Monte Carlo

Partial

Gottlieb1987gottlieb.monte-carlo.1987

OPDB IPDB gottlieb/monte-carlo-1987.mdgottlieb/monte-carlo-1987.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
mntecrlo

14 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
1–65 (17)
Solenoids
3–9 (4)

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.

17 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
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
17 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
RWheel
switch.rwheel candidate
2
RWheel
switch.rwheel-2 candidate
3
RWheel
switch.rwheel-3 candidate
4
RWheel
switch.rwheel-4 candidate
5
RWheel
switch.rwheel-5 candidate
10
RWheel
switch.rwheel-10 candidate
11
RWheel
switch.rwheel-11 candidate
12
RWheel
switch.rwheel-12 candidate
13
RWheel
switch.rwheel-13 candidate
14
RWheel
switch.rwheel-14 candidate
15
RWheel
switch.rwheel-15 candidate
20
Bumper1a
switch.bumper1a candidate
30
Bumper2a
switch.bumper2a candidate
40
Bumper3a
switch.bumper3a candidate
42
Sol Out Hole
switch.sol-out-hole candidate
53
Left Slingshot
switch.left-slingshot candidate
65
Drain
switch.drain candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

4
4 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
3
Sol Lock3 Out
coil.sol-lock3-out candidate
4
Sol Lock2 Out
coil.sol-lock2-out candidate
7
Sol Lock1 Out
coil.sol-lock1-out candidate
9
Sol Out Hole
coil.sol-out-hole 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.mntecrlo 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 mntecrlo, description "Monte Carlo", manufacturer "Gottlieb", catalog year "1987".
  • OPDB record G578Y-MJNzE (IPDB 1622) names this machine "Monte Carlo" (Gottlieb, manufacture date 1987-02-01); 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 mntecrlo; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • mntcr2fp (1987, Flipprojets, clone of mntecrlo).
  • mntcrafp (1987, Flipprojets, clone of mntecrlo).
  • mntcrffp (1987, Flipprojets, clone of mntecrlo).
  • mntcrfmfp (2021, Flipprojets, clone of mntecrlo).
  • mntcrgfp (1987, Flipprojets, clone of mntecrlo).
  • mntcrgmfp (2021, Flipprojets, clone of mntecrlo).
  • mntcrmfp (2021, Flipprojets, clone of mntecrlo).
  • mntecrfp (1987, Flipprojets, clone of mntecrlo).
  • mntecrl2 (1987, Gottlieb, clone of mntecrlo).
  • mntecrla (1987, Gottlieb, clone of mntecrlo).
  • mntecrlf (1987, Gottlieb, clone of mntecrlo).
  • mntecrlg (1987, Gottlieb, clone of mntecrlo).
  • mntecrlga (1987, Gottlieb, clone of mntecrlo).
  • mntecrlo (1987, 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 21 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
mntcrmfpMonte Carlo (rev. 2 Millions option, Free Play) 2021mntecrlo—
mntcrgmfpMonte Carlo (German rev. 1 Millions option, Free Play) 2021mntecrlo—
mntcrfmfpMonte Carlo (French Millions option, Free Play) 2021mntecrlo—
mntecrloMonte Carlo 1987——
mntecrlgaMonte Carlo (German) 1987mntecrlo—
mntecrlgMonte Carlo (German rev. 1) 1987mntecrlo—
mntecrlfMonte Carlo (French) 1987mntecrlo—
mntecrlaMonte Carlo (rev. 1) 1987mntecrlo—

Parent set: mntecrlo — 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-B-10KB.map.json

gottlieb-system80b-10Kv4format 0.8

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

Applies to ROMs
mntcr2fpmntcrafpmntcrffpmntcrfmfpmntcrgfpmntcrgmfpmntcrmfpmntecrfpmntecrlo
Also covers
goldwinggoldwgfpgldwggfpgldwgffp
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.044a86b5d4d72e43

    vpxtable-scripts: Monte Carlo (Premier 1987) (10.7) 1.6.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Monte Carlo (Premier 1987) (10.7) 1.6.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    044a86b5d4d7…

  • VPX script

    vpx-script.989957976d7f365c

    vpxtable-scripts: Monte Carlo (Premier 1987) Physics Sound Hybrid MOD.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Monte Carlo (Premier 1987) Physics Sound Hybrid MOD.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    989957976d7f…

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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