Lady Luck

Partial
Completion13%

Bally1986bally.lady-luck.1986 Updated 2026-08-30

OPDB IPDB bally/lady-luck-1986.mdbally/lady-luck-1986.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
ladyluck

1 ROM set 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
13–40 (24)
Solenoids
15–15 (1)

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.

24 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
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
24 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
13
Sw13
switch.sw13 candidate
16
W16
switch.w16 candidate
17
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate
18
Bumper2
switch.bumper2 candidate
19
Bumper3
switch.bumper3 candidate
20
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
21
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot 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
28
Sw28
switch.sw28 candidate
29
Sw29
switch.sw29 candidate
30
W30
switch.w30 candidate
31
W31
switch.w31 candidate
32
W32
switch.w32 candidate
33
W33
switch.w33 candidate
34
W34
switch.w34 candidate
35
W35
switch.w35 candidate
36
W36
switch.w36 candidate
39
W39
switch.w39 candidate
40
W40
switch.w40 candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

1
1 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
15
Sol Knocker
coil.sol-knocker 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.ladyluck 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 ladyluck, description "Lady Luck", manufacturer "Bally", catalog year "1986".
  • OPDB record GR0nO-MdE2B (IPDB 1402) names this machine "Lady Luck" (Bally, manufacture date 1986-02-01); 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 ladyluck; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • ladyluck (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 25 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
ladyluckLady Luck 1986——

Parent set: ladyluck — 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.21d2281dae23a979

    vpxtable-scripts: Lady Luck (Bally 1986) 1.1.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Lady Luck (Bally 1986) 1.1.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    21d2281dae23…

Something wrong or missing?

This definition still has 14 unmet requirements, listed under Missing data below. 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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Missing data

What this game definition still needs to reach 100% and become author-ready.

  • ROM compatibility

    Verify which PinMAME drivers and firmware variants belong to this physical machine.

  • Controller hardware

    Identify the controller platform and validate its public address and routing rules.

  • Complete input inventory

    Account for every switch, service input and diagnostic address, including unused positions.

  • Input functions

    Validate which physical sensor or cabinet control each input represents and when it activates.

  • Complete output inventory

    Account for every coil, motor, lamp, flasher and general-illumination circuit, including unused addresses.

  • Output functions

    Validate the physical device, function and fitted quantity behind each output binding.

  • Displays

    Verify every display, its layout and its controller bindings.

  • Mechanism inventory

    Document every mechanism, its moving parts, actuators, sensors and connections.

  • Mechanism behavior

    Validate mechanism operation, ball paths, home positions, startup and reset behavior.

  • Switch construction and polarity

    Verify normally open or closed contacts and how PinMAME delivers their active states.

  • Edition and firmware differences

    Document supported hardware and firmware differences without combining incompatible editions.

  • Recreation knowledge

    Complete the source-backed behavior and assembly notes needed to recreate the machine.

  • Evidence and sources

    Back the remaining claims with attributable sources, exact locators, retained excerpts and verified hashes.

  • Physical device locations

    Establish validated playfield locations for every physical sensor, actuator and light emitter, including bulb counts and justified projections.

Missing locations · 25