Surf 'n Safari

Partial

Gottlieb1991gottlieb.surf-n-safari.1991

OPDB IPDB gottlieb/surf-n-safari-1991.mdgottlieb/surf-n-safari-1991.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
surfnsaf

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
1–52 (25)
Solenoids
7–32 (9)
Lamps
10–126 (76)

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.

25 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.
25 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
RCoin
switch.rcoin candidate
2
CCoin
switch.ccoin candidate
3
Coin Shuttle
switch.coin-shuttle candidate
4
Start Button
switch.start-button candidate
5
Tournament
switch.tournament candidate
6
Sol LFlipper
switch.sol-lflipper candidate
7
Sol RFlipper
switch.sol-rflipper candidate
10
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate
11
Bumper2
switch.bumper2 candidate
12
Bumper3
switch.bumper3 candidate
13
Left Slingshot
switch.left-slingshot candidate
14
Right Slingshot
switch.right-slingshot candidate
15
Sw15
switch.sw15 candidate
20
Sw20
switch.sw20 candidate
22
Sw22
switch.sw22 candidate
23
Sw23
switch.sw23 candidate
24
Sw24
switch.sw24 candidate
30
Sw30
switch.sw30 candidate
31
Sw31
switch.sw31 candidate
32
Sw32
switch.sw32 candidate
33
Sw33
switch.sw33 candidate
34
Sw34
switch.sw34 candidate
50
Sw50
switch.sw50 candidate
51
Sw51
switch.sw51 candidate
52
Sw52
switch.sw52 candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

9
9 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
7
Bs LKBall Release
coil.bs-lkball-release candidate
8
Dtcbank
coil.dtcbank candidate
9
Dtdbank
coil.dtdbank candidate
10
Bs CKBall Release
coil.bs-ckball-release candidate
26
Lightbox
coil.lightbox candidate
28
Bs Trough Sol Out
coil.bs-trough-sol-out candidate
30
Knocker Sound
coil.knocker-sound candidate
31
GIRelay
coil.girelay candidate
32
Sol Run
coil.sol-run candidate

Lamps

76

Lamp 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
81–88
89–96
97–104
105–112
113–120
121–128
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
76 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
10
L10
lamp.l10 candidate
11
L11
lamp.l11 candidate
12
L12
lamp.l12 candidate
13
L13
lamp.l13 candidate
14
L14
lamp.l14 candidate
15
L15
lamp.l15 candidate
16
L16
lamp.l16 candidate
17
L17
lamp.l17 candidate
20
L20
lamp.l20 candidate
21
L21
lamp.l21 candidate
22
L22
lamp.l22 candidate
23
L23
lamp.l23 candidate
24
L24
lamp.l24 candidate
25
L25
lamp.l25 candidate
26
L26
lamp.l26 candidate
27
L27
lamp.l27 candidate
30
L30
lamp.l30 candidate
31
L31
lamp.l31 candidate
32
L32
lamp.l32 candidate
33
L33
lamp.l33 candidate
34
L34
lamp.l34 candidate
35
L35
lamp.l35 candidate
36
L36
lamp.l36 candidate
37
L37
lamp.l37 candidate
40
L40
lamp.l40 candidate
41
L41
lamp.l41 candidate
60
L60
lamp.l60 candidate
61
L61
lamp.l61 candidate
62
L62
lamp.l62 candidate
63
L63
lamp.l63 candidate
64
L64
lamp.l64 candidate
65
L65
lamp.l65 candidate
67
L67
lamp.l67 candidate
70
L70
lamp.l70 candidate
71
L71
lamp.l71 candidate
72
L72
lamp.l72 candidate
73
L73
lamp.l73 candidate
74
L74
lamp.l74 candidate
75
L75
lamp.l75 candidate
76
L76
lamp.l76 candidate
77
L77
lamp.l77 candidate
80
L80
lamp.l80 candidate
81
L81
lamp.l81 candidate
82
L82
lamp.l82 candidate
83
L83
lamp.l83 candidate
84
L84
lamp.l84 candidate
85
L85
lamp.l85 candidate
86
L86
lamp.l86 candidate
87
L87
lamp.l87 candidate
90
L90
lamp.l90 candidate
91
L91
lamp.l91 candidate
92
L92
lamp.l92 candidate
93
L93
lamp.l93 candidate
94
L94
lamp.l94 candidate
95
L95
lamp.l95 candidate
96
L96
lamp.l96 candidate
97
L97
lamp.l97 candidate
100
L100
lamp.l100 candidate
101
L101
lamp.l101 candidate
102
L102
lamp.l102 candidate
103
L103
lamp.l103 candidate
104
L104
lamp.l104 candidate
105
L105
lamp.l105 candidate
106
L106
lamp.l106 candidate
107
L107
lamp.l107 candidate
110
L110
lamp.l110 candidate
111
L111
lamp.l111 candidate
112
L112
lamp.l112 candidate
113
L113
lamp.l113 candidate
114
L114
lamp.l114 candidate
115
L115
lamp.l115 candidate
116
L116
lamp.l116 candidate
117
L117
lamp.l117 candidate
122
L122
lamp.l122 candidate
125
L125
lamp.l125 candidate
126
GIoffon
lamp.gioffon 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.surfnsaf 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 surfnsaf, description "Surf 'n Safari", manufacturer "Gottlieb", catalog year "1991".
  • OPDB record G5W0z-MLW6N (IPDB 2461) names this machine "Surf 'n Safari" (Gottlieb, manufacture date 1991-01-01); 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 surfnsaf; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • surfnsaf (1991, Gottlieb).
  • surfnsat (2022, Gottlieb, clone of surfnsaf).

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 110 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
surfnsatSurf 'n Safari (Tournament MOD) 2022surfnsaf—
surfnsafSurf 'n Safari 1991——

Parent set: surfnsaf — 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.

surfnsaf.map.json

gottlieb-system3v5format 0.7

maps/gottlieb/system3/surfnsaf.map.json

Applies to ROMs
surfnsaf
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.fe695e9b9e20df81

    vpx-standalone-scripts: Surf'n Safari v1.3.4/Surf'n Safari v1.3.4.vbs

    15d112648a1b
    by
    Authors credited in Surf'n Safari v1.3.4/Surf'n Safari v1.3.4.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    15d112648a1b
    sha256
    fe695e9b9e20…

  • VPX script

    vpx-script.db12b0663d81de83

    vpxtable-scripts: Surf'n Safari v1.1.1.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Surf'n Safari v1.1.1.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    db12b0663d81…

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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