Robo-War

Partial

Gottlieb1988gottlieb.robo-war.1988

OPDB IPDB gottlieb/robo-war-1988.mdgottlieb/robo-war-1988.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
robowars

4 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
30–75 (19)
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.

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
30
Spinner
switch.spinner candidate
31
Top Right Rollover
switch.top-right-rollover candidate
33
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
35
Right Lane
switch.right-lane candidate
36
Shooter Lane
switch.shooter-lane candidate
44
Lane R
switch.lane-r candidate
45
Left Outlane
switch.left-outlane candidate
53
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate
54
Lane O
switch.lane-o candidate
55
Left Inlane
switch.left-inlane candidate
62
Left Target
switch.left-target candidate
63
Bumper2
switch.bumper2 candidate
64
Lane B
switch.lane-b candidate
65
Right Inlane
switch.right-inlane candidate
71
Stargate Rollover
switch.stargate-rollover candidate
72
Stargate Target
switch.stargate-target candidate
73
Bumper3
switch.bumper3 candidate
74
Lane O2
switch.lane-o2 candidate
75
Right Outlane
switch.right-outlane 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
Sol One
coil.sol-one 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.robowars 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 robowars, description "Robo-War", manufacturer "Gottlieb", catalog year "1988".
  • OPDB record GryK3-MQrWk (IPDB 1975) names this machine "Robo-War" (Gottlieb, manufacture date 1988-01-04); 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 robowars; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • robowarf (1988, Gottlieb, clone of robowars).
  • robowars (1988, Gottlieb).
  • robowffp (1988, Flipprojets, clone of robowars).
  • robowrfp (1988, Flipprojets, clone of robowars).

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 26 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
robowrfpRobo-War (Free Play) 1988robowars—
robowffpRobo-War (French Free Play) 1988robowars—
robowarsRobo-War 1988——
robowarfRobo-War (French) 1988robowars—

Parent set: robowars — 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-10KB.map.json

gottlieb-system80b-10Kv4format 0.8

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

Applies to ROMs
robowarsrobowffprobowrfp
Also covers
arenaarenaaarena_fparenaafparenaffparenagfpdiamonddiamonfpdiamngfpdiamnffpsprbreaksprbrkfp
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.36acc4976180795f

    vpxtable-scripts: Robo-War (Gottlieb 1988).vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Robo-War (Gottlieb 1988).vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    36acc4976180…

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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