Genesis

Partial

Gottlieb1986gottlieb.genesis.1986

OPDB IPDB gottlieb/genesis-1986.mdgottlieb/genesis-1986.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
genesis

6 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
40–75 (19)
Solenoids
4–10 (5)
Lamps
10–51 (19)

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
49–56
57–64
65–72
73–80
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
19 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
40
Varitarget1
switch.varitarget1 candidate
42
Toplane1
switch.toplane1 candidate
43
Arms Lock
switch.arms-lock candidate
44
Left In Lane
switch.left-in-lane candidate
45
Left Kick2
switch.left-kick2 candidate
50
Varitarget2
switch.varitarget2 candidate
52
Toplane2
switch.toplane2 candidate
53
Left Lane
switch.left-lane candidate
54
Left Outlane
switch.left-outlane candidate
60
Varitarget3
switch.varitarget3 candidate
62
Toplane3
switch.toplane3 candidate
63
Sw63
switch.sw63 candidate
64
Right Outlane
switch.right-outlane candidate
65
Right Kick2
switch.right-kick2 candidate
70
Varitarget4
switch.varitarget4 candidate
71
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate
72
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
73
Legs Lock
switch.legs-lock candidate
75
Sol LFlipper
switch.sol-lflipper candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

5
5 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
4
Sol Left
coil.sol-left candidate
6
Drop Delaysub
coil.drop-delaysub candidate
7
Sol Right
coil.sol-right candidate
9
Sol Outhole
coil.sol-outhole candidate
10
Sol GI
coil.sol-gi candidate

Lamps

19

Lamp 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
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
19 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
10
L10
lamp.l10 candidate
11
L11
lamp.l11 candidate
12
L12
lamp.l12 candidate
13
L13
lamp.l13 candidate
14
L14
lamp.l14 candidate
15
L15
lamp.l15 candidate
16
L16
lamp.l16 candidate
17
L17
lamp.l17 candidate
18
L18
lamp.l18 candidate
19
L19
lamp.l19 candidate
20
L20
lamp.l20 candidate
21
L21
lamp.l21 candidate
22
L22
lamp.l22 candidate
23
L23
lamp.l23 candidate
24
L24
lamp.l24 candidate
45
L45
lamp.l45 candidate
46
L46
lamp.l46 candidate
47
L47
lamp.l47 candidate
51
L51
lamp.l51 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.genesis 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 genesis, description "Genesis", manufacturer "Gottlieb", catalog year "1986".
  • OPDB record Gr2wz-MLBob (IPDB 996) names this machine "Genesis" (Gottlieb, manufacture date 1986-01-09); 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 genesis; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • genesffp (1986, Flipprojets, clone of genesis).
  • genesgfp (1986, Flipprojets, clone of genesis).
  • genesifp (1986, Flipprojets, clone of genesis).
  • genesis (1986, Gottlieb).
  • genesisf (1986, Gottlieb, clone of genesis).
  • genesisg (1986, Gottlieb, clone of genesis).

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 43 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
genesisgGenesis (German) 1986genesis—
genesisfGenesis (French) 1986genesis—
genesisGenesis 1986——
genesifpGenesis (Free Play) 1986genesis—
genesgfpGenesis (German Free Play) 1986genesis—
genesffpGenesis (French Free Play) 1986genesis—

Parent set: genesis — 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.

80b-8digit-A-10KB.map.json

gottlieb-system80b-10Kv4format 0.8

maps/gottlieb/system80b/80b-8digit-A-10KB.map.json

Applies to ROMs
genesffpgenesgfpgenesifpgenesis
Also covers
hlywoodhhlywdhfphlywhgfphlywhffp
Sections
adjustmentsauditsdip_switchesgame_statehigh_scores
Map JSONMap sourcePlatform JSONPlatform source

gottlieb-system80b-10K 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.4de0e5161d36a001

    vpxtable-scripts: Genesis (Gottlieb 1986) 1.0.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Genesis (Gottlieb 1986) 1.0.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    4de0e5161d36…

  • VPX script

    vpx-script.117de96faf1c9a98

    vpxtable-scripts: Genesis (Premier 1986).vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Genesis (Premier 1986).vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    117de96faf1c…

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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