Dr. Dude And His Excellent Ray

Partial

Bally1990bally.dr-dude-and-his-excellent-ray.1990

OPDB IPDB bally/dr-dude-and-his-excellent-ray-1990.mdbally/dr-dude-and-his-excellent-ray-1990.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
dd_l2

6 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
1–59 (51)
Solenoids
1–21 (14)

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.

51 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
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
51 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
Tilt
switch.tilt candidate
3
Start
switch.start candidate
7
Slam Tilt
switch.slam-tilt candidate
9
Shooter
switch.shooter candidate
10
Out Hole
switch.out-hole candidate
11
R Trough
switch.r-trough candidate
12
C Trough
switch.c-trough candidate
13
L Trough
switch.l-trough candidate
14
Heart
switch.heart candidate
15
Enter Ramp
switch.enter-ramp candidate
16
Ramp Made
switch.ramp-made candidate
17
Left Outlane
switch.left-outlane candidate
18
Right Outlane
switch.right-outlane candidate
19
Right Inlane
switch.right-inlane candidate
20
Left Inlane
switch.left-inlane candidate
21
R Drop1
switch.r-drop1 candidate
22
R Drop2
switch.r-drop2 candidate
23
R Drop3
switch.r-drop3 candidate
24
R Drop4
switch.r-drop4 candidate
25
Refle X
switch.refle-x candidate
26
Refl Ex
switch.refl-ex candidate
27
Ref Lex
switch.ref-lex candidate
28
Re Flex
switch.re-flex candidate
29
R Eflex
switch.r-eflex candidate
30
Reflex
switch.reflex candidate
31
Big Shot
switch.big-shot candidate
32
R Popper
switch.r-popper candidate
33
Mixer Gab T
switch.mixer-gab-t candidate
34
Mixer Gab M
switch.mixer-gab-m candidate
35
Mixer Gab B
switch.mixer-gab-b candidate
36
Mixer Heart L
switch.mixer-heart-l candidate
37
Mixer Heart M
switch.mixer-heart-m candidate
38
Mixer Heart R
switch.mixer-heart-r candidate
39
Top Left10
switch.top-left10 candidate
41
Mixer Mag T
switch.mixer-mag-t candidate
42
Mixer Mag M
switch.mixer-mag-m candidate
43
Mixer Mag B
switch.mixer-mag-b candidate
46
Mid Mid10
switch.mid-mid10 candidate
47
Mid Bot10
switch.mid-bot10 candidate
48
Mid Top10
switch.mid-top10 candidate
49
I Test
switch.i-test candidate
50
Magnet
switch.magnet candidate
51
L Popper
switch.l-popper candidate
52
Left Jet
switch.left-jet candidate
53
Right Jet
switch.right-jet candidate
54
Bottom Jet
switch.bottom-jet candidate
55
Left Sling
switch.left-sling candidate
56
Right Sling
switch.right-sling candidate
57
R Flip
switch.r-flip candidate
58
L Flip
switch.l-flip candidate
59
R Loop
switch.r-loop candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

14
14 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
Out Hole
coil.out-hole candidate
2
Trough
coil.trough candidate
3
L Popper
coil.l-popper candidate
4
R Popper
coil.r-popper candidate
6
Knocker
coil.knocker candidate
7
R Drop
coil.r-drop candidate
13
Magnet
coil.magnet candidate
14
Big Shot
coil.big-shot candidate
16
Motor
coil.motor candidate
17
Left Jet
coil.left-jet candidate
18
Left Sling
coil.left-sling candidate
19
Right Jet
coil.right-jet candidate
20
Right Sling
coil.right-sling candidate
21
Bottom Jet
coil.bottom-jet 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.dd_l2 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 dd_l2, description "Dr. Dude (LA-2)", manufacturer "Bally", catalog year "1990".
  • OPDB record GRVEJ-MDq1w (IPDB 737) names this machine "Dr. Dude And His Excellent Ray" (Bally, manufacture date 1990-01-01); 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 dd_l2; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • dd_l2 (1990, Bally).
  • dd_l3c (2016, Bally, clone of dd_l2).
  • dd_lu1 (1990, Bally, clone of dd_l2).
  • dd_p06 (1990, Bally, clone of dd_l2).
  • dd_p6 (1990, Bally, clone of dd_l2).
  • dd_p7 (1990, Bally, clone of dd_l2).

PinMAME source contract (candidate)

  • The pinned PinMAME source declares dd_l2 at src/wpc/sims/s11/full/dd.c:419 with machine module s11c_one; no platform is declared (no reviewed profile covers that module yet).
  • The driver source's named switch/solenoid symbols are carried as 65 candidate devices in the definition.

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
dd_l3cDr. Dude (LA-3C Competition MOD) 2016dd_l2—
dd_p7Dr. Dude (PA-7 WPC Prototype) 1990dd_l2—
dd_p06Dr. Dude (PA-6 WPC Prototype) 1990dd_l2—
dd_p6Dr. Dude (PA-6 Prototype) 1990dd_l2—
dd_lu1Dr. Dude (LU-1 Europe) 1990dd_l2—
dd_l2Dr. Dude (LA-2) 1990——

Parent set: dd_l2 — 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.

dd_l2.map.json

williams-system11-48Kv4format 0.8

maps/williams/system11/dd_l2.map.json

Applies to ROMs
dd_l2
Sections
auditschecksum8game_statehigh_scores
Map JSONMap sourcePlatform JSONPlatform source

williams-system11-48K 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

  • PinMAME source

    BSD-3-Clause

    pinmame.driver.dd

    src/wpc/sims/s11/full/dd.c switch/solenoid #define block

    src/wpc/sims/s11/full/dd.c
    by
    PinMAME contributors
    rev
    8371478a7640
    sha256
    4fcd4f623170…

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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