Punchy the Clown

Partial

Alvin G1993alvin-g.punchy-the-clown.1993

OPDB IPDB alvin-g/punchy-the-clown-1993.mdalvin-g/punchy-the-clown-1993.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
punchy

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
18–48 (22)
Solenoids
16–31 (2)

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.

22 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
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
22 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
18
Sw18
switch.sw18 candidate
19
Sw19
switch.sw19 candidate
20
Sw20
switch.sw20 candidate
21
Sw21
switch.sw21 candidate
22
Sw22
switch.sw22 candidate
23
Sw23
switch.sw23 candidate
24
Sw24
switch.sw24 candidate
25
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate
26
Bumper3
switch.bumper3 candidate
27
Bumper2
switch.bumper2 candidate
28
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
29
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot candidate
30
Sw30
switch.sw30 candidate
31
Sw31
switch.sw31 candidate
32
Rlband007
switch.rlband007 candidate
40
Spinner
switch.spinner candidate
41
Sw41
switch.sw41 candidate
42
Sw42
switch.sw42 candidate
43
Sw43
switch.sw43 candidate
46
Sw46
switch.sw46 candidate
47
Sw47
switch.sw47 candidate
48
Sw48
switch.sw48 candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

2
2 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
16
Sol Gi
coil.sol-gi candidate
31
Sol Ticket
coil.sol-ticket 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.punchy 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 punchy, description "Punchy The Clown (R02)", manufacturer "Alvin G", catalog year "1993".
  • OPDB record G4x2P-MnK03 (IPDB 3508) names this machine "Punchy the Clown" (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 punchy; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • punchy (1993, Alvin G).
  • punchy3 (1993, Alvin G, clone of punchy).

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 24 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
punchy3Punchy The Clown (R03) 1993punchy—
punchyPunchy The Clown (R02) 1993——

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

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.15c7be735b9dcccf

    vpxtable-scripts: Punchy the Clown (Alvin G and Co 1993) v600.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Punchy the Clown (Alvin G and Co 1993) v600.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    15c7be735b9d…

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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