74
Sw74
switch.sw74 candidate
75
Sw75
switch.sw75 candidate
76
Sw76
switch.sw76 candidate
77
Sw77
switch.sw77 candidate
78
Sw78
switch.sw78 candidate
79
Sw79
switch.sw79 candidate
80
Sw80
switch.sw80 candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

12
12 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
6
Bs Lowerleft
coil.bs-lowerleft candidate
16
Play GI
coil.play-gi candidate
17
Sol17subroutine
coil.sol17subroutine candidate
18
Sol18subroutine
coil.sol18subroutine candidate
19
Sol19subroutine
coil.sol19subroutine candidate
20
Sol20subroutine
coil.sol20subroutine candidate
21
Sol21subroutine
coil.sol21subroutine candidate
22
Sol22subroutine
coil.sol22subroutine candidate
23
Sol23subroutine
coil.sol23subroutine candidate
24
Sol24subroutine
coil.sol24subroutine candidate
25
Vuk Top Pop
coil.vuk-top-pop candidate
29
Sol29subroutine
coil.sol29subroutine 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.pstlpkr 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 pstlpkr, description "Pistol Poker (R02)", manufacturer "Alvin G", catalog year "1993".
  • OPDB record GRLL9-MDOkz (IPDB 1805) names this machine "Pistol Poker" (Alvin G. & Co, manufacture date 1993-01-01); 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 pstlpkr; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • pstlpkr (1993, Alvin G).
  • pstlpkr1 (1993, Alvin G, clone of pstlpkr).

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 57 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
pstlpkr1Pistol Poker (R01) 1993pstlpkr—
pstlpkrPistol Poker (R02) 1993——

Parent set: pstlpkr — 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.

pstlpkr.map.json

alvingv1format 0.8

maps/alving/pstlpkr.map.json

Applies to ROMs
pstlpkr
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.be985f2207bf2e86

    vpxtable-scripts: Pistol Poker (Alvin G. and Company 1993)_V1.3.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Pistol Poker (Alvin G. and Company 1993)_V1.3.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    be985f2207bf…

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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