Arena

Partial

Gottlieb1987gottlieb.arena.1987

OPDB IPDB gottlieb/arena-1987.mdgottlieb/arena-1987.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
arena

9 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
2–76 (38)
Solenoids
2–9 (7)

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.

38 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
57–64
65–72
73–80
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
38 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
2
Sw02
switch.sw02 candidate
3
Sw03
switch.sw03 candidate
10
Sw10
switch.sw10 candidate
20
Sw20
switch.sw20 candidate
22
W22
switch.w22 candidate
23
Sw23
switch.sw23 candidate
24
Sw24
switch.sw24 candidate
25
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
30
W30
switch.w30 candidate
32
W32
switch.w32 candidate
33
Sw33
switch.sw33 candidate
34
W34
switch.w34 candidate
40
W40
switch.w40 candidate
41
W41
switch.w41 candidate
42
W42
switch.w42 candidate
43
Sw43
switch.sw43 candidate
44
W44
switch.w44 candidate
45
Sol RFlipper
switch.sol-rflipper candidate
50
W50
switch.w50 candidate
51
W51
switch.w51 candidate
52
Sw52
switch.sw52 candidate
53
Sw53
switch.sw53 candidate
54
W54
switch.w54 candidate
55
W55
switch.w55 candidate
60
W60
switch.w60 candidate
61
W61
switch.w61 candidate
62
Sw62
switch.sw62 candidate
63
Sw63
switch.sw63 candidate
64
W64
switch.w64 candidate
65
W65
switch.w65 candidate
66
Sw66
switch.sw66 candidate
70
W70
switch.w70 candidate
71
W71
switch.w71 candidate
72
Sw72
switch.sw72 candidate
73
Sw73
switch.sw73 candidate
74
W74
switch.w74 candidate
75
W75
switch.w75 candidate
76
Sw76
switch.sw76 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
2
Sol Bank Reset
coil.sol-bank-reset candidate
4
Sol Flasher R
coil.sol-flasher-r candidate
5
Sol RLock
coil.sol-rlock candidate
6
Sol LLock
coil.sol-llock candidate
7
Sol Flasher L
coil.sol-flasher-l candidate
8
Solknocker
coil.solknocker candidate
9
Solballrelease
coil.solballrelease 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.arena 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 arena, description "Arena", manufacturer "Gottlieb", catalog year "1987".
  • OPDB record G4EKb-MDx4p (IPDB 82) names this machine "Arena" (Gottlieb, manufacture date 1987-06-01); 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 arena; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • arena (1987, Gottlieb).
  • arena2 (1987, Gottlieb, clone of arena).
  • arena_fp (1987, Flipprojets, clone of arena).
  • arenaa (1987, Gottlieb, clone of arena).
  • arenaafp (1987, Flipprojets, clone of arena).
  • arenaf (1987, Gottlieb, clone of arena).
  • arenaffp (1987, Flipprojets, clone of arena).
  • arenag (1987, Gottlieb, clone of arena).
  • arenagfp (1987, Flipprojets, clone of arena).

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 45 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
arenagfpArena (German Free Play) 1987arena—
arenagArena (German) 1987arena—
arenaffpArena (French Free Play) 1987arena—
arenafArena (French) 1987arena—
arenaafpArena (rev. 1 Free Play) 1987arena—
arenaaArena (rev. 1) 1987arena—
arena2Arena (rev. 2) 1987arena—
arena_fpArena (Free Play) 1987arena—

Parent set: arena — 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.

80b-8digit-C-10KB.map.json

gottlieb-system80b-10Kv4format 0.8

maps/gottlieb/system80b/80b-8digit-C-10KB.map.json

Applies to ROMs
arenaarena_fparenaaarenaafparenaffparenagfp
Also covers
diamonddiamonfpdiamngfpdiamnffprobowarsrobowrfprobowffpsprbreaksprbrkfpsprbrgfpsprbrffpsprbrafp
Sections
adjustmentsauditsdip_switchesgame_statehigh_scores
Map JSONMap sourcePlatform JSONPlatform source

gottlieb-system80b-10K 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

  • VPX script

    vpx-script.cc230818897777a1

    vpxtable-scripts: Arena (Gottlieb 1987).02.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Arena (Gottlieb 1987).02.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    cc2308188977…

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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