Circus

Partial

Gottlieb1980gottlieb.circus.1980

OPDB IPDB gottlieb/circus-1980.mdgottlieb/circus-1980.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
circuscircus7

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
1–67 (32)
Solenoids
1–10 (6)

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.

32 addresses

Switch map

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

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

Outside the matrix1, 3, 4, 5, 6 — dedicated, diagnostic or flipper-column addresses. See the table below.

32 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
Sw01
switch.sw01 candidate
3
Sw03
switch.sw03 candidate
4
Sw04
switch.sw04 candidate
5
Sw05
switch.sw05 candidate
6
Sw6a
switch.sw6a candidate
11
Sw11
switch.sw11 candidate
13
Sw13
switch.sw13 candidate
14
Sw14
switch.sw14 candidate
15
Sw15
switch.sw15 candidate
16
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
21
Sw21
switch.sw21 candidate
23
Sw23
switch.sw23 candidate
24
Sw24
switch.sw24 candidate
25
Sw25
switch.sw25 candidate
26
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate
41
Sw41
switch.sw41 candidate
42
Troto Left
switch.troto-left candidate
43
Troto Left
switch.troto-left-43 candidate
44
Troto Left
switch.troto-left-44 candidate
45
Troto Left
switch.troto-left-45 candidate
46
Troto Left
switch.troto-left-46 candidate
52
Troto Center
switch.troto-center candidate
53
Troto Center
switch.troto-center-53 candidate
54
Troto Center
switch.troto-center-54 candidate
55
Troto Center
switch.troto-center-55 candidate
56
Troto Center
switch.troto-center-56 candidate
62
Troto Right
switch.troto-right candidate
63
Troto Right
switch.troto-right-63 candidate
64
Troto Right
switch.troto-right-64 candidate
65
Troto Right
switch.troto-right-65 candidate
66
Troto Right
switch.troto-right-66 candidate
67
Slot1
switch.slot1 candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

6
6 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
Sol Saucer Mid
coil.sol-saucer-mid candidate
2
Sol Roto
coil.sol-roto candidate
5
Sol DTReset
coil.sol-dtreset candidate
8
Sol Knocker
coil.sol-knocker candidate
9
Sol Trough
coil.sol-trough candidate
10
Game Over
coil.game-over 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.circus 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 circus, description "Circus", manufacturer "Gottlieb", catalog year "1980".
  • OPDB record G4xXK-Mx01N (IPDB 515) names this machine "Circus" (Gottlieb, manufacture date 1980-06-01); 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 circus; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • circus (1980, Gottlieb, clone of gts80s).
  • circus7 (2008, Oliver, clone of circus).

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 38 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
circus7Circus (7-digit conversion) 2008circus—
circusCircus 1980gts80s—

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.5fe5dd0bf4df9fd3

    vpxtable-scripts: special_audiopan_and_audiofade_patched/Circus (Gottlieb 1980) w VR Room v2.0.0.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in special_audiopan_and_audiofade_patched/Circus (Gottlieb 1980) w VR Room v2.0.0.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    5fe5dd0bf4df…

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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