Deadly Weapon

Partial

Gottlieb1990gottlieb.deadly-weapon.1990

OPDB IPDB gottlieb/deadly-weapon-1990.mdgottlieb/deadly-weapon-1990.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
deadweap

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
14–45 (19)
Solenoids
5–31 (23)

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.

19 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
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
19 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
14
Sw14
switch.sw14 candidate
15
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot candidate
16
Drain
switch.drain candidate
20
Sw20
switch.sw20 candidate
21
Sw21
switch.sw21 candidate
22
Sw22
switch.sw22 candidate
23
Sw23
switch.sw23 candidate
25
Sw25
switch.sw25 candidate
26
Init Table
switch.init-table candidate
30
Spinner1
switch.spinner1 candidate
31
Spinner2
switch.spinner2 candidate
32
Sw32
switch.sw32 candidate
33
Sw33
switch.sw33 candidate
35
Sw35
switch.sw35 candidate
40
Sw40
switch.sw40 candidate
41
Sw41
switch.sw41 candidate
42
Sw42
switch.sw42 candidate
43
Sw43
switch.sw43 candidate
45
Sw45
switch.sw45 candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

23
23 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
5
Sol Kicking Target
coil.sol-kicking-target candidate
7
Sol Kickback
coil.sol-kickback candidate
8
Sol Reset Drop Targets
coil.sol-reset-drop-targets candidate
9
Sol Left Kicker
coil.sol-left-kicker candidate
10
Sol Right Kicker
coil.sol-right-kicker candidate
11
Sol Flasher Multiball
coil.sol-flasher-multiball candidate
12
Sol Flasher Special
coil.sol-flasher-special candidate
13
Sol Flasher Gas
coil.sol-flasher-gas candidate
14
Sol Flasher Alley
coil.sol-flasher-alley candidate
15
Sol Flasher Grill
coil.sol-flasher-grill candidate
16
Sol Flasher Bank
coil.sol-flasher-bank candidate
17
Sol Flasher Mall
coil.sol-flasher-mall candidate
18
Sol Flasher School
coil.sol-flasher-school candidate
19
Sol Flasher19
coil.sol-flasher19 candidate
20
Sol Flasher20
coil.sol-flasher20 candidate
21
Sol Flasher21
coil.sol-flasher21 candidate
22
Sol Flasher22
coil.sol-flasher22 candidate
23
Sol Flasher23
coil.sol-flasher23 candidate
24
Sol Flasher24
coil.sol-flasher24 candidate
26
Sol GI
coil.sol-gi candidate
28
Sol Ball Release
coil.sol-ball-release candidate
29
Sol Drain
coil.sol-drain candidate
31
Sol Tilt
coil.sol-tilt 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.deadweap 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 deadweap, description "Deadly Weapon", manufacturer "Gottlieb", catalog year "1990".
  • OPDB record Grj9q-MQ2EZ (IPDB 645) names this machine "Deadly Weapon" (Gottlieb, manufacture date 1990-01-09); 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 deadweap; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • deadweap (1990, Gottlieb).

VPX script candidates (candidate)

  • 2 retained community table script(s) declare this machine's driver; their extracted switch/lamp/solenoid/GI candidates are carried as 42 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
deadweapDeadly Weapon 1990——

Parent set: deadweap — 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.

deadweap.map.json

gottlieb-system3v3format 0.7

maps/gottlieb/system3/deadweap.map.json

Applies to ROMs
deadweap
Sections
game_statehigh_scoresmode_champions
Map JSONMap sourcePlatform JSONPlatform source

gottlieb-system3 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.d66427b29d55a20c

    vpxtable-scripts: Deadly Weapon (Gottlieb 1990) v1.0.1.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Deadly Weapon (Gottlieb 1990) v1.0.1.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    d66427b29d55…

  • VPX script

    vpx-script.ce257dec2716d531

    vpxtable-scripts: Deadly Weapon (Gottlieb 1990) v2.0.1.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Deadly Weapon (Gottlieb 1990) v2.0.1.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    ce257dec2716…

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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