Hardbody

Partial

Bally1987bally.hardbody.1987

OPDB IPDB bally/hardbody-1987.mdbally/hardbody-1987.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
hardbody

3 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
1–48 (29)
Solenoids
5–20 (6)
Lamps
10–95 (58)

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
1
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
2
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot candidate
12
W12a
switch.w12a candidate
13
W13a
switch.w13a candidate
16
Sw16a
switch.sw16a 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
Sw27
switch.sw27 candidate
29
W29
switch.w29 candidate
30
W30
switch.w30 candidate
31
W31
switch.w31 candidate
32
W32
switch.w32 candidate
36
Sw36
switch.sw36 candidate
37
Sw37
switch.sw37 candidate
39
Sol Left Ramp
switch.sol-left-ramp candidate
40
Sol Ramp Down
switch.sol-ramp-down candidate
41
Sw41
switch.sw41 candidate
42
Sw42
switch.sw42 candidate
43
Sw43
switch.sw43 candidate
44
W44
switch.w44 candidate
45
W45
switch.w45 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

6
6 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
5
Reset Drops
coil.reset-drops candidate
6
Sol Left Ramp
coil.sol-left-ramp candidate
7
Sol Ramp Down
coil.sol-ramp-down candidate
8
Sol Right Ramp
coil.sol-right-ramp candidate
18
Sol RDIV
coil.sol-rdiv candidate
20
Sol LDIV
coil.sol-ldiv candidate

Lamps

58

Lamp 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
81–88
89–96
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
58 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
10
L10
lamp.l10 candidate
11
L11
lamp.l11 candidate
12
L12
lamp.l12 candidate
13
L13
lamp.l13 candidate
14
L14
lamp.l14 candidate
15
L15
lamp.l15 candidate
17
L17
lamp.l17 candidate
18
L18
lamp.l18 candidate
19
L19
lamp.l19 candidate
20
L20
lamp.l20 candidate
21
L21
lamp.l21 candidate
22
L22
lamp.l22 candidate
23
L23
lamp.l23 candidate
24
L24
lamp.l24 candidate
25
L25
lamp.l25 candidate
26
L26
lamp.l26 candidate
27
L27
lamp.l27 candidate
28
L28
lamp.l28 candidate
29
L29
lamp.l29 candidate
30
L30a
lamp.l30a candidate
31
L31
lamp.l31 candidate
33
L33
lamp.l33 candidate
34
L34
lamp.l34 candidate
35
L35
lamp.l35 candidate
36
L36
lamp.l36 candidate
37
L37
lamp.l37 candidate
38
L38
lamp.l38 candidate
39
L39
lamp.l39 candidate
40
L40
lamp.l40 candidate
41
L41
lamp.l41 candidate
42
L42
lamp.l42 candidate
43
L43
lamp.l43 candidate
44
L44
lamp.l44 candidate
45
L45
lamp.l45 candidate
46
L46a
lamp.l46a candidate
47
L47
lamp.l47 candidate
52
L52
lamp.l52 candidate
54
L54
lamp.l54 candidate
56
L56
lamp.l56 candidate
60
L60
lamp.l60 candidate
61
L61
lamp.l61 candidate
62
L62
lamp.l62 candidate
63
L63
lamp.l63 candidate
67
L67
lamp.l67 candidate
68
L68
lamp.l68 candidate
69
L69
lamp.l69 candidate
72
L72
lamp.l72 candidate
76
L76
lamp.l76 candidate
77
L77
lamp.l77 candidate
79
L79
lamp.l79 candidate
83
L83
lamp.l83 candidate
84
L84
lamp.l84 candidate
85
L85
lamp.l85 candidate
88
L88
lamp.l88 candidate
91
L91
lamp.l91 candidate
92
L92
lamp.l92 candidate
93
L93
lamp.l93 candidate
95
L95
lamp.l95 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.hardbody 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 hardbody, description "Hardbody (rev. C)", manufacturer "Bally", catalog year "1987".
  • OPDB record GRbX3-M7ZK3 (IPDB 1122) names this machine "Hardbody" (Bally, manufacture date 1987-03-01); 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 hardbody; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • hardbdyd (1987, Bally, clone of hardbody).
  • hardbdyg (1987, Bally, clone of hardbody).
  • hardbody (1987, 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 93 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
hardbodyHardbody (rev. C) 1987——
hardbdygHardbody (German rev. B) 1987hardbody—
hardbdydHardbody (rev. D) 1987hardbody—

Parent set: hardbody — 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.964740d6d0e4a352

    vpxtable-scripts: Hardbody (Bally 1987) Physics Sound Hybrid MOD.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Hardbody (Bally 1987) Physics Sound Hybrid MOD.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    964740d6d0e4…

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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