Bad Girls

Partial

Gottlieb1988gottlieb.bad-girls.1988

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
badgirls

7 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
1–73 (28)
Solenoids
1–7 (7)
Lamps
3–105 (40)

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.

28 addresses

Switch map

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

used unused
 
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Hover or tap an address to identify it.

Outside the matrix1, 2, 3 — dedicated, diagnostic or flipper-column addresses. See the table below.

28 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
Sw1
switch.sw1 candidate
2
Sol Vari Reset
switch.sol-vari-reset candidate
3
Sw3
switch.sw3 candidate
11
Sw11
switch.sw11 candidate
12
Sol Vari Reset
switch.sol-vari-reset-12 candidate
13
Sw13
switch.sw13 candidate
21
Sw21
switch.sw21 candidate
22
Sol Vari Reset
switch.sol-vari-reset-22 candidate
23
Sw23
switch.sw23 candidate
25
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
31
Sw31
switch.sw31 candidate
32
Sol Vari Reset
switch.sol-vari-reset-32 candidate
33
Sw33
switch.sw33 candidate
35
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot candidate
41
Sw41
switch.sw41 candidate
42
Bumper2
switch.bumper2 candidate
43
Sw43
switch.sw43 candidate
45
Solenoid2
switch.solenoid2 candidate
51
Sw51
switch.sw51 candidate
52
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate
53
Sw53
switch.sw53 candidate
55
Mid VUKTop
switch.mid-vuktop candidate
61
Sw61
switch.sw61 candidate
62
Bumper3
switch.bumper3 candidate
63
Sw63
switch.sw63 candidate
71
Sw71
switch.sw71 candidate
72
Sw72a
switch.sw72a candidate
73
Sw73
switch.sw73 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
Solenoid1
coil.solenoid1 candidate
2
Solenoid2
coil.solenoid2 candidate
3
Solenoid3
coil.solenoid3 candidate
4
Solenoid4
coil.solenoid4 candidate
5
Solenoid5
coil.solenoid5 candidate
6
Solenoid6
coil.solenoid6 candidate
7
Solenoid7
coil.solenoid7 candidate

Lamps

40

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
65–72
73–80
81–88
89–96
97–104
105–112
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
40 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
3
L3a
lamp.l3a candidate
10
L10
lamp.l10 candidate
11
L11
lamp.l11 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
L26
lamp.l26 candidate
27
L27
lamp.l27 candidate
28
L28
lamp.l28 candidate
29
L29a
lamp.l29a candidate
30
L30
lamp.l30 candidate
31
L31
lamp.l31 candidate
32
L32
lamp.l32 candidate
33
L33
lamp.l33 candidate
34
L34
lamp.l34 candidate
35
L35
lamp.l35 candidate
36
L36
lamp.l36 candidate
37
L37
lamp.l37 candidate
38
L38
lamp.l38 candidate
39
L39
lamp.l39 candidate
40
L40
lamp.l40 candidate
41
L41
lamp.l41 candidate
42
L42
lamp.l42 candidate
43
L43
lamp.l43 candidate
44
L44
lamp.l44 candidate
45
L45
lamp.l45 candidate
46
L46
lamp.l46 candidate
47
L47
lamp.l47 candidate
101
Light1
lamp.light1 candidate
102
Light2
lamp.light2 candidate
103
Light3
lamp.light3 candidate
104
Light4
lamp.light4 candidate
105
Light5
lamp.light5 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.badgirls 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 badgirls, description "Bad Girls", manufacturer "Gottlieb", catalog year "1988".
  • OPDB record G5WOo-MePp0 (IPDB 128) names this machine "Bad Girls" (Gottlieb, manufacture date 1988-01-01); 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 badgirls; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • badgirl2 (1988, Gottlieb, clone of badgirls).
  • badgirlf (1988, Gottlieb, clone of badgirls).
  • badgirlg (1988, Gottlieb, clone of badgirls).
  • badgirls (1988, Gottlieb).
  • badgrffp (1988, Flipprojets, clone of badgirls).
  • badgrgfp (1988, Flipprojets, clone of badgirls).
  • badgrlfp (1988, Flipprojets, clone of badgirls).

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 75 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
badgrlfpBad Girls (Free Play) 1988badgirls
badgrgfpBad Girls (German Free Play) 1988badgirls
badgrffpBad Girls (French Free Play) 1988badgirls
badgirlsBad Girls 1988
badgirlgBad Girls (German) 1988badgirls
badgirlfBad Girls (French) 1988badgirls
badgirl2Bad Girls (alternate set) 1988badgirls

Parent set: badgirls — 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.

Commit
d8693b9

This program makes use of content from the Pinball Memory Maps project.

80b-8digit-C-12KB.map.json

gottlieb-system80b-12Kv4format 0.8

maps/gottlieb/system80b/80b-8digit-C-12KB.map.json

Applies to ROMs
badgirlsbadgrffpbadgrgfpbadgrlfp
Also covers
bighousebighosfpbighsgfpbighsffpbonebstrbonebsfpbonebgfpbonebffpexcalibaexcalibrexcalbfpexcalgfp
Sections
adjustmentsauditsdip_switchesgame_statehigh_scores

gottlieb-system80b-12K 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

    by
    PinMAME contributors
    rev
    8371478a7640
  • VPX script

    vpx-script.71df2ea15357c410

    vpxtable-scripts: Bad Girls (Gottlieb 1988) Vifico.vbs

    by
    Authors credited in Bad Girls (Gottlieb 1988) Vifico.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    71df2ea15357…

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.