Alien Warrior

Partial

LTDltd.alien-warrior

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
alienwar

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
6–50 (25)
Solenoids
1–35 (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.

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
6
DRAIN
switch.drain candidate
19
W19
switch.w19 candidate
20
W20
switch.w20 candidate
21
W21
switch.w21 candidate
22
W22a
switch.w22a candidate
25
Right Slingshot
switch.right-slingshot candidate
26
Left Slingshot
switch.left-slingshot candidate
27
Drop Reset
switch.drop-reset candidate
28
Drop Reset
switch.drop-reset-28 candidate
29
Drop Reset
switch.drop-reset-29 candidate
30
Drop Reset
switch.drop-reset-30 candidate
33
W33
switch.w33 candidate
34
W34
switch.w34 candidate
35
W35
switch.w35 candidate
36
W36
switch.w36 candidate
37
Gate3
switch.gate3 candidate
38
W38
switch.w38 candidate
41
W41
switch.w41 candidate
42
W42
switch.w42 candidate
43
W43
switch.w43 candidate
44
W44
switch.w44 candidate
45
W45
switch.w45 candidate
46
W46
switch.w46 candidate
49
W49
switch.w49 candidate
50
W50
switch.w50 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
1
Ball Trough
coil.ball-trough candidate
2
Coin Drop
coil.coin-drop candidate
8
Drop Reset
coil.drop-reset candidate
33
Sol LFlipper
coil.sol-lflipper candidate
34
Sol RFlipper
coil.sol-rflipper candidate
35
Sol Divert
coil.sol-divert 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.alienwar 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 alienwar, description "Alien Warrior", manufacturer "LTD", catalog year "198?".
  • 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 alienwar; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • alienwar (198?, LTD).

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
alienwarAlien Warrior 198?

Parent set: alienwar — 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.db395bace1e05946

    vpxtable-scripts: LTD Alien Warrior.vbs

    by
    Authors credited in LTD Alien Warrior.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    db395bace1e0…

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.