Gladiators

Partial

Gottlieb1993gottlieb.gladiators.1993

OPDB IPDB gottlieb/gladiators-1993.mdgottlieb/gladiators-1993.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
gladiatr

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
1–104 (28)
Solenoids
6–32 (13)
Lamps
10–107 (70)

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.

28 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
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
28 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
RCoin
switch.rcoin candidate
2
CCoin
switch.ccoin candidate
3
Coin Shuttle
switch.coin-shuttle candidate
4
Start Button
switch.start-button candidate
5
Tournament
switch.tournament candidate
6
Front Door
switch.front-door candidate
10
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate
11
Bumper2
switch.bumper2 candidate
12
Bumper3
switch.bumper3 candidate
13
Left Slingshot
switch.left-slingshot candidate
14
Right Slingshot
switch.right-slingshot candidate
20
Sw20
switch.sw20 candidate
24
Sw24
switch.sw24 candidate
80
Sw80
switch.sw80 candidate
81
Sw81
switch.sw81 candidate
82
Bumpers Disable
switch.bumpers-disable candidate
83
Bumpers Disable
switch.bumpers-disable-83 candidate
90
Gate90
switch.gate90 candidate
91
Sw91
switch.sw91 candidate
92
Sw92
switch.sw92 candidate
93
Sw93
switch.sw93 candidate
94
Sw94
switch.sw94 candidate
95
Sw95
switch.sw95 candidate
100
Sw100
switch.sw100 candidate
101
Sw101
switch.sw101 candidate
102
Sw102
switch.sw102 candidate
103
Sw103
switch.sw103 candidate
104
Sw104
switch.sw104 candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

13
13 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
6
Sol Ball Release LP
coil.sol-ball-release-lp candidate
7
Sol Ball Release TP
coil.sol-ball-release-tp candidate
10
Dtcbank
coil.dtcbank candidate
11
Sol Ball Release CP
coil.sol-ball-release-cp candidate
12
Sol Ball Release RP
coil.sol-ball-release-rp candidate
13
Plunger Gate
coil.plunger-gate candidate
23
Ramp Motor Relay
coil.ramp-motor-relay candidate
25
MShaker
coil.mshaker candidate
26
GIBack Box
coil.giback-box candidate
28
Bs Trough Sol Out
coil.bs-trough-sol-out candidate
30
Knocker Sound
coil.knocker-sound candidate
31
GIRelay
coil.girelay candidate
32
Sol Run
coil.sol-run candidate

Lamps

70

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
57–64
65–72
73–80
81–88
89–96
97–104
105–112
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
70 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
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
25
L25
lamp.l25 candidate
26
L26
lamp.l26 candidate
27
L27
lamp.l27 candidate
30
L30
lamp.l30 candidate
31
L31
lamp.l31 candidate
32
L32
lamp.l32 candidate
33
L33
lamp.l33 candidate
34
L34
lamp.l34 candidate
35
L35
lamp.l35 candidate
36
L36
lamp.l36 candidate
37
L37
lamp.l37 candidate
40
L40
lamp.l40 candidate
41
L41
lamp.l41 candidate
42
L42
lamp.l42 candidate
43
L43
lamp.l43 candidate
44
L44
lamp.l44 candidate
45
L45
lamp.l45 candidate
46
L46
lamp.l46 candidate
47
L47
lamp.l47 candidate
50
L50
lamp.l50 candidate
51
L51
lamp.l51 candidate
52
L52
lamp.l52 candidate
53
L53
lamp.l53 candidate
54
L54
lamp.l54 candidate
55
L55
lamp.l55 candidate
56
L56
lamp.l56 candidate
57
L57
lamp.l57 candidate
60
L60
lamp.l60 candidate
61
L61
lamp.l61 candidate
62
L62
lamp.l62 candidate
63
L63
lamp.l63 candidate
64
L64
lamp.l64 candidate
65
L65
lamp.l65 candidate
66
L66
lamp.l66 candidate
67
L67
lamp.l67 candidate
70
L70
lamp.l70 candidate
71
L71
lamp.l71 candidate
72
L72
lamp.l72 candidate
73
L73
lamp.l73 candidate
74
L74
lamp.l74 candidate
75
L75
lamp.l75 candidate
76
L76
lamp.l76 candidate
77
L77
lamp.l77 candidate
81
L81
lamp.l81 candidate
82
L82
lamp.l82 candidate
83
L83
lamp.l83 candidate
91
L91
lamp.l91 candidate
92
L92
lamp.l92 candidate
93
L93
lamp.l93 candidate
100
L100
lamp.l100 candidate
101
L101
lamp.l101 candidate
102
L102
lamp.l102 candidate
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

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.gladiatr 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 gladiatr, description "Gladiators", manufacturer "Gottlieb", catalog year "1993".
  • OPDB record G4P9q-MLnOY (IPDB 1011) names this machine "Gladiators" (Gottlieb, manufacture date 1993-01-01); 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 gladiatr; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • gladiatr (1993, 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 111 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
gladiatrGladiators 1993——

Parent set: gladiatr — 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.

gladiatr.map.json

gottlieb-system3v1format 0.8

maps/gottlieb/system3/gladiatr.map.json

Applies to ROMs
gladiatr
Sections
high_scores
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.5f6892eee612ded7

    vpx-standalone-scripts: Gladiators (Premier 1993) v1.1.1/Gladiators (Premier 1993) v1.1.1.vbs

    15d112648a1b
    by
    Authors credited in Gladiators (Premier 1993) v1.1.1/Gladiators (Premier 1993) v1.1.1.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    15d112648a1b
    sha256
    5f6892eee612…

  • VPX script

    vpx-script.13b45d7e9a4ead26

    vpxtable-scripts: Gladiators (Premier 1993) v1.0.1.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Gladiators (Premier 1993) v1.0.1.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    13b45d7e9a4e…

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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