Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Partial

Data East1991DATAEASTdata-east.teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles.1991

OPDB IPDB data-east/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-1991.mddata-east/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-1991.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
tmnt_104

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

Controller platform
pinmame.dataeast

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
10–56 (33)
Solenoids
1–22 (7)
Lamps
10–61 (39)

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.

33 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
49–56
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
33 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
10
Drain
switch.drain candidate
11
Creat Balls
switch.creat-balls candidate
12
Creat Balls
switch.creat-balls-12 candidate
13
Creat Balls
switch.creat-balls-13 candidate
14
Sw14
switch.sw14 candidate
17
Sw17
switch.sw17 candidate
18
Sw18
switch.sw18 candidate
19
Sw19
switch.sw19 candidate
20
Sw20
switch.sw20 candidate
21
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
22
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot candidate
25
Double Target5
switch.double-target5 candidate
26
Double Target4
switch.double-target4 candidate
27
Double Target3
switch.double-target3 candidate
28
Double Target2
switch.double-target2 candidate
29
Double Target1
switch.double-target1 candidate
30
Double Target1
switch.double-target1-30 candidate
32
Sw32
switch.sw32 candidate
33
Double Target6
switch.double-target6 candidate
34
Double Target6
switch.double-target6-34 candidate
35
Double Target7
switch.double-target7 candidate
36
Double Target8
switch.double-target8 candidate
37
Double Target8
switch.double-target8-37 candidate
38
Double Target9
switch.double-target9 candidate
40
Sw40
switch.sw40 candidate
41
Sewer Up Kick
switch.sewer-up-kick candidate
46
Bumper2
switch.bumper2 candidate
47
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate
48
Bumper3
switch.bumper3 candidate
49
T49
switch.t49 candidate
50
Sw50
switch.sw50 candidate
55
T55
switch.t55 candidate
56
Sw56
switch.sw56 candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

7
7 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
Kisort
coil.kisort candidate
2
Kick Ball To Lane
coil.kick-ball-to-lane candidate
4
Sol Autofire
coil.sol-autofire candidate
7
Sewer Up Kick
coil.sewer-up-kick candidate
11
Sol Gi
coil.sol-gi candidate
16
Sewer Open
coil.sewer-open candidate
22
Sol Pizza Spin
coil.sol-pizza-spin candidate

Lamps

39

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
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
39 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
16
L16
lamp.l16 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
L26a
lamp.l26a candidate
27
L27
lamp.l27 candidate
28
L28
lamp.l28 candidate
29
L29a
lamp.l29a candidate
30
L30
lamp.l30 candidate
33
L33
lamp.l33 candidate
34
L34a
lamp.l34a candidate
35
L35
lamp.l35 candidate
36
L36
lamp.l36 candidate
37
L37a
lamp.l37a candidate
38
L38
lamp.l38 candidate
41
L41
lamp.l41 candidate
42
L42
lamp.l42 candidate
49
L49
lamp.l49 candidate
50
L50
lamp.l50 candidate
52
L52
lamp.l52 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
60
L60
lamp.l60 candidate
61
L61
lamp.l61 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.tmnt_104 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 tmnt_104, description "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1.04)", manufacturer "Data East", catalog year "1991".
  • OPDB record Gr8xn-MKN66 (IPDB 2509) names this machine "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" (Data East, manufacture date 1991-06-01); 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 tmnt_104; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • tmnt_101 (1991, Data East, clone of tmnt_104).
  • tmnt_103 (1991, Data East, clone of tmnt_104).
  • tmnt_104 (1991, Data East).
  • tmnt_104g (1991, Data East, clone of tmnt_104).
  • tmnt_200 (2025, Data East, clone of tmnt_104).
  • tmnt_a07 (1991, Data East, clone of tmnt_104).

PinMAME source contract (candidate)

  • The pinned PinMAME source declares tmnt_104 at src/wpc/degames.c:436 with machine module de_mDEDMD16S1; the definition declares controller platform pinmame.dataeast 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 79 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
tmnt_200Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2.00 unofficial MOD) 2025tmnt_104—
tmnt_a07Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (A 0.7 VUK Prototype) 1991tmnt_104—
tmnt_104gTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1.04 German) 1991tmnt_104—
tmnt_104Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1.04) 1991——
tmnt_103Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1.03) 1991tmnt_104—
tmnt_101Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1.01) 1991tmnt_104—

Parent set: tmnt_104 — clones share this definition unless a hardware difference is noted.

Pinball memory maps

External source LGPL-3.0-only1 map

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.

tmnt_104.map.json

dataeastv6format 0.8

maps/dataeast/version3/tmnt_104.map.json

Applies to ROMs
tmnt_101tmnt_103tmnt_104tmnt_104gtmnt_200tmnt_a07
Sections
game_statehigh_scores
Map JSONMap sourcePlatform JSONPlatform source

dataeast 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/degames.c:436 (machine module de_mDEDMD16S1)

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

  • VPX script

    vpx-script.b1d83f46b4366796

    vpxtable-scripts: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Data East 1991) v1.2.3f.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Data East 1991) v1.2.3f.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    b1d83f46b436…

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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