Hot Shots

Partial

Gottlieb1989gottlieb.hot-shots.1989

OPDB IPDB gottlieb/hot-shots-1989.mdgottlieb/hot-shots-1989.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
hotshots

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
1–75 (39)
Solenoids
1–7 (7)

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.

39 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.
39 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
W1 dropped
switch.w1-dropped candidate
2
W2 dropped
switch.w2-dropped candidate
3
W3 dropped
switch.w3-dropped candidate
5
Trigger4
switch.trigger4 candidate
10
W10 dropped
switch.w10-dropped candidate
11
W11 dropped
switch.w11-dropped candidate
12
Target7
switch.target7 candidate
13
Target2
switch.target2 candidate
15
Trigger8
switch.trigger8 candidate
20
W20 dropped
switch.w20-dropped candidate
21
W21 dropped
switch.w21-dropped candidate
22
Target6
switch.target6 candidate
23
Target3
switch.target3 candidate
25
Trigger5
switch.trigger5 candidate
30
W30 dropped
switch.w30-dropped candidate
31
W31 dropped
switch.w31-dropped candidate
32
Target5
switch.target5 candidate
33
Target4
switch.target4 candidate
35
Target1
switch.target1 candidate
40
W40 dropped
switch.w40-dropped candidate
41
W41 dropped
switch.w41-dropped candidate
42
Left Outlane
switch.left-outlane candidate
43
Right Outlane
switch.right-outlane candidate
45
Target8
switch.target8 candidate
46
Trigger1
switch.trigger1 candidate
50
W50 dropped
switch.w50-dropped candidate
51
W51 dropped
switch.w51-dropped candidate
52
Left Inlane
switch.left-inlane candidate
53
Right Inlane
switch.right-inlane candidate
55
Target9
switch.target9 candidate
56
Kicker1
switch.kicker1 candidate
60
W60 dropped
switch.w60-dropped candidate
61
W61 dropped
switch.w61-dropped candidate
62
Trigger2
switch.trigger2 candidate
63
Trigger3
switch.trigger3 candidate
65
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate
70
W70 dropped
switch.w70-dropped candidate
71
W71 dropped
switch.w71-dropped candidate
75
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

7
7 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
Solone
coil.solone candidate
2
Sol Two
coil.sol-two candidate
3
Sol Three
coil.sol-three candidate
4
Sol Four
coil.sol-four candidate
5
Sol Five
coil.sol-five candidate
6
Sol Six
coil.sol-six candidate
7
Sol Seven
coil.sol-seven 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.hotshots 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 hotshots, description "Hot Shots", manufacturer "Gottlieb", catalog year "1989".
  • OPDB record GrEVz-MOEzv (IPDB 1248) names this machine "Hot Shots" (Gottlieb, manufacture date 1989-01-04); 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 hotshots; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • hotshffp (1989, Flipprojets, clone of hotshots).
  • hotshgfp (1989, Flipprojets, clone of hotshots).
  • hotshotf (1989, Gottlieb, clone of hotshots).
  • hotshotg (1989, Gottlieb, clone of hotshots).
  • hotshots (1989, Gottlieb).
  • hotshtfp (1989, Flipprojets, clone of hotshots).

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 46 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
hotshtfpHot Shots (Free Play) 1989hotshots—
hotshotsHot Shots 1989——
hotshotgHot Shots (German) 1989hotshots—
hotshotfHot Shots (French) 1989hotshots—
hotshgfpHot Shots (German Free Play) 1989hotshots—
hotshffpHot Shots (French Free Play) 1989hotshots—

Parent set: hotshots — 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-C-12KB.map.json

gottlieb-system80b-12Kv4format 0.8

maps/gottlieb/system80b/80b-8digit-C-12KB.map.json

Applies to ROMs
hotshffphotshgfphotshotshotshtfp
Also covers
badgirlsbadgrlfpbadgrgfpbadgrffpbighousebighosfpbighsgfpbighsffpbonebstrbonebsfpbonebgfpbonebffp
Sections
adjustmentsauditsdip_switchesgame_statehigh_scores
Map JSONMap sourcePlatform JSONPlatform source

gottlieb-system80b-12K 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.baae9a4dafa061c8

    vpxtable-scripts: Hot Shots (Gottlieb 1989).vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Hot Shots (Gottlieb 1989).vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    baae9a4dafa0…

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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