Black Belt

Partial

Bally1986bally.black-belt.1986

OPDB IPDB bally/black-belt-1986.mdbally/black-belt-1986.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
blackblt

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
12–48 (29)
Solenoids
5–20 (9)
Lamps
105–109 (4)

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.

29 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.
29 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
12
Sw12
switch.sw12 candidate
13
Sw13
switch.sw13 candidate
16
Sw16
switch.sw16 candidate
17
Sw17
switch.sw17 candidate
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
Sw25
switch.sw25 candidate
26
Sw26
switch.sw26 candidate
27
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot candidate
28
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
29
Sw29
switch.sw29 candidate
30
Sw30
switch.sw30 candidate
31
Sw31
switch.sw31 candidate
32
Sw32
switch.sw32 candidate
33
Sw33
switch.sw33 candidate
34
Sw34
switch.sw34 candidate
35
Sw35
switch.sw35 candidate
36
Sw36
switch.sw36 candidate
37
Sw37
switch.sw37 candidate
38
Sw38
switch.sw38 candidate
39
Sw39
switch.sw39 candidate
40
Sw40
switch.sw40 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

9
9 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
5
Sol5
coil.sol5 candidate
6
Sol6
coil.sol6 candidate
7
Sol Kicker Left
coil.sol-kicker-left candidate
8
Sol Kicker Middle
coil.sol-kicker-middle candidate
9
Sol Kicker Right
coil.sol-kicker-right candidate
16
Sol17
coil.sol17 candidate
17
Sol17
coil.sol17-17 candidate
18
Sol Left Gate
coil.sol-left-gate candidate
20
Sol Right Gate
coil.sol-right-gate candidate

Lamps

4
4 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
105
Enabled
lamp.enabled candidate
106
Enabled
lamp.enabled-106 candidate
108
Enabled
lamp.enabled-108 candidate
109
Enabled
lamp.enabled-109 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.blackblt 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 blackblt, description "Black Belt", manufacturer "Bally", catalog year "1986".
  • OPDB record G562j-MDyoK (IPDB 303) names this machine "Black Belt" (Bally, manufacture date 1986-07-01); 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 blackblt; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • blackbl2 (1986, Bally, clone of blackblt).
  • blackblt (1986, Bally).

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 42 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
blackbltBlack Belt 1986——
blackbl2Black Belt (Squawk and Talk) 1986blackblt—

Parent set: blackblt — 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.0cf97b0b69dbf0bf

    vpxtable-scripts: Black Belt (Bally 1986) v600.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Black Belt (Bally 1986) v600.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    0cf97b0b69db…

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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