Black Hole

Partial

Gottlieb1981gottlieb.black-hole.1981.blkholea 1 of 2 editions

OPDB IPDB gottlieb/black-hole-1981-blkholea.mdgottlieb/black-hole-1981-blkholea.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
blkhol7sblkholea

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

Coverage

Partial

Real evidence exists, but authoring requirements are still missing or in conflict. Verify before shipping a table.

Completion6%

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 · 15
IdentityDriver MappingController PlatformInput EnumerationInput SemanticsOutput EnumerationOutput SemanticsDisplay InventoryMechanism InventoryMechanism BehaviorPolarityVariant DifferencesRecreation NotesProvenanceSpatial Placement

Recreation notes

Working knowledge that has no schema field yet — edition differences, tuning values, pitfalls.

Coverage: partial - machine identity only. Nothing about playfield devices, wiring, mechanisms, or behavior is evidenced yet.

This record was promoted from the generated catalog stub stub.pinmame.blkholea 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, and it deliberately asserts nothing else. Every requirement in the definition's coverage.missing is genuinely outstanding.

Identity

  • PinMAME catalog: root driver blkholea, description "Black Hole (Sound Only)", manufacturer "Gottlieb", catalog year "1981".
  • OPDB record G41yq-MQP65 (IPDB 307) names this machine "Black Hole" (Gottlieb, manufacture date 1981-01-01); identity is unresolved: OPDB record shared with gottlieb.black-hole.1981, so the mapped record is treated as a lead rather than a resolved identity.
  • The definition's driver list is exactly the clone tree PinMAME declares under blkholea; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • blkhol7s (2008, Oliver, clone of blkholea).
  • blkholea (1981, Gottlieb, clone of gts80s).

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, table, ROM analysis, or harness evidence is retained for this machine yet.

ROM sets

Every driver that resolves to this physical machine.

ROM set Description Year Parent Hardware
blkhol7sBlack Hole (Sound Only, 7-digit conversion) 2008blkholea—
blkholeaBlack Hole (Sound Only) 1981gts80s—

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

Something wrong or missing?

This definition still has 15 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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Other editions

Black Hole shipped in 2 editions with different playfields. Compare what each one actually has before building against this definition.

All 2 editions of Black Hole, side by side