Star Race

Partial

Gottlieb1980gottlieb.star-race.1980

OPDB IPDB gottlieb/star-race-1980.mdgottlieb/star-race-1980.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
starrac7starrace

2 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
1–73 (24)
Solenoids
1–10 (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.

24 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.
24 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
Sw1
switch.sw1 candidate
3
Sw3
switch.sw3 candidate
4
Zcol rubber 007
switch.zcol-rubber-007 candidate
11
Sw11
switch.sw11 candidate
13
Sw13
switch.sw13 candidate
14
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
20
Sw20
switch.sw20 candidate
21
Sw21
switch.sw21 candidate
23
Sw23
switch.sw23 candidate
30
Sw30
switch.sw30 candidate
31
Sw31
switch.sw31 candidate
33
Sw33
switch.sw33 candidate
40
Sw40
switch.sw40 candidate
41
Sw41
switch.sw41 candidate
50
Sw50
switch.sw50 candidate
51
Sw51
switch.sw51 candidate
53
Sw53
switch.sw53 candidate
60
Sw60
switch.sw60 candidate
61
Sw61
switch.sw61 candidate
67
Slot1
switch.slot1 candidate
70
Sw70
switch.sw70 candidate
71
Sw71
switch.sw71 candidate
72
Sw72
switch.sw72 candidate
73
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 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 Vari Reset
coil.sol-vari-reset candidate
2
Sol Saucer
coil.sol-saucer candidate
5
Sol DTTop Reset
coil.sol-dttop-reset candidate
6
Sol DTMid Reset
coil.sol-dtmid-reset candidate
8
Sol Knocker
coil.sol-knocker candidate
9
Sol Trough
coil.sol-trough candidate
10
Game Over
coil.game-over 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.starrace 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 starrace, description "Star Race", manufacturer "Gottlieb", catalog year "1980".
  • OPDB record G5VxP-MLWlV (IPDB 2353) names this machine "Star Race" (Gottlieb, manufacture date 1980-01-01); 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 starrace; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • starrac7 (2008, Oliver, clone of starrace).
  • starrace (1980, Gottlieb, clone of gts80s).

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 31 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
starrac7Star Race (7-digit conversion) 2008starrace—
starraceStar Race 1980gts80s—

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.42634e333ea85694

    vpxtable-scripts: special_audiopan_and_audiofade_patched/Star Race (Gottlieb 1980) w VR Room v0.06.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in special_audiopan_and_audiofade_patched/Star Race (Gottlieb 1980) w VR Room v0.06.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    42634e333ea8…

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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