The Addams Family Gold

Partial

Bally1994WPC-FLIPTRONICbally.the-addams-family-gold.1994 1 of 2 editions

OPDB IPDB bally/the-addams-family-gold-1994.mdbally/the-addams-family-gold-1994.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
tafg_lx3

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

Controller platform
pinmame.wpc-fliptronic

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
25–87 (43)
Solenoids
1–28 (13)
GI
2–2 (1)

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.

43 addresses

Switch map

Column × row matrix — the address is column·row.

used unused
 
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
43 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
25
W25
switch.w25 candidate
26
W26
switch.w26 candidate
27
W27
switch.w27 candidate
31
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate
32
Bumper2
switch.bumper2 candidate
33
Bumper3
switch.bumper3 candidate
34
Bumper4
switch.bumper4 candidate
35
Bumper5
switch.bumper5 candidate
36
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot candidate
37
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
38
W38
switch.w38 candidate
41
W41
switch.w41 candidate
42
W42
switch.w42 candidate
43
Chair Kicker
switch.chair-kicker candidate
44
W44a1
switch.w44a1 candidate
45
W45
switch.w45 candidate
47
W47
switch.w47 candidate
48
W48
switch.w48 candidate
51
W51
switch.w51 candidate
53
W53
switch.w53 candidate
54
W54
switch.w54 candidate
55
W55
switch.w55 candidate
56
W56
switch.w56 candidate
57
W57
switch.w57 candidate
58
W58
switch.w58 candidate
61
W61
switch.w61 candidate
62
W62
switch.w62 candidate
63
W63
switch.w63 candidate
64
W64
switch.w64 candidate
65
W65
switch.w65 candidate
66
W66
switch.w66 candidate
67
W67
switch.w67 candidate
68
W68
switch.w68 candidate
71
W71
switch.w71 candidate
72
W72
switch.w72 candidate
73
Swamp Release Kicker
switch.swamp-release-kicker candidate
74
Swamp Lock Up
switch.swamp-lock-up candidate
75
W75
switch.w75 candidate
76
W76
switch.w76 candidate
77
Thing Magnet
switch.thing-magnet candidate
78
W78
switch.w78 candidate
86
W86
switch.w86 candidate
87
Thing Magnet
switch.thing-magnet-87 candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

13
13 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
Chair
coil.chair candidate
2
Knocker
coil.knocker candidate
6
Thing Magnet
coil.thing-magnet candidate
7
Thing Kickout
coil.thing-kickout candidate
8
Lockup Kickout
coil.lockup-kickout candidate
17
Telephone Flasher
coil.telephone-flasher candidate
18
Train Flasher
coil.train-flasher candidate
19
Lower Ramp Flasher
coil.lower-ramp-flasher candidate
20
Llightning Bolt Flasher
coil.llightning-bolt-flasher candidate
21
Rlightning Bolt Flasher
coil.rlightning-bolt-flasher candidate
22
The Power Flasher
coil.the-power-flasher candidate
26
Thing Eject Hole
coil.thing-eject-hole candidate
28
Swamp Release
coil.swamp-release candidate

General illumination

1
1 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
2
Gi 2
gi.gi-2 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.tafg_lx3 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 tafg_lx3, description "Addams Family Special Collectors Edition / Gold, The (LX-3)", manufacturer "Bally", catalog year "1994".
  • OPDB record G4ODR-MLzY7 (IPDB 21) names this machine "The Addams Family Gold" (Bally, manufacture date 1994-01-01); 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 tafg_lx3; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • tafg_da2 (1994, Bally, clone of tafg_lx3).
  • tafg_da3 (1994, Bally, clone of tafg_lx3).
  • tafg_dx3 (1994, Bally, clone of tafg_lx3).
  • tafg_h3 (1994, Bally, clone of tafg_lx3).
  • tafg_i3 (1994, Bally, clone of tafg_lx3).
  • tafg_i3bs (2026, Bally / RedBall, clone of tafg_lx3).
  • tafg_la2 (1994, Bally, clone of tafg_lx3).
  • tafg_la3 (1994, Bally, clone of tafg_lx3).
  • tafg_lx3 (1994, Bally).

PinMAME source contract (candidate)

  • The pinned PinMAME source declares tafg_lx3 at src/wpc/sims/wpc/full/taf.c:557 with machine module wpc_mFliptronS; the definition declares controller platform pinmame.wpc-fliptronic from it.

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 57 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
tafg_i3bsAddams Family Special Collectors Edition / Gold, The (I-3 LED Ghost Fix + Ballsaver MOD) 2026tafg_lx3—
tafg_lx3Addams Family Special Collectors Edition / Gold, The (LX-3) 1994——
tafg_la3Addams Family Special Collectors Edition / Gold, The (LA-3) 1994tafg_lx3—
tafg_la2Addams Family Special Collectors Edition / Gold, The (LA-2) 1994tafg_lx3—
tafg_i3Addams Family Special Collectors Edition / Gold, The (I-3 LED Ghost Fix) 1994tafg_lx3—
tafg_h3Addams Family Special Collectors Edition / Gold, The (H-3) 1994tafg_lx3—
tafg_dx3Addams Family Special Collectors Edition / Gold, The (DX-3 LED Ghost Fix) 1994tafg_lx3—
tafg_da3Addams Family Special Collectors Edition / Gold, The (DA-3 LED Ghost Fix) 1994tafg_lx3—

Parent set: tafg_lx3 — clones share this definition unless a hardware difference is noted.

Pinball memory maps

External source LGPL-3.0-only3 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.

tafg_h3.map.json

williams-wpc-8Kv7format 0.8

maps/williams/wpc/tafg_h3.map.json

Applies to ROMs
tafg_h3tafg_i3
Sections
auditschecksum16checksum8game_statehigh_scoreslast_played
Map JSONMap sourcePlatform JSONPlatform source

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

tafg_la2.map.json

williams-wpc-8Kv7format 0.8

maps/williams/wpc/tafg_la2.map.json

Applies to ROMs
tafg_da2tafg_la2
Sections
auditschecksum16checksum8game_statehigh_scoreslast_played
Map JSONMap sourcePlatform JSONPlatform source

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

tafg_lx3.map.json

williams-wpc-8Kv6format 0.8

maps/williams/wpc/tafg_lx3.map.json

Applies to ROMs
tafg_da3tafg_dx3tafg_la3tafg_lx3
Sections
auditschecksum16checksum8game_statehigh_scoreslast_played
Map JSONMap sourcePlatform JSONPlatform source

williams-wpc-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/sims/wpc/full/taf.c:557 (machine module wpc_mFliptronS)

    src/wpc/sims/wpc/full/taf.c
    by
    PinMAME contributors
    rev
    8371478a7640

  • VPX script

    vpx-script.f93436b7028810ec

    vpxtable-scripts: The Addams Family Gold (Williams 1994) v1.4.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in The Addams Family Gold (Williams 1994) v1.4.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    f93436b70288…

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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Other editions

The Addams Family shipped in 2 editions with different playfields. Compare what each one actually has before building against this definition.

All 2 editions of The Addams Family, side by side

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