Buck Rogers

Partial

Gottlieb1980gottlieb.buck-rogers.1980

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
buckrgrs

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
10–74 (17)
Solenoids
1–17 (9)

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.

17 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.
17 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
10
Switch 10
switch.switch-10 candidate
20
Switch 20
switch.switch-20 candidate
21
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
30
Switch 30
switch.switch-30 candidate
31
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate
40
Switch 40
switch.switch-40 candidate
41
Sw41
switch.sw41 candidate
50
Switch 50
switch.switch-50 candidate
54
Phys Sensor 001
switch.phys-sensor-001 candidate
60
Switch 60
switch.switch-60 candidate
61
Sw61
switch.sw61 candidate
63
Sw63
switch.sw63 candidate
66
Ball Release
switch.ball-release candidate
70
Sw70
switch.sw70 candidate
71
Sw71
switch.sw71 candidate
73
Sw73
switch.sw73 candidate
74
Sw74
switch.sw74 candidate

Controlled devices

Everything the ROM can energise, grouped the way a table author builds it.

Coils, magnets & motors

9
9 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
Sol Ball Release
coil.sol-ball-release candidate
2
Sol Knocker
coil.sol-knocker candidate
3
Sol Sound3
coil.sol-sound3 candidate
4
Sol Sound4
coil.sol-sound4 candidate
5
Sol Sound5
coil.sol-sound5 candidate
6
Sol Saucer
coil.sol-saucer candidate
7
DTBank Red Reset
coil.dtbank-red-reset candidate
8
DTBank Yellow Reset
coil.dtbank-yellow-reset candidate
17
Sol Game On
coil.sol-game-on 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.buckrgrs 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 buckrgrs, description "Buck Rogers", manufacturer "Gottlieb", catalog year "1980".
  • OPDB record GRKx7-MJ49e (IPDB 392) names this machine "Buck Rogers" (Gottlieb, manufacture date 1980-01-01); 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 buckrgrs; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • buckrgrs (1980, Gottlieb, clone of gts1s).

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 26 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, 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
buckrgrsBuck Rogers 1980gts1s

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.aedafcd439093f29

    vpxtable-scripts: Buck Rogers (Gottlieb 1980) v2.0.4.vbs

    by
    Authors credited in Buck Rogers (Gottlieb 1980) v2.0.4.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    aedafcd43909…

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.