Freddy: A Nightmare On Elm Street

Partial

Gottlieb1994gottlieb.freddy-a-nightmare-on-elm-street.1994

OPDB IPDB gottlieb/freddy-a-nightmare-on-elm-street-1994.mdgottlieb/freddy-a-nightmare-on-elm-street-1994.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
freddy

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
10–110 (23)
Solenoids
7–32 (18)
Lamps
103–117 (10)

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.

23 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
81–88
89–96
97–104
105–112
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
23 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
10
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate
11
Bumper2
switch.bumper2 candidate
12
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
13
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot candidate
14
W14
switch.w14 candidate
15
W15
switch.w15 candidate
16
W16
switch.w16 candidate
25
Sw25
switch.sw25 candidate
26
Sw26
switch.sw26 candidate
90
Sw90
switch.sw90 candidate
92
Sw92
switch.sw92 candidate
93
Sw93
switch.sw93 candidate
94
W94
switch.w94 candidate
95
W95
switch.w95 candidate
96
Sw96
switch.sw96 candidate
97
Sw97
switch.sw97 candidate
102
Sw102
switch.sw102 candidate
103
Sw103
switch.sw103 candidate
104
W104
switch.w104 candidate
105
W105
switch.w105 candidate
106
Sw106
switch.sw106 candidate
107
Sw107
switch.sw107 candidate
110
Boilerdoor
switch.boilerdoor candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

18
18 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
7
Sol Kick Back
coil.sol-kick-back candidate
8
Sol Claw Save
coil.sol-claw-save candidate
9
Sol Autofire
coil.sol-autofire candidate
10
Sol Div Top
coil.sol-div-top candidate
11
Sol Div Bot
coil.sol-div-bot candidate
12
Sol TUK
coil.sol-tuk candidate
15
Sol Mouth
coil.sol-mouth candidate
16
Reset Drops
coil.reset-drops candidate
17
Sol Lanes
coil.sol-lanes candidate
18
Solflash18
coil.solflash18 candidate
19
Solflash19
coil.solflash19 candidate
20
Sol F24
coil.sol-f24 candidate
21
Sol Freddy
coil.sol-freddy candidate
22
Sol F22
coil.sol-f22 candidate
23
Sol House
coil.sol-house candidate
25
Sol Glove Flipper
coil.sol-glove-flipper candidate
27
Solrelease
coil.solrelease candidate
32
Sol GOR
coil.sol-gor candidate

Lamps

10
10 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
103
L103
lamp.l103 candidate
104
L104
lamp.l104 candidate
105
L105
lamp.l105 candidate
106
L106
lamp.l106 candidate
107
L107
lamp.l107 candidate
113
L113
lamp.l113 candidate
114
L114
lamp.l114 candidate
115
L115
lamp.l115 candidate
116
L116
lamp.l116 candidate
117
L117
lamp.l117 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.freddy 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 freddy, description "Freddy: A Nightmare on Elm Street (rev. 3)", manufacturer "Gottlieb", catalog year "1994".
  • OPDB record GRzB7-MD8ld (IPDB 948) names this machine "Freddy: A Nightmare On Elm Street" (Gottlieb, manufacture date 1994-01-01); 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 freddy; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • freddy (1994, Gottlieb).
  • freddy4 (1994, Gottlieb, clone of freddy).

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 51 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
freddy4Freddy: A Nightmare on Elm Street (rev. 4) 1994freddy—
freddyFreddy: A Nightmare on Elm Street (rev. 3) 1994——

Parent set: freddy — 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.

freddy.map.json

gottlieb-system3v2format 0.7

maps/gottlieb/system3/freddy.map.json

Applies to ROMs
freddyfreddy4
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.2d30cc6b87238f77

    vpxtable-scripts: Freddy A Nightmare On Elm Street (Gottlieb 1994) 1.1b JPJ - Team PP - Hauntfreaks Mod.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Freddy A Nightmare On Elm Street (Gottlieb 1994) 1.1b JPJ - Team PP - Hauntfreaks Mod.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    2d30cc6b8723…

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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