Petaco

Partial

Juegos Populares1984juegos-populares.petaco.1984

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
petaco

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
7–32 (17)
Solenoids
11–16 (6)

Coverage

Partial

Real evidence exists, but authoring requirements are still missing or in conflict. Verify before shipping a table.

Completion6%

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 · 15
IdentityDriver 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
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
17 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
7
Sw7
switch.sw7 candidate
8
Sw8a
switch.sw8a candidate
10
Sw10
switch.sw10 candidate
11
Sw11a
switch.sw11a candidate
12
Sw12
switch.sw12 candidate
15
Sw15
switch.sw15 candidate
16
Sw16a
switch.sw16a candidate
18
Sw18
switch.sw18 candidate
19
Sw19
switch.sw19 candidate
23
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
24
Sw24
switch.sw24 candidate
25
Sw25
switch.sw25 candidate
26
Sw26a
switch.sw26a candidate
27
Sw27a
switch.sw27a candidate
28
Sw28
switch.sw28 candidate
31
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot candidate
32
Sw32
switch.sw32 candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

6
6 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
11
S91s
coil.s91s candidate
12
Game On
coil.game-on candidate
13
S13s
coil.s13s candidate
14
S14s
coil.s14s candidate
15
S15s
coil.s15s candidate
16
S16s
coil.s16s 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.petaco 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 petaco, description "Petaco", manufacturer "Juegos Populares", catalog year "1984".
  • No OPDB record is mapped for this driver in machines/opdb_id.csv, so the name above comes from the PinMAME catalog alone and is unverified.
  • The definition's driver list is exactly the clone tree PinMAME declares under petaco; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • petaco (1984, Juegos Populares).

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 23 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
petacoPetaco 1984

Parent set: petaco — clones share this definition unless a hardware difference is noted.

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

    by
    PinMAME contributors
    rev
    8371478a7640
  • VPX script

    vpx-script.a876878ade2e09b5

    vpxtable-scripts: Petaco (Juegos Populares 1984) v5_VPX8.vbs

    by
    Authors credited in Petaco (Juegos Populares 1984) v5_VPX8.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    a876878ade2e…

Something wrong or missing?

This definition still has 15 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.