Party Animal

Partial

Bally1987bally.party-animal.1987

OPDB IPDB bally/party-animal-1987.mdbally/party-animal-1987.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
prtyanim

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
12–40 (21)
Lamps
10–95 (66)

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.

21 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.
21 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
12
W12
switch.w12 candidate
13
W13
switch.w13 candidate
16
Sw16
switch.sw16 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
25
W25
switch.w25 candidate
26
W26
switch.w26 candidate
27
W27
switch.w27 candidate
28
W28
switch.w28 candidate
29
W29
switch.w29 candidate
30
W30
switch.w30 candidate
31
W31
switch.w31 candidate
32
W32
switch.w32 candidate
36
W36
switch.w36 candidate
37
W37
switch.w37 candidate
38
W38
switch.w38 candidate
39
Sw39
switch.sw39 candidate
40
W40
switch.w40 candidate

Controlled devices

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

Lamps

66

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.
66 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
10
L10
lamp.l10 candidate
11
L11
lamp.l11 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
29
L29
lamp.l29 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
45
L45
lamp.l45 candidate
47
L47
lamp.l47 candidate
49
L49
lamp.l49 candidate
50
L50
lamp.l50 candidate
51
L51
lamp.l51 candidate
52
L52
lamp.l52 candidate
53
L53
lamp.l53 candidate
54
L54
lamp.l54 candidate
55
L55
lamp.l55 candidate
56
L56
lamp.l56 candidate
57
L57
lamp.l57 candidate
58
L58
lamp.l58 candidate
59
L59
lamp.l59 candidate
61
L61
lamp.l61 candidate
63
L63
lamp.l63 candidate
65
L65
lamp.l65 candidate
66
L66
lamp.l66 candidate
67
L67
lamp.l67 candidate
68
L68
lamp.l68 candidate
69
L69
lamp.l69 candidate
70
L70
lamp.l70 candidate
71
L71
lamp.l71 candidate
72
L72
lamp.l72 candidate
73
L73
lamp.l73 candidate
74
L74
lamp.l74 candidate
75
L75
lamp.l75 candidate
79
L79
lamp.l79 candidate
81
L81
lamp.l81 candidate
82
L82
lamp.l82 candidate
83
L83
lamp.l83 candidate
84
L84
lamp.l84 candidate
85
L85
lamp.l85 candidate
86
L86
lamp.l86 candidate
87
L87
lamp.l87 candidate
88
L88
lamp.l88 candidate
89
L89
lamp.l89 candidate
90
L90
lamp.l90 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.prtyanim 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 prtyanim, description "Party Animal", manufacturer "Bally", catalog year "1987".
  • OPDB record G42Zz-MeP7R (IPDB 1763) names this machine "Party Animal" (Bally, manufacture date 1987-05-01); 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 prtyanim; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • prtyanig (1987, Bally, clone of prtyanim).
  • prtyanim (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 87 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
prtyanimParty Animal 1987——
prtyanigParty Animal (German) 1987prtyanim—

Parent set: prtyanim — 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.d219383ae6888258

    vpx-standalone-scripts: Party Animal (Bally 1987)/Party Animal (Bally 1987).vbs

    15d112648a1b
    by
    Authors credited in Party Animal (Bally 1987)/Party Animal (Bally 1987).vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    15d112648a1b
    sha256
    d219383ae688…

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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