Mr. & Mrs. Pac-Man

Partial

Bally1982BY35bally.mr-mrs-pac-man.1982

OPDB IPDB bally/mr-mrs-pac-man-1982.mdbally/mr-mrs-pac-man-1982.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
m_mpac

3 ROM sets resolve to this machine. Clones share the definition unless a hardware difference is listed.

Controller platform
pinmame.by35

PinMAME already reports logical active state. Do not invert again in the table — normally-closed is a physical fact recorded per switch, not a runtime transform.

Displays

No display inventory recorded yet.

Address space
Switches
12–40 (16)
Solenoids
1–19 (16)

Coverage

Partial

Real evidence exists, but authoring requirements are still missing or in conflict. Verify before shipping a table.

Completion19%

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 · 13
Driver MappingInput 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.

16 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.
16 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
12
Sw12
switch.sw12 candidate
13
Sw13
switch.sw13 candidate
14
Sw14
switch.sw14 candidate
17
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate
18
Bumper2
switch.bumper2 candidate
19
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
20
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot candidate
21
Sw21
switch.sw21 candidate
29
Sw29a
switch.sw29a candidate
30
Sw30a
switch.sw30a candidate
34
Sw34
switch.sw34 candidate
35
Sw35
switch.sw35 candidate
36
Sw36
switch.sw36 candidate
38
Sw38
switch.sw38 candidate
39
Sw39
switch.sw39 candidate
40
Sw40
switch.sw40 candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

16
16 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
LSaucer L
coil.lsaucer-l candidate
2
LSaucer R
coil.lsaucer-r candidate
3
RSaucer
coil.rsaucer candidate
6
Sol Knocker
coil.sol-knocker candidate
7
Ball Release
coil.ball-release candidate
8
LReset1
coil.lreset1 candidate
9
LJet
coil.ljet candidate
10
RJet
coil.rjet candidate
11
LSling
coil.lsling candidate
12
RSling
coil.rsling candidate
13
Target Reset L
coil.target-reset-l candidate
14
Target Reset R
coil.target-reset-r candidate
15
Target Reset3
coil.target-reset3 candidate
17
Sol Div
coil.sol-div candidate
18
CLo
coil.clo candidate
19
Enable
coil.enable 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.m_mpac 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 m_mpac, description "Mr. & Mrs. Pac-Man Pinball", manufacturer "Bally", catalog year "1982".
  • OPDB record Gr2Dk-MQNy7 (IPDB 1639) names this machine "Mr. & Mrs. Pac-Man" (Bally, manufacture date 1982-05-01); 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 m_mpac; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • m_mpac (1982, Bally).
  • m_mpaca (2004, Bally / Oliver, clone of m_mpac).
  • m_mpacb (????, Bally, clone of m_mpac).

PinMAME source contract (candidate)

  • The pinned PinMAME source declares m_mpac at src/wpc/by35games.c:1608 with machine module by35_mBY35_61S; the definition declares controller platform pinmame.by35 from it.

VPX script candidates (candidate)

  • 2 retained community table script(s) declare this machine's driver; their extracted switch/lamp/solenoid/GI candidates are carried as 32 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

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
m_mpacbMr. & Mrs. Pac-Man Pinball (alternate version) ????m_mpac—
m_mpacaMr. & Mrs. Pac-Man Pinball (Free Play) 2004m_mpac—
m_mpacMr. & Mrs. Pac-Man Pinball 1982——

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

Pinball memory maps

External source LGPL-3.0-only2 maps

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.

system-rom-53-freeplay.map.json

bally-35-8Kv3format 0.8

maps/bally/as-2518-35/system-rom-53-freeplay.map.json

Applies to ROMs
m_mpaca
Also covers
bmxacybrnauaelektraafathomafbclassakosteelamedusaaspyhuntavectoraxsandosa
Sections
adjustmentsauditsgame_statehigh_scores
Map JSONMap sourcePlatform JSONPlatform source

bally-35-8K defines the RAM layout this map’s offsets are read against — the map is not interpretable without it.

system-rom-53.map.json

bally-35-8Kv4format 0.8

maps/bally/as-2518-35/system-rom-53.map.json

Applies to ROMs
m_mpacm_mpacb
Also covers
bmxcybrnautelektrafathomfbclasskosteelmedusamedusafspyhuntrvectorxsandos
Sections
adjustmentsauditsgame_statehigh_scores
Map JSONMap sourcePlatform JSONPlatform source

bally-35-8K 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.core.8371478a7640

    src/wpc/by35games.c:1608 (machine module by35_mBY35_61S)

    src/wpc/by35games.c
    by
    PinMAME contributors
    rev
    8371478a7640

  • VPX script

    vpx-script.0032275517729466

    vpxtable-scripts: Mr. and Mrs. Pac-Man (Bally 1982) 1.0.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Mr. and Mrs. Pac-Man (Bally 1982) 1.0.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    003227551772…

  • VPX script

    vpx-script.c6304315074e7b15

    vpxtable-scripts: Mr_and_Mrs_PAC-MAN VPX_1.2.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Mr_and_Mrs_PAC-MAN VPX_1.2.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    c6304315074e…

Something wrong or missing?

This definition still has 13 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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