Cobra

Partial

Nuova Bell Games1987nuova-bell-games.cobra.1987

nuova-bell-games/cobra-1987.mdnuova-bell-games/cobra-1987.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
cobra

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
4–40 (19)
Solenoids
8–15 (2)

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.

19 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
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
19 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
4
Sw18
switch.sw18 candidate
5
Sw13
switch.sw13 candidate
13
Sw17
switch.sw17 candidate
14
Sw11
switch.sw11 candidate
15
Sw12
switch.sw12 candidate
20
Sw25
switch.sw25 candidate
25
Sw37
switch.sw37 candidate
26
Sw38
switch.sw38 candidate
27
Sw36
switch.sw36 candidate
28
Sw35
switch.sw35 candidate
29
Sw14
switch.sw14 candidate
33
Sw32
switch.sw32 candidate
34
Sw31
switch.sw31 candidate
35
Sw26
switch.sw26 candidate
36
Sw33
switch.sw33 candidate
37
Sw34
switch.sw34 candidate
38
Right Sling Shot
switch.right-sling-shot candidate
39
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
40
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

2
2 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
8
Sol Kicker
coil.sol-kicker candidate
15
Sol Kick Back
coil.sol-kick-back 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.cobra 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 cobra, description "Cobra", manufacturer "Nuova Bell Games", catalog year "1987".
  • 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 cobra; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • cobra (1987, Nuova Bell Games).

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 21 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
cobraCobra 1987——

Parent set: cobra — 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

    8371478a7640
    by
    PinMAME contributors
    rev
    8371478a7640

  • VPX script

    vpx-script.ed3e23922e3316df

    vpxtable-scripts: Cobra (Nuova Bell 1987) v101.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Cobra (Nuova Bell 1987) v101.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    ed3e23922e33…

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.

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