Cyclopes

Partial

Game Plan1985game-plan.cyclopes.1985

OPDB IPDB game-plan/cyclopes-1985.mdgame-plan/cyclopes-1985.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
cyclopes

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
4–40 (20)
Solenoids
3–31 (2)
Lamps
1–64 (60)

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.

20 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.
20 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
4
Sw4
switch.sw4 candidate
12
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate
13
Bumper2
switch.bumper2 candidate
14
Bumper3
switch.bumper3 candidate
15
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot candidate
16
Sw16
switch.sw16 candidate
25
Left Outlane
switch.left-outlane candidate
27
Right Inlane
switch.right-inlane candidate
28
Top Lane2
switch.top-lane2 candidate
30
Sw30
switch.sw30 candidate
31
Sw31
switch.sw31 candidate
32
Sw32
switch.sw32 candidate
33
Sw33
switch.sw33 candidate
34
Sw34
switch.sw34 candidate
35
Sw35
switch.sw35 candidate
36
Sw36
switch.sw36 candidate
37
Sw37
switch.sw37 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

2
2 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
3
Sol Knocker
coil.sol-knocker candidate
31
Bellsound
coil.bellsound candidate

Lamps

60

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.
60 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
Light1
lamp.light1 candidate
2
Light2
lamp.light2 candidate
3
Light3
lamp.light3 candidate
4
Light4
lamp.light4 candidate
5
Light5
lamp.light5 candidate
6
Light6
lamp.light6 candidate
7
Light7
lamp.light7 candidate
8
Light8
lamp.light8 candidate
9
Light9
lamp.light9 candidate
10
Light10
lamp.light10 candidate
11
Light11
lamp.light11 candidate
12
Light12
lamp.light12 candidate
13
Light13
lamp.light13 candidate
14
Light14
lamp.light14 candidate
15
Light15
lamp.light15 candidate
16
Light16
lamp.light16 candidate
17
Light17
lamp.light17 candidate
18
Light18
lamp.light18 candidate
19
Light19
lamp.light19 candidate
20
Light20
lamp.light20 candidate
21
Light21
lamp.light21 candidate
22
Light22
lamp.light22 candidate
23
Light23
lamp.light23 candidate
24
Light24
lamp.light24 candidate
25
Light25
lamp.light25 candidate
26
Light26
lamp.light26 candidate
27
Light27
lamp.light27 candidate
28
Light28
lamp.light28 candidate
29
Light29
lamp.light29 candidate
30
Light30
lamp.light30 candidate
31
Light31
lamp.light31 candidate
32
Light32
lamp.light32 candidate
33
Light33
lamp.light33 candidate
34
Light34
lamp.light34 candidate
35
Light35
lamp.light35 candidate
36
Light36
lamp.light36 candidate
37
Light37
lamp.light37 candidate
39
Light39
lamp.light39 candidate
42
Light42
lamp.light42 candidate
43
Light43 A
lamp.light43-a candidate
45
Light45 A
lamp.light45-a candidate
46
Light46
lamp.light46 candidate
47
Light47
lamp.light47 candidate
48
Light48
lamp.light48 candidate
49
Light49
lamp.light49 candidate
50
Light50
lamp.light50 candidate
51
Light51
lamp.light51 candidate
52
Light52
lamp.light52 candidate
53
Light53
lamp.light53 candidate
54
Light54
lamp.light54 candidate
55
Light55
lamp.light55 candidate
56
Light56
lamp.light56 candidate
57
Light57
lamp.light57 candidate
58
Light58
lamp.light58 candidate
59
Light59
lamp.light59 candidate
60
Light60
lamp.light60 candidate
61
Light61
lamp.light61 candidate
62
Light62
lamp.light62 candidate
63
Light63
lamp.light63 candidate
64
Light64
lamp.light64 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.cyclopes 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 cyclopes, description "Cyclopes (12/85)", manufacturer "Game Plan", catalog year "1985".
  • OPDB record GRwZ7-MJ7vy (IPDB 619) names this machine "Cyclopes" (Game Plan, manufacture date 1985-01-01); 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 cyclopes; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • cyclope1 (1985, Game Plan, clone of cyclopes).
  • cyclopes (1985, Game Plan).

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 82 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
cyclopesCyclopes (12/85) 1985——
cyclope1Cyclopes (11/85) 1985cyclopes—

Parent set: cyclopes — 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.70e277fed476ee02

    vpxtable-scripts: Cyclopes (Game Plan 1985) 1.1.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Cyclopes (Game Plan 1985) 1.1.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    70e277fed476…

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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