Silver Slugger

Partial

Gottlieb1990gottlieb.silver-slugger.1990

OPDB IPDB gottlieb/silver-slugger-1990.mdgottlieb/silver-slugger-1990.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
silvslug

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
3–52 (36)
Solenoids
6–32 (10)

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.

36 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
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
36 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
3
Start Button
switch.start-button candidate
10
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate
11
Bumper3
switch.bumper3 candidate
12
Bumper2
switch.bumper2 candidate
13
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
14
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot candidate
15
W15
switch.w15 candidate
16
Switch 16
switch.switch-16 candidate
17
W17 dropped
switch.w17-dropped candidate
20
Sw20
switch.sw20 candidate
21
Sw21
switch.sw21 candidate
22
Sw22
switch.sw22 candidate
23
W23
switch.w23 candidate
24
W24
switch.w24 candidate
25
W25
switch.w25 candidate
26
Switch 26
switch.switch-26 candidate
27
W27 dropped
switch.w27-dropped candidate
30
Sw30
switch.sw30 candidate
31
Sw31
switch.sw31 candidate
32
Sw32
switch.sw32 candidate
33
W33
switch.w33 candidate
34
W34
switch.w34 candidate
35
W35
switch.w35 candidate
36
Switch 36
switch.switch-36 candidate
37
W37 dropped
switch.w37-dropped candidate
40
Sw40
switch.sw40 candidate
41
Sw41
switch.sw41 candidate
42
Sw42
switch.sw42 candidate
43
Sw43
switch.sw43 candidate
44
Sw44
switch.sw44 candidate
45
W45
switch.w45 candidate
46
Switch 46
switch.switch-46 candidate
47
W47 dropped
switch.w47-dropped candidate
50
Sol LLock
switch.sol-llock candidate
51
Sol RLock
switch.sol-rlock candidate
52
W52
switch.w52 candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

10
10 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
6
Sol RLock
coil.sol-rlock candidate
7
Sol LLock
coil.sol-llock candidate
8
Sol Vari Reset
coil.sol-vari-reset candidate
24
Dt Raised
coil.dt-raised candidate
25
Sol Kickback
coil.sol-kickback candidate
28
Solballrelease
coil.solballrelease candidate
29
Sol Outhole
coil.sol-outhole candidate
30
Solknocker
coil.solknocker candidate
31
Sol Tilt Relay
coil.sol-tilt-relay candidate
32
Sol Game Over Relay
coil.sol-game-over-relay 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.silvslug 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 silvslug, description "Silver Slugger", manufacturer "Gottlieb", catalog year "1990".
  • OPDB record Gr8jd-MLyxK (IPDB 2152) names this machine "Silver Slugger" (Gottlieb, manufacture date 1990-02-01); 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 silvslug; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • silvslug (1990, Gottlieb).

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
silvslugSilver Slugger 1990——

Parent set: silvslug — 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.

silvslug.map.json

gottlieb-system3v3format 0.7

maps/gottlieb/system3/silvslug.map.json

Applies to ROMs
silvslug
Sections
game_statehigh_scoresmode_champions
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.f4bdcecf800ed256

    vpxtable-scripts: Silver Slugger (Gottlieb 1990) VT v3.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Silver Slugger (Gottlieb 1990) VT v3.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    f4bdcecf800e…

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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