Black Velvet

Partial

Game Plan1978game-plan.black-velvet.1978 1 of 5 editions

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
blvelvet

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
9–32 (18)
Solenoids
32–32 (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.

18 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
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
18 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
9
Sw9
switch.sw9 candidate
13
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot candidate
14
Sw14
switch.sw14 candidate
15
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
16
Sw16
switch.sw16 candidate
17
Spinner2
switch.spinner2 candidate
18
Sw18
switch.sw18 candidate
20
Sw20
switch.sw20 candidate
21
Bumper001
switch.bumper001 candidate
22
Bumper002
switch.bumper002 candidate
23
Spinner1
switch.spinner1 candidate
25
Sw25
switch.sw25 candidate
27
Luck Time
switch.luck-time candidate
28
Luck Time
switch.luck-time-28 candidate
29
Luck Time
switch.luck-time-29 candidate
30
Luck Time
switch.luck-time-30 candidate
31
Luck Time
switch.luck-time-31 candidate
32
Luck Time
switch.luck-time-32 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
32
Luck Time
coil.luck-time 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.blvelvet 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 blvelvet, description "Black Velvet", manufacturer "Game Plan", catalog year "1978".
  • OPDB record GRw0Z-Ml9Eb (IPDB 315) names this machine "Black Velvet" (Game Plan, manufacture date 1978-05-01); 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 blvelvet; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • blvelvet (1978, Game Plan, clone of gp_110).

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 19 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
blvelvetBlack Velvet 1978gp_110

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

    by
    PinMAME contributors
    rev
    8371478a7640
  • VPX script

    vpx-script.c3890ddd7e66bf40

    vpxtable-scripts: Black Velvet (Game Plan 1978) v600.vbs

    by
    Authors credited in Black Velvet (Game Plan 1978) v600.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    c3890ddd7e66…

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.

Other editions

Black Velvet / Foxy Lady shipped in 5 editions with different playfields. Compare what each one actually has before building against this definition.

All 5 editions of Black Velvet / Foxy Lady, side by side